Fall 2014 Program of Events
Friday, November 21, 2014
Keynote Address
Dr. Keith Shaw, Associate Director, Princeton Writing Program
Session I
10:30-11:15am
Panel A
Sydney King, “The Universalized Self: Exploring Facebook’s Influence on Self-Representation”
Eva Lewandowski, “Hispanic Religiosity and Gender Norms: An Analysis of the Domestic Violence Responses of Hispanic Women”
Cecily Swanson, Moderator
Panel B
Olivia Trase, “The Atomic Peach”
Nina Chausow, “Alice Neel and Andy Warhol: The Reconstruction of an Artistic Identity”
M.V. Ramana, Moderator
Session II
11:30am-12:30pm
Panel A
Margaret Wright, “From Ramsay to Briscoe (And Back Again?): The Portrayal of Women in To the Lighthouse”
Ciara Corbeil, “On Display: Fashion's Celebration and Subjugation of the Natural World”
Jiyoon Kim, “The Perfect Little Girls: The Girly-Cute Aesthetic and Powerpuff Girls as Infantile Citizens”
David Hershinow, Moderator
Lunch (12:30-1:30 p.m.)
Session III
1:45-2:45pm
Panel A
Aaron Schwartz, “Where No (Man?) Has Gone Before: The Hegemonic Masculinity Paradox in ‘The City on The Edge of Forever’”
Yun-Yun Li, “Dæmon Dilemmas: Philip Pullman’s Visionary Myth-Making in His Dark Materials”
Hayley Roth, “Through the Eyes of the Clone: Never Let Me Go as a Complication of the Human Cloning Debate”
Genevieve Creedon, Moderator
Panel B
Lia Hankla, “The Mozart Effect: Examining the Relationship Between Mood, Music, and Test-taking Ability”
Nathan Agmon, “Plastic Isn't Fantastic: A Case Study Analysis of Misconduct in Contemporary Science”
Jacklyn Jacobe, “The 'Lean Vs. Clean' Debate”
George Laufenberg, Moderator
Session IV
3:00-4:00pm
Panel A
Jason Golfinos, “’Don't Be Alarmed, Now,’: Backmasked Subliminal Messages in Eighties Rock Music"
Benjamin Gallo, “A Question of Mysticism or The Counter-Reformation: A Case Study of El Greco’s View of Toledo and the Artist’s Imagined Configuration of the Landscape of Toledo”
Anam Vadgama, “Islam in Khuda Kay Liye: From an External to an Internal View”
Kachina Allen, Moderator
Conference organized by Andy Hakim, Emma Ljung, and Benjamin Weber. Sponsored by the Princeton Writing Program.