2015 Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences & Education PROCEEDINGS

University/Organization
Springfield College

Title
Cultural Complexity in Urban Education: A Long Term Professional Development School Collaboration

Synopsis
The Springfield College Education Department and Kensington International School have celebrated twelve years in a professional development School Partnership which has effected change in the college’s preparation of per-service teachers, in the growth of professionalism of experienced teachers, and afforded opportunities for scholarly research by college educators in a local urban school. The benefits of partnering and research opportunities are documented in this poster presentation.

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University/Organization
Clemson University

Title
Reading, Writing, and Racism: The Long and Troubling History of Segregated Schools in Florida

Synopsis
This is a short history of the struggle to integrate Florida’s schools with special attention paid to Jacksonville, Florida.

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University/Organization
Brigham Young University

Title
Divisive Nationalism: Public Reactions to the Diaoyu Island Disputes in 2010 and 2012

Synopsis
This paper argues that events of the 2010 and 2012 Diaoyu/Senkaku Island crises demonstrate the divisive effects of nationalism in Chinese society.

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University/Organization
Touro College

Title
Understanding How to Nurture Creativity

Synopsis
The purpose of this paper is to discuss and demonstrate how creativity can be nurtured through consistently practicing activities which promote high curiosity, inquisition, imagination, and novelty associated with giftedness.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University

Title
Can the Society Be Changed by a Hero? : A New Type of Anti-heroic Narrative in Snowpiercer in Relation to Foucault’s Power

Synopsis
This paper tries to analyze how Snowpiercer, a movie directed by Korean director Bong Jun-ho, deconstructs the concept of modern revolution and creates a new type of anti-heroic narrative. The way Snowpiercer subverts the romantic concept of modern revolution is closely related to Foucault’s concept of power.

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University/Organization
Hanyang University

Title
Social Network Analysis for Leisure Oriented Mobility Characteristics: A Case Study of the Seoul Metropolitan Area

Synopsis
This paper identifies the characteristics of the leisure mobility patterns of citizens in the Seoul Metropolitan Area. Leisure oriented O-D data from Household Mobility Surveys from 1996 to 2010 is analyzed to determine the leisure mobility characteristics of these Seoul citizens utilizing Social Network analysis. This paper concludes with a discussion on the implications of these leisure characteristics and trends based on the findings.

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University/Organization
Texas State University College

Title
Social Media Use in Space: How NASA Astronauts’ Twitter Feeds Compare to Other Science Communicators on Earth

Synopsis
This Study looks at the activity of the Twitter feeds of three astronauts Chris Hadfield, KeranNyberg, and Mike Hopkins. These feeds were quantitatively examined, then were compared to two professional science communicators Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson Twitter feeds to draw conclusions on the effectiveness of the astronauts’ Twitter use.

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Title II
The Tell Tale Telling: An Analysis Of The Film The Challenger Disaster To The Official Findings And Personal Account Of Commission Member Dr. Feynman

Synopsis II
A qualitative comparison of the book What do You Care What Other People Think (Feynman and Leighton 1988) and the film The Challenger Disaster (Discovery Science Channel 2013). Using the cultivation analysis theory to understand the differences in the two narratives andtheir possible effects on viewer’s opinions.

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University/Organization
University of Sydney, Australia

Title
The Dialectic of the Enlightenment

Synopsis
This paper will analyze J. G. Ballard’s 1962 sci-fi novel, ‘The Drowned World’, as a critique of the Enlightenment and its toxic legacy. The discussion will be illustrated with my own artwork which responds to Ballard’s vivid prognostications, particularly climate change; the most significant issue of our age.

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University/Organization
St. John Fisher College

Title
Locating Disability in the Body Positive Campaigns: Advertising & In/Exclusion

Synopsis
This paper explores a three stage history of the advertising industry’s movement from near total exclusion of people with disabilities in advertising imagery to very limited inclusion to more progressive campaigns. I argue that the advertising industry helps to construct the symbolic meaning attached to disabled identity and as such, it plays a central role in raising public awareness about disabled people. Campaigns like Pro Infirmis’ “Because Who is Perfect? Get Closer” challenge normative constructions of beauty as able-bodied and have the potential to broaden cultural understandings of embodied beauty and diversity.

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University/Organization
Grambling State University

Title
Intrigued by the Drums : Hip Hop Junkies

Synopsis
This paper discusses the influence and representation of Hip Hop culture on visual art artists. Special attention is given to artists that deal with the malleability of language and appropriation of culture.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University, South Korea

Title
The Effectiveness of First-Year Seminars for Students From Abroad

Synopsis
First year seminars are known to be quite effective for student adaptation to college environment. We found that first year seminar classes designed especially for international students, with elements of understanding cultural differences and communication styles, effective learning strategies and useful resources, were very effective to student adaptation to the foreign college environment.

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University/Organization
Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez

Title
Samuel Zyman’s Two Motions in One Movement: Forging a Unique Contemporary
Musical Voice through a Blend of Diverse Modern Influences

Synopsis
In this presentation I will discuss the work of noted Mexican composer Samuel Zyman and how his compositional style is exemplified in the piano work Two Motions in One Movement. I will conclude the presentation with the performance of the piece.

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University/Organization
Pepperdine University

Title
A Reinvestigation of “The Creation of Woman” from a Hebraic Viewpoint

Synopsis
This paper looks at women investigating the original creation story in Hebrew without the sociological intervention of modern man so often used. Because of the misinterpretation of ideas such as submissive and help meet many men claim “superiority” over women in a spiritual sense when nothing is further from the truth.

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University/Organization
University of British Columbia Okanagan

Title
Using Community Resources in Creative University Class Assignments

Synopsis
This paper documents the outcomes of two very different class assignments, one in Historical Archaeology, the other in Applied Anthropology. In the former, students studied the historic site of the first mission in the central Okanagan BC, Canada with the objective of understanding the impact of European settlement on the local indigenous people. In the second assignment, students visited a First Nation reserve in the north Okanagan to learn firsthand about local socio-economic challenges ; they subsequently created business proposal s for the community.

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University/Organization
Iowa State University

Title
International Students from China: Motivations, Challenges, and U.S. Admission Policies

Synopsis
This paper addresses issues related to Chinese students applying for admission to American postsecondary institutions. Specifically the paper discusses issues of alleged cheating, the use of educational agents, and the widespread use of shadow education. The paper provides some policies to assist students to find appropriate institutions.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University

Title
Intercultural Communication for Foreign Students. – One of the Holistic Education
Courses of Yonsei University

Synopsis
Introduction of special program for foreign students (Intercultural Communication for foreign students) which is one of the holistic education courses of Yonsei University, in Korea. I will introduce the contents of this course, including how international students can get help about their campus life in Korea.

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University/Organization
Shinshu University, Japan

Title
A Pragmatic Strategy for Building Accordance in Discordant Situations: A Case Study on
Negative Questions

Synopsis
“Discordance” between what we expect and what actually happens is one of the biggest conflicts we experience in our daily lives. This paper will argue that conveying to others that there is such discordance is one of the main reasons interlocutors use negative questions in uttering a request.

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Title
Multidirectional Approach to the Semantics of Have:Seeking a Unified Way of Teaching Its
Polysemy to the EFL Students

Synopsis
Have is one of the most polysemous words. This workshop will discuss the semantics of have through three presentations and a discussion forum. The presentations will focus (i) on have in the causative constructions, (ii) on the “habitat segregation” of idioms using have, and (iii) on some constructions denoting location including constructions with have. In the discussion forum, we will discuss on the semantics of have and present an effective way of teaching the word to the EFL students.

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University/Organization
Oklahoma State University

Title
Utilizing Systems Thinking and Concept Mapping to Identify Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities: Considering the Effects of Light on Meat Products

Synopsis
In the current project, the research team hypothesized that allied disciplines may contribute towards the formulation of novel research opportunities and partnerships. To seek opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, researchers collected information about current areas of interest and expertise from seven faculty members in the fields of (1) Hotel and Restaurant Administration; (2) Interior Design; and (3) Merchandising at a large university in the South Central U.S. Systems thinking becomes easier to visualize with the use of concept mapping techniques, e.g. Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) software. Preliminary findings indicate research areas are clustered in (1) Health and Food Safety, (2) Consumer Behavior (3) Sustainability, and (4) Lighting Application. The interrelationship among these may suggest the pursuit of collaborative research grants for future funding.

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Title
Illumination of Cultural Heritage Artifacts in an Ethiopian Museum: Considerations for Older Adults

Synopsis
This case study describes and assesses the current illumination of cultural heritage artifacts exhibited or stored in an important Ethiopian museum. The needs of two older adult stakeholder groups, museum employees, and domestic and international visitors were considered.

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University/Organization
Southwest Baptist University

Title
Hawthorne in Eden

Synopsis
In several of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tales, Puritan New England becomes a metaphor for Eden. In developing this metaphor, Hawthorne expresses his desire for Utopia and laments its loss, even as he expunges his guilt for his Puritan ancestry. Several examples of Hawthorne’s writings will be used to support this position.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University

Title
Relieving Yeats’s Anxiety over Age: Sexual Inspiration as Creation

Synopsis
As early as twenty-one, Yeats viewed aging as a vice to his carefree, youthful imagination.Yet, as he matured, Yeats’s style and tone took an innovative turn. The youth who once emphasized gentle and pure feminine beauty became enthralled with women as sexual forces. That is, as Yeats approached life’s end, the revitalization of his sexual energy facilitated in awakening a different creative artistry, subduing the fears of castration and loss of integrity he held onto for most of his life.

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University/Organization
Education Unit, SUNY Plattsburgh

Title
“Everybody’s Talkin’ At Me”: Authentic Discussions

Synopsis
When we professors state that we “hold discussions” in our classes, do we merely disguise our delivery of our own opinions and agenda? This paper purports to uncover the authentic values of open classroom discussions—not merely in the college classroom, but in any level of schooling. When we professors state that we “hold discussions” in our classes, do we merely disguise our delivery of our own opinions and agenda? How do we encourage an open discourse?

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University/Organization
Saitama Gakuen University, Japan

Title
Marriage of Alternative Medicine and Health Promotion

Synopsis
In order to conquer lifestyle-related diseases, patient’s feeling, decision-making skill, behavioral change, stress coping, etc. are very important. I would like to discuss with the possibility of marriage of Alternative Medicine and Health Promotion. To heal a cancer patient pain which is holistic pain (total pain), the teaching of Huna seems to be effective.

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University/Organization
University of Northern Iowa

Title
Analysis of the Impact of the Closure of a Laboratory School on House Prices

Synopsis
This study examines the impact of the sudden closure of a public laboratory school on nearby house prices. The study uses a difference-in-difference approach with spatial effects in an hedonic model. It compares house prices in the attendance zone of the closed school (a treatment group) with house prices in a comparable, adjacent neighborhood (a control group), before and after the closure. We find that the closure reduced house prices in the attendance zone by about 5 to 10 percent.

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University/Organization
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Title
The Maritime Power Projection of China on the Asian High Seas

Synopsis
Insecurity is the defining element in the relationship between China and its Asian neighbors. In this atmosphere of uncertainty, the Asian nations have continued to modernize their forces. This paper tries to make an evaluation of the Chinese maritime ambitions under special consideration of its regional interests.

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University/Organization
Northern Kentucky University

Title
The Sound of Blackness: The Origins, Development, and Impact of African American Music

Synopsis
This project seeks to explore the origins, development, and impact of the five major genres of African American music (Gospel, Blues, Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, and Rap/Hip Hop) from the 1950s to the present in the field of Black Studies from a distance education perspective.

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University/Organization
The University of the West Indies

Title I
Primary School Teachers’ Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Teacher Efficacy, and
Mathematics Avoidance: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago

Synopsis I
Research about mathematics anxiety, mathematics teacher efficacy and mathematics avoidance among teachers in Trinidad and Tobago is limited. This study explored if these constructs varied by teacher age, gender, mathematic attainment, and years of teaching experience, among a representative sample of primary teachers in Trinidad and Tobago to determine they.

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Title II
Exploring Teacher Efficacy of In-Service Secondary School Teachers in Trinidad and Tobago

Synopsis II
Teacher efficacy is not widely researched in Trinidad and Tobago. This study explored teacher efficacy for classroom management, instructional strategies, and student engagement among in-service secondary school teachers in Trinidad and Tobago. Analyses examined differences in teacher efficacy by gender, age, teaching experience, curriculum concentration, and school type.

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University/Organization
Belmont University

Title
Becoming an “Old Castilian” in Michael Paterniti’s “The Telling Room: A Tale of
Love, Betrayal, Revenge and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese”

Synopsis
US author Paterniti travels to a Spanish village in search of a special cheese and its maker who represents the “Old Castilian”- a descriptive term for a lifestyle the author struggles to understand but will later emulate. We will see how a book presumably about cheese explores language and culture leading to discussions of universal themes.

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University/Organization
Oklahoma State University

Title
Case Study of Facility Move Management at a National Laboratory

Synopsis
The purpose of this study was to investigate, measure, and document the physical attributes, requirements, and location of existing, large laboratory equipment in order to expedite the impending relocation of the equipment. A facility management research team, consisting of three undergraduate University interns and one Professor, examined the equipment in situ at a National
Laboratory.

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University/Organization
Francis Marion University

Title
Academic Adjustments Experiences of Asian Indian International students at a Research
Level II University in the United States.

Synopsis
This study was conducted to explore the academic adjustment experiences of six Asian Indian International students pursuing their graduate studies at a Research Level II University in the United States.

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University/Organization
NYCPsych, New York

Title
The Power of Creation Over Trauma: Personality Factors and the Impotency of PTSD

Synopsis
This study investigated the effects of personality factors on traumatic exposure and adaptation. The researcher conducted clinical interviews with seven creative individuals. Results were analyzed utilizing a combination of descriptive statistics with qualitative analysis. The hypothesis was supported. All participants reported traumatic exposures. None were clinically impaired, which suggests both locus-of-control and creativity may mitigate possible clinical impairment after
exposure.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University

Title
Saving Bukchon: Preservation of the Historic Urban District in Seoul, Korea

Synopsis
Since the 1970s, Bukchon, a historic residential area in Seoul, has faced intense conflict between residents and the city government regarding preservation and development. When a new incentive based regeneration plan began in the 2000s, the area took a new turn as a popular tourist destination and a model preservation project, even winning a UNESCO prize. This paper examines and evaluates the rhetorical strategies of government policy in Bukchon.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University

Title
The “Whiter Foster Sister Fails”: Interracial Sisterhood is a Myth in Harriet Jacobs’
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Synopsis
Harriet Jacobs’ autobiographical slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, ostensibly makes tactful use of the widespread assumption of white feminists of the time who believed in interracial sisterhood. This study, however, detects discomfort with this idealistic notion of sisterhood and so focuses on the slips Jacobs makes.

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University/Organization
Hanyang University, South Korea

Title
Analysis on Implementing Mitigation Strategies of Climate Change in South Korea’s Tourism Industry

Synopsis
The purpose of this study is to identify practical issues of Korea tourism industries trying to reduce greenhouse gas emission. This study conducted focus group interviews on those who are in charge of energy management in tourism enterprises. This study reviewed coping strategies and analyzed practical problems of tourism enterprises in implementing reduction strategies of greenhouse gas emission.

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University/Organization
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Title I
Platonic Resolution to the Trolley Problem

Synopsis I
This is a study of the trolley industry, which pledges no allegiance to the fast growing tradition of producing trolley cases after trolley cases. It seeks to illustrate Plato’s (or Platonic) response to the problem.

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Title II
Sider’s Argument for Four Dimensionalism: A Refutation

Synopsis II
This presentation is an attempt to refute both Sider’s and Markosian’s arguments. The concept of spatial extension plays an important, yet ignored in these arguments, in understanding time travel and its metaphysics. A proper understanding of the Elvis problem, respecting the notion of spatial extension, shall allow us to argue that if time can be traveled, then a version of 3D-ism has to be true.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University

Title
Black Woman’s Voice to Be Duet: Suffering and Resistance of Double Minority in Djanet Sears’ Harlem Duet

Synopsis
This paper firstly focuses in “Harlem Duet,” the adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello,” on that Othello, a black man’s desire for white recognition excludes black women both racially and sexually. “Secondly, this paper argues that the female protagonist’s failure of resistance shows the racial boundary shaped by white has been enrooted within black people’s lives.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University, South Korea

Title
Expansion of Modern Diaspora Theory: Emotional Diaspora Present in Madame Butterfly

Synopsis
This study explores “emotional diaspora” present in Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long. As discourse on diaspora is widening, new categories of diaspora such as emotional diaspora which deals with emotional displacement one feels not necessarily in relation to one’s geographical displacement. Cho-Cho San shows such emotional diaspora in the particular place which is her home. The ways, possible reasons for diaspora and how it can widen the discourse of modern diaspora will be discussed.

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University/Organization
California State University Northridge

Title I
Predicting Social and Physical Quality of Life among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Older Women

Synopsis I
In the present study, we examined older women’s social/relational quality of life and physical health in relation to social support as well as cultural status. Key social support and cultural status variables showed significant associations with both physical health and social quality of life outcomes. Hispanic women’s cultural status was more likely to be associated with physical health outcomes, whereas non-Hispanic women’s cultural status was more likely to be associated with social quality of life outcomes

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Title II
Social Quality of Life is a Significant Predictor of Mental Health among Multiethnic Older Women

Synopsis II
The purpose of the present study was to test the role of age, education, ethnicity, ethnic identity, and social quality of life on mental health in older age. Age was a significant predictor, with more advanced age predicting better, not worse mental health (in contrast with prior literature findings), but it failed to remain fully significant once social quality of life was added to the clinical picture.

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University/Organization
Portland State University

Title
Feminist Pedagogy in University Classroom: Understanding the Classroom as a Place
Where Knowledge is Created as Opposed to Knowledge Being Delivered to Students

Synopsis
The purpose of this paper is to look at Feminist Pedagogy, which is an exploratory and interactive form of teaching. This paper compares feminist pedagogy in contrast to the traditional method of teaching— lecturing, so I will use it only as a comparison of how feminist pedagogues ensure that teaching is about dialogue and cognitive learning instead of only a teacher speaking and students listening.

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University/Organization
Chung Yuan Christian University

Title
Feminist Utopian Novel in a Transnational Context: With a Reference to Bai Hua’s
The Remote Country of Women

Synopsis
The study sets out to investigate the book The Remote Country of Women, written by Bai Hua, a Chinese playwright and poet, has been regarded as a powerful feminist utopian novel, and its corresponding English translation version. With the text analysis as support, the study hopes to demonstrate that the translated version of the feminist utopian novel plays an important role in enhancing more understanding of Chinese matrilineality and female principles during the 1980s.

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University/Organization
Hoffmann-La Roche

Title
Writing and the Seemingly recalcitrant: Project Management as a Tool in Writing

Synopsis
We rely on students to be self-managing to meet degree requirements. After completing coursework, students who lack inherent project management (PM) skills can lose focus in the thesis stage. Even competent thinkers may need training to define research tasks or to manage stakeholders and time. Experience in large industry teams led to testing a PM framework with scholars completing master and PhD theses, articles, and books. Explicit PM training helps people finish long documents such as a thesis even after delays. This success has major impact on people’s professional and personal lives.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University

Title
An Aboriginal Rewriting of the Colonial Encounter in Mudrooroo Narogin’s Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World

Synopsis
Narogin’s novel is worthy of note because it is a postcolonial writing back to the tradition of white Australian literature. The novel foregrounds the hitherto silenced voice of native Australians, debunking all the paternalistic concepts of civilizing mission and common humanity. From a reversed point of view, European settlers are put under the scrutiny of the Aborigines to become the object of sardonic rewriting. It is white Europeans, not the Aborigines, who are truly barbarian and alien.

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University/Organization
University of Redlands

Title
Community Service and Study Abroad

Synopsis
Community service can be an important part of students’ study abroad learning experience. Making contacts within the host culture (schools, local chapters of US organizations, and various shelters) is a good way to get started. Getting into new cultural areas and situations helps students get a unique perspective on cultural differences that may or may not otherwise be apparent and offers them experiences of a lifetime.

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University/Organization
Colorado State University

Title
What is Modernity?: Using Literary Modernism to Show How Controlling the Terms
Affects the Culture Deemed ‘Other’

Synopsis
This paper explores the way modernity, particularly literary modernism, shaped the way the culture of the ‘other’ was viewed and treated.

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University/Organization
Texas Tech University

Title
You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: A Qualitative Understanding of Sharks and Maui

Synopsis
A qualitative analysis of the relationship between humans and sharks, its impact on economy specific to Maui, and the media effects.

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University/Organization
University of Northern Colorado

Title
”More Than Blood’: Identity Reformation of the Western Contemporary ‘Evotypical’ Family

Synopsis
The new paradigm of the ‘evotypical’ family is explained via its new identity, commitment, enactment,expectations, inspiration, expectations, and flexibiity.

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Title
Toward a Conceptualization of the ‘Feral Family’: Its Evolution and Characteristics

Synopsis
The authors reveal their original familial construct and identifying characteristics known as the ‘feral family.’ The discussion chronicles the ontology of the new system and its emergence. Its morphology is explained in structure, interactional patterns, and communication behaviors.

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University/Organization
University of North Georgia

Title
Pride and Prejudice: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in the Post-Great War World

Synopsis
In the aftermath of World War I, race and ethnicity – sometimes expressed in those terms and sometimes in the guise of nationalism – became major factors in the diplomatic and economic failures of nation states leading to the next international conflict less than twenty years later.

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University/Organization
The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts & Columbia College

Title
Confronting the Otherness of Noise Russolo, Cage and Ratman

Synopsis
Noise conjures up feelings tension and fear, thus it is the other. Nevertheless, many artists began to use noise as an art material. Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo, John Cage, and later, Gilad Ratman manipulated noise using it as an art material. This process served as a type of reconciliation with the otherness of noise.

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University/Organization
Florida A & M Tallahassee

Title
Triumph over Evil: The Theme of Exile in Caribbean Folktales

Synopsis
The theme of exile in Caribbean folktales will be analyzed in this paper where the protagonists are often exiled from their community in order to learn important lessons about their cultural heritage. Oftentimes the protagonists must struggle against evil to learn these valuable lessons, thereby, becoming productive members of society.

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University/Organization
Dickinson State University

Title
American Authors in the Civil War

Synopsis
This presentation compares and contrasts the American authors Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce.

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University/Organization
University of California at Davis

Title
Surfing into Samadhi: Rediscovering the Elements in India’s Coastal Villages

Synopsis
This is a three-part 90-minute session with two presenters. In the first 30-minute portion, Christopher Miller will present an abridged version of his thesis discussing the religious dimensions of the countercultural surf community in South India as they confront the ecological challenges in their coastal villages. Then, Fancy Fechser will present her documentary film depicting this surf culture and the current ecological and social projects that she and professional surfer Brad Gerlach are undertaking with them to confront these challenges, including their drive to bring more surfboards to the coastal villages as well as to assist them with organizing beach clean ups. Finally,
we will close the session with a discussion regarding the current state of affairs and leave time for Q&A.

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University/Organization
University of South Alabama

Title
A Modern Percussion Edition of Darius Milhaud’s LA CRÉATION DU MONDE

Synopsis
Preparing a performance of La création du monde can be daunting, as the parts are rental-only, heavy in errata, and marked in French. The wind and string instrumentation is frugal, allowing the assembly of a small but necessarily facile ensemble—yet it is the percussion writing itself that could lead one to ignore the work. We hope to change the minds of those who have done so by offering a primer of sorts for interested percussionists.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University, South Korea

Title
Propp’s Morphology as Narrative DNA: The 29-Function Plot Genotype of “The Robber Bridegroom”

Synopsis
In this paper, I demonstrate how a refined version of Vladimir Propp’s morphology provides the theoretical foundations for a coherent analysis of the plot genotypes of the European corpus of fairy tales.

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University/Organization
Bloomfield College

Title
Religion, Philosophy, and Science: Their Earliest Interplay

Synopsis
Religion came first (10,000 years ago with urbanization) but science followed much later (2,600 years ago). These fields of inquiry have always shared an intimate connection; they have been inspired by the wish to understand the phenomena of nature. Could religion have been a stimulus for the birth of science? And if philosopher Bertrand Russell is right that “philosophy is something intermediate between theology and science,” could philosophy have played a role in this event too?

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University/Organization
Yonsei University

Title
Feminine Technologies and the Victorian Sexuality in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Synopsis
This paper will discuss the correlation of the Victorian sexuality with the dominant technologies of the era, based on the analysis of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Technologies of the time, stenograph, phonograph and typewriter have feminine natures of being receptive and reproductive. Presenting the transitions of sexuality of the main characters in their contact with the feminine technologies, Dracula reveals that sexuality during the Victorian Age is intertwined with the technologies.

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University/Organization
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Title
Challenges & Opportunities of Big Data for the Digital Society

Synopsis
Big data is at the core of today’s information and digital society, representing a key engine for social, political, and economic relations. The potential benefits of big data are numerous. At the same time, the use of big data raises myriad issues, such as those related to privacy, data security, and ethics. In this paper will be discussed benefits, questions and concerns surround the big data phenomenon for the digital society.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Title
Restoration of Caribbean Identity in Derek Walcott’s “A Branch of the Blue Nile”

Synopsis
This paper discusses Derek Walcott’s play, A Branch of the Blue Nile, as a postcolonial reinterpretation of Shakespeare. In the play, Walcott portrays the given realities of Caribbean theater to stage one of Western’s most canonical play “Antony and Cleopatra”, wherein the playwright is bound to face the dilemma between his dreams and the illegitimacy of his race whose language is the colonizer’s legacy.

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University/Organization
Columbia College Chicago

Title I
The ‘FAMILY FEUD’ Style Exam – An Interactive Workshop

Synopsis I
This dynamic, fast-paced, interactie workshop provides Conference participants an opportunity to explore the categories of cinema sound – dialog, backgrounds, sound effects, and music. This workshop culminates in a fun and educational “Family Feud’ Style Exam.

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Title II
The Fog of School

Synopsis II
Discoveries during a 6-year tenure-track, scrutinized to the essence, can be applied to Academia and to Life Itself. In the Spirit of Errol Morris’ Oscar Winner ‘The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara,’ this paper presents seven lessons in universal, honest, illuminative, humorous context.

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University/Organization
SUNY College at New Paltz

Title
Multi-Tasking in a Multimedia Writing Class

Synopsis
Our presentation will give practical guidelines on incorporating the use of technology in the writing classroom in the form of various projects that enhance writing assignments and showcases the results of student research. The projects become hands-on experiences giving students opportunities to explore first hand their topics from a more involved and personal advantage, and giving students skills that surpasses the typical freshmen composition experience.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University, South Korea

Title
Speaking with a Forked Tongue: Kingsley’s Class Politics in Westward Ho!

Synopsis
By means of an analysis of Kingsley’s often puzzling position toward the class problems of his time, the paper attempts to foreground the ideological function of the enterprise of Westward Ho! in regard to Victorian class issues.

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University/Organization
Philadelphia University

Title
Integral Theory as a Framework for Sustainable Education and Professional Practice

Synopsis
The validity, applicability, and feasibility of applying Integral Theory as illustrated in DeKay’s “Integral Sustainable Design” will be explored. A brief outline of the research and guiding principles used to transfer the abstract ideologies of DeKay’s “Integral Sustainable Design” into a physical design will be illustrated with 5 separate designs.

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University/Organization
Wake Forest University

Title
Images and Influence — Image-based Storytelling and the Ethics of Narrative

Synopsis
A consideration of the ethical imperatives of storytelling, in view of the ongoing debate over whether images of violence in popular culture influence behavior and/or values.

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University/Organization
University of Tsukuba

Title
Healthy Beauty in Soetsu Yanagi’s Aesthetics

Synopsis
This paper explores the meaning of healthy beauty in the context of Soetsu Yanagi’s writings on Japanese beauty with thinking on an ideal Japanese man during the 15 years war times in Japan.

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University/Organization
Texas A&M University

Title
Learning the Scientific Research Process through Simulation

Synopsis
The effectiveness of using simulation as an instructional strategy for teaching and learning the scientific research process was explored in this study. A study within a study design utilized a graduate and undergraduate class to investigate the effectiveness of two memory techniques: rote vs. story telling. Participation in an authentic research study indicated that simulation was an effective approach for learning as demonstrated by students’ mastery of knowledge of research components.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University

Title
The Distributed Authority of an Author: A Typographical Study of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

Synopsis
This presentation aims to reveal the making of the The Pilgrim’s Progress through a typographical analysis, and by doing so, facilitate the study of the text without its inflated aura. The typography of the original text, such as the use of italicization, margin, and font, will be carefully examined alongside the book’s modern edition and sequel

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University/Organization
Norwich University

Title
Urbanism as Motif in Chinese Fiction in the 1980s

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My paper is a narrative analysis of a group of fictional works with urbanism as motif by critically acclaimed Chinese writers in the 1980s.

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University/Organization
University of Southern California

Title
Lingua Franca: An Innovative Approach to the Implementation of the 5 C’s Outside of
the Spanish Classroom

Synopsis
Prompted by the implementation of a new curriculum compliant with the ACTFL standards, the Spanish and Portuguese Department of the University of Southern California has embraced the 5 Cs of ACTFL to provide students with a conceptually new learning experience: Lingua Franca, an innovative way to extend exposure to Spanish language and Hispanic culture outside of the classroom walls. This article examines this service-learning program, it´s challenges and outcomes

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University/Organization
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Title
Prospects for Changes in Gender Bias in the Japanese Language

Synopsis
Although gender bias remains prevalent and deeply rooted in the Japanese language, ongoing efforts to materialize the fairer representation of genders have had a significant impact on bringing about a change for the better. This paper discusses such existing instances of gender bias in the Japanese language by themes, along with any relevant changes and reforms that have taken place or are underway.

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University/Organization
Quinnipiac University in Los Angeles

Title
More Than A Movie: The Place of Ethics in the Art and Business of Media,
Information and Entertainment

Synopsis
Where do ethics and ethical considerations fall, and where should they fall, in the creation of media, information programming and entertainment?

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University/Organization
Yonsei University, South Korea

Title
Outliers to the Korean Multicultural Discussion: Joseonjok Portrayed as the Constitutional
Other to the Korean-Self

Synopsis

This paper will focus on Korean media discourse surrounding the Korean-ethnic Chinese, or Joseonjok and how it relates to beliefs about nationalism and immigration policies. The paper will analyze how Korean films such as “The Yellow Sea” and “New World” seem to problematize the Joseonjok while at the same time bringing attention to a society of moral depravation.

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University/Organization
National University, San Diego

Title
21st Century Teaching Methods

Synopsis
An overview of the courses that were developed for teaching pre-service teachers for the 21st Century culturally and technologically enriched classrooms.

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University/Organization
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division Hawaii, Department of Health

Title
Restoring the ‘Bodymind’ to Wellness and Relaxation through the Use of Aquatic Ai Chi

Synopsis
When the body experiences stress, its ancient programmed response is to rev up the autonomic sympathetic response by excreting the stress hormones of norepinephrine, adrenaline, ephedrine, and cortisol. Aquatic Ai Chi helps restore balance, while strengthening one’s core, building endurance, and increasing oxygenation. In this workshop, participants will gain an overall understanding of the concepts, pranayama-type breathing, and 19 movements in Ai Chi to enhance relaxation and calmness.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Title
“What Then on Earth Was I?”: the Hysteric’s Desire and the Question of Identity in The Turn of the Screw

Synopsis
Reading Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw from a Lacanian perspective, this essay examines the governess’s symbolic identity as fundamentally sustained by her desire to be the object a of her master in her hysterical fantasy.

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University/Organization
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Title
Signifying Space with Visual Knowledge in Snowpiercer

Synopsis
This paper explores the nature of space by focusing on its signification by visual observation in the film Snowpiercer. It links showing spectacles as consolidating the space knowledge. By claiming that visual observations define space, it questions the fixed meaning of space in the film.

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