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Thursday, August 28, 2008
3:00 – 3:45pm
“The Turning of the Soul from the Sensible to the Intelligible: The Platonic Curriculum of Five Mathematical Studies”
Mitchell Miller (Philosophy), Kenyon 131
“Genes and Genomes: From Worms to Flies and Back Again”
Nancy Pokrywka and Katherine Susman (Biology), Kenyon 216
“How to Kill Carmen”
Jennifer Church and Jesse Kalin (Philosophy), Rockefeller 112
“Phagocytosis: How Cells Eat, Kill, and Elicit Immunity”
J. William Straus (Biology), Rockefeller 203
“A Glimpse of Galaxies at the Dawn of the Universe”
Debra Elmegreen (Physics and Astronomy), Sanders Physics 207
“From Underground Press to Citizen Media in France, 1958-2008”
Paul Fenouillet (French), Chicago 109
“Why Do Europeans Treat the Poor Differently from Americans?”
Michael Hanagan (History), Rockefeller 307
“Can a Terrorist Be Forgiven?”
Giovanna Borradori (Philosophy), Rockefeller 310
“Do NGOs Make a Difference? A Case Study in Rural Rajasthan (India)”
Shirley Johnson-Lans (Economics), Kenyon 132
“Dance Camp on the Crow Reservation”
Katherine Wildberger (Dance), Center for Drama and Film 309
“Tibet, China, and the Problem with Religion”
Michael Walsh (Religion), Rockefeller 212
“Developing Motion Planning Algorithms for Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems”
Jennifer Walter (Computer Science), Old Laundry Building 105
“Seduction and Heresy: A Story of Sex, Scandal and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France”
Sumita Choudhury (History), Rockefeller 101
“Paradoxes of Choice”
Mark Cleaveland (Psychology), Kenyon 217
“Dracula in St. Petersburg: The Myth of the Vampire and the Russian Revolution”
Daniel Ungurianu (Russian), FLRC, Chicago
“Mexican Muralism”
Mihai Grunfeld (Hispanics), Chicago 143
“Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance”
Denise Walen (Drama), Center for Drama and Film 109
“Feeling Obama: Understanding Shifts in Black Public Opinion and Candidate Choice in the 2008 Presidential Election”
Sarita Gregory (Political Science), Rockefeller 200
“Rethinking Crime and Punishment: A Look at American Inequality”
Eileen Leonard (Sociology), Kenyon 134
4:00 – 4:45pm
- “Archaeological Research in the Hudson Valley”
- Lucille Johnson (Anthropology), Kenyon 131
- “Publishing and Reading Martin Luther in the 16th Century”
- Ronald Patkus (Special Collections, Library), Kenyon 216
- “Environmental Justice in the Caribbean: The Small Island of Vieques and Its Struggles Against the U.S. Navy”
- Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Hispanics), Rockefeller 112
- “Re-presenting the Gothic Cathedral”
- Andrew Tallon (Art), Taylor 206
- “Generative Synthesis of Role-Playing Computer Games”
- Thomas Ellman (Computer Science), Sanders Physics 207
- “Discovering Lipids”
- Teresa Garrett (Chemistry), Rockefeller 312
- “The Mythic Imagination”
- Beth Darlington (English), Rockefeller 307
- “How Four Vassar Students and I Spent Our Summer People-Watching in Tokyo Cafes…on Someone Else’s Dime”
- Hiraku Shimoda (History), Rockefeller 310
“To the Best of Our Knowledge: Vassar’s Laboratory Schools Then
- and Now”
- Julie Riess (Education), Kenyon 132
- “Historic Fashion at Vassar”
- Holly Hummel (Drama), Center for Drama and Film 309
- “Relativism, or Is It All Just a Matter of Opinion?”
- Bryan Van Norden (Philosophy), Rockefeller 212
- “Exploring Environmental Justice”
- Jill Schneiderman (Earth Science), Ely 200
- “Ubiquitous Binomial Coefficients”
- John McCleary (Mathematics), Rockefeller 101
- “Unlikely Kindred Spirits: A New Vision of Landscape in the Works of Henry David Thoreau and Asher B. Durand”
- H. Daniel Peck (English), Kenyon 217
- “Russian Icons: Mystical Conquest of Space and Time”
- Alexis Klimoff (Russian), Chicago 118
- “Life After Death: Justice and Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda”
- Timothy Longman (Political Science), Rockefeller 200
- “Secularity and Religious Expression in the Classroom”
- Jonathon Kahn (Religion), Kenyon 134
