Day 1- Friday, January 16, 2015
Morning Sessions
9:00-10:15am
First Presentation Session
“Hair Removal,
Walking, &
Refrigeration: A
Look at Everyday
Things”
(AE 104)
Kristina Franks
(TRU)
“A Hairy History: A General Overview of
Historical Reasons & Methods of Shaving
& Hair Removal Techniques”
Benjamin Andrews
(TRU)
“It’s Kind of a Cool Story: The History of
the Household Refrigerator”
Jason Ralph
(TRU)
“The Peasant & the Noble Savage:
Walking as a Mode of Authentic Being”
Wesley Laporte
(MacEwan
University)
“An Orchestrated Crisis: Federalism,
Nationalism, & the State in October
1970”
Caitlin Forsberg
(TRU)
“Fortis et Liber and Eugenics: Alberta’s
Failure to Actualize the Maxim”
Jacob Plato
(TRU)
“Total Domination and the
Concentration Camp”
Moderator
“A State of
Exception”
(AE 163)
Refreshment Break for 15 Minutes
10:30-11:45am
Second Presentation Session
“A Matter of Life &
Death”
(AE 108)
Moy Mao
(TRU)
“Truth of the World in a Traditional
Chinese Way”
Zachary Morris
(TRU)
“Why Fear Death: An Application of
Emergentist and Reductionist Theories
to the Event of Death”
Rhys Cranwell
(TRU)
“Where Canada Fits Into China, a Going
Out Strategy”
Connor Bell
(University of
Calgary)
“Cameralism & the Natural Order in
North America”
Moderator
“Money Makes the
World Go Round”
(AE 162)
Moderator
Lunch- 11:45-12:45 *Refreshments will be available in Gorman’s Grotto (3rd Floor AE)
Afternoon Sessions
12:45-2:00
Third Presentation Session
“Sex in Times of
Oppression:
Sexuality in the
Concentration
Camp”
(AE 164)
Kirsten Bower
(TRU)
“The Nature of Sex in the Camps of Nazi
Germany and Russia’s Gulags”
Sara Hilliard
(TRU)
“Motherhood in the Concentration
Camp: A Comparison of the Experiences
of Mothers in the Soviet and Nazi
Camps”
Courtney
McLaughlin
(TRU)
“Sex and Love in the Concentration
Camp: A Comparison Between the Nazi
and Soviet Camp Systems”
Moderator
“Dresses, Flowers,
and the Social
Order in the Early
Modern World”
(AE 212)
Arlen Wiesenthal
(SFU)
“The Floral Preoccupations of Ahmed III:
A Review of Methodological Approaches
to the Ottoman Tulip Period”
Megan Fenkhuber
(TRU)
“The Womanish-Man and the ManWoman: Cross Dressing in Early Modern
England”
Natasha Wismark
(MacEwan
University)
“The Tension and Harmony of Order in
Early Modern England”
Moderator
Refreshment Break for 15 Minutes
Fourth Presentation Session
2:15-3:15
Maria Kutuzova
“From Leviathan to (University of
Hobby Lobby:
Toronto)
Changes in the
Social Contract”
“Dangerous Implications of Corporate
Personhood on the Stability of American
Democracy”
“Raising a Leviathan in the Midst of a
(AE 212 )
Joshua Smith
(MacEwan
University)
Scientific Revolution”
Leigha Maaskant
(TRU)
“Sprinkles, & Fondant, & Cake, Oh My!
Can Aesthetics of Food Be Considered
Art?
Denise McKeown
(TRU)
“The Aura In Fakes”
Lyndsay Helfrich
(TRU)
“Hearts, Ships, & Naked Chicks: The
Emergence of American Traditional as
Folk Art During the Golden Age of
Tattooing”
Moderator
“Icing, Ink, &
Forgeries: Topics
in Art”
(AE 104)
Moderator
Refreshment Break for 15 Minutes
Fifth Presentation Session
3:30-4:45
“The Hungry
Communist”
(AE 104)
Robyn Malner
(TRU)
“We do not have any hungry people
here: Politics, Weather, Stalin and the
Ukrainian Famine”
Kimberly Pluim
(MacEwan
University)
“Famine & Starvation in the Scope of
Environmental Ethics of Philosophy”
Kaitlyn Seifrit
(TRU)
“Women in Communist Russian Law vs.
Reality”
Daniel Komarnicky
(TRU)
“The Phases and Oppression of
Knowledge: Aboriginal Knowledge”
Jason Charlie
“Fusion: The Circle of Life”
Moderator
“Many Ways of
Knowing: The
Importance of
Culture & Personal
Context in
Epistemology”
(AE 212)
(TRU)
Laura Grant
(Mount Royal
University)
“Memory, History, & Evolution”
Moderator
Evening Presentation
7:00pm
Keynote Address- Dr. Colin
Bennett (UVIC)
Title
8:30 (or after Keynote
Presentation)
Wine and Cheese social in the Terrace (Campus
Activity Center)
Day 2- Saturday, January 17, 2015
Morning Sessions
9:00-10:15am
First Presentation Session
“From Treason to
Mutilation: The Politics
of Violence”
(IB 1007)
Justin Greer
(TRU)
“The Legitimacy of Violence in Tudor
England”
Steven Lilley
(Mount Royal
University)
“A Conspiring Locksmith and a Lying
Youth: High Treason in Samuel de
Champlain New France”
Jeffrey
Greenall
(TRU)
“Mutilation in Byzantine Politics”
Moderator
“Deep Thinkers
Through the Ages”
(IB 1008)
Jordan
Gorenberg
(Gonzaga
University)
“Conflicting Interpretation and the
Problem of Metaphysics: Plato, Nietzche,
& Heidegger”
Taylor White
(UBCO)
“Frege’s Puzzle About Identity”
Moderator
Refreshment Break for 15 Minutes
10:30-11:45am
Second Presentation Session
“War What is it
Cheice Sorbie
“America’s Failure to Protect: U.S.
Good For?”
(IB 1007)
(Mount Royal
University)
Foreign Policy on Child Soldiers: A
Chadian and Sudanese Case Study”
Craig Trarup
(TRU)
“Denmark in WW2: The Morals of a
Nation”
Tyler Pineau
(TRU)
“The Western Hero Myth and Women in
War”
Allison Bailey
(Mount Royal
University)
“Sorcery, Heresy, and the Authority of
the Church”
Max Botheras
(Mount Royal
University)
“Divine Justice and Intervention in ‘The
Miracles of Saint Foy’ by Bernard
Angers”
Tarisa Adrian
(Mount Royal
University)
“Legitimacy & Justification in Early
Modern England’s Witch Trials”
Moderator
“Miracles,
Witchcraft, and
Heresy in Medieval
and Early Modern
Europe”
(IB 1008)
Moderator
Lunch- 11:45-12:45 *Refreshments will be available in International Building Lobby
Afternoon Sessions
12:45-2:00
Third Presentation Session
“Definitions of
Change: Youth and
Identity in the
Sixties”
(IB 1007)
Moderator
Alanah Seaton &
Susanne GoreFlukinger
(TRU)
“What is Canadianism? The Writing of a
Historical Role Playing Game”
Justin Potestio
(TRU)
“The Gospel According to the Cosmic
Conscious: The Counterculture and
Christianity in Late 1960s North
America”
“Changing Times:
North America at
the Turn of the
Century”
(IB 1008)
Jeannine Worthing
(TRU)
“Entertainment, Information, or
Propoganda? Cinema, Radio, & Public
Opinion ‘Management’ in Wartime
America”
Eleonora Calviello
(TRU)
“American Individualism & the
Emergence of the Private Eye”
Ariel Little
(TRU)
“Race & Religion: Christianity and the
Chinese Community in British Columbia”
Moderator
Refreshment Break for 15 Minutes
Conference Banquet, “An Evening In a Roaring Twenties Speakeasy”
5:30pm
6:00pm
7:30pm
8:30pm
Doors open to the Blackwell Room in The Plaza Hotel
Dinner Service
Guest Speaker- Dr. Tina Block
Party!