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FIFTH ANNUAL SPRING RESEARCH CONFERENCE
April 23-25, 2003
This year's scholars have formed a dynamic and stimulating community, diverse and interdisciplinary, including a wide range of issues and personalities. They all share, though, the researcher's drive to question assumptions -- and sometimes authority – celebrating the irreverent along the way. Looking for suspects in unusual places – pursuing bold conjectures and new interpretations -- they are also unusual in their consistent pursuit of excellence in research. We hope you will join us as the scholars take pride in closing this phase of their investigations.
EXHIBITIONS
April 21-25
Worth Ryder Gallery, Kroeber Hall
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Fiat Lux: An artistic Dialogue on the Effects of Agent Orange on Our Vietnam Veterans
by Debra Kraus
Exhibition Opening:
April 23, 4:00PM-7:00PM
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April 24-25
The Faculty Club, Heyns Rooms
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Constructing Nature by Cynthia Houng
Photo Exhibition
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April 25
The Faculty Club, Heyns Rooms
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Local Perceptions of Foreign Practices by Timoteo Rodriguez
Video Screening: 7:15PM-7:45PM
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THURSDAY, APRIL 24
The Faculty Club, Heyns Room
| 12:30PM-1:00PM |
Welcome and light lunch |
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1:00PM-2:30PM
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Negotiating Agency in the Global South
Chair: Professor Louise Fortmann, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Shannon Mathes
(Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major)
“Rastafari in Jamaica: Resistance to State Economic Policies”
Sponsor: Professor Percy Hintzen, African-American Studies
Benjamin Dean Goldstein
(Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major)
Sponsor: Professor Louise Fortmann, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
“International Standards for Grassroots Democracy? Democratization or Bureaucratization in Guatemala’s Fair Trade Coffee Cooperatives”
Lorna MacMillan and Francisco Nanclares
(Anthropology Majors)
“Tourism and Ethnic Identity: Creating the long-neck Karen of Northwest Thailand”
Sponsor: Professor Nelson Graburn, Anthropology |
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2:45PM-4:15PM
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Of Genotypes and Phenotypes
Chair: David Presti, Senior Lecturer, Molecular and Cell Biology
Saori Haigo
(Molecular and Cell Biology and Integrative Biology Major)
“An Analysis of Candidate Genes Involved in Neural Tube Closure during Xenopus Development”
Sponsor: Professor Richard Harland, Molecular and Cell Biology
Oron Frenkel
(Individual Major)
“Is There Such a Thing as Quantum Consciousness?”
Sponsor: David Presti, Senior Lecturer, Molecular and Cell Biology
John Junsuk Lee
(Bioengineering Major)
“Developing a Quantitative Three-Dimensional Histology System:
Sponsor: Professor Tony Keaveny, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering |
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4:30PM-6:00PM
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Control, Practice, Revolution: Subjugation and Resistance in Landscapes of Time and Labor
Chair: Professor William Hanks, Anthropology
Kevi Krause
(Philosophy Major)
“Public Service, Private Profit: Controlling an Urban Paramedic Workforce”
Sponsor: Professor Laura Nader, Anthropology
Timoteo Rodríguez
(Anthropology Major)
“Local and Foreign Practices in an Ancient Maya Landscape: A Geneology of Conflict”
Sponsor: Professor William Hanks, Anthropology
Carlos Almendárez
(History Major)
“The Crafting of the Revolution and the Legacy of Carlos Fonseca”
Sponsor: Professor Margaret Chowning, History |
FRIDAY, APRIL 25
Faculty Club, Heyns Room
| 9:00AM-9:30AM |
Welcome and coffee |
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9:30AM-11:00AM
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Con/text/ure: Navigating Boundaries and Negotiating Voices in Coloniality, Sexuality, and Musicality
Chair: Professor Alex Zwerdling, English
Marie Mathiesen
(English and Scandinavian Studies Major)
“Out of Denmark: Isak Dinesen in a Colonial Context”
Sponsor: Professor Karin Sanders, Scandinavian
Jennifer Toole
(English Major)
“Dueling Selves: self-censorship and sexuality in Virginia Woolf's and Gertrude Stein's writings”
Sponsor: Professor Alex Zwerdling, English
Shanesha R. F. Brooks
(English and Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major)
“‘Song for Today’: The Dialectic Between Langston Hughes’
Early Jazz and Blues Poetry and the ‘New Poetic Genre’”
Sponsor: Professor Robert Hass, English |
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11:15AM-12:15PM
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The Politics of Free Trade
Chair: Professor Susan Rasky, Graduate School of Journalism
Olga V. Kotlyarevskaya
(Political Science and Economics Major)
“ 'Failure' as a Strategy: Analysis of US Textile Dispute Negotiations Inside and Outside of the WTO”
Sponsor: Professor Vinod Aggarwal, Political Science
Eden James
(Political Science Major)
“The Consolidation of Elite Opinion: Framing Free Trade and Protest from Seattle to Quebec”
Sponsor: Professor Susan Rasky, Journalism |
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12:30PM-1:45PM
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Lunch
Howard Room |
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2:00PM-3:00PM
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Bodies for Peace
Chair: Professor David M. Henkin, History
Cynthia Houng
(History Major)
“Constructing Nature: Looking at Environmental Photography in the Bay Area”
Sponsor: Professor David M. Henkin, History
Debra Jeanne Kraus
(Art Practice Major)
“Fiat Lux”
Sponsor: Professor Katherine Sherwood, Art Practice |
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3:15PM-4:45PM
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Sense and Sensibility
Chair: Professor Noam Sobel, Psychology
June Gruber
(Psychology Major)
“Emotion Narratives in Schizophrenia”
Sponsor: Professor Ann Kring, Psychology
Maggie Zvanut
(Psychology Major)
“An Exploration of Emotional Contagion in Infants”
Sponsor: Professor Joseph Campos, Psychology
Elizabeth Bremner
(Psychology Major)
“Olfactory Localization: Interpreting Space With The Human Nose”
Sponsor: Professor Noam Sobel, Psychology |
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5:00PM-7:00PM
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NEW SCHOLARS RECEPTION
Howard Room |
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7:15PM-7:45PM
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“Local Perceptions of Foreign Practices”
Ethnographic video by Timoteo Rodríguez
Heyns Room |
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