On Saturday join us for this year’s Contemporary Studies Conference in the KTS Lecture Hall. Students will present their work and Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, Dr. Katherine Lawson, will deliver the keynote lecture.
Panel 1
10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. | Literary Selves
- “The Hope of the Wasted: How Tuberculosis Shaped the Writing and Life of Fyodor Dostoevsky” | Rowan Helmer
- “She Is Not a Bird, Yet She Flies: Dickinson’s Escape from the Immanent Cage” | Erica Waugh
- “The Duality of Self: Harun’s Conflict of Identity in The Meursault Investigation” | Molly Dodge Austin
Panel 2
12 p.m.–1 p.m. | Colonialism and Modernity
- “Failures of the Canadian Government to Engage in Duty to Consult: Past and Present Pipeline Projects” | Anna Michelin
- “Afghan Girl: How Western Media Appropriates Images of Muslim Women” | Willow Warris
- “Becoming-Rhizomatic: A Deleuzian Reading of Braiding Sweetgrass” | Emily Russell
Keynote Lecture
1:30 p.m.–3 p.m.
- “Simone Weil in an Age of Inattention” | Dr. Kathryn Lawson
Panel 3
3:30–4:30 p.m. | Contemporary Popular Culture
- “A Kierkegaardian Analysis of Social Media” | Ben Baxter
- “Pain in Hockey: Exploring the Relationship Between Pain in Hockey and Satisfaction for Hockey Fans” | Anton Kredl
- “Seizing the night of the world: Hegelian Subjectivity and the Dialectics of Meat Loaf” | Jack Amos
