14th Annual Richard A. Harrison Symposium - Saturday, May 14, Main Hall

Schedule of Events

Welcome Reception

8:45 - 9:15 AM Reception in Strange Commons and Welcome by Provost Burrows

Session One (9:15-10:15 AM)

Panel A, Main Hall 201 - Moderator: Professor Julie McQuinn

9:15 AM Ruth Jacobs: “Traumatic Memory and Representing War in Poetry and Music”
9:45 AM David Keep: “Brahms the Individual: Understanding a Unique Compositional Philosophy”
10:15 AM Anna Reiser: “Witnessing Handel’s Theodora”

Panel B, Main Hall 211 - Moderator: Professor Jerald Podair

9:15 AM Claire de Rochefort-Reynolds: “War on the Page: How Popular American Children’s Magazines Represent World War I”
9:45 AM Richard Wanerman: “For Fear of Progress: The Premature Efforts to Enact National Labor Welfare Protections During the Second Administration of Theodore Roosevelt”
10:15 AM Kyle Brennan: “The Memphis Coalition: Organized Labor, Civil Rights, and the 1968 Garbage Strike”

Panel C, Main Hall 216 - Moderator: Professor Jane Parish Yang

9:15 AM Dorothea Schurr: “Yan’an’s Influence on the Evolution of Propaganda Music in China”
9:45 AM Jihyun Shin: “Coerced Collaboration? Japanese Assimilation Policy and Pro-Japanese Collaborators of Colonial Korea, 1910-1945”

Panel D, Main Hall 401 - Moderator: Professor Claudena Skran

9:15 AM Erica Asbell: “Child Soldiers and Their Emerging Position in the International Legal System”
9:45 AM Jennifer Compton: “Women in Parliament: Cause and Effect, A Comparative Study of Rwanda and Afghanistan”
10:15 AM Angela Ting: “Gender-based Violence in Post-Conflict Situations: the New Face of Gender-based violence in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone”

Panel E, Main Hall 404 - Moderator: Professor Patricia Vilches

9:15 AM Julia Graves: “Morocco to Mexico: Public Opinion and Policy on Illegal Immigration in Spain and the United States”
9:45 AM Sylwia Matlosz: “The Potato: The Pillar of Peruvian Society”
10:15 AM Anais Mendez: “Skepticism in Pedro Calderón de la Barca”

Session Two (11:00-12:30 AM)

Panel A, Main Hall 201 - Moderator: Professor Elizabeth Carlson

11:00 AM Margaret Bond: “The Fin-de-siécle Stands Erect: Masculine Imagery in Art Nouveau”
11:30 AM Amy Sandquist: “Louis Sullivan’s Transcendent al Art Nouveau”
12:00 PM Sarah Young 2010 Harrison Award Winner: “Joseph Beuys and the Coyote: Healing the Wounds of Postwar West German Masculinity”

Panel B, Main Hall 211 - Moderator: Professor Jerald Podair

11:00 AM Kylie Anderson: “Can You Dig It? Black Masculinity in Contemporary American Film”
11:30 AM Benjamin Cost: “Hunting for Masculinity”
12:00 PM Kathryn Van Marter-Sanders: “Peace by Rock Concert”

Panel C, Main Hall 216 - Moderator: Professor Monica Rico

11:00 AM Mari Colaiacomo: “Benning Wentworth and the New Hampshire Grants: Sowing the Seeds of Independence”
11:30 AM Jennifer Wankat: “The New Girl: Reconciling Femininity and Independence in Girls’ Literature, 1890-1915”
12:00 PM Patrick Miner: “Mapping a Century of Process: A New Research Program for Analyzing the Effects of Urban Form on Ethnolinguistic Segregation in Chicago, 1833-1933”

Panel D, Main Hall 401 - Moderator: Professor Beth Haines

11:00 AM Kaitlyn Esula: “Adolescents’ and College Students’ Participation in and Perspectives on Oral Sex”
11:30 AM Colin Vize: “Using After-school Enrichment to Promote Self-efficacy in Young Children: Pre-Enrichment Comparisons”

Panel E, Main Hall 404 - Moderator: Professor Martyn Smith

11:00 AM Emily Galvin: “Jewish Deportation in Occupied France: The (Micro)power of Representation”
11:30 AM Adam Tyson: “The Mystical Debate: Constructivism and the Resurgence of Perennialism”

Buffet Lunch

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Warch Campus Center - Hurvis Room