Session IV • 3:45-5 p.m.

Walla Walla Intersections
Olin Hall 130
Jan Hudson, moderator

Meghan Bill | “Imagine the Challenges”: Museum Representations of Colonial Contact Histories
in the Walla Walla Valley, 3:45 p.m.
Adriel Borshansky | Embraced Out West: Whitman’s First Jewish Professor, 4 p.m.
Margaret Allen | Speaking for the Trees: Eco-Literacy in Public Schools, 4:15 p.m.
Jan Hudson | Policing in Walla Walla County: A Community Approach, 4:30 p.m.

“Hiroshima mon amour”: Three Views
Olin Hall 157
Kari Paustian, moderator

Anne Gaskins | Identity Crisis: An Exploration of Character Conflation in “Hiroshima mon amour,” 3:45 p.m.
Erin Drake | Epistemological Uncertainty in “Hiroshima mon amour,” 4 p.m.
Kari Paustian | The Unfaithful Memory, 4:15 p.m.

Bias and Social Response
Reid, Ballroom B
Kate Kunkel-Patterson, moderator

Noah Henry-Darwish, Courtney Sanford | Awareness of Implicit Bias: What Motivates Behavior Change?, 3:45 p.m.
Kendra Klag | Access and Barriers to Education for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired in India, 4 p.m.
Mary Allain | Employment Opportunities for Adults with Autism, 4:15 p.m.
Kate Kunkel-Patterson | Justifying Political Violence: The Weather Underground’s Unique Connection to John Brown, a 19th Century Abolitionist, 4:30 p.m.

Archaeological Finds:  From Pottery Neolithic to Masada
Science 100 (Brattain Auditorium)
Emily Hanscam, moderator

Janaki Phillips | Emergency Archeological Excavations at ’Ain Ghazal Jordan, 3:45 p.m.
Alyssa Bader | Mummy Dearest: How Modern-Day Uyghurs Use Archaeology to Construct a Unified Identity, 4 p.m.
Ian Kretzler | A Discordant Discourse: Kennewick Man and the Future of NAGPRA, 4:15 pm.
Emily Hanscam | The Construction of Identity in Nazi Germany and Israel, 4:30 p.m.

East Meets West: War, Crime, and Politics
Science 151
Sara Rasmussen, moderator

Benjamin Menzies | Democracy and Demilitarization in Postwar Japan, 3:45 p.m.
Maia Singhal | Modern-Day Godfathers: A Comparative Study of Organized Crime in Japan and the United States, 4 p.m.
A. Gabrielle Westcott | Recognizing a Stalemate: Clark Clifford and the Changing of American Policy in Vietnam, 1965-1968, 4:15 p.m.
Sara Rasmussen | The Periphery Between Two Metropoles: Central and Southeastern Europe as Postcolonial, 4:30 p.m.

State of the State II
Science 165 (Gaiser Auditorium)
Hannah Holloran, moderator

Katie DeCramer, Andrew Ryan, Simi Singh, Charlie Weems, Mary Allain, Julia Stone, Adam Delgado, Cynthia Ramos, Hannah Holloran | Connections Between
Education, Poverty and Race in Walla Walla, 3:45 p.m.

Students from the “State of the State for Washington Latinos” project present a panel discussion on education, poverty, and race in Walla Walla.

Great Performances
Kimball Theatre
Erik Feldman, moderator

Mark Arand | Theme and Variations for String Quartet, 3:45 p.m.
Elizabeth Fleming | Discovering the Music of Women Composers: A Focus on Elfrida Andrée, 4 p.m.
Jordan Brown | “American Variations for Two Guitars,” 4:15 p.m.
Peter Qualtere-Burcher | “The Compass Suite,” 4:30 p.m.
Erik Feldman | A Walk In The Woods: Writing a Suite of Cello-Piano Character Pieces, 4:45 p.m.

Immigration, Bias, and Justice
Sherwood 222
Daria Reaven, moderator

Omar Ihmoda | The “Turcos” of Argentina: Middle Eastern Immigrants and the Imagined Argentine Community, 1897-1955, 3:45 p.m.
Kayla Foster | Berlin: A City of Immigrants, 4 p.m.
Alice Minor | Disrupted “Danishness,” 4:15 p.m.
Ahmed El Kottby | Symbiotic Equivalence, 4:30 p.m.
Daria Reaven | “Only Free People Can Negotiate”: Stories From Israel and Palestine, 4:45 p.m.