The Capstone research project represents one of the most significant portions of the Cultural Studies curriculum. The annual Graduate Research Conference is an opportunity for graduating students to present their final capstone research.
Friday, May 18, 2012
11:00am-5:00pm
University of Washington Bothell
North Creek Events Center
Conference Schedule
Welcome and Refreshments
11:00-11:30am
Emcee: Crispin Thurlow
Panel A: Challenging the Archetype
11:30am-1:00pm
Moderator: Ben Gardner
This panel is committed to proposing alternative discourses. Be it in film, landscapes, community archives, or one’s own life story, we understand place to be a site of power in which archetypes are imagined or constructed. We’re especially focused on challenging the meaning of these broader archetypes: loyalty, rural communities, the notion of home or belonging, and the femme fatale. In doing so, we disrupt dominant cultural norms, create fractures in the narrative, and create spaces for new political possibilities.
Shana Hirsch
Farming for a New Nation? Reframing the role of the crofter for an independent Scotland
Capstone Advisor: Ben Gardner
Portfolio Advisor: S. Charusheela
Lauren Dun
Existing in an “In-Between” State: An Autoethnographic Search for Belonging in Hawaii
Capstone Advisor: Crispin Thurlow
Portfolio Advisor: Ben Gardner
Ken Matsudaira
Sansei Facing the Rising Sun: Negotiating Japanese imperialism in Nikkei archives
Capstone Advisor: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Leslie Ashbaugh
Katie Grainger
Tracing the Discourse of the Femme Fatale: A Literature Review
Capstone Advisor: Crispin Thurlow
Portfolio Advisor: Ron Krabill
Lunch
1:00-2:15pm
Panel B: Inclusion and Institutional Interventions
2:15-3:00pm
Moderator: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
The feeling of exclusion can critically compromise an individual’s sense of belonging. As is evident in any social environment, acceptance is one of the most important aspects of personal fulfillment and is constantly sought after. This panel gathers personal narratives of Chinese international students and white collar Chinese immigrants in the Seattle area. The issues discussed revolve around the social isolation at institutions of higher education and racism within the workplace. These two studies examine exclusion by the mainstream and the desire for inclusion by those considered to be outsiders. The studies also consider the institutional intervention needed for supporting these two underrepresented social groups. The ultimate goal of the two studies is to have these social group’s voices be heard, call on the public’s attention, and seek a fair and inclusive environment for them.
Steve Will
The International College Experience: East Asian Students in a Setting of Higher Education
Capstone Advisor: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Portfolio Advisor: Ron Krabill
Nancy Will
Contemporary Workplace Racism towards White Collar Chinese Immigrants in the Seattle Area
Capstone Advisor: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Leslie Ashbaugh
Break
3:00-3:15pm
Panel C: Hybrid Bodies: Edges and Aesthetic Moves
3:15-4:00pm
Moderator: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
We have focused this panel on the body as living and breathing organism, moving and forming in relationship to others, be they object or flesh. We recognize knowledge production as ever changing and in need of interruption. We wish to make knowledge messy. Through conversation surrounding the self-published medium of the zine – hand constructed, touched and felt – and the interaction of able and dis-abled bodies – creating knowledge outside of language – we forward notions of knowing that exist outside of a “traditional” academic construct of knowledge. Through auto-ethnography and discourse analysis, we engage with critical cultural theory both within and outside of the academy. Our work is a production, a performance of movement that occurs in relationship to the hybrid body. Our productions seek edges and cracked spaces through which the movement of multiple bodies act as suture between the known and the unknowable.
Heath Davis
Think, Feel, Touch, Do: Zines and the Archive of the "Living" Dead
Capstone Advisor: Joe Milutis
Second Reader: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Ben Gardner
Ari Roy
Profound Cognitive Disability, Subjectivity, and Presentation
Capstone Advisor: Eric Stewart
Portfolio Advisor: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
Closing Reception
4:00-5:00pm
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