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SENIOR SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM (4/17 DRAFT)
APRIL 24, 2015
SCIENCE CENTER, OBERLIN COLLEGE
OPENING REMARKS:
1PM
Tim Elgren, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
Craig Lecture Hall
SESSION 1: 1:30-2:30 PM
Panel 1: Language and Authenticity: Studies of Metaphors, the Supreme Court, and the Free
Speech Movement
Moderator: Steve Wojtal, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Annie
Winneg
Promoting Systems Thinking Through Metaphor
Kalind
Parish
Errors in Judgment: The Fundamental Attribution
Error and Supreme Court Decision-making
Kai
Gardner
Science Center, A154
Norman Jacobson’s Search for Authenticity
Panel 2: Cellular Expression: Studies in Mutation, Digestion, and Mutualism
Moderator: Taylor Allen, Associate Professor of Biology
Christopher Ayoub
Timekeeping in Roundworm Digestion
Ellen
Epigenetic Modifying Drugs and Cohesin
Mutations in Leukemia
Drake
Annika
Nelson
Location, Science Center, A155
The Effects of Light on Ant-Aphid Mutualisms
Panel 3: Agency and Taxonomy: Case Studies in Ethics, Politics, and Science
Moderator: Dorit Ganson, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Anna
Mary (Izzy)
Field
An Ethic of Care: Trans* Children, Hormone
Therapy, and Parental Responsibility
Esler
Climate Change and Displacement: Defining
Rights in Rising Tides and Stormy Seas
Sophie
Meade
Science Center, A254
The Language of Intersex: Definitions of Sex
and Gender in Research on Congenital Adrenal
Hyperplasia
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Panel 4: Tinkering with Models: Studies in Security, Equilibrium, and Intemperance
Moderator: Bob Geitz, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Christine
Antonsen
Selfish Routing on the Deterministic Queuing
Model
Laura
Watiker
Designing the CRISP Document Format: A
Secure Declarative Language for the Web
Stephanie
Zellers
Science Center, A255
Validating Measures of Alcohol Expectancies,
Responses, and Consequences in Adolescents
Panel 5: The Agency of Interpretation: Reflections on Jesus, Goethe, and Evangelical
Christianity
Moderator: Rebecca Leydon, Associate Professor of Music Theory
Sarah
Johnson
Violence and Nonviolence in the Gospels
Caroline
de Vries
German-Persian Connections: Goethe and
Hafez in Dialogue in the West-östlicher Divan
Gabriel
Moore
Science Center, K209
Moved by the Spirit or the Music? Analyzing
Modern Evangelical Worship Music Practices
Panel 6: Studies in Engagement, Resistance, and Agency
Moderator: Elizabeth Hamilton, Associate Professor of German
Sarah
Blenko
Gaels, Galls and Friars: The Dominican Order
and Ethnic Tension in Ireland, 1224-1536
Emily
Wilkerson
“Das Dennoch jedes Buchstabens”: Hilde
Domin’s Writing and Resistance
Dylan
McDonnell
Location: Science Center, A142
Negotiating the Musical “Active”: Political and
Creative Agency in Hip Hop in Dakar, Oberlin,
and Beyond
Panel 7: Generative Cases: New Considerations of Puccini, Lewis Carroll, and J.M. Coetzee
Moderator: James O’Leary, Assistant Professor of Musicology
Parkorn
“Oh, come è bello e morbido!”: Exposing the
Wangpaiboonkit Strangeness of Puccini’s La Boheme
Emma
Hadden
Sarah
Westbrook
Location: Science Center, A262
Follow the White Rabbit: Lewis Carroll’s Alice as
Canonical Commodity
Untenable Boundaries: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime
and the Autobiography of All Writing
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SESSION 2: 2:45-3:45 PM
Panel 8: Interpretation / Composition / Reception: Meditations on Translation
Moderator: Sebastiaan Faber, Professor of Hispanic Studies
Nancy
Mariko
Roane
Misreading the River: Heraclitean Hope in
Postmodern Texts
Wakayama
Translation, Interpretation, a New Creation:
Stefan George and His Umdichtungen
Hannah
Varadi
Science Center, A154
Reconstructing Seville: A Translation and
Contextualization of Capital Sur
Panel 9: Discipline and Power: The Amusement Park, the Bicycle, and the Assn. for the
Advancement of Women
Moderator: Pablo Mitchell, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Kathleen
Hanna
Thornton
America in Wonderland: Defining the Nation in the
Early Amusement Parks of Minneapolis/St. Paul
Van Reed
Freewheeling Women? The Conservative
Normalization of American Women’s Cycling,
1890-1900
Claire
Payne
Science Center, A155
A Reevaluation and Reinterpretation of the
Association for the Advancement of Women,
1873-1897
Panel 10: The Poetics of the Lives of Others
Moderator: Tom Newlin, Chair and Associate Professor of Russian Language, Literature, and
Culture
Natalie
Oswald
Faust “Feminized”: Reconceptualizing the Role
of Marguerite in Romantic Music
Will
Watkins
Four Lives in One: The Autobiographical Prose
of Ruth Zernova
Arianna
Valocchi
Science Center, A254
Lost in Translating: Exploring the Poetry of
Guido Catalano
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Panel 11: Bilateralism, Language, and Identity: Case Studies from Asia
Moderator: Marc Blecher, Professor of Politics
Saksham
Taiyo
Khosla
Multilateralism and its Discontents: India in the
Post-independence Era and the United Nations
Scanlon-Kimura
Tracing the Language of Multiracialism in
Postwar Japan
Simone
Christen
Science Center, A255
Rainbows and the Rising Sun
Panel 12: The Production of Space: Studies of Physical and Discursive Boundaries
Moderator: Susan Colley, Delaney Professor of Mathematics
Laura
Asher
Weiner
Slave Life at Madison’s Montpelier: Comparing
Field and House Slave Quarters
Kaplan
Reading the Landscape: Race, Gender, and
Capital in Western Constructions of Nature
Amanda
Strominger
Science Center, K209
Competitive Facility Location: Where Should I
Put my Banana Stand?
Panel 13: The Grain of the Voice: Feminist Reconsiderations of Fairy Tales, Birthing Practices,
and Semi-popular Music
Moderator: Afia Ofori-Mensa, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research
Kasey
Ronni
Cheydleur
Damsels in Distress no More: Grimm’s Fairy Tales
and Modern Conceptions of Girlhood.
Getz
The White Feminist Movement, Obstetrical Reform,
and the Invisible Narratives of Working-class
Women and Women of Color
Autumn
Burnett
The Avant-garde and the Female Singer-songwriter
Location: Science Center, A142
Panel 14: From Ritual to Regulation: Policing Boundaries in Musical Expression
Moderator: Nick Petzak, Fellowships Advisor
Ambre
Joseph
Dromgoole
Devil in a White Dress: From Survival to Policing
in the Modesty Standards of Black Holiness
Congregations
MacPhail
Cross-Cultural Communication and Musical Affect
Through the Music of Diali Cissokho and KairaBa
Not Just for Teenage Girls: Adult Fans of One
Edmund
Metzold
Direction
Location: Science Center, A262
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SESSION 3: 4-5:30PM
Panel 15: Biology Honors (Note: each student has 10 minutes per presentation)
Moderator: Marta Laskowski, Professor of Biology
Messman
The Importance of Water Availability for Plant
Community Structure in Restored Prairies
Megan
Michel
Sperm Pairing in the Gray Short-tailed
Opossum, Monodelphis domestica
Sarah
Page
Revealing a Continuity of Sequence Similarity
Between Seemingly Unrelated Protein Structures
Stuff
Investigating Filovirus Expression in
Monodelphis domestica
Laura
Daniel
Jeremy
Gottfried
Science Center, A154
Genetic Control of Lateral Root Positioning and
Root Elongation
Panel 16: Making Modernism: Music/Text/Image
Moderator: Jared Hartt, Associate Professor of Music Theory
Andrew
Mallory
Groble
Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron and Modernism’s
Bilderverbot
Cohen
Ethnography and the Surrealist Lens:
Photographer Roger Parry and André Malraux’s
Le Musée Imaginaire
Michael
Martinez
Science Center, A155
Debussy’s Departure: A Meditation on the
Preludes
Panel 17: From Whence the Word: Studies of Sound and Etymology
Moderator: Marcelo Vinces, Director of Center for Learning, Education and Research in the
Sciences (CLEAR)
Sarah
Kahn
Hildegard of Bingen’s Music and Unknown
Language
Sophia
Richardson
Shakespeare in the Round: Harmonic Logic of
the Globe
Una
Creedon-Carey
Science Center, A254
“The Whole Vexed Question”: Seamus Heaney,
Old English, and Language Troubles
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Panel 18: Nature vs. Nurture Remixed: Studies in Regulation, Regeneration, Isolation, and
Degradation
Moderator: Gunnar Kwakye, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Gene-Environment Interaction in a Cell Model of
Parkinson’s Disease: Alpha-synuclein Modulates
Weelic
Chong
Cadmium Transport Dynamics and Homeostasis
Alexander
Riordan
Suddenly, I Remember: Hormonal Treatments
and Memory Rescue in an Animal Model of
Schizophrenia
Stephanie
Szarmach
Northern Goshawk Diversity and Connectivity
Among the Forests of the Northern Great Basin
Gifty
Dominah
Science Center, A255
Exposure to Chlorpyrifos and Mitochondrial
Dysfunction in a Striatal Cell Model of
Huntington’s Disease
Panel 19: By Any Other Name: The Complexities of Ascription
Moderator: Kristina Mani, Associate Professor of Politics
Alyssa
Phelps
Partnerships and Mandates: Power Relations
Between Donor and Recipient NGOs
Promoting Gender Equality in Nicaragua
Simbarashe
Runyowa
Conceptualizing a Developmental State in Postgenocide Rwanda
Robelo
Sobreviviendo the Academic Industrial
Complex: A Medicinal History of Oberlin
College’s La Alianza Latinx
Ana
Michael
Stenovec
Science Center, K209
The Politics of Narrative in Post-9/11
Conceptions of Justice
(cont’d)
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Panel 20: Crafting Community: Studies of Art and Intervention
Moderator: Wendy Kozol, Professor of Comparative American Studies
Pablo Cerdera
Community-based Art and Community
Formation: A Case Study in West Oakland
Kaitlyn Custer, Jolie De Feis,
and Sarah MacFadden
Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct:
The Development of an Intervention Program at
Oberlin
Kaitlyn Custer, Jolie De Feis,
and Sarah MacFadden
The Efficacy of the Preventing and Responding
to Sexual Misconduct Training Program Among
Student Athletes
Jacob Ertel
Location: Science Center, A142
Broken Windows, Workfare, and the Battle for
Public Space in Giuliani’s New York
Panel 21: Re/presentations of Space, Place, and Agency
Moderator: Susan Kane, Mildred C Jay Professor of Art and Classical Archaeology
Will
Austin
The Tomb of Ny-ankh-nesut
Margaret
Miller
A Story of Old Bones
Kimmel
A 16th-century Franco-Venetian Book of Hours
in Oberlin Library’s Special Collections
Emma
Teresa
Tippens
Location: Science Center, A262
Sound Worlds: How Video Games Immerse Us
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