Saturday, November 7, 2015
Time &
Location
8am
8:45am
DIGS 114
DIGS 222
Global Issues
Water Quality and Biomonitoring in
the Río Lagarto, Costa Rica
Literature, Visual & Performing Arts
Healing, Livelihood, Frozen Lakes,
Direction, Mutability: Water in Poetry
Regional Interests: the Carolinas
Climate Interactions with Water Resources
in the Carolinas
Stephanie Colburn
Laura Gibbs
Savannah Moritzky
Leigha Stahl
Mary E. Martin
Jane Smith
Susan Ludvigson
Evelyn Weeks
Alex Muller
Amanda Brennan
Jenna Hartley
Kristen Lackstrom
Discussant: Peter Phillips
Discussant: Dustin Hoffman
Discussant: Simone Camel
Winthrop
Galleries
Opening Remarks in Dina’s Place
Registration
Posters
Session II
10:1511:15am
DIGS 221
Registration DIGS 114
Session I
9-10am
10-10:15
Interruption
&
Performance
DIGS 220
Refreshments
Literature, Visual & Performing Arts
nd
Site Specific Dance & Theatre Performance -DIGS 2 Floor Landing and In Between Spaces
On Water: Place. Perform.
Instigators : Laura Dougherty, Emily Morgan
Performers : Dontrell Brailsford
Devon DiFederico
Mason Diaz
Zeke Jones
Rachel King
Lauren Landers
La’Raine Turlington
Garret Whiffen
Global Issues
Water in the World: The Social,
Economic, and the Sacred
Literature, Visual & Performing Arts
“Enabling and Constraining:” Water in
Visual Art
Regional Interests: the Carolinas
Water Quality, Availability, and Economic
Realities of the Carolinas
Monique Constance-Huggins and Simone Camel
“The Social and Economic Impact of Water
Scarcity: The case of St. Vincent and the
Grenadines”
Makala Smith Suzanne Robinson
Joan Campbell Sherrel Jones
James Holland “Putting an End to the Great
Water War”
J. Robert Johnson “Stopping the Waters of Life:
Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam and Nile
Water Diplomacy”
Katherine Metzo “Lake Baikal’s “Pure” Water as
a Marketing Meme”
Discussant: Peter Judge
Laura Dufresne “Water & Rome- from
Aqueducts to Fountains”
Clara Paulino “Representations of the Sea in
Portugal’s Facist Propaganda (1926-1974)”
Karen Stock “Pierre Bonnard’s Bathtub as
Tomb”
Alice Burmeister “Water Symbolism & Political
Campaign Propaganda in West African FactoryPrinted Textiles”
Alan Hinchman “Creative Solutions to Water
Challenges”
Steven Davidson “Unspoken: A Tale of Green-washed
Democracy”
Eddie Lee “Local Government and the Great Drought:
How Two South Carolina Cities Addressed The Water
Shortage, 2002-2011”
Kristin Ramirez “Water Quality Parameters and
Aquatic Macroinvertebrates of Manchester Creek,
Rock Hill, South Carolina”
Discussant: Karen Stock
Discussant: Michael Lipscomb
Open
9am-5pm
Time &
Location
11:15-11:30
Performance
DIGS 114
DIGS 220
DIGS 221
DIGS 222
Winthrop
Galleries
Literature, Visual & Performing Arts
Dance Performance Dina’s Place
Dancing the Dust Bowl and Beyond
Choreographer: Kelly Ozust,
Dancers: Olivia Bennicase
Caroline McDonald
Jessica McFarland
11:30-12:45pm
Keynote Address & Luncheon Richardson Ballroom
Keynote Speaker: Sam Perkins, Catawba Riverkeeper
“High Demand, Limited Supply: The Water-Energy Nexus on the Catawba River”
Session III
1-2pm
Global Issues
Water, Access, and Education
“The Rocha Nicaragua Project 2007-2015”
Simone Camel
Ginger Williams
Registration
Posters
Refreshments
Jordan Lewis "Impacts of Beach Renourishment
on the Distribution and Abundance of E.coli"
Discussant: Adam Glover
2:00-2:15
Film
Literature, Visual & Performing Arts
Skinny Dip: Carl Hiassen, Detective
Fiction and the Murder of the Florida
Everglades
Women & Children
Conservation, Ecofeminism and Ethical
Reasoning: Considering Women and
Children’s Bodies and Water
Jennifer Oliver “Finding a Factual Victim in
Funny Fiction”
Hayley Neiling “The Judgment of the
Environment”
Laurie Hilburn “ A Woman’s Nature:
Ecofeminism in Carl Hiassen’s Skinny Dip”
Dana Farrior (for Ashley Causey)“It’s not just for
adults: Including children into the discussion about
water conservation and accessibility”
Emily Carter “India’s Women-Water Gatherers and the
Politics of Access”
Kristin Kiblinger “Water as Symbolic Resource:
Japanese Buddhist Ethical Reasoning on Abortion”
Discussant: Laura Dougherty
Discussant: Casey Cothran
Literature, Visual & Performing Arts
Film Dina’s Place
Water, A Visual Experience: A Video Focused on The Beauty of Water
Artist: Seth Rouser
Session IV
2:15-3:15pm
Regional Topics in the United States
Green Infrastructure, Revitalization,
and Sustainability
Michaela Bishop and Michaela Dunbar
“American Sponge City: Alternative Water
Structures”
Literature, Visual & Performing Arts
Water: Place. Experience. Arts.
Kelly Richardson “The Great Shroud of the Sea:
Oceanic Imagery in Herman Melville’s Moby
Dick”
Seth Rouser “Water, A Visual Experience: A
Video Focused on the Beauty of Water”
Historical Perspectives
Use of Water on Alexander the Great’s
Campaign
Greg Bell “Mirroring Alexander: Water Usage of the
Army of First Crusade as It Crossed Asia Minor”
Paul Laffredo “The Logistics of Alexander the Great’s
Campaign”
Open
9am-5pm
Time &
Location
Session IV
2:15-3:15pm
CONT’D
DIGS 220
Registration
Posters
Refreshments
Avery Davis: “The Los Angeles River: A City’s
Urban Heartbeat”
Robyn Stuber “Linking Social Sustainability to
Sea Level Rise Through Vulnerability in
Wicomico County, Maryland”
Brent Cagle “Water Resources and Plant-Based
Eating: Radical Lifestyle or Reality Check?”
DIGS 221
DIGS 222
Laura Dougherty and Emily Morgan “End: Site
Specific Theatre and Dance Collaboration”
Discussant: Catherine Chang
Discussant: Jack DeRochi
Discussant: Guy Reel
Session V
3:30-4:30pm
Session VI
4:45pm5:45pm
Regional Topics in the United States
California Water Shortages: Causes
And Impacts of the Droughts in the
Western US
Consumer Sciences
Family and Consumer Sciences
Professionals: A Long History of
Involvement in Water Related Issues
Scott Werts
Robert Stonebreaker
Lauren Lintz
Asa Walvoort
Sue Reichelt
Melanie Powley
Morgan Gleason
Aniysa Raiford
Peter Phillips: “Acequia Irrigation as an Example of
Sustainable Water Management in Arid New Mexico”
Dave Pretty: “Regina Aquarum and Respublica Sancti
Petri: Water in Late Carolingian Rome”
David Schroeder: “Peace on Mars: Late-Victorian
Speculation about the Red Planet and Its Canals”
Discussant: Marsha Bollinger
Discussant: Jennifer Disney
Discussant: Ginger Williams
Poster Presentations DIGS 114
Politics & Policy
Environmental Discourse, Exploitation,
and Geo-Engineering of Water
Mass Communications
“The Catawba River: Water for Life” (Film)
David Dillard-Wright: “Water is Not a ‘Natural
Resource’: De-Commodification of the Means of
Life”
Jesse Perl: “Understanding Environmental
Discourses Relating to Water Security”
Chris Van Aller “National Approaches to GeoEngineering”
Discussant: Stephen Smith
6pm-
Winthrop University Galleries Reception
Man + Land + Water, Rutledge Gallery
LAST FISH ON EARTH: Our Happy Re-Granulated Future, Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery
Historical Perspectives
Historical Perspectives on Water Usage,
Sustainability, and Representation
Aimee Meader
Mark Nortz
Joie Harrison
Kristina Houseworth
Rise Murray
Posters
Katharine Bennett, Brittany Langston, and Kelley Robb “Using a Domestic Water Audit Activity to Increase Awareness of Water Conservation in College Students”
Alex Corder “Next-Gen Sequencing for Community Assessment in the Meiofauna: Developing the Database”
Jenna M. Hartley, Charles E. Konrad, Margaret Kovach, Jason J. West :“Associations between meteorology and waterborne disease: A spatial and temporal study in North Carolina State”
Jordan Alexander Lewis "Impacts of Beach Renourishment on the Distribution and Abundance of Escherichia Coli"
Kyle McDaniel "Genetic Confirmation of Temporary Meiofauna in Marine Food Webs"
Jesse Perl “Changing Wetlands: The Mesopotamian Marshlands from 1987-2013”
Ashley Proctor, Katelyn Passmore, Veronica Williams: “The Shrinking Sea: An Aerial View of Ecological and Economical Collapse”
Ariel V. Schoenfuss “University Students’ Attitudes Toward Water Scarcity and their Relationship to Water”
Adrienne Schwarte “‘Visualizing’ Water Using Design and Biomimic Marketing For Water Refill Stations”
Marilyn Smith “Living Water International: Helping Communities Acquire Clean Water”
Leigha Stahl “Creating a microcosm to examine salinity tolerance of Escherichia coli in beach sand ”
Robyn Stuber “Linking Social Sustainability to Sea Level Rise through Vulnerability in Wicomico County, Maryland”
Water Conference Acknowledgments:
Conference Co-Chairs: Ginger Williams and Laura Dougherty
Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies: Marsha Bollinger
College of Arts & Sciences Special Event Coordinator: Claire Weikle
Conference Committee: Alice Burmeister, Simone Camel, Karen Derksen, Jennifer Disney, Matthew Heard, Chris Johnson, Greg Oakes, Clara Paulino
Co-Sponsoring Colleges and Departments: Arts and Sciences, Visual and Performing Arts, Biology, History, Human Nutrition, Interdisciplinary Studies, Mass
Communications, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Political Science, Social Work, Sociology and Anthropology, The Environmental Sciences Program, the Family
and Consumer Sciences Program, the Office of Career and Civic Engagement, The Global Learning Initiative, The Peace, Justice, and Conflict Resolution Studies
Program, The West Forum, and Winthrop University Galleries
Logo Design: Patrick White