Mershon Mondays are in-house events for Mershon Center affiliates and their guests. They are a forum for relaxed sharing of field stories, work in progress, and reflections on methods and emerging areas of research. Mershon Mondays take place on most weeks of the semester, in Derby 1039. Lunch is served at 12:15, and discussion goes from 12:30 to 1:30. For autumn 2024 - spring 2026, Mershon postdocs will take the lead in programming Mershon Monday conversations. We welcome your suggestions for topics and presenters, and especially encourage active participation from grad students. Registration links will be sent via the Mershon in-house listservs.
Please see below for a current schedule and blog post summarizing previous Mershon Monday events.
Spring 2025
March 24, 2025 at 12:15pm (Derby Hall 1039)
Erin Moore, Ph.D., Dr. Carl F. Asseff Assistant Professor, Anthropology and the History of Medicine
Investing in girls? Money, sex, and the deceit of development in Uganda.
- Erin Moore will discuss her forthcoming book, a transnational ethnography of the billion-dollar movement to "empower" adolescent girls as the solution to global poverty.
March 31, 2025 at 12:15pm (Derby Hall 1039)
Laurie Georges, Ph.D. candidate, International Relations and Comparative Politics
- Laurie Georges will discuss her research on the feedback loop of erasure—the process of removing traces of peoples from territories—more specifically in the context of the Ottoman Empire/Turkey and Armenia/Azerbaijan from the 19th century to the present.
April 14, 2025 at 12:15pm (Derby Hall 1039)
Christopher Leger, Ph.D. candidate, Russian and Eastern European History
- Christopher Legerwill discuss Soviet Latvian propaganda and how it interfaces with the Latvian past and present. He will discuss how Latvian nation building and 21st century geopolitics selectively root in the socialist past while preparing for a second round of being at the forefront of a Cold War.
