March 1, 2018 at 11:45 pm

13th Annual History Graduate Student Conference, March 2-3

The History Graduate Student Association hosts the 13th Annual History Graduate Student Conference at Ohio University on March 2-3.

The program combines a keynote lecture with a series of panel presentations that showcase some of the cutting-edge, in-progress work of graduate students in the discipline of history from a variety of universities. The events are free and open to the public.

Keynote Address: Friday, March 2, at 5 p.m. in Walter Hall Rotunda

Dr. Coleen Woods

The conference opens on Friday, March 2, at 5 p.m. in Walter Hall Rotunda with a keynote address by Dr. Colleen Woods, speaking on “The International Solidarity of Anti-Communist Nations: Covert Warfare, Race, and the Politics of Intra-Asian Aid.” Woods is a faculty member of the History Department at the University of Maryland. She specializes in the history of the United States in a global context during the twentieth century, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia and the Philippines. Dr. Woods’s keynote lecture will discuss the Freedom Company, a paramilitary organized created by a group of Filipino veterans and US CIA agents to wage covert, anti-communist warfare in Southeast Asia.