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Lycoming Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference Program
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Check-in opens 8:30 a.m.
Humanities Research Center, Academic Center/Wendle Hall, 2nd Floor C-201
Coffee with Continental Breakfast, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Academic Center, 2nd Floor Lobby
Panels and Presentations
(Academic Center, 2nd Floor)
Session 1 (9:30 - 10:45 a.m.)
Complicating American Perspectives
9:30-10:45 a.m.
B-202
- “Culture Shock and Awe: The Ramifications of Cultural Ignorance in the United States Military”
— Alison Samudio, University of Scranton
- “Spirits of Liberty: Contradictions of an Intoxicating Inheritance”
— Elise Hasseltine, Bucknell University
- “The Global Force of American Public Opinion: An Examination of the Press Reaction to the Cuban Revolution”
— Ainsley McHugh, Grove City College
- “Slept Agenda of Popular Culture”
— Cameron MacKay, Montclair State University
Reclaiming Agency and Meaning
9:30-10:45 a.m.
B-207
- “Limiting Forces at Boundaries: Patriarchy and Empowerment”
— Alicia Purcell, Lycoming College
- “Representation of Emptiness: The Fruits of Memory”
— Natalie Doebley, Susquehanna University
- “Magic Around Us”
— Grecia León, Lycoming College
- “A New Variety of German: A Look at Kiezdeutsch in Spoken and Written Online German Content”
— Alli Kodila, Montclair State University
Religion in the Contemporary World
9:30-10:45 a.m.
B-208
- “Christian Resistance in the Holy Land and Theological Arguments for Nonviolence”
— Thomas N. Elias, University of Scranton
- “Deified AI: A Look at the Relationship between Gods and AI”
— Rachel Doherty, Ithaca College
- “A Critique of the Secular/Religious Divide: Exploring Spiritual Space through Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick”
— Joana Diaz, DePaul University
- “The Marching Arts: A Study of Non-Traditional Religion Experience”
— Erin Baum, Ithaca College
Space and Place
9:30-10:45 a.m.
B-210
- “Myth and History in William Kennedy’s ‘Improbable City’ of Albany, New York”
— Aaron Puerzer, Franklin & Marshall College
- “Emerging from the Shadows: Unveiling Cuban Women Filmmakers in a Digital Humanities Project”
— Juan Martínez and Mohamed Ebeid, Lycoming College
- “The Psychological Implications of Space and Objects in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”
— Ash Schroeder, DeSales University
- “Lycoming College History Podcast Series”
— Mackenzie Holmes, Dominick Philip, Amelia Thompson, Lycoming College
Session 2 (11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.)
Contemporary Ethical Problems
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
B-202
- “A Dismissal of Free Will”
— Alec Walter, King’s College
- “Ethical Dimensions of Neurotechnology: Exploring Neuroethical Facets of Cognitive Enhancements”
— Kevin Frechette, Slippery Rock University
- “Histories and Communication: How Museum Spaces Engage with the Public and Their Histories”
— Gracelyn Casas, Lycoming College
- “To Do or Not to Do: A Utilitarian Perspective”
— Winifred Kanayo-Ezenwata, Ithaca College
New Worlds, New Women
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
B-207
- “La representación de la violencia y el empoderamiento de la mujer”
— Michaela Shellem, Washington & Jefferson College
- “A Comparison of Brett Ashley and Janie Crawford Through Their Hair”
— Kathleen Logan, Ursinus College
- “Kunst ohne Bescheidenheit” (“Art without Modesty”)
— Chloe Shendge, Lycoming College
- “Mama Tingo: The History of African Women in the Dominican Republic”
— Jarline Herrera, Kutztown University
America: The First 150 Years
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
B-208
- “Exploitation Unveiled: The Sexual Exploitation of Enslaved African American Women in the Upper South of Nineteenth Century America”
— Alexandra McNee, Susquehanna University
- “Enslaved to the Cause: The Poor White Southerner’s Support for Slavery and Secession”
— Christopher T. Bolland, Grove City College
- “‘Your Mother's Gone Away to Join the Army’: The Militarization of the Women's Suffrage Movement”
— Mackenzie Holmes, Lycoming College
- “‘Is Any Cause Worth Two Such Lives?’: Comparing the Lost Cause Narrative with Confederate Women’s Diaries”
— Julia Marsango, Grove City College
Church and/or State
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
B-209
- “Healthcare Standard for Federal Prisoners: Examining the Eighth Amendment and
Principle of Equivalence of Care”
— Francesca Jereis, CUNY Hunter College
- “Foundations of Justice: Early Modern Philosophy's Lasting Impact on Politics”
— Shelby Traver, University of Scranton
- “Martin V, a Renaissance Pope”
— Anthony Batista, Kutztown University
- “Interpretation of Natural Law in SCOTUS Cases”
— Maria Stephen, University of Scranton
Film, Fantasy, and Humanism
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
B-210
- “Monstrous Children and the Society That Makes Them: The Village of the Damned in Context”
— Becky Wisdom, Lycoming College
- “Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Rise and Fall of Harry Potter”
— Julia Sklow, William Paterson University
- “Comparing Identities: How Disney's 2023 The Little Mermaid Film Erases the Emphasis on Transgender Identities in Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 ‘The Little Mermaid’”
— Maya Niemsyk, Montclair State University
- “The Vulcan Buddha”
— Newt Andia, Ithaca College
Lunch Break
12:15-1:45 p.m.
Session 3 (1:45 - 3:00 p.m.)
Complicated People
1:45-3:00 p.m.
B-202
- “Philip Sidney: Paving the Way for Poetry”
— Jacob Hensinger, Kutztown University
- “Inequality in Contemporary Novels”
— Sierra G. Kuzak, Washington & Jefferson College
- “Helen Huntingdon: Feminist Heroine or Cautionary Tale on the Cycle of Abuse?”
— Emma McCormick, DeSales University
- “La identidad de las mujeres en Cuando era puertorriqueña”
— Selah Severson, Grove City College
Intersecting Femininity
1:45-3:00 p.m.
B-207
- “Indigenous Women, Nationalism, and the Influence of Myth: How Interpretations of Lady Boudica, La Malinche, and Queen Maeve Have Aided Nationalists’ Movements”
— Olivia Turner-Leftwich, Mercyhurst University
- “Queer, Religious, and Victorian Women Explored through the Works of Christina Rossetti and Zadie Smith’s The Fraud”
— Hunter Daum, Bryn Athyn College
- “Women on the Borders: An Indigenous Studies Reading of Medieval Femininity”
— Nicole Cavalieri, Bryn Mawr College
- “Faith and Femininity: Religion and Its Impact on the Women of Macbeth"
— Emma Fliszar, DeSales University
Who Is the Other?
1:45-3:00 p.m.
B-208
- “Transgressive Boundaries: A Comparative Study of Transgression in the Works of Foucault, Kierkegaard, and Bataille”
— Julia Aloi, Lehigh University
- “Parlance and Personhood: Kafka, Ellison, and Existentialism”
— Dominick Philip, Lycoming College
- “Re-reading Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills through Unpublished Parchmen Screenplay”
— Cassidy Rubio, Lehigh University
- “Between Pretending and Reality: An Existential Exploration of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night”
— Cameron Antoniotti, Slippery Rock University
Rhetoric and War
1:45-3:00 p.m.
B-209
- “Beyond the Warrior Culture Memory: An Examination of the Practical Side of the Samurai of the Ashikaga Shogunate”
— Hayne Webster, Westminster College
- “Smashing the Borders of the Tawaghit: Islamic State (IS) Utilization of Apocalyptic Narratives to Subvert the Modern Nation-State”
— Katherine LaFond, Dean College
- “From New York's Gallows: The Hangings of Captain Hale and Major Andre”
— Amanda Charowsky, Lycoming College
- “Beyond Borders: Wilsonianism in the First Gulf War”
— Zoe Watson, Juniata College
Sonic Stories
1:45-3:00 p.m.
B-210
- “Heaven Outside the Church Walls: Depicting Heaven in Popular Culture through Contemporary Christian Album Covers”
— Anastasia Garvey, Lafayette College
- “Chavela Vargas: Challenging beyond the Music”
— Victoria Stracci, Washington & Jefferson College
- “It's an Old Song”
— Connor Green, Juniata College
- “The Men Who Sold the World: Analyzing Nirvana’s Success through the Musical Characteristics of Hair Metal and Post-Punk”
— Daniel A. Malsch, Susquehanna University
Session 4 (3:15-4:30 p.m.)
Problems in Poetics
3:15-4:30 p.m.
B-202
- “Heaven on Earth: Emily Dickinson's Sense of Home in Love and Nature”
— Lauren Mock, Messiah University
- “The ‘Vowels’ and the ‘Correspondences’: Hidden Conversations of Letters and Senses in the Works of Baudelaire and Rimbaud”
— Sarah Graham, Grove City College
- “On the Significance of Poetry”
— Katie Martin, Lafayette College
- “The Inadequacy of Translation, and Why it Matters Anyway: An Analysis of Neruda’s ‘La United Fruit Co.’ and an English Translation”
— Olivia Zook, Grove City College
The Implications of Language
3:15-4:30 p.m.
B-207
- “The Paradox of Remembrance”
— Jamie M. Santiago Gonzales, University of Scranton
- “Censorship as Domestication: The Implications of Francisco Franco’s Publishing Laws Regarding Translation Ethics and Practices”
— Maura Schmidt, Grove City College
- “An Assessment of Gendersprache and Denglisch’s ‘Threat’ to the German Language through a Historical Analysis of Linguistic Influences on the Language”
— Sidney Berger , Montclair State University
- “Exile: A Forced Displacement in El año que viene estamos en Cuba”
— Megan Ellen Gagnier, Grove City College
Gender, Queerness, and Quagmires
3:15-4:30 p.m.
B-208
- “Gender Roles through Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium” (“Los roles de género a través del cine español del milenio”)
— Dev Kartan, Washington & Jefferson College
- “Gender, Monstrosity, and the Metamorphosis of the White Snake Across Media”
— Emily Walsh, Gettysburg College
- “Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality”
— Enzo Arcamone, Lycoming College
- “HIV/AIDS in East Germany: What We Can Learn and Use to Fight Infection”
— Siegfried Schaefer, Montclair State University
Medieval Memories
3:15-4:30 p.m.
B-210
- “Finding Fairyland and the Isle of Man in The Turke and Sir Gawain”
— Piper E. Farmer, Bryn Mawr College
- “Wyrd Women: Saga Women of the Viking Age”
— Tom Montgomery, Juniata College
- “The Bubonic Plague and the Significance of the Danse Macabre”
— Courtney Bodnar, Kutztown University
- “For the Lay of the Land: Conquest Versus Conversion in Two Travel Texts”
— Rowan Killina, Bryn Mawr College
Awards & Keynote Address
5:00-6:15 p.m.
Trogner Presentation Room, Krapf Gateway Building
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz