Polyptychs: A Symposium of Undergraduate Research

University of California, Berkeley
April 14-15, 2000
The Faculty Club, Heyns Room 

An art history term, polyptych describes four or more individual pieces that are linked together to form a work of art that is greater than the sum of its parts. In the past year, each of us has completed a unique research or creative project; together, our intellectual work has inspired dialogue and exchange that has extended beyond the frames of our individual efforts. It is our pleasure to present you with our own polyptych: the Second Annual Haas Scholars Program Spring Research Conference.

Polyptypch n. an arrangement of four or more panels (as of a painting)
usually hinged or folding together

FRIDAY, APRIL 14

8:30-9	Coffee & Welcome Carolyn Porter, Dean of Undergraduate Education
9-10:30 AM	Contested Spaces: Urban Lots, Museum Repositories and the US/Mexico Border Chair: Carolyn Porter Peter B. Brownell (ISF Major) Double Crossing: An Examination of the Effects of Increased Enforcement Along the US-Mexico Border Sponsor: Professor Alex Saragoza, Ethnic Studies Charles W. Houston (Native American Studies & Ethnic Studies Major) Ethical Museum Storage Practices: Native Californian Artifacts in Museum Repositories Sponsor: Professor Patricia Hilden, Ethnic Studies Marisa M. Jahn (Art Practice & ISF Major) Reading the Lotscape of Mission Bay: an Interpretive History Sponsor: Professor Shawn Brixey, Art Practice
10:45 am-12:45 pm	Unraveling Fate: Studies in Environmental, Cognitive and Molecular Change Chair: Gary Firestone Simmie L. Foster (MCB Major) Genetic Analysis of PEST-like Sequences in the Listeria monocytogenes Protein Listeriolysin O Sponsor: Professor Daniel Portnoy, MCB Melissa M. Adams (Cognitive Science Major) Can Kangaroo Rats Reason? An Inquiry into the Ecology of Logical Inference Sponsor: Professor Lucy Jacobs, Psychology Brian Sun Kim (MCB & Psychology Major) Stress Regulation of Sgk Protein Sponsor: Professor Gary Firestone, MCB Anita Lee (Environmental Science Major) The role of Salicornia bigelovii in selenium speciation and volatilization Sponsor: Professor Norman Terry, Plant and Microbial Biology
12:45-2 PM	Lunch (O'Neill & Bowker Rooms)
2:00-3:30 PM	The Logic and Limits of Discourse: Sexuality, Race and Nation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Chair: Celeste Langan Matthew Lewsadder (English Major) Removing the Veils: The Occlusion of Female Sexuality in Oscar Wilde's Salomé Sponsor: Professor Sharon Marcus, English Miruna Andrea Stanica (English Major) Portable Culture: Representations of Gypsy Identity and Nineteenth Century Narratives of Nationalism Sponsor: Professor Celeste Langan, English Scott Leon Washington (Sociology Major) The Mulatto and the State: An Analytic History, 1890-1936 Sponsor: Professor Gil Eyal, Sociology
3:45-4:45 PM	From Zero to Universe: Small-Scale Solutions to Large-Scale Problems Chair: George Smoot Elizabeth Nicole Wilcut (Physics Major) Heavy Fermion Refrigerator Sponsor: Professor Seamus Davis, Physics Ki Won Yoon (Physics and Astrophysics Major) Earth-Based Detection of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Sponsor: Professor George Smoot, Physics
5:15-7 PM	New Scholars' Reception
7:30 PM	Performance (Worth Ryder Gallery) Listening A Multimedia Performance Piece Created and Performed by Amber Rose Smock

8:30-9 AM	Coffee
9-10 AM	Fragments from the Ancients: Interrogating Texts and Artifacts from Early China and Persia Chair: Jeffrey Riegel Kate Hunter-McPeake (Near Eastern Studies Major) From Tribe to Empire: An Examination of Political and Cultural Processes in the Nascent Persian State Sponsor: Professor David Stronach, Near Eastern Studies Kevin Kuanyun Huang (History Major) Narrativity and Context: Literary Hermeneutics in Early China Sponsor: Professor Jeffrey Riegel, East Asian Languages
10:15-11:45 AM	Where Borders Cease: Narratives of Hybrid Identities Chair: Francine Masiello Lena A. Salaymeh (Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Studies Major) (Re)Constructing: A Contemporary Narrative of Identity from Lebanon Sponsor: Professor Muhammad Siddiq, Near Eastern Studies Anny Song (Spanish & Business Administration Major) Asian-Latin Writers in Argentina: An Emerging Community, 1930s-1990s Sponsor: Professor Francine Masiello, Spanish & Portuguese Amber Rose Smock (Art Practice and English Major) At the Edge of Communication: Listening Between the Deaf and Hearing Worlds Sponsor: Professor Kevin Radley, Art Practice
12-1:30 PM	Improvising Identities: Asian American Jazz, Trinidadian Rapso and Digital Storytelling Chair: Michael Mascuch Loren Yukio Kajikawa (Ethnic Studies Major) Asian Improv: Defining Identity and Social Reality Through Music Sponsor: Professor José Saldîvar, Ethnic Studies Stephanie Neda Sadre-Orafai (Anthropology Major) Hypernationalist Discourse in the Rapso Movement of Trinidad and Tobago Sponsor: Professor Michel Laguerre, African American Studies Marisa S. Olson (Rhetoric Major) The Semiotics of Digital Storytelling Sponsor: Professor Michael Mascuch, Rhetoric
1:30 PM	Performance (Worth Ryder Gallery) Listening A Multimedia Performance Piece Created and Performed by Amber Rose Smock