4th Annual Early Research and Scholarship Conference Program Details

Friday, September 1, 2017
9:00AM – 2:40PM
Graduate Center, CUNY – Concourse Level

#GCERI17

Panel Session I

9:20-10:20AM

1. Literacies and Their (Dis)Contents

Chair: Amy Wan (English) Room: C205

  • Teresa M. Ober (Educational Psychology)
    The Use of Digital Games as an Intervention for Improving Visual-Spatial Processing: Comparing Outcomes for Dyslexic and Non-Dyslexic Readers
  • Cecilia Salvi (Anthropology)
    Repurposed Trash as Value-Producing Literacy Art in the Cartonera Movement
  • Olga Parshina (Psychology)
    Reading and Learning to Read in Cyrillic
  • Patrick James (English)
    Writing, Reading, Surviving: HIV/AIDS Literacy, Literature, and Archive

2. Toward a Transformative Education

Chair: Steve Brier (Urban Education)  Room: C203

  • Angela Crumdy (Anthropology)
    Race, Erasure, and Education in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Cuba
  • Katherine E. Entigar (Urban Education)
    Agency, Subjectivity, and Collaboration toward a Transformative Pedagogy in Education with “Low-Status” Adult Immigrant Learners in Nonprofit Organizations
  • Kalina Gjicali (Educational Psychology)
    High School Students’ Attitudes and Emotions Toward Mathematics: A Case Study of a Charter School in an Immigrant Community
  • Miriam Atkin (English)
    Forms of Study: Wild Learning in the American Avant Garde
  • Robert Robinson (Urban Education)
    From Political Platform to Practice: The History and Legacy of the Oakland Community School

3. Cultural Institutions and Political Practice

Chair: Herman Bennett (History)   Room: C197

  • Erik Wallenberg (History)
    The Nature of Racism: Civil Rights Theater and Environmental Justice
  • Natalie Oshukany (Ethnomusicology)
    LvivKlezFest and Historical Commemoration in Lviv, Ukraine
  • Liz Hirsch (Art History)
    Artifacts of Critical Intervention in 1970s Los Angeles: The Formation of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
  • Christopher McGuinness (Music)
    The Red Salute: Communist Song in Telangana, India
  • Gabriel Arce-Rollins (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages)
    Cuban Cultural Institutions: Made in Scandinavia

4. Economic Crisis and Health

Chair: Duncan Faherty (English)  (English)  Room: C201

  • Erin Cully (History)
    The Political Roots of Banking Consolidation in the US, 1980-1995
  • Meredith Doherty (Social Welfare)
    Mapping Financial Toxicity across the Cancer Care Continuum
  • Emily Campbell (Sociology)
    Life on the Line: the American Opioid Crisis
  • Santiago Cassalett (Anthropology)
    The Nutritional Niche as a Mechanism for Niche Separation

Panel Session II

10:30-11:30AM

6. Cognition, Affect, and Consciousness

Chair: Virginia Valian (Psychology) (Psychology) Room: C205

  • Liat Zitron (Cognition, Brain, and Behavior)
    The Impact of Trait and State Mindfulness on Stress Reactivity
  • Sophia Natasha Sunseri (English)
    Shyness and the Ethics of Engagement in Eighteenth-Century Literature
  • Kelly Webster (Psychology)
    Mapping the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Phosphenes Elicited by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
  • Shawn Fagan (Psychology)
    The Effect of Attentional Deficits in Psychopathy on Cognitive and Emotional Empathy

7. In Darkness Visible: Visual Tools and the Sea

Chair: Julie Skurski (Anthropology)   Room: C203

  • Liang Wu (Anthropology)
    Immobility of Material Hypermobility: Global Seafarers and the Transformation of Port Infrastructure for New Panamax Container Ships
  • Zehra Husain (Anthropology)
    Visualizing Karachi in the Indian Ocean World: Histories of Mobility, Migration, and Blackness
  • Andrea Gomez (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
    Evaluating Bleaching in the Caribbean by Comparing In Situ and Satellite-Based Water Temperatures
  • Eva Gratta McGraw (Art History)
    Xanthus Smith and Maritime Imagery in America

8. The City and the Making of Modern

Chair: David Joselitt (Art History)        Room: C197

  • Christopher Green (Art History)
    Masked Moderns: Native Art of the Pacific Northwest, 1960-1990
  • Andrew Kotick (History)
    Humor and the Politics of Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
  • Dario Marcucci (Comparative Literature)
    WWI and Italian Modernist Poetry: An Idea of Brotherhood
  • Derek Ludovici (Anthropology)
    Bulaq el Dakrur: An Oral History of Unplanned Urban Development

9. Archives and Audiences

Chair: David Olan (Music)        Room: C201

  • Mary Katherine Kinniburgh (English)
    Archival Approaches to Manifold Media in New American Poetry
  • Leann Osterkamp (DMA Piano Performance)
    Piano Performance Practice in the Music of Leonard Bernstein: An Analytical, Cultural, and Historical Approach
  • Elizabeth Newton (Musicology)
    Affective Fidelity in Lo-Fi Print and Audio Culture of the 1990s
  • Marc Cesar Rickenbach (Comparative Literature)
    Contemporary Theories of Community: German Dialect Literature and Listening Communities

Panel Session III

12:30-1:30PM

10. Politics of Land and Climate

Chair: Cindi Katz (Psychology/EES)      Room: C205

  • Christopher Carlson (Sociology)
    The Logic of the Land: The Agrarian Basis of Uneven Development in Brazil
  • Meghan Moore-Wilk (Urban Education)
    Impacts of the Erosion of State Funding for Public Higher Education: Longitudinal Case Studies of Four State Systems–California, New York, Georgia, and Wisconsin
  • Hilary Wilson (Geography)
    Uneven Development in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: From Urban Renewal to Tax Increment Financing
  • Emma Jacobs (Political Science)
    Framing the Climate: National Security Discourses and US Foreign Policy
  • Caroline Gillaspie (Art History)
    “Delicious Libations”: The Landscapes and Genre Scenes of the Nineteenth-Century Brazil-US

12. The Meanings of Safety and Care

Chair: Michelle Fine (Psychology)      Room: C201

  • Aparna Anand (Economics)
    A Model of Economic Analysis of Schooling Choices: The Role of Educational Investment and Frequency of Substitution
  • Yasemin Ozer (Anthropology)
    Improvising Life and Care Beyond the Camp: Syrian Refugees in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Liat Shklarski (Social Welfare)
    Comparing the Efficacy of Two Interventions to Promote Lasting Relationships for Foster Youth
  • Florence Lui (Psychology)
    The Impact of Racial Microaggressions and Overt Experiences of Discrimination on Mental Health: A Latent Class Analysis

13. Activities and Objects of Remembrance

Chair: Bettina Lerner (Comparative Literature)    Room: C203

  • Chelsea Reichert (Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience)
    Delay Activity: The Effect of Active Rehearsal on Remembering Complex Scenes
  • Dana Liljegren (Art History)
    Language Barriers: Multilingualism and Spectatorship in Contemporary Francophone African Art
  • Rebecca Pollack (Art History)
    Holocaust Memorialization in Great Britain
  • Angélique Ibàñez Aristondo (French)
    Retrieving Francophone Literary Writings on WWI
  • Laura Carter (Anthropology)
    Where Are You, My Ancestors? The “Afro” Gap in French Antillean “Reconciliation”—A Cultural Politics of Remembering Nicely?

Panel Session IV

1:40-2:40PM

14. Structures of Culture and the Past

Chair: Fernando Degiovanni (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages)    Room: C205

  • Luis Bernardo Quesada Nieto (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages)
    Glottopolitical Study on the Etiquette Manual in Mexico and Latin America
  • Maya Harakawa (Art History)
    Fashion Moda: Art, Urbanism, and Culture in the South Bronx
  • Natalie O’Shea (Anthropology)
    Modern Human Dispersals Out-of-Africa: The Impact of African Population Substructure
  • Carlos Cuestas (Ethnomusicology)
    Destabilizing Histories in Colombian National Bambuco

15. Regimes of Race and Violence

Chair: David Waldstreicher (History)  Room: C201

  • Celeste Winston (Geography)
    “How to Lose the Hounds”: Tracing Historical Legacies of Slavery-Era Anti-Police Organizing
  • Philip Johnson (Political Science)
    From the Cuartel to the Cartel: How State Violence Produces Criminal Violence
  • Arinn Amer (History)
    This Saturday Last: The Tarring and Feathering of George Gailer
  • Ola Galal (Anthropology)
    Citizenship and Marginality in Post-Revolution Tunisia
  • Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales (Anthropology)
    The Racialization of Physical Traits in the Andes: An Analysis at the Crossroads of American Racial Regimes

16. Transculturation: Between the Americas and Europe

Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi (Comparative Literature)  Room: C203

  • Agnieszka Anna Ficek (Art History)
    From Allegory to Revolution: Transatlantic Images of the Inca Empire in the French Imagination, 1747–1850
  • John C. Winters (History)
    The “Emperor of the Six Nations”: Tejonihokarawa Hendrick and the Impact of “Bad Birds” in Haudenosaunee and European Colonial Politics
  • Stefano Boselli (Theatre)
    The Argentines of Paris: Performance, Theatres, Networks
  • Nadiah Riverah Fellah (Art History)
    Stills of Passage: Photography and Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1978-1992

17. Crossroads of Race, Gender, and Sex

Chair: Jonathan Gray (English)  Room: C197

  • Kelsey Chatlosh (Anthropology)
    Race, Nation and Gender: Afro-Descendant Activism in Chile
  • Madison Priest (English)
    Women We Don’t Want to Be: The Female-Authored Antiheroine in American Modernism
  • Yuliya Barycheuskaya (History)
    Gender, Love, and Sexuality in the Mosfilm Archives of Moscow
  • Davide Giuseppe Colasanto (History)
    Italian Masculinities: From Fascism to the Sexual Revolution

About the Author

Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz is an Assistant Professor and Head of Reference at the Graduate Center Library.