Presentations

Panel 1 | Talking Politics: Words and Meaning in the Political Arena

The Role of Language in the Russian game of war in Ukraine

Julia Shiller, Georgetown University

America & The Democracy-Hypocrisy Dilemma

Molly Scheid, San Diego State University

God is Dead, Mr. Rosewater: Existentialist Ethics in Kurt Vonnegut's Early Novels

Brian Eckert, Johns Hopkins University

Panel 2 | Culture and Conflict

How do we teach about Columbus?

Roberto Argentina, Rice University

Indigenous Epistemologies: Cultural Transgressions in Canton Insane Asylum

Carlos Littles, Johns Hopkins University

Panel 3 | Word & Image, from the Middle Ages to the Digital Age

Writing as a Visual Art: A History of Medieval European Illuminated Manuscripts

David Griffin Knight, University of Oklahoma

The Perlocutionary Demands of Memes

Tiffany M. Frye, Duke University

John Berger Revisited: 'Ways of Seeing' in the Digital Age

Carson Poole, San Diego State University

Panel 1 | The Power of Books

Museum as Asylum: Comix and Art History in the Pages of Emil Ferris's "My Favorite Thing is Monsters."

William "Memo" Nericcio, San Diego State University

On Drugs and Great Books

Austin C. Haigler, North Carolina State University

The Fear of Words: Banning Books in the 21st Century

Martha Williams, Johns Hopkins University

Panel 2 | Our Communities, Ourselves

Fairy Tale Endings: Using Propp’s Dramatis Personae and Functions to Approach Trauma

Andree Sole, Dartmouth College

Reshaping the Space of Community Engagement: Two Case Studies of Informal Arts Activities

Ying Sophie Chen, Southern Methodist University

No, You Can't Touch My Hair: Microaggression, Sensitivity, and Unconscious Bias in the College Environment of Black Students at a Predominantly White Institution

Latetrica Wilson, University of Memphis

Panel 3 | Coming Together Through Shared Experiences

Women Who Read: An Affinity for Small Books in Manuscript and Print

Sandra Park, Stanford University

Statistics, Health and Emotions: Sharing Knowledge and Meaning

Kendra Murphy, University of Memphis

Panel 1 | Beyond and Unbounded

Not to Be Undone: Infinitely Mindful Reverse-Engineering

Dee Gibbins-Lyon, Rice University

Scripting the Unscriptable: Navigating Identity Between Two Worlds

Thor Madsen, Reed College

What is the market value of the home you have grown up in?: Examining Urban Renewal as Municipal Colonialism

Jennifer Chutter, Simon Fraser University

Panel 2 | Finding Our Way

Travel Agency: Motivations and Realities in the Search for "Authentic" Tourist Experiences

Christopher Riendeau, UNC Wilmington

The Art of Entanglement in the Works of Naomi Shihab Nye

Cheryl Solis, Stanford University

Panel 1 | Humanity, Language and Meaning

What Does It Mean To Be Human?

Patricia Anne Magee, University of Delaware

More Than Words: Language, Narrative, Music and the Struggle for Human Rights

Emmeline Miles, Southern Methodist University

Stories of Meaning: The Marginalization of Those who Live in the Shadows

Vivian Morgan, University of Memphis

Panel 3 | How Can We Learn? Different Approaches to Education

Len Deighton and the Utopian Tradition

Braden H. Hammer, Mount Saint Mary's University

Literary and Cultural Investigations into the effectiveness of science fiction novels as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond

Katherine Isola, San Diego State University

Mark Z Danielewski's OR and Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence in a Latin American Context

Josué Arredondo, San Diego State University