History Across the Humanities Conference Feb. 21 and 22

Maria Mazzenga, education archivist at the Catholic University of America Archives, gives the keynote address at the fifth annual V.W. Starr History Across the Humanities conference at Youngstown State University Feb. 21 and 22.

The conference, sponsored by the Alpha Gamma Beta chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society, is at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor, 151 W. Wood St., Youngstown. The event features workshops geared toward career planning and practical skills followed by paper presentations by undergraduate and graduate students.

Mazzenga’s keynote address, titled “Digital Humanities, Digital Curation and Public History,” will be 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21. The address is free and open to the public.

The conference, which also is free for YSU students with a valid ID, is named in honor of its founder, Valerie Waksmunski-Starr, a master's student in YSU's History Department from 2013 to 2015 who fought breast cancer during her graduate career, passing away June 29, 2015. Funding for the conference is provided by YSU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the College of Graduate Studies and the Center for Applied History.

For more information, visit https://ysu.edu/history-across-the-humanities or call the YSU Department of History, 330-941-3452.