THE HAAS SCHOLARS PROGRAM
FIRST ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE

Friday, April 16th, Noon-4:30 PM
Saturday, April 17th, 8:30-5 PM

Seaborg Room, Men's Faculty Club
University of California, Berkeley

FRIDAY, APRIL 16th

12:15 PM Welcome: Dean Carolyn Porter

12:30-1:30 PM Memory and Motion: Studies in Psychology and Integrative Biology John Kihlstrom, Chair

• Neil Tolani "The Biomechanics of Backward Walking" (Professor Rodger Kram)
• Lillian Park "Processing and Structure in False Memory" (Professor John Kihlstrom)

1:45-3:15 PM Cleave It, Fold It, Crystallize It: Biochemistry and Structural Biology Fenyong Liu, Chair

• Sean Lee "Accounting for the Stability of Green Fluorescent Protein" (Professor Jack Kirsch)
• Kwa Liou "Kinetic Analyses of an RNA Cleaving Ribozyme" (Professor Fenyong Liu)
• Shahram Misaghi "Crystallization of AcrA and Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics" (Professor Robert Glaeser)

3:30-4:30 PM Rock Music and Communes: Myth-Making, Self and Community Caren Kaplan, Chair

• Kaci Elder "Contemporary American Utopias: Diverse Intentional Communities from a Young Feminist Perspective" (Professor Caren Kaplan)
• Matt Stahl "Independent Cultural Production: Performance of Self and Creation of Value in an Eddy of the Mainstream" (Professor Gil Eyal)

FRIDAY EVENING EVENTS

New Scholars' Reception: Friday, April 16th, 5:15-7 PM Seaborg Room, Men's Faculty Club

"Orbital Revolution" A Multi-Media Performance Piece Created by Tamarind Rossetti-Johnson Friday, April 16th, 7:30 PM Worth-Ryder Gallery Sponsored by the Haas Scholars Program

SATURDAY, APRIL 17th

8:30-9:00 PM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM-11:00 AM Issues in Ecology and Conservation Across the Disciplines Gregory Gilbert, Chair

• Melissa Baird "Devouring Our History: An Inquiry into the Destruction of California Rock Art" (Professors Margaret Conkey and Kent Lightfoot)
• Jeri Parrent "Genetic Diversity among Populations of Coriolopsis caperata " (Professor Gregory Gilbert)
• Natalia Glebova "Analysis of Thioredoxin Regulation during Selenite Biotransformation in Bacillus subtilis" (Professor Terrance Leighton)
• Ori Skloot "Researching the Recycling Industry in Israel" (Professor Christine Rosen)

11:15 AM-12:45 PM "Shaping Sense: The Theater of Eye, Body and Text" Kevin Radley, Chair

• Laura Brueckner "The Commedia Workshop" (Professor Dunbar Ogden)
• Christophe Wall-Romana "'Come, Someone Says' by James Sacré: Poetry Translation as Intimated Theory" (Professor Ann Smock )
• Tamarind Rossetti-Johnson "Orbital Revolution: An Exploration in Visual,  Conceptual, and Physical Communication" (Professor Kevin Radley)

12:45-1:45 PM Lunch

1:45-3:15 PM In the Minority: Topics in Educational Access and Religious Influence in the U.S., Taiwan and Hong Kong Thomas Gold, Chair

• Mali Kigasari ""Latinos and Higher Education: An Inquiry Into Latinos' Access to Prestigious Universities in California"(Professor John Ogbu)
• Kabrina Kau "Taiwanese Aborigines and the Education Dilemma" (Professor Ling-Chi Wang)
• Patrick Tsui "Colonial Perspectives: The Legacy of Catholic Influence in Pre-Return Hong Kong" (Professors Lowell Dittmer and Thomas Gold)

3:30-5:00 PM Prison Narratives, Latino Politics, and the Struggle towards Solidarity: Three Perspectives on Ethnic Identities and Social Change Stephen Small, Chair

• Sora Han "Asian American Prisoner Narratives: Possibilities for a Radical Community Resistance Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex" (Professor Stephen Small)
• Maurilio Leon "The California Latino Legislative Caucus: The Functioning Role and Influential Impact in the California Legislature" (Professor Bruce Cain)
• Alison Harrington "From Belfast to Chiapas: A Journey towards Solidarity (Professor Carlos Muñoz, Jr.)

SATURDAY EVENING EVENT

Commedia Stravaganza! presents
"La Scuola di Stravaganza" ("The School for Folly")
An Original Commedia dell'Arte Production
Directed by Laura Brueckner
Saturday, April 17th, 8 PM
Durham Studio Theater
Co-sponsored by the Haas Scholars Program and the Center for Theater Arts