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THURSDAY, APRIL 18

4:00-7:00 PM Worth Ryder Gallery, Kroeber Hall	Opening of the exihibit “In Response to Ancient Painting: Current Work Inspired by the Fayum Portraits of Ancient Egypt” by Haley Mellin Show dates also include: April 19, 1-4 PM April 20, 9-4 PM
7:00 PM Hertz Concert Hall	Orchestral Performance of “L’Enfer en Soie” composed by Sylvan Guerveno Conductor: David Milnes University Symphony Orchestra

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, THE FACULTY CLUB, HEYNS ROOM

8:30–9:00AM	Coffee and Welcome
9:00-10:30AM	"Crossing Genres, Continuing Dialogues: Encaustic Paintings, 'Moving' Images, and a Symphonic Poem" Chair: Professor Katherine Sherwood, Art Practice Haley Mellin (Art Practice Major) “Ancient Egyptian Mummy Portraits: Looking into the Faces of the Past and Present “ Sponsor: Professor Katherine Sherwood, Art Practice Amarina Kealoha (ISF Major) “The Revolution Will Not be in the Movies: Hip-Hop Film and Politics” Sponsor: Professor Shawn Brixey, Art Practice Sylvan Guerveno (Music Major) “L’Enfer en Soie” Sponsor: Professor Edwin Dugger, Music
10:45AM-12:15PM	“Exploring the Plague: Cancer Causation, Diagnosis, and Treatment” Chair: Professor Carolyn Bertozzi, Chemistry & MCB Gloria Brar (MCB Major) "Examination of the mechanism of a natural compound in arresting the growth of human breast cancer cells" Sponsor: Professor Gary Firestone, MCB Benjamin M. Chen (Bioengineering Major) “Quantification of Short TE Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) from Patients with Brain Tumors” Sponsor: Professor Sarah J. Nelson, Bioengineering John Weedin (MCB & History Major) “Exploring the Role of Polysialic Acid in Tumor Metastasis” Sponsor: Professor Carolyn Bertozzi, Chemistry & MCB
12:15PM-1:30PM Howard Room	LUNCH
1:30PM-3:00PM Heyns Room	"Construction, Confession, and Conjuring: The Changing Face of Authorship" Chair: Professor Charles Altieri, English Stanley (Toby) Levers (Comparative Literature & Italian Studies Major) “Voices of Authority and Divergence: Authorship in the Anglo-Saxon Period and in the Later Middle Ages” Sponsor: Professor Albert Ascoli, Italian Studies Caetlin Benson-Allott (Comparative Literature Major) “Creating Confessional Narration” Sponsor: Professor Charles Altieri, English Carlos Miranda (Rhetoric Major) “Beloved: Toni Morrison’s Rhetoric of Libation” Sponsor: Professor Alfred Arteaga, Ethnic Studies
3:15PM-4:45PM	"The Changing Face of America through Technology in the 21st Century: Commerce, Democracy, and Governance" Chair: Professor AnnaLee Saxenian, City & Regional Planning Tam Bui (PEIS Major) “Silicon Valley’s New Vietnamese Entrepreneurs” Sponsor: Professor AnnaLee Saxenian, City & Regional Planning Joseph H. Kim (Political Science Major) "Do Impersonal Voting Formats Change the 'Character' of American Elections?" Sponsor: Professor Ann Swidler, Sociology Daniell Newman (Political Science Major) “Digital Government: The Next American Revolution?” Sponsor: Professor Bruce Cain, Political Science
5:15-7:00 PM	NEW SCHOLARS RECEPTION
7:15 PM Howard Room	Showing of the film “word” by Amarina Kealoha

SATURDAY, APRIL 20, THE FACULTY CLUB, HEYNS ROOM

8:30–9:00AM	Coffee and Welcome
9:00-10:30AM	"Science Group X: Selective Catalysis, Synaptic Plasticity, and Lysteriosis Immunity" Chair: Professor Yang Dan, MCB Nicholas Parra-Vazquez (Chemical Engineering & Material Science Major) “A Fundamental Study of Selective Catalysis in Heterogeneous Materials” Sponsor: Professor Alexander Katz, Chemical Engineering John Davis Long (MCB & Philosophy Major) “Intracellular Studies of the Thalamo Cortical Circuit” Sponsor: Professor Yang Dan, MCB Aida Sadikovic (MCB Major) “Role of Neutrophils and Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes in Cell-mediated Immunity to Listeria monocytogenes“ Sponsor: Professor Daniel Portnoy, MCB & School of Public Health
10:45AM-11:45PM	"The Theory/Practice Disjunction: Regime Change, International Law Reform and Human Rights in the Former Yugoslavia and India" Chair: Professor Ken Jowitt, Political Science Tiasha Palikovic (Political Science & Psychology Major) "In Fear of Difference: Dissent and Anti-Individualism in the former Yugoslavia" Sponsor: Professor Ken Jowitt, Political Science Mariyam Cementwala (Political Science Major) “Giving the Veiled a Voice: A Test of the Efficacy of International Law” Sponsor: Professor Beth Simmons, Political Science
12:00PM-1:30PM	"Building a Second Story: Literary and ethnographic fieldwork in Spain, India, and Ireland" Chair: Professor Sally Sutherland Goldman Casey Butterfield (Comparative Literature Major) "Transcending Language: Carme Riera and Post-Franco Catalan Literature" Sponsor: Professor Emilie Bergmann, Spanish and Portuguese Erika Kemp (Religious Studies and South Asian Studies Major) “From the Mouth of God or the Hand of Man: A Translation and Comparative Analysis of Four Contemporary English Translations of the Second Parvan of the Bhagavad Gita” Sponsor: Professor Sally Sutherland Goldman, South and Southeast Asian Studies China Star (Anthropology Major) "'You Aren't the First and You Won't be the Last': Unmarried Motherhood in Contemporary Rural Ireland" Sponsor: Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology

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