WELCOME RECEPTION – 8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
| 8:45 a.m. | Continental Breakfast – Strange Commons in Main Hall |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome by Provost and Dean of the Faculty, David Burrows |
SESSION ONE – 9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
PANEL A, MAIN HALL 104 ~ MODERATOR: PROFESSOR BRENDA JENIKE
| 9:15 a.m. | Caitlin Andrew: “Sometimes You’re Custer, Sometimes You’re Oneida: Teacher Student Relationships in Native American Classrooms” |
| 9:45 a.m. | Sveinn Sigurdsson and Ashlan Falletta-Cowden: “From Sustenance to Symbol: A Multi-generational Study of Traditionality and Modernization in the Icelandic Diet” |
| 10:15 a.m. | Maria Giere: “A Thousand Faces: Multiple Identity Construction and Maintenance in Actors for Theatre” |
PANEL B, MAIN HALL 105 ~ MODERATOR: PROFESSOR RUTH LANOUETTE
| 9:15 a.m. | Justin Severson: “Read Between The Gay Lines: A Gricean analysis of the lavender language in the French magazine Têtu” |
| 9:45 a.m. | Bryan Rosen: “A Comparison of Ergative and Middle Transitive Verbs in Spanish and English” |
PANEL C, MAIN HALL 201 ~ MODERATOR: PROFESSOR FAITH BARRETT
| 9:15 a.m. | Alison Bey: “Political Theology and Sandinismo in Revolutionary Nicaragua” |
| 9:45 a.m. | Caitlin Gallogly: “Crafting The Defeat: A Critical Study of Mercy Otis Warren and Her Propaganda Plays of the American Revolution” |
| 10:15 a.m. | Emily Passey: “Unlearning and Rewriting: What a Prairie Poet tells us about History in the Present” |
PANEL D, MAIN HALL 216 ~ MODERATOR: PROFESSOR MONICA RICO
| 9:45 a.m. | Sarah Dunbar-Hester: “Gee’s Bend: More than What Meets the Eye” |
| 10:15 a.m. | Paris Brown: “Opera and Human Identity: A new critique of aesthetics and an analyses of opera in relation to identity” |
SESSION TWO – 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
PANEL A, MAIN HALL 104 ~ MODERATOR: PROFESSOR ROSA TAPIA
| 11:00 a.m. | Ben Welden: “Remedios Varo y Leonora Carrington. ¿Artistas latinoamericanas?” |
| 11:30 a.m. | Sara Novak: “Un país en cambio: Chile debajo del gobierno de Bachelet” |
| 12:00 p.m. | Jessica Swanson: “La voz feminista en Cuestión de amor propio” |
PANEL B, MAIN HALL 105 ~ MODERATOR: PROFESSOR ARNOLD SHOBER
| 11:00 a.m. | Mollie Bodin: “Maatey vs. Sir: A Comparison of Pirates and Privateers In Emerging European Statehood” |
| 11:30 a.m. | Marte Schaffmeyer: “Literary and Legal Reactions to the Ulysses Obscenity Trial” |
| 12:00 p.m. | Theodore Greeley: “Threatening the 4th Amendment: Cybercrime Searches and Seizures” |
PANEL C, MAIN HALL 201 ~ MODERATOR: PROFESSOR NANCY WALL
| 11:00 a.m | Natasha Quesnell-Theno - 2007 Symposium Winner: “Temptresses and Fallen Angels: Benevolent Sexism, Emotional Instability, and Perceptions of Statutory Rape Offenders” |
| 11:30 a.m. | Erin Dix: “‘Sympathy between Masks’: Emotional Restraint and the Victorian American Countenance” |
LUNCHEON – 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
| 12:30 p.m. | Proceed to the Luncheon in the Science Hall Atrium |
2008 Symposium Presenters
| Student | Main Hall |
Time |
| Caitlin Andrew | 104 | 9:15 a.m |
| Alison Bey | 201 | 9:15 a.m |
| Mollie Bodin | 105 | 11:00 a.m |
| Paris Brown | 216 | 10:15 a.m |
| Erin Dix | 201 | 11:30 a.m |
| Sarah Dunbar-Hester | 216 | 9:45 a.m |
| Caitlin Gallogly | 201 | 9:45 a.m |
| Maria Giere | 104 | 10:15 a.m |
| Theodore Greeley | 105 | 12:00 p.m. |
| Sara Novak | 104 | 11:30 a.m |
| Emily Passey | 201 | 10:15 a.m |
| Bryan Rosen | 105 | 9:45 a.m |
| Natasha Quesnell-Theno – 2007 Symposium Winner | 201 | 11:00 a.m |
| Marte Schaffmeyer | 105 | 11:30 a.m |
| Justin Severson | 105 | 9:15 a.m |
| Sveinn Sigurdsson and Ashlan Falletta-Cowden | 104 | 9:45 a.m |
| Jessica Swanson | 104 | 12:00 p.m. |
| Ben Welden | 104 | 11:00 a.m |