HGSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

February 7-8, 2014

Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library

Friday, February 7

5pm Keynote Address, “Interdisciplinary Collaborations”

Diane Wolfthal, David and Caroline Minter Professor of Art History

6-7pm Reception

 

Saturday, February 8

9:15am Breakfast

9:30-11:20am Human Geographies

-Samantha Mauney and Lisa Jeon, Linguistics, “I Love You, But…”: Maintaining ‘Face’ in Political Discourse on Facebook”

-D. Andrew Johnson, History, “Decentering the Stono Rebellion in Colonial South Carolina”

-Camille Cohen, Anthropology, “Engineering Culture in the Mediterranean: Narratives of Cosmopolitanism in Marseilles, France”

-Stephanie Chadwick, Art History, “Dubuffett’s Sumatran Sources”

11:20-11:35am Break

11:35am-1:05pm Enclosed Culture

-Anthony Koth, Linguistics, “’I’m not gay, I’m homosexual. There is a difference.’ A semantic analysis of synonymy”

-Jade Hagan, English, “Drugs, Trash, and Technology: Ecology and William Gibson’s Neuromancer”

1:05-1:45pm Lunch

1:45-3:15pm Embodying Culture

-Mark Celeste, English, “Growing the Face of the Nation: Constructing a Cultural History of Victorian Facial Hair”

-Rachel Harmeyer, Art History, “Embodied Likeness: Sentimental Hairwork and the Act of Remembrance”

-Whitney N. Stewart, History, “Fashioning Frenchess: The Cofabrication of Culture in Antebellum New Orleans”

3:15-3:30pm Break

3:30-5:00pm East Meets West

-Layla Seale, Art History, “The Proximity of Demons in Late Medieval Art of Northern Europe”

-Reyhan Basaran, Religious Studies, “The appearance of the jinn as figures of the monstrous”

-Carolyn Van Wingerden, Art History, “The Grand Turc Woodcuts Attributed to Pieter Coecke van Aelst and What They Reveal about Ottoman-Netherlandish Relations in the Sixteenth Century”