2nd Annual Undergraduate Humanities Symposium, Spring 2013
Panel One—Storytelling in Literature and Art
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:00 PM—1:30 PM
Student Union Plantation Suite
Brandon Naquin, “An Assessment of Wildness in ‘Walking’ and The Blithedale Romance”
Danielle Evans, “Kara Walker’s Silhouettes of Narratives”
Lillie Conner-Flores, “Edgar Allen Poe’s Skeletons in the Closet”
Moderator: Todd Kennedy
Panel Two—Mass-, Social-, and Multi-Media
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 2:00 PM—3:15 PM
Student Union Plantation Suite
Amy Jo Wisehart, “Chuck Close vs. Traditional Thinking in the World of Art: Creating a Bridge Between Painting and Photography”
Jacob Williams, “Meaning on the Small Screen: Television’s Place in the English Department”
Frank DiNicola, “Internet Elitespeak 13375p34k [/litspik/], 1337, |_££t, or Leet [/lit/] as an American English Dialect”
Moderator: Cathy Richard
Panel Three—Philosophy and the Historic Individual
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:00 PM—6:15 PM
Student Union Plantation Suite
Trevor Boudreaux, “Diderot, d’Alembert, and DNA: An Eternal, Golden Thread”
Gavin Johnson, “#SwayingANation with 140 Characters or Less: President Obama’s Use of Classical Rhetoric in his 2012 Twitter Campaign ”
Joseph Foret, “Wholly Diver, Darren Taylor and the Nature of Fame and Admiration in American Popular Culture”
Moderator: Allen Alexander
Presented by Sigma Tau Delta and the College of Arts & Sciences
Free and open to the public
