TUESDAY, APRIL 27     
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Greg Dutton, Environmental Optimists and Pessimists: E. O. Wilson and the Search for a Middle Ground
Genevieve Knight, Waters of Change: The Great Miami River Flood of 1913 and Its Policy Consequences
Matt Lincoln, Making Environmental Policy: Comparing Approaches in the U.S. and the Netherlands
Discussant: Gene Willeke, Institute for Environmental Science

 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.: VISUALITY
James Flynn, Making 10 Months: An Application of the Auteur Theory of Filmmaking
Sarah Hewitt, Network and Linkage: Creative Transmission and the Woman Artist
Courtney Steffes, Art Experiences for Children with Disabilities: Creativity and Educational Inequalities
Discussant: Jean Langan, Art

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.: KIDS
Eric Fox, News for Kids: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Tracy Ksiazak, Sharing their Gifts: A Guidebook for Forming a Support and Discussion Group for Gifted Middle School Girls
Erin Woike, Relational Aggression Amongst the Small and Large Peer Groups of Adolescent Girls

Discussant: Lisa Weems, Educational Leadership
 

10:30 - noon: BUSINESS
Ryan Salcido, Environmental Technologies for Sustainable Cities
Ben Spinks, Assessing Corporate Entrepreneurship with Regards to Company Culture: Highlighting the Iams Company
Jonathan Schroer, Liberty, Justice, and a Paycheck: Transsexual People in the Workplace
Discussant: David Walsh, Management

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.: ORGANIZING
Ross Meyer, Politics, Power, and Poverty in Urban America: The Case of the Over-the-Rhine’s People's Movement
Emily Wolford, The Role of Protest Politics in Creating Social Capital in Low-Income Urban Communities: Case Study of the Cincinnati Boycotts
Sam Dunlap, The Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement: An Alternative Vision of Sustainable Development
Discussant: Tom Dutton, Architecture 

2:30 - 4:00 p.m.: REPRESENTATIONAL TRANSFORMATION
Lucas King, Interventions for Batterers: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Josie Leimbach, Sapphic Chameleon: Biographical Representations of Sappho, the Lesbian Poet, in Antiquity and Modern Scholarship
Kristen Williams, A Third Wave Issue: Passive and Active Approaches to Body Image
Discussant: Madelyn Detloff, English

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Kelly Hansen, The Transatlantic Relationship: Politico-military Dimension and the US - EU Devolution
Nathaniel Minto, Constructing Ethical Foreign Policy: Purpose, Duty, and Tolerance
Anna Rusbosin, Immigration Literature from Italy: Using Pap Khouma’s Io, unvenditore di elefanti as a Lens to Discuss Immigration in Italy
Discussant: Jeannie Hey, International Relations

6:30 - 8:00 p.m.: ART AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Sean Boda, Performing for Social Change: Activist Operetta
Lauren Merker, The Power of Visual Expression: Art's Evolution from Formal Aestheticism to Social Consciousness
Jason Zeh, We Have Planted Bombs in Our Hearts: Stencil Graffiti and the Developing Anarchist Aesthetic
Discussant: Robert Wicks, Miami University Art Museum

8:00 - 9:30 p.m.: MEDIA
Beth Price, Storytelling through Image and Word
Christian Ratterman, The Carnivore System: A New Model for Efficient & Reliable Exchange of Intellectual Multimedia Content
Donna Zimmerman, Insight Out: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Indigenous Media
Discussant: Glenn Platt, Media Studies and Marketing

THURSDAY, APRIL 29

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.: SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Matt Connor, The Hero with a Thousand Lives: Religious Theory and Video Games
Paula Moran, Theological Influences on Historical Formulation of Physical Theory
Eric Weaver, Dreaming of Dragons and Quantifying Quasars: Mythic and Empirical Epistemologies in Science Fiction
Discussant: Rick Colby, Comparative Religion

10:30 - noon: SELF-HELP, SELF-EXPRESSION
Damion Armentrout, A Discussion of the Personal Essay and Its Status in the Academy
Emily Smith, Identity Poetics: A Critical Queering of Therapeutic Writing
Adam Todd, Writing and Healing: Creating Bibliotherapeutic Stories for Children
Discussant: Mary Fuller, English

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.: PERFORMANCE
Catherine Johnson, A Fish Without a Bicycle: Women's Use of Humor for Social Change
Chris Koenig, Harpin' 'n Pickin': A Celebration of Blues and Appalachian Cultures
Emily Savage, The Functionality of Performance Poetry
Discussant: Curt Ellison, School of Fine Arts

2:30 - 4:00 p.m.: REVOLUTION--RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE
Charlie Hansen, The Mexican Revolution: The Effect of Peasant Mass Mobilization on the Development of the Post-revolutionary State
James Tate, The Roots of Bolshevism in Russian History
Randy Wilson, Ain't No Power Like the Power of the People: Analysis of the Global Justice Movement
Discussant: Steve Norris, History

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.: FAMILY AND ITS ABSENCE
Lauren Collins, The Impact of Father-Absence on the Self-Concept Formation in African-American Women
Grant Goodall, A Photographic Exploration of the State-of-the-Family Debate
Adam Port, Exploring the Face of Homelessness in Southwestern Ohio
Discussant: Alfred Joseph, Family Studies and Social Work

6:30 - 8:00 p.m.: CULTURAL HISTORY
Craig Eley, Conceptualizing and Consuming Wilderness: The Nature and Culture of Outward Bound
Adam Naylor, The History and Development of the Restaurant
Kori Smith, Tied Up: Restrictive Undergarments of the
Late Nineteenth Century as Reflections of the American Value System
Discussant: Peggy Shaffer, American Studies

8:00 p.m.-RECEPTION

Work On Display in the Peabody Gallery
Grant Goodall
Sarah Hewitt
Lauren Merker
Adam Port
Beth Price
Kori Smith
Jason Zeh