Complete Conference Program - Wellesley College

1:30–2:40pm 3–4:10pm 4:30–5:40pm
The Search for Self Across Continents (short talks) PNE 339
Asian American Studies: Why it Matters to Everyone (panel discussion) FND 120
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, And Back Again (long performance)
Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
Exploring the Musical Vibrancy of the Baroque through Eighteenth Century Instruments
(long performance) PNW 220
From Calves to Kindles: The History of the Book (on location presentation)
Special Collections, Clapp Library
Tactile History: The Story of Wellesley College's Textile Collection
(on location presentation) Print Room, Davis Museum
Het Achterhuis: The Diary of Anne Frank Revisited (exhibition) JAC Gallery
North Korea and the Female Figure: Painting in the Political and the Personal
(exhibition) JAC Gallery
Process for Progress/ Proceso para Progreso: Realities of Artistic Process
for Environmental Progres (exhibition) JAC 452
No Place like Here: A Collection of Poems (literary reading) JAC 454
Translation and Poetry: Defining Authorship through Practice (literary reading) JAC 454
Cancer: Causes and Cures (short talks) PNW 116
Engineering for Humanity: Helping Elders Age in Place through Partnerships for
Healthy Living (panel discussion) SCI 104
Light Waves, Matter Waves, and Brain Waves (short talks) PNW 117
Sticky Situations: Social Stability and Problem-Solvings (short talks) PNE 139
Technology in Biology: Utilizing Innovative Interactions to Foster
Collaborative Learning in Biology (on location presentation) SCI 173
POSTER SESSION SCI Focus
Community Building (short talks) PNE 239
Daniels Fellows (short talks) JAC 450
Know Nothing of Other Languages, Know Nothing of One's Own
(short talks) SCI 396
Maladies sans Frontieres: Global Health Problems (short talks) SCI 278
Global Commerce in Flux: How the World is Changing China and China is Changing
the World (panel discussion) FND 126
Perspectives on Social Issues III: Research from the Wellesley College Freedom
Project (panel discussion) PNW 212
Gender and Cultural Production (panel discussion) SCI 277
POSTER SESSION SCI Focus
Literary Expressions from Wood to Clay
(short talks) PNE 239
The Search for Liberty in Captivity: Cervantes in Africa
(panel discussion) SCI 104
The Unending Beauty of Schubert’s Lieder:
A Lecture Recital on Word Painting
(short performance) JAC Auditorium
Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos in D major
(K. 448) (short performance) JAC Auditorium
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Wall Street, Main Street, and
i-Street (short talks) SCI 278
Project Runway: Model Organisms
(short talks) PNW 116
You Are What You Eat (short talks) PNW 117
Fight, Flight, and Regenerate (short talks) SCI 396
Going Insane in the Membrane: Investigating
Protein-Lipid Interactions in the Elmore Lab
(panel discussion) SCI 277
Resonance Rhapsody: Solving Biomedical Problems with
Magnetic Resonance (panel discussion) FND 120
Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder (short talks) PNW
212
Origins of the Contemporary Construct of Gender
(short talks) PNE 139
The Clash of Cultures (short talks) PNE 339
Gender in a Transnational Context
(panel discussion) JAC 454
* All members of the Wellesley College community are invited to enjoy lunch on the Wang
Campus Center lawn. In the event of inclement weather, the lunch will remain in the same
tented service location with the Campus Center and Alumnae Hall as indoor rain locations.
Light lunchtime entertainment is provided by The Blue Notes, The Tupelos, and the Wellesley
Widows, in the vicinity of the lunch tent.
How Language Reveals Us: Insights From
Sociolinguistics (panel discussion) JAC 450
Perspectives on Social Issues I: Research from
the Wellesley College Freedom Project (panel
discussion) FND 126
Let's Go Europe (short talks) PNE 339
Rhyme and Reason (short talks) PNE 239
From Sumo to Ofuro: An Exploration of Japanese
Culture & Society (panel discussion) JAC 454
The Master of Nuevo Tango: Astor Piazzolla
(long performance) JAC Auditorium
Biological Chemistry Program Honors Thesis
Research Talks (panel discussion) PNW 117
Factors Influencing Neurogenesis in the Crayfish,
Procambarus clarkia (panel discussion)
SCI 104
Food is Not Trash: Redefining Wellesley’s Waste
Culture by Composting (panel discussion)
SCI 277
Small Particles with Big Impacts: Applications of
Nanotechnology (panel discussion) PNW 116
Wellesley Global Medical Brigades: Honduras,
Potrerillos and Guanacaste (panel discussion)
SCI 278
Our Colleges, Ourselves: Peer Effects of College
Students (short talks) PNE 139
Suffering and Sadness: Life after Traumatic Events
(short talks) PNW 212
The Child is Father to the Man (short talks) SCI 396
Theory and Research on Freedom: Perspectives
on Law, Feminism,and the Professions (panel
discussion) JAC 452
Three-College Collaboration Wintersession
Program: “Consulting with Practically Green”
(panel discussion) JAC 450
China's Search for Modernity: A View of Shanghai
and Beijing (panel discussion) FND 126
Here: Honor Killings in the United States
(film screening) FND 120
key: FND—Founders Hall
JAC—Jewett Arts Center
PNE—Pendleton East
PNW—Pendleton West
SCI—Science Center
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