Schedule of Presentations
SATURDAY, 20-Jun-15
| OPENING REMARKS | 8:45 | PAB 320 | |
| PANEL 1A PAB 320 9:00-10:30 |
Moderator | Grace Lee Park | Reed College |
| African Colonization on its Own: The Black Emigration Movement's Distinct Role in Early American History | Katherine Orloff | Stanford University | |
| The Politics of Culture: Multiculturalism and Ethnic Discrimination in Germany | Lea-Maria Warlich | Maastricht University | |
| What happened when Anna jumped out the window: The Domestic Slave Trade in antebellum Washington, D.C. | Candy Carter | Stanford University | |
| PANEL 1B PAB 332 9:00-10:30 |
Moderator | Maylorie Townsend | Reed College |
| How Many Ways Do I Love Thee?: The Parafictions of Nanni Balestrini's Tristano | Rohan Ghatak | St. John's College | |
| Shifting Identity/Shifting Discourse: Re-Naming in Contemporary Literature by Zadie Smith, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Salman Rushdie | Jennifer Krengel | Dominican University | |
| Narrative Symmetry in Jorge Luis Borges | Colleen Rafferty | St. John's College | |
| PANEL 1C PAB 131 9:00-10:30 |
Moderator | Jan Carpenter | Reed College |
| Representation of Technology and Place in Leslie Ragan's New 20th Century Limited | Neil Ramiller | Reed College | |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Modernity | Siddhartha Shome | Stanford University | |
| The Romantic Revolt | Sophie Rijnaard | Maastricht University | |
| BREAK | 10:30-10:45 am | PAB | |
| PANEL 2A PAB 320 10:45-12:15 |
Moderator | Derek Finn | Reed College |
| Making No Compromise with the Public Taste: Writing and Performing the Non-acquiescent Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven | Nadia Thibault | Simon Fraser University | |
| A Tribal Perspective on Maastricht's Student Subculture | Scott Philippe | Maastricht University | |
| Speaking Up for the Spoken Word: an Exploration of Live Poetry's Place within Academia | Rhega-Mai Ward | Maastricht University | |
| PANEL 2B PAB 332 10:45-12:15 |
Moderator | Hal Nevis | Reed College |
| Edith Warton: Rethinking Race in The House of Mirth | Nazima-Tabasum Chowdhary | Stanford University | |
| Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives: a Jewish-American Novel | Tricia Pummill | San Diego State University | |
| Voltaire and the Jews | Maxine Rose Schur | Stanford University | |
| PANEL 2C PAB 131 10:45-12:15 |
Moderator | Mark Pettibone | Reed College |
| Helen's Autopsy: a Forensic Approach to Myth in Herodotus's Histories | Julie Felix | Reed College | |
| Men Feel Patriarchy is Still Influencing the Sexes | Cathy Bennett | Marylhurst University | |
| LUNCH | 12:15-1:45pm | Commons | |
| PANEL 3A PAB 320 1:45-3:15 |
Moderator | Julie Felix | Reed College |
| The Role of Practice Babies in Home Economics Education during the Great Depression | Claire Michie | Reed College | |
| Capitalizing on an Image: Queen Elizabeth I's Influence on the Lives and Works of Anne Bradstreet and Aphra Behn | Emma Allen | UW, Tacoma | |
| The Role of All-Female Battlefield Hospitals During WWI on the Vote for Women in Britain | Candace M. Turtle | Stanford University | |
| PANEL 3B PAB 332 1:45-3:15 |
Moderator | Nora McLaughlin | Reed College |
| The Rich Dead and Strange Ghosts of Rupert Brooke's War Poetry | Laura Moore | Stanford University | |
| Driving with the Dead: Stories of Loss, Journey, and Wonder | Valerie Silver | Dominican University | |
| Arendt's Empirical Theory of Judgment: or, How to Understand the "Banality of Evil" | Darek Teller | Reed College | |
| PANEL 3C PAB 131 1:45-3:15 |
Moderator | Linda Meng | Reed College |
| Improving Patient Health Outcomes through Increased Patient Health Literacy and Healthcare Provider Structural Competence | Kari Kennedy | UW, Tacoma | |
| Carbon Dioxide: an Invisible Link Between Stress and Chronic Disease | Benjamin C. Mefford | Marylhurst University | |
| In the Hopes of Helping the Students of St. Jude Primary School | Eric Rader | UW, Tacoma | |
| BREAK | 3:15-3:30pm | PAB | |
| PANEL 4A PAB 320 3:30-5:00 |
Moderator | Neil Ramiller | Reed College |
| Attenuation of Japanese Identity: A Rise to Terrorism | Brandon Brookes | San Diego State University | |
| Graven Images: the Power of Sign and Signified | Carol L. Ferris | Marylhurst University | |
| Visual Culture and Violence | Rose Catriona Bunagan | Simon Fraser University | |
| PANEL 4B PAB 332 3:30-5:00 |
Moderator | Jennifer Turner | Reed College |
| Brian Kent's Reflection in Eudora Welty's Moon Lake | Dave Seter | Dominican University | |
| "Life in Continuous Present:" Sharing the Story with a New Audience | Margaret Lundberg | UW, Tacoma | |
| The Female Orphan Archetype in Anne of Green Gables: Beauty, Imagination & Community | Claire Benjamin | Marylhurst University | |
| PANEL 4C PAB 131 3:30-5:00 |
Moderator | Bennett Gilbert | Reed College |
| The Baha'i System of Translation and Its Decision Tree | Karen Tucker Lynch | Marylhurst University | |
| The Experience of ātman:How the Manifestation of Brahman Perceives the Corporeal World | Holly Duffy | St. John's College | |
| Faith and Empirical Investigation in Buddhism | Michelle Wruck | St. John's College | |
| RECEPTION | 5:30 PM | PAB Upper Level |
SUNDAY, 21-Jun-15
| PANEL 5A PAB 320 9:30-11:00 |
Moderator | Mary Lou Anderson | Reed College |
| Remembering the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 in Light of the Agricultural Crisis of the 20s | James Cranston | Reed College | |
| Exploring a Meritocratic Alernative to Democracy | Lauren Kresowaty | Simon Fraser University | |
| Plato's Cave: a Vision to Overturn Homer's—and Why it Matters Today |
Gene Slater | Stanford University | |
| PANEL 5B PAB 332 9:30-11:00 |
Moderator | Kati Stenstrom | Reed College |
| The Pathway of a Healing Planet: Awakening to the Wild Within | Sarah Kreisman | Marylhurst University | |
| Racing with Copepods | Barbara McVeigh | Dominican University | |
| Ten Years Gone: Hurricane Katrina and the Late September Dogs in the City that Care Forgot | Karin A. Dalesky | UW, Tacoma | |
| PANEL 5C PAB 131 9:30-11:00 |
Moderator | Claire Michie | Reed College |
| From Anna Karenina to To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf's Response to Tolstoy's Portrayal of Motherhood | Andre Gerard | Simon Fraser University | |
| Girl who Married a Bear: Story, Ritual, and Belief of Bear in Circumpolar Hunting Cultures | Leah Kiczula | Marylhurst University | |
| Daughters of the Sun | Megan Lynn | Dominican University | |
| CLOSING SESSION | 11:15 | PAB 320 |