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How to Navigate CLAS: Guide for Attendees

I want to go to CLAS; where should I start?

Go to the Diamond Atrium and stop by the information table. You can pick up a printed program–along with a Schedule-at-a-Glance. These will help you make a plan.

What is happening where? 

  • Oral presentation sessions (9-12, 1-4): Diamond, Davis, Gordon Center, Bixler
  • Poster sessions (9-10:25, 10:30-11:55, 1:00-2:25, 2:30-3:55): Parker-Reed
  • Student speech contest (12-1): Page Commons (boxed lunches available)
  • PowerPoint Karaoke (4-5): Page Commons

What kinds of oral presentations are there?

All kinds. Many departments are having their honors students present their honors projects. Other classes are doing class presentations.

What if I just want to sample things–what should I see?

Here is one way to approach the day–it is only one option–there are dozens of possibilities:

  • 8:30  Go to Diamond Atrium; pick up your program; pick up some coffee and a donut. Get your CLAS t-shirt if you are a student presenter or a session sponsor.
  • 9:00  Go to Diamond 123 to hear students share what they have learned through the Goldfarb Center.
  • 10:00  Stop by Parker-Reed after Diamond to look at the posters–and get more coffee. If you get too entranced, you’ll be there for the switch from Poster Session I (9-10:25) to Poster Session II (10:30-11:55)
  • 10:30 Go to the Gordon Center. Catch part of EN355: Staging Pirates and Captives in Studio 2, or go to Studio 3 for a Directing class: Telling Stories Through the Senses, or pop down to the film screening room to experience SP297: Endangered Sounds of the Colby Forest.
  • 11:00  Stop in again at Diamond 123 to hear some Creative Writing seniors read from their work. 
  • 12:00  Go to Page Commons for the Phi Beta Kappa Student Speech Contest; enjoy a boxed lunch, and vote for the winner.
  • 1:00  Back to Diamond. Pick up some dessert, and go to Ostrove to see a student pitch competition sponsored by the Halloran Lab for Entrepreneurship.
  • 2:00  If you enjoyed the posters in the morning, go back for more in Parker-Reed. You might catch the pivot between Poster Session III (1:00-2:25) and Poster Session IV (2:30-3:55)
  • 2:30  In Diamond 153, you can listen to HI315: Desiring Asia.
  • 4:00  End your day at Page Commons with PowerPoint Karaoke. Listen and laugh as four faculty members present PowerPoint slideshows that they have never seen. 

What is the etiquette/protocol for attending multiple sessions?

It is perfectly OK to move from session to session throughout the day. We only ask that you depart/enter between student presentations–and that you are quiet in the hallways outside the rooms.

HAVE A TERRIFIC DAY AT CLAS!!!!