Program - Honors Humanities - University of Maryland

Technology and Transgression: Resurrecting Hester Prynne
Professor Laura K. Donohue 12:30 PM, 1100 Tawes Hall
Laura K. Donohue is a Professor of
Law at Georgetown University and a
Faculty Affiliate of Georgetown’s
Center on National Security and the
Law. She writes on the history of
national security and counterterrorist
law in the United States and United
Kingdom. Her most recent book, The
Cost of Counterterrorism: Power,
Politics, and Liberty (Cambridge
University Press, April 2008) analyzes
the impact of American and British counterterrorist law on life, liberty, property,
privacy, and free speech. Her articles focus on a range of issues, including
biometric identification; state secrets; and surveillance, data collection, and
analysis. Professor Donohue has held fellowships at Stanford Law School’s
Center for Constitutional Law, Stanford University’s Center for International
Security and Cooperation, and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of
Government, where she was a Fellow in the International Security Program as
well as the Executive Session for Domestic Preparedness. Professor Donohue
holds a JD (with Distinction) from Stanford Law School, and a PhD in History
from the University of Cambridge, England.
Humans 2.0:
The Sixth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium is the
culmination of the Honors Humanities 2012-2013 event schedule,
“Humans 2.0.” Human technologies are no longer just tools that we
pick up and put down, but new environments in which we live our lives.
This year, Honors Humanities students have explored the ways that
these environments have created shaped art (video games), politics
(the Arab Spring), and news (the citizen-journalist). We have also
engaged in our own experiments with blogs and tweets as part of the
college classroom. The symposium shifts our focus to creative and
scholarly presentations of undergraduate students from the University
of Maryland and the surrounding D.C./Baltimore metro regions, all of
which reflect diverse approaches to scholar-activism, illuminating how
the humanities, when combined with technological advances, continue
to transform our dynamic world.
University of Maryland – Honors Humanities
0100 Anne Arundel Hall
www.honorshumanities.umd.edu
Honors Humanities at the University of Maryland Presents:
May 3, 2013 - College Park, MD
Sixth Annual
Undergraduate
Research Symposium

Conference Schedule
Children and The Arts
(Panel Chair: Rachel DiDonna ) 3248 Tawes Hall
9 – 10:15 AM
Marlon Copeland (UM), “Out of the Darkness, Light: A Reflection on Dystopia in
International Cartoons”
Samantha Fleischer (UM), “Conflict Resolution in Israel: An Art Therapy-based
Program for Israeli and Palestinian Children”
Juinell Williams (UM), “Ava’s Dance”
National Security from WWII – 9/11
(Panel Chair: LaVel Moorehead) 3250 Tawes Hall
9 – 10:15 AM
Sarah Holmes (UM), “National Security Exceptionalism: Within and Without the ‘Five
Eyes’ Community”
Varun Tilva (UM), “The Social Repercussions of Nuclear Weaponry”
Kelsey Tremble (UM), “The Effect of 9/11 on Popular Media: Analyzing Terrorism in Air
Force One and Traitor”
Comparative Cultural Studies
(Panel Chair: Laura Williams ) 3252 Tawes Hall
9 – 10:15 AM
Yael Nager (UM), “A Lamp Beside the Golden Door: Stories of Emigration to the United
States”
Alyssa Snider (UM), “Are Jesus and Buddha the Same? A Perspective on Campbell’s
Hero Pattern In Religion”
Jason Hagler (UM), “A Walk in the Park: Gardens, Cosmology, and Concepts of Art”
Jenn Wivell (UM), “Where in the World is Jenn?”
How to Tell Women’s History
(Panel Chair: Rachel McGrain ) 3248 Tawes Hall
10:30 – 11:45 AM
Katherine Donnelly (UM), “The Travels of Gertrude Bell”
Allison Hartley (UM), “Eleanor Roosevelt: No Ordinary Life”
Stephanie Sansbury (UM), “The Poetry of Islamic Feminism; Min ‘Aynayyi: From My
Eyes”
Erica Williams (UM), “Gender Roles in Flamenco Dance”
Bilingualism’s Politics and Practice
(Panel Chair: Dr. Valérie Orlando) 3250 Tawes Hall
10:30 – 11:45 AM
Selene Caja (Georgetown), “Violence, Bilingual Education and the Future of the
Latino Identity: A Discourse on Language Use in Nickelodeon’s ‘Dora the Explorer’”
Anna Johnson (UM), “Reading Our Way to Rome: Using the Reading Method in the
Latin Classroom”
Stephanie Paszko (UM), “The Adaption of a Russian Folktale Into Arabic”
Generating Political Discourse
(Panel Chair: Naina Soni) 3252 Tawes Hall
10:30 – 11:45 AM
Julie Bayer (UM), “Conservation of Fresh Water in Israel”
Zoë DiGiorgio (UM), “‘Watch the World Burn’: A Critical Media Analysis of the 2012
Aurora Shooting”
Kyle Siefering (UM), “Post-it Politics”
Gabriela Almendrita Vergara (UM), “Silenced Circumstance: A Fictional Journal”
Updating the Literary Arts
(Panel Chair: Michael Casiano ) 3134 Tawes Hall 10:30 – 11:45
Eric Bricker (UM), “Drag: A Play in One Act”
Sophia Lewin-Adams (UM), “Social Shakespeare”
Annika McGinnis (UM), “Identity, Issues, and Impact: The Creation of a Literary
Magazine Connecting Youth Across Countries and Cultures”
Lunch and Keynote Address: 12:00 PM in 1100 Tawes Hall
Gender and Violence
(Panel Chair: Christina Dias) 3248 Tawes Hall
Ashli Haggard (UM), “The Sound of Silence”
Celeste Weinstein (UM), “Bullying: The Insidious Problem”
Megan Williams (UM), “The _______ Diaries”
2 – 3:15 PM
The Economics of Foreign Aid
(Panel Chair: Jonah Potasznik) 3250 Tawes Hall
2 – 3:15 PM
Chika Esochaghi (UM), “Nothing but Nets: The Reception of Insecticide Treated Nets
in Africa”
Meron Fitta (UM), “Infectious Disease Prevention in Africa”
Jonathan Lee (UM), “NGOs and Donor-Influence: Pocketing Change in the World”
Measuring and Changing Student Attitudes
(Panel Chair: Judy Gerstenblith) 3252 Tawes Hall
2 – 3:15 PM
Julia Connell (UM), “Informing America’s Youth: Assessing and Addressing the
Challenges Facing Youth Voter Turnout in the 2012 Election”
Melia Jannotta (UM), “Education From Our Perspective”
Julie Stevens (UM), “Understanding Feminism at the University of Maryland”
History and Literary Form
(Panel Chair: Megan Cooley-Klein) 3134 Tawes Hall
2 – 3:15 PM
Amanda Dew (UM), “Poetry Through Film”
Lyla Lawless & Daniel Hopkins (UM), “‘Collabowriting’: Multiple Authorship in
Speculative Epistolary Fiction”
Nicole Stevenson (UM), “La Mode: Fashion in the Court of Marie Antoinette and 18 th
Century France”
Language and Power
(Panel Chair: Itziar Belausteguigoitia ) 3248 Tawes Hall 3:30 – 4:45 PM
Akeel Alleyne (UM), “Nigger: Where Do We Go From Here?”
Amelia Guerriero (UM), “Why Taking an English Class May Be Better Than Rosetta
Stone”
Catherine Penny (UM), “Anything You Can Say, I Say It Better”
Innovations in the Visual Arts
(Panel Chair: Kristina Lykke) 3250 Tawes Hall
3:30 – 4:45 PM
Jordan Stachura (UM), “Public Beautification”
Marcie Wiggins (UM), “Looking at Leonardo da Vinci: A Modern Scientific Approach to
the Art of Painting as Experiment”
Yu-Chi Wang (UM), “Relating Five Factor Personality Trait Scores to Video Game
Conceptions of Health: Individual, Social, and Environmental
(Panel Chair: Chris Kelly) 3252 Tawes Hall
3:30 – 4:45 PM
Makenzie Miller (UM), “Autism Awareness”
Gabriel Maslen (UM), “City Capsule”
Christopher Rubino (UM), “Oysters as a Course of Nutrient Credits in the Chesapeake
Bay”
Searching for Global Equality
(Panel Chair: Derek Jackson) 3134 Tawes Hall
3:30 – 4:45 PM
Sheyla Guevara (UM), “Healthcare of Children Living in Rural Peru”
Nandita Ravishankar (UM), “21 st -century Caste System: A Personal Reflection”
Shelly Toub (UM), “Urban Education: Building Our Future”