Harrison Symposium Schedule

Presentation Schedule

Saturday, May 18th, 2013

Session One - Main Hall Room 201
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Dylan Evans	Longing for the End: Phantasmagoria and the Disruption of Linear Temporality in Melancholia
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Adrienne Atkins Harrison Award Co-Recipient	Speech and Heroic Identity in the Iliad
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Faculty Moderator - Professor Julie McQuinn

Session Two - Main Hall Room 201
3:15pm – 3:45pm	Stephen Nordin	Atomic Logic: US Non-Proliferation Initiatives and Presidential Decision-Making, 1961-1974
3:45pm – 4:15pm	Alexis Van Zalen	The Self-Fashioning of a Consummate Musical Orator
4:15pm – 4:45pm	Yang Hua Harrison Award Co-Recipient	Revisiting a Chinese intellectual through the Russian lens: Lu Xun during 1925-1927
Faculty Moderator - Professor Paul Cohen

Session One - Main Hall Room 211
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Drew Donica	Evocación: La música y la memoria colectiva en Soldados de Salamina de David Trueba (Evocation: Music and Collective Memory in David Trueba's Soldiers of Salamis)
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Sarah Fandel	El patriarcado, la violencia y el lenguaje en La muerte y la doncella de Ariel Dorfman (Patriarchy, Violence, and Language in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden)
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Thomas Matusiak	No futuro: Juventud y desencanto en el cine colombiano. (No Future: Youth and Disenchantment in Colombian Cinema.)
Faculty Moderator - Professor Gustavo Fares

Session Two - Main Hall Room 211
3:15pm – 3:45pm	Kelsi Bruun-Bryant	Martín Rivas y la desigualdad de la sociedad chilena: ¿Cuál es el rol de Martín en la sociedad chilena del siglo XIX y cómo sería en el XXI? (Martín Rivas and Inequality in Chilean Society: What Role Does Martín Play in the Chilean Society of the 19th Century and What Would His Role Be in the 21st Century?)
3:45pm – 4:15pm	Madeline Bunke	Los maestros del disfraz: la cultura visual en Facundo y Martín Rivas. (Masters of Disguise: Visual Culture in Facundo and Martín Rivas.)
4:15pm – 4:45pm	Rachel Calvert	“It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen”: El género en El Topo y Acción mutante. (It’s Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen”: Genre in El Topo and Acción Mutante.)
Faculty Moderator - Professor Patricia Vilches

Session One - Main Hall Room 216
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Jack Dempsey	Pragmatism and Ideology: Press Coverage of the Filipino-American War and the Two Strands of Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Kaye Herranen	Erasure Literature: A History of Partial and Fragmented Texts
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Laura Geazvain	Defining Small Town Politics and the Ethnic Complex in Outagamie County, Wisconsin: 1850-1865
Faculty Moderator - Professor Jerald Podair

Session Two - Main Hall Room 216
3:15pm – 3:45pm	Andrew Calderon	Operationalizing and Reconceptualizing Susceptibility: A Philosophical Approach to a Psychological Problem
3:45pm – 4:15pm	Atrius Rude	The Co-evolution of Friendship Assessment Software and the God Memeplex: Combining Evolutionary Psychology and Memetics
4:15pm – 4:45pm
Faculty Moderator - Professor Jeremy Bakken

Session One - Main Hall Room 401
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Andrew Carlson	Putting the Right Chefs in the Right Kitchens: Why Peacebuilding Benefactors Should be Selected for a Given State Only if They Can Provide a Soluble Sub-Component of Peacebuilding
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Laurel Foshag	Walking the Plank: A Power Analysis of Somali Piracy in the Modern World
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Huma Hakimzada	Women’s Access to Justice in Sierra Leone
Faculty Moderator - Claudena Skran

Session Two - Main Hall Room 401
3:15pm – 3:45pm	Megan Stark	The Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations to Primate Conservation and Urban Development in Post-Conflict States. A case study of the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
3:45pm – 4:15pm	Kevin Aslett	Public Support: Necessity For Successful Transitional Economic Reform from State Socialism to Market Economy
4:15pm – 4:45pm	Regina Naa Dedei Hammond	Microinsurance and the Millennium Development Goal of Achieving Universal Primary Education
Faculty Moderator - Professor Tsvetanka Karagyozova

Session One - Main Hall Room 104
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Abigal Beneke	‘Why do you think there is only one God?’: A study of traditional Maasai believers and Christian Maasai living near Tarangire National Park
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Jana Greenslit	Shifting Language Ideologies in Dakar, Senegal
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Marika Straw	Youth Community Drumming Ensembles and the Tradition/Modernity Debate in Pune, India
Faculty Moderator - Professor Brenda Jenike

Session Two - Main Hall Room 104
3:15pm – 3:45pm	Tonya St. Julien	Globalizing the Skin Whitening Industry: The United States Edition
3:45pm – 4:15pm	Jill Fischer	The Sister Was Not a Mister: Gender and Sexuality in the Writings of Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf
4:15pm – 4:45pm	Kathryn Melchior	Suffering, Strong, and Free: The Romantic Ballerina and Female Empowerment
Faculty Moderator - Professor Carla Daughtry