Wednesday February 23, 2011
Session 1 - 10:00-10:50 Gelman Library, Room 300
Panel: Popular and Political: Music’s Influence on Cultural Revolution
MODERATOR: Bill Gillis
Winston Berg – "From B-Side to Breakcore: Copyright Law and the Evolution of the Amen Break
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Nominating Professor:
Niles Tomlinson
Marley Rashad – “Not How Good a Song is, But How Much Good a Song Does: Why Politically Conscious Pop Music was More Successful in the 60’s than Today
”
Nominating Professor:
Matt Riley
Session 2 - 10:00-10:50 Gelman Library, Room 301
Panel: Women Making Choices
MODERATOR: Jee Yoon Lee
Kirsten Hartwick – “Birth Control: The Pill's Liberating Past and Daunting Future
”
Nominating Professor:
Shelly McKenzie
Kate Christman – “A Modern Woman Can Choose
”
Nominating Professor:
Martyn Oliver
Session 3 - 10:00-10:50 - Gelman Library, Room 302
Panel:Islamophobia
MODERATOR: Sandra Friedman
Kara McFadden - “The Power of Islamophobia
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Nominating Professor:
Martyn Oliver
Sam Hobert – “America and Anti-Islamic Rhetoric
”
Nominating Professor:
Martyn Oliver
Alex Sirio – “The American Identity Crisis
” Cancelled
Nominating Professor:
Martyn Oliver
Session 4- 11:10-12:00 - Gelman Library, Room 300
Panel: Forget What You Heard: Misrepresentations of Black Males in Mass Media
MODERATOR: Edward McCarthy
Alexandra (Lexie) Wagner – “Title"
Nominating Professor:
Robin Marcus
Session 5 - 11:10-12:00 - Gelman Library, Room 301
Panel: Taking Responsibility: Resistance in the Face of Abuse
MODERATOR: Lauren Poston
Brian Reisman – "Intolerable Toleration: America's Participation in Asian Sex Trafficking Chains
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Nominating Professor:
Jee Yoon Lee
Becca Rich – “Disturbing and Shocking Images: The Rhetoric of PETA's 'Meat is Murder' Campaign
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Nominating Professor:
Abby Wilkerson
Session 6 - 11:10-12:00 - Gelman Library, Room 302
Panel: Process: Writing From Your Community
MODERATOR: Carol Hayes
Emmeline Ha – “Who the hell is General Tso: The Question of Authenticity in Americanized Chinese Food
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Nominating Professor:
Jee Yoon Lee
Katie Donham – “Harry and the Potters: Helping the World one Wrock Song at a Time
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Nominating Professor: Katherine Larsen
Session 7 - 12:45-1:35 - Gelman Library, Room 300
Panel: Nudging the New Social Order
MODERATOR: Deborah Gaspar
Matthew Brazier – “A New Social Order
”
Nominating Professor:
Randi Kristensen
Anna Korman – “Nudging GW Forward
”
Nominating Professor:
Michael Svoboda
Session 8 - 12:45-1:35 - Gelman Library, Room 301
Panel: Working at the Margins: Muslims and the American Dream
MODERATOR: Martyn Oliver
Chadd Wish – “Hollywood: Arab=Muslim=Terrorist
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Nominating Professor:
Martyn Oliver
Abigail Dimen-Taylor – “Raising their Voices, Keeping their Hijabs”
Nominating Professor:
Martyn Oliver
Session 9 - 2:30-3:20 - Gelman Library, Room 300
Panel: Legal Frameworks and Their Impact on Civility and Gender
MODERATOR: Dolsy Smith
Chelie Setzer – “Ginger Frenzy: The Hate Speech and Hype of One Small Facebook Group
”
Nominating Professor:
Carol Hayes
Si Eun (Grace) Son – “The Masculinity of the US Military and Lesbian Baiting under DADT
”
Nominating Professor:
Rachel Riedner
Session 10 - 2:30-3:20 - Gelman Library, Room 301
Panel: Scientific Consensus, Public Controversy:Accounting for Public Skepticism of Established Science
MODERATOR: Amber Vazquez
Jeffrey Birenbaum – “The Perfect Storm for Skeptical Science
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Nominating Professor:
Michael Svoboda
Melissa Keaney – ““Interactivity and Touchables”: The Importance of Museums and the Public Understanding of Evolution
”
Nominating Professor:
Heather Schell
Session 11 - 2:30-3:20 - Gelman Library, Room 302
Panel: Music and The Brain
MODERATOR: Tina Pottel
Danielle Leslie – “Genres of Music Impacting the Brain Differently
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Nominating Professor:
Robin Marcus
Kody Sparks – “Music and Autism Spectrum Disorders
”
Nominating Professor:
Matt Riley
Session 12 - 2:30-3:20 - Phillips, Room B152
Panel: Liberating Gay Cultures
MODERATOR: Nik Shuska
Aidan Quinlan-Walshe – “Homophobia
”
Nominating Professor:
Randi Kristensen
Sonya Ropek – “Lady Gaga: Feminist Camp and Gay Liberation
”
Nominating Professor:
Rachel Riedner
Session 13 - 3:50-4:40 - Gelman Library, Room 300
Panel: Imagination and Culture: New Approaches to Resolving Age Old Problems in Education
MODERATOR: Marilena Zackheos
Clarissa Coultas – “Entertainingly Educational: How Can a Video Game be Most Effective in an Educational Setting?” Cancelled
Nominating Professor:
Mark Mullen
Mark Lipschultz – “Multicultural Education: A 21st C solution to a 20th c problem?
”
Nominating Professor:
Phyllis Ryder
Session 14 - 3:50-4:40 - Gelman Library, Room 301
Panel: Writing Women
MODERATOR: Katherine Howell
Chiara Corso – “Modifying Masculinity, Forging Femininity: Male Feminist Discourse and the Manifestation of an Independent Female Identity"
Nominating Professor:
Rachel Riedner
Emily Connatser – “Being Loud: The Voice of Gender in Slam Poetry
”
Nominating Professor:
Katherine Howell
Session 15 - 3:50-4:40 - Gelman Library, Room 302
Panel: Nightlife and Fight Night: The Business of Masculinity
MODERATOR: Robin Marcus
Jake Rattner – “Escaping the Everyday”
Nominating Professor:
Abby Wilkerson
Thomas Carlton – “Mixed Martial Arts: A Return to Core American Values
”
Nominating Professor:
Niles Tomlinson
Thursday February 24, 2011
Session 1 - 10:00-10:50 - Gelman Library, Room 300
Panel: College Lifestyle: Making Choices, Making Adjustments
MODERATOR: Danika Meyers
Ellen Louie – “Unnatural Crutches: Taoism as a Solution to Alcohol Abuse in College Freshman
”
Nominating Professor:
Emily Bliss
Katherine Stein – “Hook Up or Grow Up: Long Distance Relationships versus Hook Up Culture in the College Environment
”
Nominating Professor:
Emily Bliss
Session 2 - 10:00-10:50 - Gelman Library, Room 301
Panel: The Role of Government in the War on Poverty and the War on Illegal Immigration
MODERATOR: Cayo Gamber
Yaacov Wittman – “A New Approach to Immigration
”
Nominating Professor:
Zak Wolfe
Lucas Warren – “From Great Society to Great Recession: How Race Has Changed the War Over Poverty
”
Nominating Professor:
Randi Kristensen
Session 3 - 10:00-10:50 - Gelman Library, Room 302
Panel: Reforming Behavior/Surprising Outcomes
MODERATOR: Katherine Larsen
Ryan Heaney – “Art Therapy and At-Risk Youth
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Nominating Professor:
Phyllis Ryder
Ellen Hutchinson – “Knowing How to Know: An Environmental Interpretation of the Drug Use Policy of the Scientology Religion
”
Nominating Professor:
Shannon Berry
Session 4 - 11:10-12:00 - Gelman Library, Room 300
Panel: Narrating an Addictive Identity: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Narratives of Self- Proclaimed Alcoholics
MODERATOR: Maureen Kentoff
Henry Morillo,
Laura Kaye,
Megan Culberson,
Ben Chernoff
– “Narrating an Addictive Identity: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Narratives of Self Proclaimed Alcoholics"
Nominating Professor:
Danika Meyers
Session 5 - 11:10-12:00 - Gelman Library, Room 301
Panel: Stages of Life: Public Perceptions of Youth and Aging
MODERATOR: Tolonda Henderson
Grace Nelson – “The Pageant Mom Effect: The Psychological Effects of Children's Pageants
”cancelled
Nominating Professor:
Shelly McKenzie
Anthony Boyd – “"The Young and the Restless”: Public Depictions of the Evolutionary Theory of Aging
”
Nominating Professor:
Heather Schell
Session 6 - 11:10-12:00 - Gelman Library, Room 302
Panel: How We Eat: Campus Dining at GW
MODERATOR: Katherine Howell
Hannah Feintuch – “ How We Eat: Campus Dining at GW”
Nominating Professor:
Emily Bliss
Session 7 - 12:45-1:35 - Gelman Library, Room 300
Panel: How Do We Slay the Dragon? Strategies, Propaganda, and Rhetoric in Global Message Crafting
MODERATOR: Michael Svoboda
Amelia Prior – “Using Carbon Calculators to Communicate Climate Change
”
Nominating Professor:
Michael Svoboda
Daniel (Dan) Rosenberg – “David and Goliath: A Piece of Propaganda Pitted Against the McDonald's Corporation
”
Nominating Professor:
Abby Wilkerson
Session 8 - 12:45-1:35 - Gelman Library, Room 301
Panel: Disney Passes a Plate of Wisdom and Keeps a Side of Money
MODERATOR: Amy Cohen
Abigail (Abby) Smith – “Disney Passes a Plate of Wisdom and Keeps a Side of Money”
Nominating Professor:
Abby Wilkerson
Session 9 - 12:45-1:35 - Gelman Library, Room 302
Panel:Attacked for Wearing a "Legalize Gay" T-Shirt: Responses to Hate Speech on a University Campus
MODERATOR: Leigha McReynolds
Alana Mello – “Attacked for Wearing a "Legalize Gay" T-Shirt: Responses to Hate Speech on a University Campus”
Nominating Professor:
Carol Hayes
Session 10 - 2:30-3:20 - Gelman Library, Room 300
Panel: Legal Failures: Tolerating Lynching and Hate Speech
MODERATOR: Niles Tomlinson
Tony Kim – “"Weapons of Dissent: Tomatoes" or "The Battle between Hate Speech and Civility"
”
Nominating Professor:
Carol Hayes
Gaurav Dhiman – “The Party Down at the Square: The Occurrence of Lynching in the United States
”
Nominating Professor:
Robin Marcus
Session 11 - 2:30-3:20 - Gelman Library, Room 301
Panel: Removing Barriers to Self-Actualization for African American Students
MODERATOR: Michael Tapscott
Matthew Epstein – “Born to Fail
”
Nominating Professor:
Robin Marcus
Whitney Drazovich – “Discovering Voice: Empowering African American Females to Success
”
Nominating Professor:
Randi Kristensen
Session 12 - 2:30-3:20 - Gelman Library, Room 302
Panel: The Consequences of Silence and Compliance: Challenges to Remembrance in Holocaust Scholarship
MODERATOR: Danika Meyers
Alison Inceu – “The Gypsy Holocaust: a Challenge to Remembrance.
”
Nominating Professor:
Cayo Gamber
Julia Schiano – “The Railroad during the Holocaust: The Public Secret
”
Nominating Professor:
Cayo Gamber
Session 13 - 3:50-4:40 - Gelman Library, Room 300
Panel: Environmental Policy: Church and State
MODERATOR: TBA
Phillip Bradshaw – “Have No Fear, The Renewables Are Here!
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Nominating Professor:
Michael Svoboda
Cory Trio – “Final Judgment: An Analysis of how the Eschatological Views of the Assemblies of God Influence the Church’s Environmental Positions and the Ramifications of these Positions
”
Nominating Professor:
Shannon Berry
Session 14 - 3:50-4:40 - Gelman Library, Room 301
Panel: Societal Outsiders: Alienation and Inalienable Rights
MODERATOR: Sandra Friedman
Troy Gibb – “Bags of Dirt: Yosemite Valley's Eviction of Chongo and the Association of Homelessness with the Alternative Lifestyle of Rock Climbing
”
Nominating Professor:
Carol Hayes
Jake Barszcz – “'Nothing Seems to Make Sense Anymore': The Death of the Social Being in Dead Man and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
”
Nominating Professor:
Sandie Friedman
Session 15 - 3:50-4:40 - Gelman Library, Room 302
Panel: Labor Issues: Gender, Unions, and the Role of Government
MODERATOR: TBA
Allyson Brown – “Is Equality Actually Fair?
”
Nominating Professor:
Zak Wolfe
Cameron Neilley – “Rethinking Contemporary Labor
”
Nominating Professor:
Zak Wolfe
