Friday, April 13, 2018 Welcoming Remarks William A. Gleason, Hughes-Rogers Professor of English Session I Panel A: Dress & Power Joonho Jo, “Behind the Curtain: The Korean Government's Role in Medical Tourism & Cosmetic Plastic Surgery” Ellen Li, “To The Men Who Love a Show For Little Girls: Understanding Sexualization In Brony Fanart” Dante Sudilovsky, “Tethered to the Lug: Gendered Wristwatches in Postwar America” Lunch and Academic Research Roundtable: Adventures in Motive Chisom Chigozie-Nwosu '20 Nicolette D’Angelo '19 Ian Iverson '18 Leezet Matos '18 Nicholas Risteen, Ph.D. Candidate Session II Panel A: Exploitation & Violence Melia Chittenden, “Part of the Family: How Society’s View of Domestic Work Facilitates the Abuse and Exploitation of Nannies in America” Karolen Eid, “The Rwandan Genocide: From Colonization to Carnage” Daniel Liu, “Alleviating Abuse: How the Dynamics of Food within Prisons Can Abolish the American Prison System” Session III Panel A: Technology, Media, & Property in Human Interactions Tara Blundell, “Emoticons: Fake Faces and Trust Issues” Kyle Burford, “On the Constitutionality of Prescriptive Easements” Saira Reyes, “All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!”: How the Representation of Science in The Martian Redefines the Science Fiction Genre” Nanako Shirai, “Japanese Citizens Becoming Masked Heroes to Serve Society” Panel B: Challenges to Academic Success Enzo Dominguez, “The Relative Incidence of Academic Consequences of Alcohol Consumption and Patterns of Binge Drinking in High Achieving College Students” Yechen Hu, “Facebocrastination”: A Genetic Risk Factor for Academic Procrastination with Social Media” Sunita Srivatsan, “A Race to the Top: Evaluating the Impact of the Model Minority Stereotype on Asian Students’ Success” Session IV Panel A: The Borders of Humanity Kennedy Casey, “Captive Inside the Societal "Cage": (Im)permeable Boundaries Between Monstrosity, Animality, and Humanity in Split” Janie Kim, “Endless Forms Most Beautiful: How Microbes Drive Human Interactions” Jeremy Pulmano, “Robots as "Just Tools": Denying the Entanglement of the Human-Machine Relationship” Panel B: Challenges to Faith, Thought, & Renewal Michael Hu, “Rick and Beth, Camus and Critchley” Asia Kaiser, “Creating Contemporary Candeal: Urban Renewal in an Inner-City Neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia Brazil” Tyler McDonald, “Stand Slave, You May Not Protest” Oliver Whang, “Christian Fundamentalism and Child Development: The Role of Religion and Hostility in Parent-Child Relationships” Conference organized by Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, Jessie Rack, and Leslie Ribovich. Sponsored by the Princeton Writing Program.
