Middle Tennessee State University Scholars Week
College of Liberal Arts Day
March 30, 2016
Program: Talks and Panels
Talks (for Panels, please see p. 5)
Todd Hall, Room 204
10:00
Tales of Hardship: Issues in Relaying Stories of Suffering to a Global Audience
Caitlyn Parris, English
(Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Therrien, English)
10:15
Wine Tourism
Ashlee Pierce, Communication Studies and Organizational Communication
(Faculty Mentor: Janet McCormick, Communication Studies and Organizational Communication)
10:30
Everybody Gets Horny: The Juxtaposition of Social Expectations and Women's Desire
Sana Wilson, Social Work
(Faculty Mentor: Jessica Kratzer, Communication Studies and Organizational Communication)
10:45
Someplace sunny: Chronic illness and tourism in 19th century Cuba
Dr. Ric Morris, Foreign Languages & Literatures
11:00
To Control or not to Control that is the Question: An Analysis of Population Control in Asia
Caitlin Henderson, Political Science and International Relations
(Faculty Mentor, Stephen Morris, Political Science and International Relations)
11:15
Reacting to the Past: Egypt Had 99 Problems and Queen Tiye's Son Was All of Them
Quinlan Odom, History
(Faculty Mentor: Dawn McCormack, College of Liberal Arts/History)
11:30
Variations on a Theme: Corruption in Mexico and the U.S.
Dr. Stephen Morris, Political Science and International Relations
11:45
“I’m not, like, and altar Mormon”: Single LDS Women and Contemporary Gender Issues
Melody Cook, English
(Faculty Mentor, Rebekka King, Philosophy)
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12:00
Critical Discourse Analysis of a Common Campus Genre: Timely Warnings
Dr. Kate Pantelides, English
12:15
Judgement and Exclusion
Krista Martin, Human Sciences
(Faculty Mentor: Julie Myatt Barger, English)
12:30
An Updated History of the Southern Literary Festival
Alexandra Duross, English
(Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Kates, English)
12:45
Seeing the Full Spectrum: An Examination of Gender Normative Space on College and University
Campuses
Alexander Lempin, Communication Studies and Organizational Communication
(Faculty Mentor: Patrick Richey, Communication Studies and Organizational Communication)
1:00
Manufacturing Germans: Singer Manufacturing Company and American Capitalism in the Russian
Imagination During World War I
Dr. Benjamin Sawyer, History
1:15
Soviet participation and lessons learned in the Air War over North Vietnam
Stephen McIntyre, M.A. in Liberal Arts
(Faculty Mentor: Amy Sayward, History)
1:30
Xanthippus: From Sparta to Carthage and Beyond
Zachary Looney
(Faculty Mentor: Dawn McCormack, College of Liberal Arts/History)
1:45
Experiencing God: A Night of Passion
Keven Lewis, Anthropology
(Faculty Mentor: Rebekka King, Philosophy)
2:00
Sorority Women and Hookup Culture: The More Things Change...
Charlotte Archer, Sociology and Anthropology
(Faculty Mentor: Jessica Kratzer, Communication Studies and Organizational Communication)
2:15
Moving in Context: Duncan Contemporary Florence Fleming Noyes
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Dr. Meg Brooker, Theatre and Dance
2:30
A Many-World's Defense of Indeterminate Tense Logic
William Phillips
(Faculty Mentor: Ron Bombardi, Philosophy)
2:45
Hierarchy of Rights: Rights, Attitudes and Outcomes Among LGBTQ+ Populations
Charlotte Archer, Sociology and Anthropology
(Faculty Mentor: Angela Mertig, Sociology and Anthropology)
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Panels
Todd Hall, Room 348
10:00-11:30
Women’s and Gender Studies Panel I
Panel Organizer: Dr. Rebecca King, English
Hashtag Feminism and the New, Digital Wave of Feminism
Lesley Hanlin, Sociology and Anthropology
(Faculty Mentor: Meredith Dye, Sociology and Anthropology)
Interpretation of the Female Body in Dance
Rachel Vassar, Theatre and Dance
(Faculty Mentor: Meg Brooker, Theatre and Dance)
The Mask and Mary Wigman: An Experiment in Transcending Self
Ginny Whaley, Theatre and Dance
(Faculty Mentor: Meg Brooker, Theatre and Dance)
11:30-12:30
Imagining Religion - Here and Away: Examples from Ethnography of Religion
Panel Organizer: Ethan McHugh, Philosophy
(Faculty Mentor: Rebekka King, Philosophy)
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Sri Ganesha Temple: Religious Institutions in Diaspora
Jade Lehman, Global Studies and Cultural Geography
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The New American Me: Economies, Education, and the Personalization of Christianity
Ethan McHugh
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Mapmaking and the Missional Self
Keven Lewis, Sociology and Anthropology
12:30-2:00
Women’s and Gender Studies Panel II
Panel Organizer: Dr. Meredith Dye, Sociology and Anthropology
You and Me, Baby, Ain’t Nothing but Mammals—Or Are We? Demonization, Pathologization, and
Critical Analysis of Bestiality
Jacob Lax, Sociology and Anthropology
(Faculty Mentor: Meredith Dye, Sociology and Anthropology)
What’s Wrong with Mentally Ill Men
Victoria Ong, Sociology and Anthropology
(Faculty Mentor: Meredith Dye, Sociology and Anthropology)
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Feminist Analysis of Appalachian Stereotypes
Amanda Brown, Sociology and Anthropology
(Faculty Mentor: Meredith Dye, Sociology and Anthropology)
2:00-3:00
English Exploits into Popular Culture
Panel Organizer: Kenna Day, English
(Faculty Mentor: David Lavery)
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An Axe to Grind: New Rape-Revenge Horror and Feminist Filmmaking
Kenna Day, English
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Rachel Brooks, English
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Brandyn Whitaker, English
3:00-4:00
A Hard Slice of Life: Mythmaking in Early US Literature (Poster Presentations)
Panel Organizer: Dr. Jesse Williams, Jr., English
American Heroism and Bravery in Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow
Melina Datta, School of Journalism
Billy Davenport, History
Kathryn Rosa, English
Is the Social Construction of Femininity Really a Problem?: On The Equality of the Sexes
Kara Stallings, Art
Alexis Wilson, Nursing
Dakota Hayes, Exercise Science
The 'Hasty' Truth of America: Joel's Barlow's Mock Epic
Lane-Adam Hunt, Undeclared
Haley Seals, Nursing
Gabriel Martin, Aerospace
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