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2:15-2:40 p.m. Registration, Taylor Hall 307
2:45-4:00 p.m. SESSION I – Concurrent Panels
Panel 1 – Sustainability Education: Be the Change and Student Recommendations for a Better JMU
Professor Paul Mabrey, Moderator
Room 404
Presidents'
Day
at
JMU:
A
Day
Off
For
a
Day
On
Stephen Burbic
Presidents' Day at JMU: A Day Off For a Day On
Brogan James
Panel 2 – They sure came up with a lot of stuff--Contributions of the Romans
Professor Michael Allain, Moderator
Roman Military Engineering
Hassan Gray
Via Appia
Justin Halatyn
Triumphal Processions
Katherine Keppel
Arch of Consatantine
Grace McLaughlin
Room 306
Panel 3 – A Few of the Reasons Grandpa Says “It Ain’t Like It Used to Be”
Room 400
Professor Mary Gayne, Moderator
Natalie Wittmayer „Guernica, Guernika and the World'
„Like‟ this Page to Join a Revolution
Logan Hamlyn
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Equal Rights Amendment: The Little
Aislin Kavaldjian
Revolution That Couldn‟t
Revolution of Occupying Social Media
Megan DiMaiolo
Panel 4 – European Imperialism and its Discontents
Room 402
Professor Christian Davis, Moderator
Eurocentric Perspectives in Modern World History: Continuity and
Derek Engle
Change over Time
Eurocentric Perspectives in Modern World History: Continuity and
Nathan Keyser
Change over Time
Jennifer Lambertson Eurocentric Perspectives in Modern World History: Continuity and
Change over Time
Dadabhai Naoroji: A Moderate Take on British Rule in India
Ruth Shuford
Primary Source Document Analysis
Mary Wood
Panel 5 – Better Living Through Biology!
Room 305
Professor Carol Hurney, Moderator
Cori O’Shaughnessy Are Eating Disorders Genetic?
Can Someone Become Addicted to Tanning?
Alexandra Higgins
Interactive Media in Science Education
Philip Cangelosi
Outsourcing Pollution: Greenhouse Emissions on a Global Scale
Caitlin Trimble
Panel 6 – Spotting Left and Right Turn Signals on the 21st Century Political Highway
Professor Kevin Hardwick, Moderator
Room 404
The Development of Modern Conservatism and Modern Liberalism in
John Bickel
the United States
The Development of Modern Conservatism and Modern Liberalism in
Tyler Bisson
the United States
The Evolution of Modern Liberalism and Conservatism in the Social and
Justin Grandinetti
Economic Spheres of America
Panel 7 – Revisiting the Lies We Were Taught
Room 302
Professor Susan Ghiaciuc, Moderator
Re-reading our myths: Myths Surrounding Hijabs
Manal Alotaibi
Lies We Tell: The Mythology of Tupac‟s Death
Nick Framarini
Re-reading Our Myths: Myths Surrounding Housewives
Rachel Francis
Race? What race?
Azariah Greene
4:00 – 4:15 p.m. BREAK – Please join us in Room 404 for refreshments between conference sessions.
4:15 – 5:30 p.m. SESSION II – Concurrent Panels
Panel 1– Matters of Family Because Family Matters
Professor Daisy Breneman, Moderator
Kaitlin Delenick
Family/family relationships
Caitlin McMenamin
Allison Michelli
Ashley Miller
Panel 2 – The Paradoxical Place and Time Between Taj Majal and Whitehall.
Professor Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Moderator
Dalia Desouky
From Mughal to British India
Jeremy Hart
Matt Miller
Kara Waldeisen
Room 400
Room 402
Panel 3 – Shiny objects, fancy places, family affairs and love: The stuff of good stories
for over two thousand years
Room 306
Professor Michael Allain, Moderator
Denarius of Caesar Augustus
Taylor Mason
Melanie Ogden
Parthenon East Metope XI
Brian Reese
Bernini's Reemergence
Hayley Todd
Comparison of Terence's Adelphoi and Plautus' Menaechmi
Philicia Tucker
Plato's Symposium
Panel 4 – Staying Healthy When Mom Ain’t Around
Room 304
Professor Deb Sutton, Moderator
Ashleigh Beben
The Impact GHTH 100 Personal Wellness
Natalie Oldfield
has on College Student Health
Heather Pennington
Elizabeth Visosky
Panel 5 – Great Works of the Distant Past from China, Greece, and Africa
Professor Timothy Fitzgerald, Moderator
The Complexities of Marriage in the Book of Songs
Maya Chandler
Tao Te Ching: A Guide to the Good Life
Evan Gass
Works and Days by Hesiod
Cassandra Poole
An Epic, No less!
Torrens Revell
Room 302
Panel 6 – The Forms of Identity: Literary Conventions in the Face of Change
Professor Siân White, Moderator
Room 305
Killing the Angel in the House: The Story of Jane Eyre, the Writer
Brooke Covington
An Overview of Ontology: The Metaphysical Discrepancy of
Ryan Esch
Wordsworth and J. Alfred Prufrock
Content and Contempt on Opal Street: African American Identity in
Hannah Facknitz
Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun
“The Fall of Man” (A post-rock composition based on John Milton‟s
Peter Mulcahy
Paradise Lost)
The Love Song of… Ulysses: T.S. Eliot‟s Modification of the
Julia Smyers
Dramatic Monologue
The Politics of Race and Age in Gold Coast
Adrian Tafesh