Tuesday, April 1:
Session 2a (Womens/Family Studies): 10:30 – 11:30a.m. ID Weeks 2nd Floor West: Anne Rosenbaum, A Historical and Anecdotal Survey of Services Available to Survivors of Domestic Violence in Southeastern South Dakota. Heidi Moline, American Indian Young Adults: Beliefs and Perceptions of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Session 3b (Literature): 1:30 – 2:45p.m. Delzell 110: Sarah Garelik, Marriage After Trauma: Mapping Out Relations of Equality in Jane Eyre. Sayaka Kanade, Running a Railroad through the Narrative of Frank Norris’s The Octopus. Kendra Roozing, A Second look at Woland. Carly Dearborn, Frankenstein and Dangerous Parenting.
Session 4b (Literature): 3:00 – 4:15p.m. Delzell 110: Catherine Beem, In Bed with Christina of Markyate: Gendered Constructions of Chastity. Paula Burns, “You’re Either In or You’re Out:” Mastering Space in Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s Eleven.” Janet Davison (Nordgren), The Gospel of Lucas Jackson: "Cool Hand Luke" as a Christ Figure. Brian Twenter, The Importance of Place in the Work of Joseph M. Marshall III.
Roundtable
Event: A Roundtable on Environmental Sustainability: Visions and
Positions, Local and Global 4:30-6:00p.m. Farber Hall
Felicia Barnes, Chris Berry, Zachary Crago, Ryan Cwach, Frank Leibfarth, Amy Worthington, Drew Price, Rachel Delaney
Moderator: Dr. Chris Ervin
Wednesday, April 2:
Session 5a (Literature and Philosophy): 9:00-10:30a.m. ID Weeks 2nd Floor West: DT Kofoed, Jabberwocky., Chris Vondracek, The Emergence of Postmodernism in Lawrence Welk's Christmas Specials., Cheryl Walstrom, Cyborg Solution: A Marxist-Feminist Examination of Joan D. Vinge's, The Snow Queen
Session 5b (Education): 9:00-10:30a.m. Delzell 110, Phil Block, Avatars of Exclusion: The Online Writing Center as Barrier.
Session 7c Panel – VLProper-ganda: a Creative Reading 2:00-3:30p.m. ID Weeks Library Lounge. Readers to be determined
Special featured reading: Annie Christain, Tall as You are Tall Between Them
Moderator: Marcella Remund