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Ninth Annual Spring Research Conference
2007 Haas Scholars Undergraduate Research Conference
April 27-28, 2007
Conference
The Faculty Club
This year, the 2006-2007 Haas Scholars learned to “go figure,” specifically to:
configure projects promising to yield discoveries
refigure obsolete concepts
disfigure discourses based on flawed assumptions
prefigure solutions to longstanding problems
transfigure society, while working toward a more just world.
Please join the Haas Scholars as they reveal just how much they’ve “figured out”.
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PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY, APRIL 27
The Faculty Club, Heyns Room
| 9:30AM-10:00 AM |
Welcome and Coffee |
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10:00AM-11:30AM
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Development and Discontent: Striving for a Better Future
Chair: Professor Peter Evans
Edina Bohanec (Sociology Major)
“Life Makers in Egypt: A Nonviolent Approach to Transnational Islamic Activism”
Sponsor: Professor Peter Evans, Sociology
Héctor J. Vivero (Development Studies Major)
“Authoritarian Institutions within Democratic Transitions: the 2006 Dissident Teachers' Movement in Mexico”
Sponsor: Professor Mark Healey, History
Joshua Belton and Agata Surma (Geography and Conservation & Resource Studies Majors)
“Development, Livestock, and Society: Cultural Practices and Agricultural Intervention in Upper East Ghana”
Sponsor: Professor Nathan Sayre, Geography
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11:30PM-12:45PM
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Lunch, Howard Room, in honor of the 2006-2007 scholars and mentors |
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12:45PM-1:45PM
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The Art of Improvisation Chair: Professor Lisa Wymore
Abby Stein (Dance and Performance Studies Major and Near Eastern Studies Major)
“Shimmy, Shake, and Undulate: A History of Belly Dance in the United States and the Development of Its Many Fusion Forms”
Sponsor: Professor Lisa Wymore, Dance and Performance Studies
Michael Uy (Music and Political Economy of Industrial Societies Major)
“The Baroque Viola and Improvisational Style”
Sponsor: Professor Davitt Moroney, Music
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2:00PM-3:30PM
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Institutional Thinking: State, Conflict and Identity Formation
Chair: Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
Sun Lee (Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major)
“Writing History and Memory--the Memoir as a Literary Form in Post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia”
Sponsor: Professor David Cohen, Rhetoric and Classics
Mai-Ling Garcia (Sociology Major)
“The Managed Family: An Examination of the Role of the Military Family in the Institution”
Sponsor: Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Sociology
Miriam Solis (Geography and Ethnic Studies Major)
“(En) Gendering Agrarian Reform: Geographies of Governance in Rio de Janeiro”
Sponsor: Professor Richard Walker, Geography
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3:45 PM-5:15 PM
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Blood, Bacteria, and Bursting Frogs
Chair: Professor Richard Harland
Nika Cyrus (Chemistry and Near Eastern Languages & Literature Major)
“Uptake of 4-Methyltetrahydrofolate and Folic Acid by Mature Red Blood Cells”
Sponsor: Professor Fernando Viteri, Nutritional Science and Toxicology
Jihoon Lim (Molecular and Cell Biology Major)
“Role of the dsb system in the Antimicrobial Resistance of Salmonella”
Sponsor: Professor Sangwei Lu, Public Health
Dang Lam (Molecular and Cell Biology Major)
“Positional Cloning of the Grinch Mutation in Xenopus Tropicalis”
Sponsor: Professor Richard Harland, Molecular and Cell Biology
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5:15 PM-6:45 PM
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New Scholars Reception, Howard Room, in honor of the 2007-2008 Haas Scholars and Mentors |
SATURDAY, April 28
Faculty Club, Heyns Room
| 10:30AM-11:0AM |
Welcome and Coffee |
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11:00AM-12:30AM
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Adaptation, Advertising, and Anandrous Aunts
Chair: Professor Kent Puckett
Sharon Tang-Quan (English Major)
“Novel-to-Film Adaptation Technique: Narrative Authority in
Pride and Prejudice”
Sponsor: Professor Kent Puckett, English
Andrew Peterson (Film Major)
“Commercial Confusion: Brands, Co-Brands and Branded Entertainment in Contemporary Hollywood”
Sponsor: Professor Linda Williams, Film Studies
Sarah Stone (Rhetoric Major)
“‘Inspiring Experiment’: The Poetics of Gender in Elizabeth Bishop's Work”
Sponsor: Professor Michael Mascuch, Rhetoric
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12:30PM-1:00PM
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Light Lunch, Heyns Room |
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1:00PM-2:30PM
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Thought and Experience: Concepts and Perception
Chair: Professor Shaowen Bao
Nicholas Riggle (Philosophy Major)
“The Development and Significance of Frege's Theory of Concepts”
Sponsor: Professor John MacFarlane, Philosophy
Yoon Han (Computer Science Major)
“Influences of Early Acoustic Experience on Sensory Perception”
Sponsor: Professor Shaowen Bao, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Matthew Gracia (Religious Studies and Near Eastern Civlizations Major)
"Analogies Between Heaven and Hell: A Study in the Methodologies of Divine
Union"
Sponsor: Luca D’Isanto, Lecturer, Religious Studies
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2:45PM-4:15PM
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Dismantling Enclosures
Chair: Professor Lawrence Cohen
Joel Portillo (Psychology Major and Spanish Minor)
“When Being Bilingual Hurts: The Effects of
Stereotype Threat on ESL Students”
Sponsor: Professor Kaiping Peng, Psychology
Darci Pauser (Anthropology Major)
“Houseless”
Sponsor: Professor Lawrence Cohen, Anthropology
Dashal Moore (Ethnic Studies Major)
“Richmond's ‘State of Emergency’ and the Politics of Violence"
Sponsor: Victoria Robinson, Lecturer, Ethnic Studies
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