Agora: RDC Undergraduate Symposium
Agora: The 8th Annual RDC Undergraduate Conference
March 24, 2012
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Registration Begins at 8:45 a.m. in the Forum.
Schedule of Presentations:
Session 1: 9:00-10:15 a.m.
Margaret Parsons Theatre: Gender and Performance in Texts
(Moderator: Dr Heather Marcovitch) Carmen Cookson-Hills: Act Naturally: Performativity in Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander
Thésa Larose: Identity in A Doll's House
Renée Masson: Of Grown Men Playing Dolls: Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
Amanda Gagné: Doctor Who: Gender, Performance and Becoming
Room 1303: Health, Medication, Addiction
(Moderator: Dr Anomi Bearden)
Ty McKinney: Exploring the role of Oxytocin in Emotional Pain and Its Potential Applications
Jennifer L’Ecluse: Positive Behaviour Change in Addiction is Facilitated with the Utilization of Supervised Injecting Facilities
Aaron Telnes and Miranda Andreas: Give Up Stress, Get S.O.B.E.R.
Room 1203: The Mind, the Self, and the World in Philosophy
(Moderator: Dr Jeffrey Wigelsworth)
Daniel Illsley: An Exegesis of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Daniel White: "Awakening" to New Scientific Possibilities
Chelsah Sigurdson: Quantum Nirvana: How String Theory Establishes Proof for Pantheism
Coffee Break 10:15-10:30 a.m.
Session 2: 10:30-11:45 a.m.
Margaret Parsons Theatre: Identity and Deviance: Sex and Crime in the Media
(Moderator: Randy Johnson)
Heather Tenney: Sensational Crime in the Media
Brandy Newman: Sexualization Perceptions of Women
Delaney Moore: Children vs. Media: The Debate of Hypersexualization’s Existence in Popular Culture
Room 1303: Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and Modern Culture
(Moderator: Dr Bob Mills)
Sarah Pickering: Signalling the Renaissance: A Transition Seen Through Music
Rachel Hanks: The Disorder of Music in Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
Nirupama Raghavan: A Midsummer Night’s Leela: A Hindu Perspective on Transformation and Revelation
Karen Johnson: Sins Not of the Father: Allocation of Responsibility and Locus of Control in Shakespeare’s Richard II
Room 1203: Poetic Identities: Poetry Readings
(Moderator: Dr. Daniel Martin)
Kyrsten Erickson: Small Town Girl
A. Elizabeth Thompson: Table for Two
Andrea Weninger: Reconciliation
Room 1503: Qualities of Life
(Moderator: Dr Anomi Bearden)
Logan R. Lorenz: Primary Care Network Health-Related Quality of Life Survey Implementation Literature Review: CSL Project
Amanda Hoffer: Michener’s Connection Team’s Struggles with Improving the Lives of People with Disabilities
Leigh Trickett: Persuasion through Debate: Reducing Drinking and Driving—A Longitudinal Study
Tyler Duffy: The Importance of Social and Emotional Learning in Education: The Grow Boys Project
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK
Participants’ and volunteers’ lunch at The Far Side
12:15 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Andrew Kooman, RDC alumnus: Raising Voice
Session 3: 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Margaret Parsons Theatre: Student Video Presentations
(Moderator: Dr. Larry Steinbrenner)
Jaclyn Bell: Hear to Stay: A hearing conservation program aimed to educate students about hearing risks and how to protect ears from damage
Tami Galloway: Aboriginal Australians
Room 1303: Psychology and Criminality
(Moderator: Dr. Jane MacNeil)
Megan Grudeski: History and Implications of the Criminalization of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) / Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Transmitted by Sexual Contact: A Canadian Perspective
Erin Hamilton: Prostitution and Sociological Theory
Lynda Barker: The Decriminalization of Prostitution
Room 1203: Poetry in Motion (Moderator: Rod Schumacher)
Ashley Ethier: Untitled
Emily Campbell: Smokescreen
Courtney Marlow: Untitled
Andrea Weninger: Elucidation of Societal Expectations
Room 1503: Old Media/New Media (Moderator: Dr. Carlen Lavigne)
James Hill: Televised Sports in Canada and the United States: Exploring History, Examining Reciprocal Influences, and Evaluating Audience Experience and Cultural Identity
Jodi Brak: The Persistence of Vinyl
Natalie Noble: Questions of Sex and the City
Molly Cookson-Hills: Critical Application of Mythologies to Suburbia in Weeds
Coffee Break: 2:15-2:30 p.m.
Session 4: 2:30-3:45 p.m.
Margaret Parsons Theatre: Psychology and Law
(Moderator: Randy Johnson)
Kelly Moslenko: The Professional Jury: A New Solution to Eliminating the Common Errors and Misunderstandings Made by the Layperson Juror
Shannah Dutrisac: Anxiety and Eyewitness Testimony Accuracy
Brandy Newman: Causes of Organized Criminal Involvement and Delinquency
Room 1303: Science Fiction: Wells, Clarke, Bradbury
(Moderator: Dr Heather Marcovitch)
Sunni Mittelstadt: Darwin, Wells, and The Time Machine
Eaan DeClerck: Transhumanism in Childhood’s End and The Time Machine
Corey Whelen: “Usher II”: Ray Bradbury’s Satire of Censorship
Chantal Cormier: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and the Two Extremes of Desire
Room 1203: Histories and Mythologies
(Moderator: Dr Stéphane-D. Perreault)
James Folk: Hot Sparks in the Cold War: The Use of Proxy Wars Between the USSR and the United States
Shea Gibson: The Historical Concernment of On War and Clausewitz’s Theories
Jamie Barnes: Regional Differences in Seasonal Myths
Room 1503: Cultures and Individual Conflicts: Textual Studies
(Moderator: Dr Daniel Martin)
Sheila Walker: Obedience: The Root of Evil?
Julie Saby: The Use of Uncanny Events and Doppelgangers to Explain Internal Sin in “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Black Cat”
Nicole Routhier: Monstrosities in Canadian Literature: Focusing on the texts Obasan, Pilgrim, and The Horseman’s Graves
Session 5 3:45-5:00 p.m.
Margaret Parsons Theatre: Women as Subjects, Women as Objects
(Moderator: Dr Carlen Lavigne)
Sheri Thibeau: Feminism and Identity Labels
Hope Bruce: The Concepts of Consumption in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
Jordan Farquhar: Men and Women Communication
Brandy Newman: Sexualisation Perceptions of Women
Room 1303: The Brain and Its Influences
(Moderator: Dr Jane MacNeil)
Jaclyn Bell: Flavonoid-Rich Foods and the Impact on Learning and Memory
Cherise Verbonac: The Science Used by Magicians: Attention and Awareness in the Perception of Magic Tricks
Room 1203: Readings in Prose Fiction
(Moderator: Rod Schumacher
Jamie Barnes: it’s nothing
Jay Gervais: A Sense of Loss
Eaan DeClerck: Phone Sex
Chantal Cormier: The Remainder