Thursday, April 24, 2025
Panel 6-A: Drinko 402 ………………………………………………….….9:00am-10:15am
Pop Culture from Japan and Korea Moderator: Natsuki Anderson
1. Alyson Long “Glocalization at Tokyo Disney Resort: Successful Implementation of Japanese Culture by Oriental Land Company”
2. Juliana Hernandez “City Pop’s Revival and its Influence on Japanese Foreign Language Learners”
3. Olivia Roberts “Trees and People Used to Be Good Friends: An Ecocritical Analysis of Studio Ghibli Films”
4. Lea Jones “South Korean Boyband BTS: Rise to Fame for K-pop Genre”
Panel 6-B: Drinko 349 ………………………………………………….….9:00am-10:15am
HerStory Project - 1 Moderator: David Pittenger
1. Brooklyn Sheets “Margaret Floy Washburn”
2. Hannah Runyon “HerStory Biography on Florence Denmark”
3. Makayla Kelley “Ursula Bellugi”
4. Donald Hansbury “Leta Hollingworth: A Literary Review”
5. Sydney Gibson “Molly Harrower- Herstory Project”
Panel 6-C: Drinko 138 ………………………………………………….….9:00am-10:15am
English Teaching and Canonical Literature Moderator: Hyo-Chang Hong
1. Adam Radenheimer “Teaching Shakespeare to a Modern Audience”
2. Kalilla Collins “The Patriarchal Confinements of Shakespeare”
3. Carson McKinney “Misreading and Misread: The Presence of Reading in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice”
4. Moeka Ueura “Effective Teaching Approaches in English as a Second Language classroom”
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Poster Session B: Drinko 4th floor ………………………………….....10:00am-11:00am
Projects on Various Topics Moderator: Kristi McLeod & Sarah Walton
Poster B1. Cynthia Collins “From Conflict to Context: Shifting Media Frames of Hamas and Israel from the 1980s to the 2020s”
Poster B2. Elijah Delaney, Chris Booten, Adam Jarrell, Brittney Strum, Cheyenne Trejo “Influence of Cognitive Style, Political Ideology, and Worldview Beliefs on Trust in the Government”
Poster B3. Brittney Strum, Chris Booten, Elijah Delaney, Adam Jarrell, Cheyenne Trejo “Consumer Perceptions of Generic vs. Name-Brand Products”
Poster B4. Gracie Bumgarner “’It Is No Child’: The Evolution of Abigail Williams' Monstrosity in Arther Miller's The Crucible”
Poster B5. Annamarie Davis, Madie Morris, Mel Nunez, Baylee Parsons “West Virginia Scroll Stories”
Poster B6. Ella Hiles “Harvesting Heritage: Community Garden of War”
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Panel 7-A: Drinko 402 ……………………………………………….……..1:00pm-2:15pm
International Literature: Japan, Latin America and Spain
Moderator: Nicholas Shangler
1. Emily Shay “The Art of the Japanese Sword: Creating and Preserving a Cultural Treasure”
2. Isaac Stump “The Birth of the Modern Japanese Detective Story”
3. Cameron Mays “The U.S. Drug War in Latin America: Outcomes and Motivations”
4. Morgan Keefer “Modernity of "Las Ataduras" by Carmen Martín Gaite”
Panel 7-B: Drinko 349 ……………………………………………….……..1:00pm-2:15pm
HerStory Project - 2 Moderator: David Pittenger
1. Anna Lantz “Sandra Bem”
2. Selena Baker “Beyond Her Shadows”
3. Jocelyn Jones “Biography of Melanie Klein”
4. Martuise Hansbury “HerStory”
Panel 7-C: Drinko 138 ……………………………………………….……..1:00pm-2:30pm
Media Analysis in the U.S. Moderator: Robert Ellison
1. Chloe Elliott “Butters' Very Own Presentation: Trauma in South Park”
2. Anna Jarrell “The Fear of Frogs: An Ecocritical Analysis of The Princess and the Frog”
3. Madilyn Asbury “She'll Eat Your Heart Out: Feminist and Trauma Theories from ‘Yellowjackets’”
4. MiKayla Hughes-Tincher “Project Pink- Barbie: A Cultural Icon or an Economic Pawn?”
5. Abagail Ramey "’Life's A Bitch, Now So Am I!’: How Women are Presented in Aliens and Batman Returns”
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Panel 8-A: Drinko 402 ……………………………………………….……..2:30pm-4:00pm
Mental Health and Media Moderator: Sarah Walton
1. Eden Norris “Analyzing the Rhetoric of Self-Help Books”
2. Dakota Dix “How Cats Help with Mental Health”
3. Harper Aulick “The Radical Environmental Presentism of The Country of the Pointed Firs”
4. Abagail Ramey “House of Babel” (short film)
5. Skylar Elliott “Exploring the Role of Self-Reliance, Stigma, and Cultural Factors in Mental Health Service Utilization in Southern Appalachia”
Panel 8-B: Drinko 349 ……………………………………………….……..2:30pm-4:00pm
How to use MU facilities: Japanese Video Project Showcase Moderator: Natsuki Anderson
1. Isaac Stump “Places to Eat at Marshall University”
2. Juliana Hernandez “Free Public Transportation on Campus”
3. Mack Lucas “Box Office in the Performing Arts Center”
4. Jared Hunter “How to Pay for Parking at the 6th Ave. Garage”
5. Emily Shay “Finding Books at Marshall Libraries”
6. Ben Gorby "’Print Out’ at Drinko Library”
7. Alyson Long “Reserving a Study Room at Drinko Library”
Panel 8-C: Drinko 138 ……………………………………………….……..2:45pm-4:00pm
Appalachian Issues and Creative Writing Moderator: Robert Ellison
1. Shane Daugherty “Internet in the Hollers”
2. Ash Williams “The Black Church and the LGBTQ+ Community: How the Church’s Homophobic Rhetoric Impacts Queer Attendees’ Relationship with their Identity”
3. Kain Fleshman “"Out in the Woods" The History of Natural Exploitation in Appalachia”
4. James Sisson “Where Have All the Big-Boned Semi-Barbarian People Gone?”
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