Spring 2013 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thursday February 28, 2013
Session T1 - 10:00-10:50
Room: West B107
Panel: Finding a Lens: Food, Gender and Social Structures
MODERATOR: Rachel Riedner
Maddie Maney
–"Investigating the Drapers Through Food: A Class Study"
Nominating Professor: Caroline Smith
Lauren Auerbach
–"Glamazon: Finding a Topic"
Nominating Professor: Robin Marcus
Session T2 - 11:20-12:10
Room: West B107
Panel: Musical Words/Dirty Words: The Power of Language
MODERATOR: Susan McMenamin
Meghana Murthy
–"Shut the Fuck Up and Listen:An Analysis of Teacher Profanity in the Classroom"
Nominating Professor: Carol Hayes
Maha Hansen
–"La La Language: Language as a Product of Music"
Nominating Professor: Matthew Riley
Session T3 - 11:20-12:10
Room: West B108A
Panel: Psychos and Fairies: Gore in American Cinema
MODERATOR: Hanifa Abdul Sabur
Kelsey Fisher
–"Cinderella: The German, The Disney, The 21st Century"
Nominating Professor: Lauren Sallinger
Michele Ko
–"An Examination of Modernism, Postmodernism, and Criminal Behavior in Psycho and No Country for Old Men"
Nominating Professor: Chuck Coulter
Session T4 - 2:30-3:20
Room: West B107
Panel: Taking Over: Appropriating Images and Neighborhoods
MODERATOR: Matt Riley
Alice Murray
–"Media Coverage of East African Piracy"
Nominating Professor: Mark Mullen
Marshall Cohen
–"The Effects of Gentrification on Diverse Urban Neighborhoods"
Nominating Professor: Phyllis Ryder
Session T5 - 2:30-3:20
Room: West B108A
Panel: Macho, Macho Man: Framing Masculinity
MODERATOR: Caroline Smith
Caroline Multerer
–"Good Boy Fever: How the Jonas Brothers Have Challenged Adolescent Relationships"
Nominating Professor: Katherine Larsen
Isabella Gallart
–"Fucking Faggot": Frustration or Fuck Up? An Analysis on Kobe's Use of the Word "Faggot"
Nominating Professor: Carol Hayes
Session T6 - 2:30-3:20
Room: West B108B
Panel: Trust and Authority
MODERATOR: Joan Hilderbrandt
Mary Kiser
–"Food and Trust: One Woman's Romance With Food"
Nominating Professor: Abby Wilkerson
Benjamin Pryde
–"Trust: The Bedrock of a Functional Democracy"
Nominating Professor: Zachary Wolfe
Session T7 - 4:10-5:00
Room: West B107
Panel: Music, Mirrors, and Cultural Discord
MODERATOR: John Danneker
Noah Yosif
–"Minorities Rock!"
Nominating Professor: Robin Marcus
Samantha Gordon
–"American Musicals: The Mirror of Society"
Nominating Professor: Matthew Riley
Session T8 - 4:10-5:00
Room: West B108A
Panel: Transgressive Women?
MODERATOR: Katherine Larsen
Meilisa Sturman
–"A Transgressive Transformation: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Kill Shakespeare"
Nominating Professor: Joseph Fruscione
Nicole Marie Panoc
–"Girl Power: Femslash Fanfiction and Its Relation to Prime Time Television"
Nominating Professor: Katherine Larsen
Session T9 - 4:10-5:00
Room: West B108B
Panel: Political Frenemies: Symbiotic Oppositions
MODERATOR: Greg Squires
Olivia Jefferson
–"Miles Across the Aisle: The Role of Satire in the Polarization of the American Public"
Nominating Professor: Niles Tomlinson
Oz Fishman
–"Barack Obama and Mitt Romney -- Kindred Spirits?"
Nominating Professor: Michael Svoboda
Session T10 - 4:10-5:00
Room: West B111
Panel: Pop Culture, Counterculture and Subgenres
MODERATOR: Amy Cohen
Samara Perlman
–"How Does Mad Men Treat Counterculture"
Nominating Professor: Caroline Smith
Elizabeth Patterson
–"Defining Webcomics"
Nominating Professor: Phillip Troutman
Friday March 1, 2013
Session F1 - 10:00-10:50
Room: West B107
Panel: Voicing Women's Unheard Stories
MODERATOR: Dania Eglitis
Julia Bahl and Kayla McCloud
–"Why Doesn't the Playground to Prison Pipeline Affect Females?"
Nominating Professor: Robin Marcus
Elisa Cimento
–"Rebellion and Revenge: A Post-Modernist Explanation of Lear and His Daughters"
Nominating Professor: Joseph Fruscione
Session F2 - 10:00-10:50
Room: West B108A
Panel: Exploring Oppositions
MODERATOR: Shannon Berry
Mariana Gonzalez Garcia-Lazcano
–"Relationships Between Blacks and Hispanics Living in Washington D.C."
Nominating Professor: Robin Marcus
Nikki Ghimire
–"Wingardium Leviosa: Wicca's Interpretation of the Threefold Law and Isaac Newton's third Law of Motion"
Nominating Professor: Shannon Berry
Session F3 - 11:20-12:10
Room: West B107
Panel: Fans, Ownership and Cultural Values
MODERATOR: Katherine Larsen
Rose McFassel
–"Assuming Direct Control: The Mass Effect Trilogy and Fan Entitlement"
Nominating Professor: Katherine Larsen
Ryan Levandowski
–"One Beloved Psychopath, A Virtuous Villain, and the World's Worst Savior: An Analysis of Fan Reactions to Ideological Representation and Social Values in Alan Moore's Comics"
Nominating Professor: Phillip Troutman
Session F4 - 11:20-12:10
Room: West B108A
Panel: The Sex/Violence Nexus in American Film
MODERATOR: Joshua Buursma
Allison Ray
–"Noir Sexuality: Hate, Power, and Subversion in The Postman Always Rings Twice"
Nominating Professor: Joshua Buursma
Olivia Martinez
–"A 'Realhorrorshow' Look at A Clockwork Orange"
Nominating Professor: Sandie Friedman
Session F5 - 11:20-12:10
Room: West B108B
Panel: What is Blackness?
MODERATOR: Wade Fletcher
Chris Evans
–"The Acting President"
Nominating Professor: Michael Svoboda
Adaeze Okeke
–"Light Supremacy: A Look Inside the Psychological Effects of Colorism"
Nominating Professor: Robin Marcus
Session F6 - 11:20-12:10
Room: West B111
Panel: Words Matter
MODERATOR: Jessica Poras
Joseph Wallace
–"The 'Thrilla in Manila' Revisited: Reframing the Discussion of Muhammad Ali"
Nominating Professor: Robin Marcus
Joanna Davin
–"He Said, She Said: The Rhetorical Argument Between the Food Industry and Environmental Advocates"
Nominating Professor: Abby Wilkerson
Session F7 - 1:10-2:00
Room: West B107
Panel: Shifting American Ideologies
MODERATOR: Lauren Kaczmar
Emily Richardson
–"Homeownership and the American Dream: Fallacy or Possibility?"
Nominating Professor: Lauren Sallinger
Grace Mausser
–"Brewing Conservatism: The Tea Party's Effect on Republicans"
Nominating Professor: Michael Svoboda
Session F8 - 1:10-2:00
Room: West B108A
Panel: "What Are We Ever to Do?": Women and Empowerment
MODERATOR: Joe Fruscione
Camille Sheets
–"The Empowering Impact of Birth Control on Women's Lives"
Nominating Professor: Caroline Smith
Leena Omair
–"Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle's Roles in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby"
Nominating Professor: Joseph Fruscione
Session F9 - 1:10-2:00
Room: West B108B
Panel: Questions and Contradictions of Faith
MODERATOR: Jee Yoon Lee
Connor Mitchell
–"A Historical Analysis of the Black Church as a Catalyst for Social Change"
Nominating Professor: Robin Marcus
Bo Donoghue
–"A Natural Landscape?: The Case for the Integration of the Moral Landscape Theory and Catholicism"
Nominating Professor: Shannon Berry
Session F10 - 1:10-2:00
Room: West B111
Panel: Documenting Conflict
MODERATOR: Steven Kelts
Amina Johari
–"Changing Concensus: Rwanda's Cry for Advocacy Journalism"
Nominating Professor: Mark Mullen
Abigail Hawkins
–"Molding the Veteran Character: Trends in the Film
Portrayal of American Veterans after WWII, Vietnam, and Iraq"
Nominating Professor: Joshua Buursma
Session F11 - 2:30-3:20
Room: West B107
Panel: Writing Process: Challenging Accepted Voices
MODERATOR: Phil Troutman
Nia Christian
–"African Americans in STEM"
Nominating Professor: Robin Marcus
Creighton Camera
–"DIY: How the U.S. News Media Sold the Spanish American War"
Nominating Professor: Mark Mullen
Session F12 - 2:30-3:20
Room: West B108A
Panel: Music, Spectacle and Resistance to the Establishment
MODERATOR: Charles Basden
Sam Gubitz
–"The Pied Piper of Detroit: Eminem's Satire of the American Dream"
Nominating Professor: Niles Tomlinson
Caitlin Harrington
–"Music Festivals: The Future of the Music Industry"
Nominating Professor: Matthew Riley
Session F13 - 2:30-3:20
Room: West B108B
Panel: Marginalizing Madness: Representations of Mental Illness
MODERATOR: Bill Gillis
Lorraine Smith
–"Mad Men's Effective Portrayal of Sexism in the 1960s Through Treatment of Mental Diseases"
Nominating Professor: Caroline Smith
Kathy Lui
–""Lady MacBeth's Descent Into Madness in Macbeth with the Consideration of the Cultural Norms and Societal Beliefs in the Jacobean Era"
Nominating Professor: Shonda Goward
Session F14 - 2:30-3:20
Room: West B111
Panel: Assimilation and Identity: The Chinese American Experience
MODERATOR: Joe Fisher
Lane Allison
–"Where Identity Lies: A Look into Chinese Adoptees' Racial and Cultural Identity"
Nominating Professor: Jee Yoon Lee
Hanchun Zhang
–"Chink!"
Nominating Professor: Robin Marcus
Session F15 - 4:10-5:00
Room: West B107
Panel: Parents and Children
MODERATOR: Joe Fruscione
Katherine Bradshaw
–""Prescribe not us our duty": Leir, Lear and Filial Piety"
Nominating Professor: Joseph Fruscione
Ahrim Nam
–"Parenting in Mad Men: Culture's Impact on the Parenting Styles of the 1960s in Comparison to Today"
Nominating Professor: Caroline Smith
Session F16 - 4:10-5:00
Room: West B108A
Panel: Diverse Ecologies
MODERATOR: Robin Marcus
Sophie Fivel
–"The Same but Different: The Relationship between Jainism and Deep Ecology through Ahimsa"
Nominating Professor: Shannon Berry
Cavan Kharrazian
–"Understanding Urban Ecology: Justice through Participation"
Nominating Professor: Phyllis Ryder
Session F17 - 4:10-5:00
Room: West B108B
Panel: Finding Food
MODERATOR: Jenn Solt
Miyuki Sasada
–"Dumpster Divers: How They Are Seen Through Different Audiences"
Nominating Professor: Abby Wilkerson
Nicole Martin
–"The Multiple Factors that Create Food Deserts"
Nominating Professor: Phyllis Ryder
Session F18 - 4:10-5:00
Room: West B111
Panel: Characterizing Urban Schools
MODERATOR: Niles Tomlinson
Nicholas Lussier
–"Beacons of Light: How HMPP Schools Illuminate the Path to Higher-Performance For Other Urban Schools"
Nominating Professor: Phyllis Ryder
Emma Thomson
–"TIME Magazine and Michelle Rhee: The Image and Its Significance"
Nominating Professor: Wade Fletcher