Presentation Schedule
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Session One - Main Hall 104 | ||
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9:15-9:45 a.m. | Kir-Sey Fam | Transcribing the Laurentian Codex |
9:45-10:15 a.m. | Emmylou de Meij | A Biographic Analysis of Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil |
10:15-10:45 a.m. |
Abigail Miranda |
Hot Takes: Perspectives on the role of geothermal energy in Kamchatka, Russia |
Faculty Moderator - Victoria Kononova, Assistant Professor of Russian |
Session Two - Main Hall 104 | ||
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11-11:30 .am. | Xiaoxiang Liu | The Impact of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on Sierra Leone |
11:30 a.m.-Noon | Molly Doruska | How Presidential Rhetoric Can Inform Foreign Aid: Evidence from French Post-Colonial Africa |
Noon-12:30 p.m. | Celeste Hall | Prisms of Statelessness |
Faculty Moderator - Jesús G. Smith, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies |
Session One - Main Hall 201 | |||
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9:15–9:45 a.m. | John Newhall (2018 Harrison Award Recipient) | Devoted Heroes & Devoted Comics: Muslim Superheroes, Comics, and Fundamentalism | |
9:45–10:15 a.m. | Robert Hayden | Qur’anic Opposition to Tribal Thinking: Lessons from the Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry of `Antarah ibn Shaddad | |
10:15–10:45 a.m. | Meghan Murphy | Inside and Outside: Exploring Architecture and Meaning | |
Faculty Moderator - Karen Carr, McNaughton Rosebush Professor of Liberal Studies and Professor of Religious Studies |
Session Two - Main Hall 201 | ||
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11–11:30 a.m. | Samuel Buse | Hacia una nueva retórica de la música española: Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Lope de Vega y la innovación en las artes interpretativas durante el Siglo de Oro. |
11:30 a.m.–Noon | Sierra Polzin | Between the Folds of the Fantastic: An Exploration of Memory and the Spanish Civil War in El espíritu de la colmena, El espinazo del diablo and El laberinto del fauno |
Noon–12:30 p.m. | Elise Edwards | Detrás del disco: El consumismo y la resistencia a la memoria nacional chilena en Tony Manero |
Faculty Moderator - Allison Yakel, Assistant Professor of Spanish (Papers presented in Spanish) |
Session One - Main Hall 211 | ||
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9:15–9:45 a.m. | Alec Esther | “Boundless Heaven Emits Itself”: Affective Echoes and the Reconstitution of Utopia in Porter Robinson’s Virtual Self |
9:45–10:15 a.m. | Anna Cohen | Male Gaze or Male Graze? Considering the Tactile Nature of Rupert Carabin’s 1896 Furniture Set |
10:15–10:45 a.m. |
Emma Fredrickson |
Art Nouveau Architecture in Buenos Aires and the Development of the Chorizo Style |
Faculty Moderator - Nancy Lin, Assistant Professor of Art History |
Session Two - Main Hall Room 211 | ||
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11–11:30 a.m. | Qiushan Liu | Evaluating Measures of Preschooler’s Social Competence |
11:30 a.m.–Noon | Victoria Passie |
The Influence of Race, Stigma and Societal Pressures on: The Mental Health of Black Girls |
Noon–12:30 p.m. | Brielle Petit | Comparing Monolingual and Bilingual Preschoolers’ Performance on Executive Function Tasks |
Faculty Moderators - Beth Haines, Professor of Psychology |
Session One - Main Hall 216 | ||
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9:15–9:45 a.m. | Mei-An Lee | The Culture of Disability and Adoption in China |
9:45–10:15 a.m. | Margot Wulfsberg | Ginseng in Chinese Medicine |
Faculty Moderator - Brigid Vance, Assistant Professor of History |
Session Two - Main Hall 216 |
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11–11:30 a.m. | Clover Austin-Muehleck | Here are Some Opportunities Through Ambiguity |
11:30 a.m.–Noon | Wendell Leafstedt | Collage Thinking: Studying Charles Ives’ “Washington’s Birthday” |
Faculty Moderator - Julie McQuinn, Associate Professor of Music |
Session One - Main Hall 401 |
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9:15–9:45 a.m. | Brenna Stevens | No One Survives Alone: Traumatic Healing through Storytelling in The OA |
9:45–10:15 a.m | Emma Swidler | Funding Jane Austen: British Heritage and the Marketing of Jane Austen by Chawton House and the Jane Austen House Museum |
10:15.–10:45 a.m. | Emma Lipkin | Look, She Made a Hat: Relationships in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel |
Faculty Moderator - Gretchen Revie, Reference Librarian and Instruction Coordinator and Associate Professor |
Session Two - Main Hall 401 |
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11–11:30 a.m. | Jack Lucas | The Dissolution of History and the Dawn of the Catastrophic Age |
11:30 a.m.–Noon | Nina Wilson | Cultural Erasure vs. Integration in Andrei Mikhailkov-Konchalovsky’s Pervyi Uchitel’) |
Faculty Moderator - Peter John Thomas, Associate Professor of Russian Studies |
Session One - Main Hall 404 |
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9:15–9:45 a.m. | Hannah Braden | A Tale of Two Systems: Comparing Waste Management in Pune and New York City |
9:45–10:15 a.m. | Sophia Carter | The Great Famine: A Study of Demographics 1315–1322 |
10:15–10:45 a.m. | Hayoung Seo | The Politics of Waste: A Look Inside the Lives of Local Wastepickerson Seoul |
Faculty Moderator - Jason Brozek, Stephen Edward Scarff Professor of International Affairs and Associate Professor of Government |
Session Two - Main Hall 404 |
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11–11:30 a.m. | Charlotte Willett | Redesigning Transcendence: A Posthumanist Reading of Transcendence in Dave Eggers’ The Circle |
11:30 a.m.–Noon | Krystin Williams | The Black Woman that Media Created: Analyzing Portrayals of Black Women within the Hip-Hop Community from Hoochies to Barbie Dreams |
Noon–12:30 p.m. | Jake Moore | The Maternal Body in James Joyce’s Ulysses: Affirmations of Rebellion |
Faculty Moderator - Peter John Thomas |
Session One - Main Hall 012 |
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9:15–9:45 a.m. | Emma Saiz | Analysis of ‘Celebrity’ in American English and Russian using COCA and RNS Corpora and Yandex Search Engine Queries |
9:45–10:15 a.m. | Yonglin Wang | Resolving the Garden Path Effects in Machine Translation |
10:15–10:45 a.m. | Margaret Davis | Petronius’s Cena Trimalchionis as a Portrait of Linguistic Insecurity |
Faculty Moderator - Mark Phelan, Associate Professor of Philosophy |
Session Two - Main Hall 012 |
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11–11:30 a.m. | Elias Hubbard | Cuckoldry and the “Gone for a Soldier” Narrative: Infidelity and Performance among Eighteenth-Century English Plebeians |
11:30–Noon | Maxwell Craig | Sensitivity and Pacifism in James Macpherson’s Fragments of Ancient Poetry |
Noon–12:30 p.m. | Katherine Stein | A Revolution in Gothic Manners: The Rise of Sentiment from Walpole to Radcliffe |
Faculty Moderator - Celia Barnes, Associate Professor of English |
Session One - Main Hall 003 |
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9:15–9:45 a.m. | Kieran Laursen | Burning the Thumb: The Michigan Thumb Fire of 1881 |
9:45–10:15 a.m. | Sophie Penniman | The Americanization of Betty May: Articulation of American Identity in a 1937 Travel Diary |
10:15–10:45 a.m. | Miranda Salazar | The Honor System: Investigation and Reformation |
Faculty Moderator - Jake Frederick, Professor of History |
Session Two - Main Hall 003 |
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11–11:30 a.m. | Sara Armstrong | A Natural Sentiment: Romanticism, Sentimentalism, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s New Definition of the Natural in Abolitionist Poetry |
11:30 a.m.–Noon | Nigel Webster | American Poets of the 19th Century |
Noon–12:30 p.m. | Alixandra Shuger | The Multiplicitous Discourse of Olaudah Equian |
Faculty Moderator - Melissa Range, Assistant Professor of English |