Welcome to the 2003 University of Utah
Humanities Graduate Conference

The metaphor of a porous yet distinct boundary strikes the Humanities Graduate Conference Committee (HGCC) as especially apt for an event so directly engaged in the continuing inter-disciplinary conversation. For some scholars, the rigor of their borders defines the very identity of their disciplines and structures their pursuit of knowledge. For others, the search for knowledge necessitates interaction and exploration across (and through) adopted lines of demarcation. The committee, comprised of graduate students from a variety of fields in the humanities, finds itself straddling these two views-"on the fence," as it were-caught between a need to focus our attentions within our respective boundaries and an equally powerful desire to peer over the borders of our disciplines and see what lies on the other side.

Over the course of this weekend, as you attend panels, listen to presentations and keynote addresses, and engage in dialogues with colleagues - strangers and friends - we encourage you to test these boundaries and interrogate the borderlines that separate and create our respective disciplinary identities. We ask you to consider how in constructing knowledge we often erect barriers between our disciplines, as well as how our knowledge can build a framework for this ongoing interdisciplinary discussion, one that reaches across all of the humanities.

The Members of 2003 HGCC:

Rebecca DaPra, Doug Downs, Elizabeth Holmes, Erin Menut, Hope Miller, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Chris Patterson, James Sage, Bret Weber, and Michelle Van Tassell. Paul Ketzle and Deborah Moeller, Co-Chairs. Dr. Maureen Mathison, Faculty Advisor.

By clicking on paper or presentation title (underlined link), you can read the corresponding abstract, or you can click on "PDF Paper" and view the full text of the presentation (note: PDF documents require free Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Friday, April 4th

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Conference registration and check-in - LNCO 1st Floor Lobby

1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Conference Welcome - LNCO 2110

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Mirrors of the Self LNCO - 3850

The Problem of Perceptual Relativity [PDF Paper]
Diana Buccafurni, University of Utah, Department of Philosophy

Now Face To Face: Ashbery's "Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror" [PDF Paper]
Heidi Czerwiec Blitch, Ph.D., University of Utah, Department of English, Creative Writing/Poetry

The Heuristic Process of Concept Formation and Creating Forms of Representation:
Creating and Performing Authentic Movement
Stephanie Milling-Robbins, Texas Woman's University, Program in Dance

Bulls in the China Shop - LNCO 1100

Bulls in the China Shop: Ethnographic Filmmaking on the Navajo Reservation [PDF Paper]
Michael Van Wagenen, University of Utah, Department of History, U.S. History

Response to Bulls in the China Shop
Kee Miller

Communication, Patriarchy, and Constructions of Gender - LNCO 2120

Should Sexual Harassment Claims be Required to Undergo Mandatory Mediation Before Litigation? [PDF Paper]
Katie R. Sullivan, University of Utah, Department of Communication Studies

Patriarchy and the Comfort Women [PDF Paper]
Jessica Erin Jensen, University of Utah, Department of History, World History

You Are What You Read: High Art, Low Art, and the Construction of Gender in Joyce's Ulysses [PDF Paper]
Kathryn Cowles, University of Utah, Department of English, British & American Literature

Friday, 3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Bodies in Protest: Empowerment and Social Activism - LNCO 2120

Radical Voices: Forms of Women's Participation in Social Protest [PDF Paper]
Mary Gould, University of Utah, Department of Communication

Rosa Montero's La Hija del Canibal: Empowerment Through the Scheherazade Tradition [PDF Paper]
Megan Baker, University of Utah, Department of Languages and Literature

Selling Suffrage: The Gaze and Rhetorical Conflict in Woman Suffrage Advertising [PDF Paper]
Rebecca DaPra, University of Utah, Department of Communication

Chewing, Smoking and Euthanasia: Progressive Ethics and Social Persuasion - LNCO 1100

Horace Fletcher and the Magic of Mastication [PDF Paper]
Jason Pickavance, University of Utah, Department of English

Ban the Cigarette and Save the Youth of Utah: The 1921 Anti-Cigarette Campaign [PDF Paper]
Katie Clark Blakesley, University of Utah, History Department

Can Companion Animal Euthanasia Inform the Debate over Human Euthanasia? [PDF Paper]
Jessica Taverna, University of Utah, Political Science Department

(Re)Defining Art and Beauty - LNCO 3850

Is Beauty in 21st Century Poetry Obsolete? [PDF Paper]
Joanna Straughn, University of Utah, Department of English

A Foundation for Understanding Art and its Difficulty of Definition [PDF Paper]
Edward Bateman, University of Utah, College of Fine Arts, Visual Art

A Full-Bodied Poem: The Plumping Up of Poetry by the Art Book [PDF Paper]
Kate Rosenberg, University of Utah, Department of English, Creative Writing

Friday, April 4th, 6:00 p.m.

Keynote Address - Gould Auditorium

Peripheries and Centers: The Challenge of the Interdisciplinary

Philippa Levine, University of Southern California, Department of History

Gould Auditorium is located on the first floor of the Marriott Library.
Professor Levine's talk will be followed by a brief reception.

Saturday, April 5th

8:15 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Registration & Continental Breakfast - LNCO 2110

9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

The Space of Violence - LNCO 2120

Understanding Society Through Violence: Abdulhamid II's Istanbul as a Case Study [PDF Paper]
Roger A. Deal, University of Utah, Department of History

The Site of Memorial: Current Discussions in the Negotiation of Memorial Forms and
Spaces Appropriate for the World Trade Center Memorial [PDF Paper]
Tracy E. Willburn, University of Utah, Department of Communication

In the House [PDF Paper]
Lynn Kilpatrick, University of Utah, Department of English, Creative Writing

Disciplinarity and Higher Education - LNCO 1100

Disciplining Theses: Cross-Disciplinary Degree Work [PDF Paper]
Jenn Fishman, Stanford University, Department of English
Eric Handman, University of Utah, Department of Modern Dance

Exploring Landscapes: The Traveler Within/Without - LNCO 3850

Travel and Reflections of the Self [PDF Paper]
Fiona G. Parrott, University of Glasgow, Departments of English Literature and Hispanic Studies

The Problem of Painlessness: Why Deep Ecology Won't Work Without a Willingness to Feel [PDF Paper]
Alf Seegert, University of Utah, Department of English, British & American Literature

Talking With the Land: Signifying and Semiotics in Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams [PDF Paper]
Colby Poulson, University of Utah, Department of English, British & American Literature

Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Vision, Text, Genre - LNCO 3850

The the the Master Letters of Emily Dickinson [PDF Paper]
Erin Menut, University of Utah, Department of English

Fictional Narrative at a Crossroads in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel [PDF Paper]
Chris Horner, University of Utah, Department of English

Creative Clues: Textual and Performative Editorial Issues [PDF Paper]
Eleanor Lowe, University of Birmingham, England, Shakespeare Institute

The Sovereign Sciences: Humanity and Human Dignity - LNCO 2920

Recognition of The Sovereignty of Tibet [PDF Paper]
Dottie K. H. Alt, West Virginia University, Department of History

The Progression of Social Science: An Analysis of Positivism, Popper, Lakatos, and Feyerabend [PDF Paper]
Chris Patterson, University of Utah, Middle East Studies

Discourse, Technology, and Pedagogy - LNCO 2120

The Role of Medium in the Development of Composition Theory and Pedagogy [PDF Paper]
Raechel Jackson, Humboldt State University, Department of English

Teaching Discourse Communities Through Cross-Curricular Portfolios [PDF Paper]
Michael G. Boyd, Illinois State University, Department of English

Is Knowledge and Skill of ICT or Knowledge of Appropriate Pedagogy More
Important in Teaching Computer Use in Early Years Education? [PDF Paper]
Yi-jeng Chen, University of London, Institute of Education

Saturday, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch for Presenters and Moderators - LNCO 2110

Saturday, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Artful Revelations and Aesthetic Ruptures - LNCO 2120

How to Tell Your Heart Out: Forming an Aesthetic of Parable [PDF Paper]
Sarah Read, University of Utah, Department of English

Structured Freedom: Revealing the Concealed in the Works of Wassily Kandinsky and Arnold Schoenberg [PDF Paper]
Louise D. Lintner, Pennsylvania State University, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program

The Object of Language - LNCO 3850

Messiahs and Heavy Machinery: The Role of Metonymy in Allen Grossman's Poem "White Sails" [PDF Paper]
Susan Goslee, University of Utah, Department of English, Creative Writing/Poetry

The Eye/I of a Seer and a Breather: Reflected Eyedentities in Khlebnikov and Duchamp [PDF Paper]
Cami Nelson, University of Utah, Department of English

Signs, Societies, and Systems: Collective Constructions in Art - LNCO 1100

Spiral Jetty and Complexity - A Systems Theory Approach [PDF Paper]
Francis Halsall, University of Glasgow, History of Art Department

Dark Years Through Colored Lenses: Cinema's Treatment of Vichy and Occupation [PDF Paper]
Robert Bruce Young, Xavier University, Humanities

Alien Abduction: The Semiotic Misread of Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds [PDF Paper]
Jim Fitzmorris, University of Washington, School of Drama

Saturday, 3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Performing the Body - LNCO 1100

Wrestling-More than Meets the Eye [PDF Paper]
Anne Bialowas, University of Utah, Department of Communication

Part 1: "So you and me." Part 2: "Do you like him... or do you like him, like him?" [PDF Paper]
Michaela Cannon, University of Utah, Department of Modern Dance
Jill Schinberg, University of Utah, Department of Modern Dance

"Jugs" [PDF Paper]
Pam Balluck, University of Utah, Department of English, Creative Writing

Crossing Over: Philosophy, Language, and Reference - LNCO 3850

From Philology to Philosophy: Constructing Nietzsche's Perspectivism [PDF Paper]
Joe Ulatowski, University of Utah, Department of Philosophy

Rorty and Epistemic Relativism [PDF Paper]
Mark Olsen, University of Utah, Department of Philosophy

Fiction, History and Knowledge [PDF Paper]
Iain McKenna, Concordia University-Montreal, Department of Philosophy

Saturday, 6:00 p.m.

Keynote Address - Gould Auditorium

Visual Literacy: Who Has It?

James Elkins, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Visual and
Critical Studies and the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism.

Gould Auditorium is located on the first floor of the Marriott Library.
Professor Elkins' talk will be followed by a brief reception.

The 2003 Humanities Grauduate Conference Committee wishes to thank the following supporters and volunteers, whose generosity helped make this conference possible:

College of Humanities
Department of Communication
Department of English
Department of History
Department of Languages and Literature
Department of Philosophy
Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center
The Graduate School
Undergraduate Studies
CTLE
ASUU

We would also like to thank the following volunteers and moderators for their invaluable help:

For more information about HGCC please visit our website: www.hum.utah.edu/hgc

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