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SESSION IV: ANTHROPOLOGY
Gender Studies |
Whitney Room
Session Chair: Mary Beth Mills |
| 11:00-12:15 |
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| 11:00 am |
Laura Snider ('06), Anthropology
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Travesti Rights are Human Rights |
| 11:15 am |
Stephanie Atwood ('06), Anthropology
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To Be a Good Italian Woman |
| 11:30 am |
Jamie Manzer ('06), Anthropology
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Denaturalizing Sex Binaries: Professional Women Officials Transgressing Gender Boundaries |
| 11:45 am |
Jane Lee ('06), Anthropology
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Status and Gender in Korea |
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SESSION V: RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Religion and World War II |
Lovejoy 344
Session Chair: Debra Campbell |
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
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Robert Rosenbaum ('07) |
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The Third Reich Church |
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Ryan Ahearn ('07) |
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The Khalsa in World War II |
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Jen McAleer ('07) |
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Resistance in the Nazi Government and Army |
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SESSION VI: BIOLOGY
Cell Cycle and Cancer |
Olin 234
Session Chair: Paul Greenwood |
| 1:00 PM |
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Erin Schlossman ('07) |
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Ewing’s Sarcoma and Possible Gene Therapies Involving EWS/FLI-1 and CD99 |
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Alexander White ('07) |
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The Genetics of Prostate Cancer |
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Carolyn Litty ('06) |
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Mantle Cell Lymphoma: Incidence, Biological Features, and Treatments |
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Peter Steinour ('07) |
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Glioblastoma multiforme: Hope for Pacification |
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Nichol Penna ('06) |
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Synovial Cell Sarcoma: Diagnosis, Therapy, and Case Study |
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SESSION VII:
General Session |
Smith Room
Session Chair: Mark Serdjenian |
| 1:00-3:30 PM |
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| 1:00 pm |
Sara Booth ('06) |
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Human Trafficking, Immigration, and Prostitution in Italy |
| 1:45 pm |
Adil D'Sousa ('06) |
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The Family Novel in the Emerging Nation-State: A Comparative Study of Ba Jin's Jia and Lev Tolstoy's Anna Karenina |
| 2:15 pm |
Hye Kim ('08) |
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Was Handel a Plagiarist? |
| 2:30 pm |
Jonathan Bastian ('06) |
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Logical Liberation: Perspectives from the East and West |
| 3:00 pm |
Kathryn Lidington ('06) |
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Variation in Beach Profiles and Sediment Characteristics at Popham Beach, Phippsburg, ME |
| 3:15 pm |
Elizabeth Mollo-Christensen ('06) |
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Potential Effects of Deep-Ocean Carbon Dioxide Sequestration on Foraminifera |
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SESSION VIII: EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Research in Japanese Fiction |
Hurd Room
Session Chair: Tamae Prindle |
| 1:00-3:00 PM |
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| 1:00 pm |
Morgan Manoff ('08), East-Asian Studies
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The Confessional Hero of the 'Temple of the Golden Pavilion' |
| 1:20 pm |
Liza Mitchell ('08), East-Asian Studies
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Secrecy, Sexuality and the Covert Feminine Power in 'Masks' |
| 1:40 pm |
James Luckenbill ('08), East-Asian Studies
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Botchan's Transformation in Accordance with Justice |
| 1:45 pm |
Katherine MacBain ('06), East-Asian Studies
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Reality and Liminal Space in Murakami Haruki's 'Dance Dance Dance' |
| 2:00 pm |
John Kester ('08), East-Asian Studies
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Silence in Silence: The Titular Significance of Shusako Endo's Novel |
| 2:15 pm |
Alexander Connors ('08), East-Asian Studies
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Narrative Structure in Kenzaburo O롯s A Personal Matter: Hierarchy of Chatman¡¯s ¡°Kernels¡± and ¡°Satellites,¡± Suspense and Surprise |
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SESSION IX:
General Session |
Whitney Room
Session Chair: Toni Katz |
| 2:00-4:00 PM |
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| 2:15 pm |
Erin Rhoda ('06) |
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Women |
| 2:45 pm |
Erica Dorpalen ('06) |
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Carry Emptiness: The Ecology and Zen Buddhism of Gary Snyder's Poetry |
| 3:00 pm |
Christabel Kwabi ('06) |
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An Evaluation of the Ghanaian Education System |
| 3:15 pm |
Emily Brostek ('06) |
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“The Kind of Person I Am:” Reassessing the Aims of Community Service and Its Impact on College Students Through Identity Development |
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SESSION X: ECONOMICS
Advanced Topics in Environmental Economics |
Miller 319
Session Chair: Thomas Tietenberg |
| 2:30 - 3:45 PM |
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Charles Reed ('06) |
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Insurance and the Management of Environmental Risk: The Case of Climate Change |
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Emilia Tjernström ('06) |
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Co-management of Natural Resources: Evaluating the Concepts and Empirical Evidence from Protected Areas |
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SESSION XI: AMERICAN STUDIES
Honors Projects in American Studies |
Hurd Room
Session Chair: Margaret McFadden |
| 3:15-5:45 PM |
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| 3:00 pm |
Kara Fagan ('06) |
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From Ball of Fire to Cattle Queen: Gender and Class in The Films of Barbara Stanwyck |
| 3:15 pm |
Emily Judem ('06) |
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Off the Tracks |
| 3:45 pm |
Katherine Hamm ('06) |
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Why Do Men Hate Ani DiFranco? The Connection Between Women Rock Musicians and the Image of Feminism |
| 4:00 pm |
Christina Terrell ('06) |
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The Racialization of Female Body Image Perception in the United States |
| 4:15 pm |
Jairus Steed ('06) |
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Blue-eyed Soul in the 21st Century: African-American Influence on Popular American Music |
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SESSION XII: ECONOMICS
Research in Economics |
Smith Room
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| 4:00-5:30 |
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| 4:00 pm |
Alexandra Funk ('06), Economics
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The Adequacy of Health Care Services for the Elderly in China |
| 4:20 pm |
Michael Poplaski ('07), Economics
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Econometrically Modelling Alumni Giving to Colby and Other NESCAC Schools |
| 4:40 pm |
Brian Tierney ('06), Economics
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Religion and Happiness among China's Oldest-Old |
| 5:00 pm |
Jonathan Wong ('06), Economics
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Analyzing the Determinants of Obesity in Maine |
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SESSION XIII: HISTORY
New Studies in American and European History: Senior Honors Theses |
Whitney Room
Session Chair: Paul Josephson |
| 4:00-6:00 PM |
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| 4:00 pm |
Jonathan Ashcroft ('06), History
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British and French Intelligence on the “German Question” and the Growth of Pacifist Movements |
| 4:20 pm |
Timothy Stenovec ('06), History
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The Taking of Mayflower Hill: the Vietnam Antiwar Movement at Colby College |
| 4:40 pm |
Julia Malkin ('06), History
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From Private Protest to Public Philosophy: The Democratic Society of Pennsylvania and the Election of 1800 |
| 5:00 pm |
Courtney Kubilis ('06), History
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Space Age Learning: Education Reform in the USSR and USA in the Age of Sputnik |
| 5:20 pm |
Katie Fuller ('06), History
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Spinners and Losers: Lewiston's Irish and French-Canadian Immigrants 1850-1930 |
