2014 Sanger Summer Scholars Symposium
9:00-9:05 - Welcome
9:05-9:30 - Alexis Grosofsky and Collin Spencer
Perception and chemistry of odor removal
Alexis Grosofsky and Collin Spencer will evaluate the effectiveness of
different remedies for removing odors, examining both the biochemistry and
the olfactory perception involved.
9:30-9:55 - Bill New and Hatheway Rawlinson
Becoming, Unhinged: Arts-based Teaching and Research on Undergraduate WellBeing
Bill New and Hatheway Rawlinson will develop an arts-based curriculum
and an associated research plan for a course on late adolescent identity
development, mental health and well-being that centers on a collaborative
research project generated by the students.
9:55-10:20 - Carol Wickersham and Karen Jones
Analysis of Community-Based Learning Outcomes Using Sets of Student Field Notes
Carol Wickersham and Karen Jones’s project involves the organization and
qualitative analysis of ten years of field notes written by students enrolled in
the Beloit College Duffy Community Partnerships Seminar. Carol and Karen
will identify the attributes of the developmental trajectory of academically
grounded, community-based learning and the conditions or mechanisms that
promote significant student learning.
10:20-10:45 - Linda Sturtz and Nicole Weber
“A History Lesson in Colour and Motion”: An Afro-Caribbean Cultural Tradition in
Transition - Masquerade in Montserrat
Linda Sturtz and Nicole Weber will combine documentary research and oral
history work on site during one of Montserrat's festivals to analyze the
voices, messages, and tactics of the performers, considering the ways that
music and dance provide the means to preserve traditions and teach those
traditions and community values to subsequent generations.
10:45-11:00 - Break
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11:00-11:25 - Natalie Gummer and Jessica Vogel
Translating Transformative Texts in Theory and Practice
Natalie Gummer and Jessica Vogel will translate the Mahāyāna sutra,
Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra, or Sūtra of Utmost Golden Radiance. Their work
will include researching theories of performance and translation, copying the
sutra, reciting it aloud, and memorizing it, in order to understand better how
to translate the performative and potentially transformative elements of the
text.
11:25-11:50 - Carol Mankiewicz and Becky Clow
Effects of Human Modification to a Local Stream
Carol Mankiewicz and Becky Clow will investigate temperature variance in
Beloit’s Spring Brook due to human modification -- the removal of vegetation
along the stream and warm-water discharge from industry. They will
document changes in stream biology along the modified stretches of the
stream.
11:50-12:15 - Debra Majeed and Sarah Simms
Female Religious Authority: Exploring Women’s Leadership in the Catholic and
Muslim Faiths
Debra Majeed and Sarah Simms will research Catholic and Muslim female
religious leadership, with particular focus on the ways in which Muslim and
Catholic texts and communities of interpreters may accommodate female
religious authorities and the strategies available to women who engage with
leadership models within domains of communal life dominated by male
authority.
12:15-12:40 - Daniel Youd and Dawei David Xu
John Fryer’s Chinese Archive: Late-Qing Dynasty Chinese Novels and the
Translation of ‘Western Learning’
Daniel Youd and David Xu will extend Daniel’s research on the context and
impact of literary translation through a survey of over 50 recently
recovered manuscript novels submitted to a fiction contest organized by
John Fryer, an influential popularizer of “Western learning” in nineteenthcentury China.
12:40-12:45 - Closing
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