COMM Day Schedule
COMM Day aims to celebrate the academic achievements and guided research endeavors of extraordinary undergraduate and graduate students within the Department of Communication. The event will include three panels. Each panel presentation will be 8-10 minutes and may take the form of oral paper presentation, PowerPoint, performance, video, or multimedia.
10:00-10:40 Panel 1: Internet Parents, The History Chanel, Facebook, Race, and Capitalism
Avi Santo – Introduction
Courtlyn Pippert – Channeling History: The History Channel and The Role Of Popular Historical Knowledge In Understandings Of U.S. National Identity
Sean McEwan – Diversity And Exclusion: Facebook And The Post Racial Production Of Racial Difference
Q&A
10:45-11:45 Panel 2: Labor, Syllogisms, Political Economy, and Power
Introduction
Karsen Kitchen – Estranged Labor In the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Daniel Russo – ‘New Industrial Policy’ for a ‘New World Order’: The Biden administration’s ordoliberal response to American capitalism in crisis
Charlene Wu – “Why Are We So Unhappy? The Service Industry’s Relationship with Work and Dissatisfaction”
Trent Porter – A Rhetorical Analysis of David Walker’s Appeal
Joshua Richardson – Gender Expression: Prescribed and Ignored
Q&A
Poster Session with Refreshments
Laila Okoli and Virginia Llewellyn – Thematic Analysis of the Buffalo Shooter Manifesto
Charles Coleman – Blackest Darkness
Ethan Kim – The Dishwasher: Soap, Sponge, Scrub (Honor’s Thesis Performance Excerpt)
Sydney Van Buren – Imposter: The Dancing Body (Honor’s Thesis Performance Excerpt)
12:30-1:15 Panel 3: Chronic Illness, Body Modification, and the Performance of Hiking
Introduction
Spirit Elder – Performance Studies on Trail: Contemplating Hiking as Performance
Haley Ernst – Chronicles of Crohn’s: Navigating Time and Normalcy in Chronic Illness
Stephen Ross – Primitives in Theory and Practice
Q&A