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Program Schedule
10 April 2021
Virtual
To visit a presentation panel or conference event, scan the schedule below, identify the panel you wish to join, and click on the "Join us" button for that event.
Join us in the Virtual Lobby at any time (April 10 | 8:30am-5:30pm EDT).
In our Virtual Lobby, you may meet other participants, learn about our raffle, and/or request assistance from our conference organizers.
Join our Raffle for Crossroads Conference grab bags by posting to our Virtual Mural.
Click here for a print copy of the schedule.
Welcome
April 10 | 8:30 - 9:30am EDT
Welcome from the Humanities Center Director, Dr. Aileen Miyuki Farrar. Join us to meet your other conference participants. The Crossroads Humanities Student Conference is proud to welcome presenters from Greece, Indonesia, India, the UK, and all over the US, including Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, and Michigan. Our graduate and undergraduate presenters represent a diverse range of disciplinary studies from Biology and Law to English, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, and more.
Opening Plenary - Jessica Harvey "Networks in Ocean Conservation"
April 10 | 9:40 - 10:40am EDT
How do we network to get access to biological information, give access to educational material, and implement policy change? Join this talk with Jessica Harvey, of the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation. The Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation funds scientific research, provides field resources where needed, and hosts educational programs aimed at conserving the environment.
Register in advance here.
Panel A01 - Public Health Management and Political Rights
April 10 | 10:50 - 11:50am EDT
Chair: Angel Vasquez (Nova Southeastern U)
Desi Yunitasari and Devi Yusvitasari "The Role of Indigenous Villages in Handling Covid-19 Through Tri Gita Karana Concept to Strengthening Cultural Resilience" (Ganesha U of Education)
Angel Vasquez "A Statistical Comparison of Democratic Liberties, Socioeconomic Development, and Effectiveness of COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Countries round the World” (Nova Southeastern U)
Emma Heineman "Women in State Legislature: The Effect of Female Representation on State Abortion Restrictions" (Nova Southeastern U)
Panel A02 - Real Realities in Digital and Social Media
April 10 | 10:50 - 11:50am EDT
Chair: Bianca Oliveira (Nova Southeastern U)
Adara Cox "Teaching Agency, Advocacy, and Authentic Voice: A Thematic Course Using the Netflix series Dear White People" (Nova Southeastern U)
Sarah Djos-Raph "Griot to DJ: Remixing and Blending Globalizing Culture" (U of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Liana Isler Kupferman "A Human Lens Behind the Religion" (Nova Southeastern U)
Keynote Speaker - Nina Schick “Deepfakes and the Age of Synthetic Media”
April 10 | 12:00 - 1:00pm EDT
A political commentator, writer and broadcaster, Nina specializes in how disinformation and technology are reshaping geopolitics and democracy.
Read more about Nina Schick's Keynote Speech and register here.
Panel B01 - Helping or Harming? The Moral Dimensions of Health Care Decisions
April 10 | 1:10 - 2:10pm EDT
Chair: Breanna Brady
Breanna Brady "Looking Through the Bell Jar: The Distortion of the Medical Gaze" (Nova Southeastern U)
Varun Kota "Utilitarian Perspective on Genetic Enhancement" (Nova Southeastern U)
Hasibah Ahmed "American Healthcare and Physician-assisted Suicide" (Nova Southeastern U)
Panel B02 - Language Policy, Education, and Identity
April 10 | 1:10 - 2:10pm EDT
Chair: Nhadya Lawes (U of Miami)
Alix Aidee Acosta "Rough Politics of Language, Translation, and Code Switching in the United States" (U of Miami)
Nhadya Lawes "A Different Image, Another Sound: Resistant Rhetoric and Black Identity" (U of Miami)
Dylan Darling and Greter Camacho Melian "A Meta-Analytic Review: The Implications of Virtual Reality with Immersion on Secondary Language Acquisition" (Nova Southeastern U)
Darek Barquero "Finding Cognitive Differences between English-Spanish Bilinguals and English-only Monolinguals" (Miami Dade College)
Panel C01 - Changing Race and Gender: Embodied and Disembodied Identities
April 10 | 2:20 - 3:20pm EDT
Chair: Kate Albrecht (U of Miami)
Kate Albrecht "From Early Modern Coteries to 21st Century Digital Humanities Initiatives: Transmission Networks of Hester Pulter’s Ecofeminist Poetry" (U of Miami)
Marietta Kosma “Transgression, Fluidity, and Forbidden Territories in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora” (U of Oxford)
Aolani Robinson "Seen Through the Screen: Creating Queer Community Through Twine" (Nova Southeastern U)
Panel C02 - Community: Synthesizing the Self and Others
April 10 | 2:20 - 3:20pm EDT
Chair: Anaridia Molina (U of Michigan)
Darby Calm "Creating a Conflict Community" (Nova Southeastern U)
Katie Laskowski "Complicating Community: Form, Language, and Being in Winesburg, Ohio" (John Carroll U)
Anaridia Molina "Establishing a Fixed Home: The Attempt at Identity Completion in Alvarez’s 'Antojos' and Menéndez’s 'Her Mother's House'" (U of Michigan)
Panel D01 - Cyberculture and Subjectivity
April 10 | 3:30 - 4:30pm EDT
Chair: Diona Espinosa (U of Miami)
Diona Espinosa “The Kentuki See You. Hyper-Exposure and Voyeurism Mediating Technology in the Novel Kentukis by Samantha Swcheblin” (U of Miami)
Jacob Lacuesta "On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Filipino: Identity Tourism, Colonial Mentality, and Visual Modification of the Filipino Body" (San Francisco State U)
Kate Poppenhagen "Cyber Collage: A Performative Hyper-reading" (U of Colorado Denver)
Joyeeta Das "A Slice of the Digital Mahabharata" (English and Foreign Languages U)
Panel D02 - Profit and Power in Politics and Literature
April 10 | 3:30 - 4:30pm EDT
Chair: Sadie Shireman (U of Miami)
Daniel Izadirad "The Label of Terrorism in America in the Twentieth Century: Irish Nationalists and Palestinian Paramilitaries" (U of Central Florida)
Sadie Shireman "The Effects of Global Capitalism on the Distribution and Construction of Time" (U of Miami)
Rachel Northrop "Network Narratives of the American 1970s" (U of Miami)
Closing Ceremony
April 10 | 4:40 - 5:40pm EDT
Join us for conference highlights and awards.