Please join us for the HSOC Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium! Sixteen students will present their research from Professor John Tone's HTS Seminar in European History.

When: Wednesday, April 20, 2022, from 12 to 4:15 p.m.

Where: Brittain Rec Room 217, located behind the Brittain Dining Hall at 649 Techwood Dr. NW, Atlanta, GA 30313 – see map below.

Coffee and snacks will be provided. (Please note: it is too late to sign up for lunch.)

Schedule of Presentations

12:00 p.m. Lunch

• 12 p.m. “Denis Diderot – Virtue” by Kondalia Montgomery
• 12:15 p.m. “Madame Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin and the Salon's Institution in the Enlightenment” by Jensen Fitzgibbon
• 12:30 p.m. “Francis Hutcheson: A Scottish Enlightener” by Jodi Camino
• 12:45 p.m. “Playing at Politics: Theater as Commentary in the Work of Olympe de Gouges” by Emma Menardi
• 1 p.m. “Examining Voltaire Through Candide” by Kristen Farmer
• 1:15 p.m. “The Oeconomy of Womanhood: Defining the Roles and Virtues of Women in the Works of Sarah Scott” by Olivia Villanova
• 1:30 p.m. “Voltaire: Violence, War, and Toleration in the age of Enlightenment” by Noelle Pickard
• 1:45 p.m. “Frederick the Great: The Paradox of the Enlightened Despot” by Carson Pate

2 p.m. Coffee Break

• 2:15 p.m. “Beaumarchais: The Enlightenment on the Stage” by Jacob Young
• 2:30 p.m. “Ignatius Sancho: Analyzing the Role of Enlightenment in Racial Identity” by Micah Maxie
• 2:45 p.m. “Rousseau: Thoughts on the Education of Children” by Emma Harper
• 3 p.m. “Godwin’s Enquiry on Political Justice: Enlightenment, Reason, and Anarchy” by Andrew Thompson
• 3:15 p.m. “Beccaria: Crime and Punishment” by Teresa Muñoz
• 3:30 p.m. “A Feminist Approach to Denis Diderot” by Kimberly L. Molina-Veronico

3:45 p.m. Break

• 4 p.m. “To Throw Light Upon What is to Come After: The Enlightenment Anthropology of Adam Smith” by Jake Harmon
• 4:15 p.m. “Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication” by Ellie Wangerin