Languages and Linguistics
Undergraduate Colloquium
Literatures and Linguistics Undergraduate Colloquium (LLUC)
March 27, 2010
Ken Olson Science Center (KOSC), Gordon College
CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
| 8–8:30 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast (KOSC 124) |
| 8:30–9 a.m. |
Opening Remarks, Dr. Andrea Frankwitz and Dr. Gregor Thuswaldner (KOSC 128) |
| 9–10:30 a.m. |
Negotiating the Literary Imagination in 20th Century Literature (KOSC 125) Lynn Sommerville (Gordon College): “Plunging Up: Lynch’s Arch in T. S. Eliot and Flannery O’Connor” Tabitha Speelman (Calvin College): “Hope Mirrlees and the Anglo-French Literary Exchange: Crossing des frontières in search of une langue moderne” Robert Yates (Bryan College): “Darwin’s Bow: Darwinism’s Influence on Dramatic Endings” Language and Revelation, Language and Evolution (KOSC 126) Tyler Casperson (Boise State University): “The Phonology of Hiligaynon” Megan Baker (University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh): “Language Evolution: Explanations of Pidgin and Creole Languages” Andrew Pottorf (Gordon College): “Language and Revelation: Natural, Special, and Incarnational" |
| 10:30–11 a.m. |
Coffee Break (KOSC 124) |
| 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
The Past, Present and Future of the English Language (KOSC 125) Kyra Sliwinski (Gordon College): “Tale of Two Shifts: A Comparison of the Great Vowel Shift and the Northern Cities Shift” Adam Campbell (Gordon College): “The Future of the English Language” Anna Gale (Gordon College): ““As the Common People Express It”: How The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants Proves That There is Hope for the English Language” Metafiction, Paradox, and Philosophy in 20th Century Literature (KOSC 126) Katie Weber (Gordon College): “The Paradox of Order in Chaos: Thomas Stoppard’s Arcadia” Elizabeth Pfeffer (Gordon College): “Metafiction in Nobokov and Calvino” Ethan Rubin (Boston University): “Content and Structure: Shared Themes in Wittgenstein and Cortázar |
| 12:30–1:30 p.m. |
Lunch Break (Lane Student Center) |
| 1:30–3 p.m. |
Gender and Mortality in British Literature (KOSC 125) Joshua N. Kohler (Washington & Jefferson College): "'A Generation Wasted,' or 'Something 'Ere the End?': The Inertia of Art in Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Tennyson's "Ulysses" Jessica Kane (Gordon College): “Nature and Nurture: Representations of Female Beauty in Victorian Novels” Daniel Jensen (Wheaton College): “Narrators of Self: Unraveling the Gender Conflict in Wallace Stevens” Linguistic Signs and Language Teaching (KOSC 126) Buthainah Al Thowaini (Penn State): “The Three Dimensions of Writing Instructions: Curricula, Teaching, and Assessment” Kenny Gradert (Dordt College): “The Arbitrary Nature of the Sign: Saussure’s Crowning Truth” |
| 3–3:30 p.m. |
Coffee Break (KOSC 124) |
| 3:30–5 p.m. |
Inner and Outer Landscapes in Medieval and Modern Literature (KOSC 125) Margaret Ivy (Gordon College), “Liberty or the Monarchy in Paradise Lost Colin Cutler (Patrick Henry College): “The Poetic Fabric of Reality” Jason Ahlenius (Wheaton College): “William Wordsworth: Seeing the landscape with new eyes” History and Race in Shakespeare (KOSC 126) Kara Courtemanche (Lesley University): “‘Fair’ Ophelia: Hamlet as an Exercise in Postcolonial Race Relations” Erin McDouagh (Boston University): “A Tearful Celebration: History and Shakespeare’s Richard III” |
| 5–5:30 p.m. |
Closing Remarks, Dr. Graeme Bird and Prof. Andrew Logemann (KOSC 128) |