With subjects ranging from capitalism in contemporary China, to red-haired women featured in the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, to building a better oarsman, the Harrison Symposium recognizes the outstanding research done by Lawrence students in the humanities and social sciences. The 13th annual Harrison symposium will be held Saturday, May 15, 2010, in Lawrence University’s Main Hall. Presenters are nominated by faculty and invited to submit abstracts of their research papers. Based on the abstracts, students are selected to present their work at the symposium in the format used for professional meetings of scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Welcome Reception
8:45 Light Refreshments – Strange Commons in Main Hall
9:00 Welcome by Provost and Dean of the Faculty, David Burrows
Session One: Panel A, Main Hall 201
Moderator: Professor Barrett
9:15 Kelsey Platt: “Space for the Individual”
9:45 Melody Moberg: “Radically Subversive Domesticity: The True Implications of Rachel Halliday’s Kitchen”
10:15 Alicia Bones: “Aunt Jemima and Aunt Chloe: Moving Within and Outside of the Mammy Myth”
Session One: Panel B, Main Hall 211
Moderator: Professor Tsomu
9:15 Lindsey Ahlen: “The Impact of Local Media on West African Political Systems and Figures”
9:45 Carolyn Schultz: “Managing Crises: The Arab-Israeli Conflict from the Perspectives of the Johnson and Nixon Administrations”
10:15 Jihyun Shin: “Capitalism in Contemporary China”
Session One: Panel C, Main Hall 216
Moderator: Professor Carlson
9:15 Marie Straquadine: “Objects of Desire: Women with Red Hair in Rossetti’s Paintings”
9:45 Sarah Young: “Shamanism or “Stubborn Rationality”: Joseph Beuys and the Dilemma of Post-War German Masculinity”
10:15 Dani Simandl: “Girls Gone Wild, String Instrument-Style: Performing Instrumental Music for a Popular Culture”
Session One: Panel D, Main Hall 401
Moderator: Professor Frederick
9:15 Elizabeth Nerland: “No Middle Ground: The Rise and Fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee”
9:45 Caitlin Williamson: “Ojibwe and Canis lupus: cultural, historical, and political influences on contemporary wolf management in the Great Lakes region”
10:15 Gustavo Guimaraes: “Latin American Ethnicity; Not So “Black and White”
Session One: Panel E, Main Hall 404
Moderator: Professor Williams
9:15 Nicholas Miller: “Building a Better Oarsman: Conceptual Integration and Motor Learning in Rowing Instruction”
9:45 Madeline Herdeman: “Cognitive Models and the Partisan Divide: A Study of the Debate over Health Care Reform”
10:15 Alex Macartney: “A Democratic Purge?: The United States and the Denazification of Austria, 1945 – 1950”
Session Two: Panel A, Main Hall 201
Moderator: Professor Thomas
11:00 Nicolas Watt: “Ethics in Dostoevsky: A Narrative Analysis of The Idiot”
11:30 John Bettridge: “Tabari, Ghazali and Qutb: The Development of Modern Qur’anic Exegesis”
12:00 Christopher McGeorge: “Subverting Morality: Idealization in Victorian Art and Literature” ~ 2009 Harrison Award Winner
Session Two: Panel B, Main Hall 211
Moderator: Professor Vilches
11:00 Jennifer Gabriele: “Federico García Lorca: La obra escrita y plástica de Poeta en Nueva York y la autorrepresentación polifacética”
11:30 Elizabeth Hoffman: “La maternidad, el espacio público y feminismo: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo”
12:00 Matthew Ingram: “La Construcción del Género: La Lucha Lingüística entre la Biología y la Identidad Social”
Session Two: Panel C, Main Hall 216
Moderator: Professor Jenike
11:00 Rebecca Hayes: “Misconstruing Misogyny: Reworking the Witchcraft Trials of Early Modern Europe Beyond the Limits of Second Wave Feminism”
11:30 Harjinder Bedi: “Social Poetry of Adzogbo: Context and Meaning of a West African War Dance”
12:00 Michael Korcek: “Drag Kinging in Amsterdam: Queer identity politics, subcultural spaces, and transformative potentials”
Session Two: Panel D, Main Hall 401
Moderator: Professor Rico
11:00 Katie Van Marter-Sanders: “The Various Reinterpretations of the Sultana Tragedy”
11:30 Jennifer Roesch: “The Hindenburg: A Disaster Waiting to Happen”
12:00 Kaye Herranen: “Artists’ Responses to the Firebombing of Dresden”
