Friday October 13th, 2017
Panels will run for 90 minutes, with each presentation lasting no more than 15 minutes. The remaining time will be dedicated to conversation between the chair, panelists, and the audience. All events will take place in the Axinn Center, and are free & open to the public.
Global Policy Interventions – 1:00pm, Axinn 229
Chair: Emily Proctor
Svea Closser, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Is Ethiopia’s volunteer Community Health Worker program empowering rural women or exploiting them?
Erick Gong, Assistant Professor of Economics
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of poverty in the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Jessica L’Roe, Assistant Professor of Geography
Forest edges in western Uganda: From refuge for the poor to zone of investment
Caitlin Myers, Associate Professor of Economics
How far is too far? New evidence on the effect of abortion clinic closures
Race and Representation – 1:00pm, Axinn 232
Chair: Jim Ralph
Erik Bleich, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science
Media Portrayals of Muslims: How Bad Are They?
Jason Mittell, Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies
How Black Lives Matter in The Wire
Brandon Baird & Marcos Rohena-Madrazo, Assistant Professors of Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics
Hearing race on a single word: a study in experimental sociophonetics
Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing and Linguistics
Deficit Discourse and the Education of Refugee-background Students
Queer Politics – 1:00pm, Axinn 109
Chair: Sujata Moorti
Kevin Moss, Jean Thomson Fulton Professor of Modern Languages & Literature
Queering Ethnicity in the Serbian Film Parade
Carly Thomsen, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Metronormativity as Legacy: Matthew Shepard, Gay Rights, and Rural Place
Catharine Wright, Director of Writing Program; Assistant Professor in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
An Uncivil Union: Reading from a novel-in-progress
The Art and Science of the Environment – 2:45pm, Axinn 232
Chair: Jason Mittell
Dan Brayton, Associate Professor of English & American Literatures and Environmental Studies Shakespeare and the Marine Environment
Lindsay Dreiss, Teaching Fellow in Geography
Is timing everything?: the role of phenology in invasive species success
Kirsten Hoving, Professor of Art History
Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment
Kristina Walowski, Assistant Professor of Geology
Before it blows: The science behind volcanic eruptions
Historical Investigations – 2:45pm, Axinn 219
Chair: Katy Smith Abbott
Thomas Beyer, C.V. Starr Professor of Russian and East European Studies
Fact and Fiction in Dan Brown’s Novels
Pieter Broucke, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
The Ancient Architecture on Yeronisos, Cyprus: Towards a Preliminary Interpretation
Louisa Burnham, Associate Professor of History
Unusual Choices: A Lone and Lonely Heretic in Fourteenth-Century France
(Re)Construction of Identity – 2:45pm, Axinn 109
Chair: Baishakhi Taylor
Hang Du, Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics
Study abroad in China: A case study of ethnic minority college students
Guntram Herb, Professor of Geography
Indigenous Borderlands and Border Rites
Rebecca Mitchell, Assistant Professor of History
Baptized Tatars in Orthodox Russia: Conversion, Ascription and Song
Understanding Behavior & Choices – 2:45pm, Axinn 229
Chair: Jeffrey Cason
Jeffrey Carpenter, James Jermain Professor of Political Economy
Auctions for Charity
Sarah Stroup, Associate Professor of Political Science
The Authority Trap: Strategic Choices of International NGOs
Jessica Teets (Associate Professor) and Orion Lewis (Assistant Professor) of Political Science
Political Personalities: Exploring the Micro Foundations of Autocratic and Democratic Rule in China
Technologies of Seeing – 4:30pm, Axinn 232
Chair: Susan Baldridge
Michael Durst, Assistant Professor of Physics
Biomedical Optics: Laser-Based Imaging
Leger Grindon, Walter Cerf Distinguished Professor of Film & Media Culture
Staging a Murder / Documenting Subjectivity in The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Christian Keathley, Professor of Film & Media Culture
Videographic Film & Media Criticism
Daniel Scharstein, Charles A. Dana Professor of Computer Science
The Middlebury Computer Vision Benchmarks
Education & Knowledge – 4:30pm, Axinn 109
Chair: Andi Lloyd
James Calvin Davis, Professor of Religion
Jonathan Edwards and the Life of the Mind
Barbara Hofer, Professor of Psychology
The Psychology of Science Denial and Doubt: Problems in the Public Understanding of Science
Trinh Tran, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Reframing the School Choice Debate: Understanding School Choice as Desperate Attempts to Flee Violent Neighborhoods
Questions of Race, Gender, and Nation – 4:30pm, Axinn 229
Chair: Jessica Teets
Sujata Moorti, Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Revisiting Gilead: Televised Feminism and Reproductive Rights
James Chase Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Writing
Erasing the Noose: The (Lack of) Public Memory Surrounding Mexican Lynchings
Linda White, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies
Surname Activism and the Household Register in Japan
Religion and Rhetoric – 4:30pm, Axinn 219
Chair: Erik Bleich
Eliza Garrison, Associate Professor of Art History
Motion and Time in the Egbert Psalter
Sebnem Gumuscu, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Islamists between Democracy and Authoritarianism: Comparing Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia
Dana Yeaton, Assistant Professor of Theatre
Aristotle Takes Broadway: Classical Rhetoric in the Smash Hit Hamilton
Interstitials between panels:
Performance/Demonstration in Lobby:
Joe Antonioli, Senior Curricular Innovation Strategist
“Exit 1” by Root7 (acapella group)
Exhibit in Winter Garden:
Mira Veikley, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre
Middlebury College Antique Clothing Collection
Reception at 6:00pm to celebrate event