CHRONOS Undergraduate Research Conference

CHRONOS, the Syracuse University History Undergraduate Journal, will hold its 4th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on April 4, 2025. The Chronos Conference serves as a forum for historical discussion at Syracuse University. It will feature undergraduate research presentations and a student-faculty panel discussion exploring questions of what it means to be a historian.

This year’s conference will feature six undergraduate research presentations on topics such as how urban infrastructure projects in support of the 2016 Rio Olympics reproduced spatial conflicts tied to the role of race in the formation of Brazil’s international image, how Ronald Reagan’s relationship with the FBI helped extricate him from the Iran-Contra Affair, intra-factional divisions within the Women’s Rights Movement tied to the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment, and the use of children’s entertainment as a propaganda device in Nazi Germany.

The conference will also include a student-faculty panel discussion that will focus on questions of what it means to study history, and on the importance of diversity to historical understanding.

Remarks will also be given by Professors Norman Kutcher and Samantha Herrick in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of CHRONOS.

Refreshments will be provided.