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”