2009 Conference
Program
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Wednesday (April 8) 1:00 PM HERA Board Meeting
Thursday (April 9)
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration/Book Exhibit
9:00 - 10:30 AM Session I (Sections A-D)
10:30 - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session II (Sections A-D)
12:30 - 2:00 PM Session III (Sections A-D)
2:15 - 3:45 PM Session IV (Sections A-D)
3:45 - 4:00 PM Break
4:00 - 5:30 PM Session V (Sections A-D)
7:00 PM Open Plenary Session Welcoming Reception
Friday (April 10)
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration/Book Exhibit
9:00 - 10:30 AM Session VI (Sections A-D)
10:30 - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session VII (Sections A-D)
12:30 - 2:00 PM Session VIII (Sections A-D)
2:15 - 3:45 PM Session IX (Sections A-D)
3:45 - 4:00 PM Break
4:00 - 5:30 PM Session X (Sections A-D)
5:30 - 6:30 PM Featured Speaker
Saturday (April 11)
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration/Book Exhibit
9:00 - 10:30 AM Session XI (Sections A-D)
10:30 - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session XII (Sections A-D)
12:30 - 2:00 PM Closing Luncheon (on HERA)
Nature
and the Humanities:
Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives
2009
Conference of the Humanities Education and Research Association
April 9-11, 2009
Chicago, Illinois
Conference Headquarters: Hilton Palmer House
Sponsored by the Humanities Education and Research Association
HERA Conference Program
Thursday, April 9, 2009
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration and Book Exhibit
9:00 - 10:30 AM Session I
Logan
Room: Section A
Perspectives
on Love, Death, and Identity
Louis
Silverstein - Columbia College Chicago
Dying and Death: Universal Human Experiences
Leni
Marshall - University of Wisconsin (Stout)
Teaching Identity, Teaching Age: Incorporating Lessons on Age, Identity,
and Ageism into Humanities Classes
Chair:
David Hatch - Utah Valley University
Love as a Threshold of Utopia/Distopia
Madison
Room: Section B
The Nature
of Humanism and the Humanities
Stefanie
Boese -University
of Illinois (Chicago)
Nothing but the Soul of Beasts: "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and the
Problem with Humanism
Susan
Bentley - University of LouisvilleIncorporating
Current Evolutionary Perspectives into the Humanities
Chair:
Jerry Espinoza Rivera- University
of Costa Rica
Is Psychoanalysis a Humanism?: Notes about Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII,
The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
Wilson
Room: Section C
Nature,
History, and the Environment
Michele
Lansdown - University of Georgia
I (Heart) Nature: Or, The Moral Quandary behind Teaching Environmental
History Monette
Chair:
John A. Williams - Bradley
University
The Nazi Assault on Youth Hiking 1933-1939
Marshfield
Room: Section D
Workshop
- The Human Nature of Movement: Returning to the Body to Reconnect with Nature
Jessica Young - Columbia College Chicago
Lisa Goldman - Columbia College Chicago
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session II
Wilson
Room: Section A
Intercultural Perspectives
Leon
Raikes - Maine Maritime Academy
Nature and the Sublime East and West: Ancient Aesthetics of India and a
Path from Western Dualism
Francesca
Sborgi Lawson - Brigham Young University
Being Audient: The Acoustic Ecology of Daoism
Chair:
Ronald J. Weber - University of Texas
(El Paso)
Marco Polo: Encounters that Transform
Madison
Room: Section B
Literature: Intercultural Approaches
Ellen
Boccuzzi - Thammasat University (Thailand)
Gazing through Smog at the Moon: The Search for Nature in Thai Literature
Kristina
Gibby - Brigham Young University
Nature's Preeminence in Two Peruvian Novels: Vargas Llosa's "The Storyteller"
and Arguedas' "Deep Rivers"
Chair:
David Linebarger - Northeastern
State University
Teaching Korea through Korean Short Stories
Logan
Room: Section C
Philosophical Approaches to Nature
Scott Ferguson - University of California (Berkeley)
On the Nature of the Subject: Jean Laplanche and the Biology of Neoteny
Annette
C. Allen - University of Louisville
Human Embeddedness in the World's Body: The Turn Toward Being in Woolf's
Art and Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy
Chair:
Michael Kurak - Lansing Community
College
On the Possibility of a Reconciliation of Efficient and Final Causation
in Nature
12:30 - 2:00 PM Session III
Logan
Room: Section A
Crossing Cultural Boundaries
Marielle
Risse - Dhofar University (Oman)
How Can You Hate the Sun: Translating Western Conceptions of Nature to
the Middle East
Zuqiong
Ma - University of Louisville
New South, New China, and the Refashioning of Womanhood: A Comparative
Study of Chopin's "The Awakening" and Zhang's "Lust, Caution"
Chair:
Donald F. Larsson - Minnesota
State University (Mankato)
The Nature of "Nature": Multicultural Perspectives on a Complex Word
Madison
Room: Section B
The Nature of Otherness
Cynthia
Barounis - University of Illinois (Chicago)
"A Beastly and Inarticulate Thing": Queerness, Disability, and Primitivism
in Jack London's "The Sea Wolf"
Neil Shepard - Davenport
University
A Second Opinion: The Problem of Asperger's Syndrome's Growing Backlash
Chair:
Don Menn - San Francisco State University
The Other Other
Marshfield
Room: Section C
The Sacred and the Profane
Jerome
Teelucksingh - University of the West Indies (Trinidad)
Imagery, Sensuality, and Sanctity in Lawrence Scott's "Witchbroom"
Jessica
Mosby - San Francisco State University
The Nature of the Divine: The Spanish Inquisition and the Poetry of Fray
Luis de Léon
Chair:
Robin Petrovic - University of Illinois
(Chicago)
Constructing Sara Baartman
Wilson
Room: Section D
Literary and Cultural Representations of Nature
Nicholas
Bauch - University of California (Los Angeles)
Land, Body, and Molecules in Late Nineteenth Century Science: The Case
of the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise
Chris
Simpkins - San Francisco State University
Amazon and Grape, Tapajós and Orange, Bishop and Rukeyser
Chair:
Joana Owens - Jacksonville University
"We Must Discover Nature": English Encounters With Italy in E.M. Forster's
"A Room With A View" and Elizabeth von Arnim's "The Enchanted April"
2:15 - 3:45 PM Session IV
Logan
Room: Section A
Orpheus and the Fall of Humanity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Todd
Edmondson - University of Louisville
Sin and the South: Cormac McCarthy's "Outer Dark," the Fall of Humanity,
and the Created Order
Matt
Bowman - Lansing Community College
Postmodern, Rural Experience in Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending"
Chair:
Alma Bennett - Clemson University
Orpheus: The Singer/Shorthand of an Aberrant Nature
Madison
Room: Section B
Speculations: Words and Worlds
Andrea
Rubin - San Francisco State University
The Nature of the Word in the Writings of Jorge Luis Borges and Susan Howe
Chair:
Thomas Sorger - Roger Williams University
A Matter of Desperate Speculation: Poe, Paradox, and the Emergence of Modern
Physics
Wilson
Room: Section C
Representations: New Worlds and Frontiers
Brittany
Atkinson - Brigham Young University
Savagery and Marriage: The Taming of the West and the American Girl in
Nineteenth Century Sentimental Novels
Charissa
Shull - San Francisco State University
Brazen Nature in the Blazing World: The Reorganization of Nature's Hierarchies
in Margaret Cavendish's "A Description of the New World, Called the Blazing
World"
Chair:
Lee Ann Elliott Westman - University
of Texas (El Paso)
Images of Nineteenth Century Domesticity in American Art and Literature:
A "Natural" Portrait of White Women?
Marshfield
Room: Section D
The Performative Nature of Exile and Estrangement
Carla
Della Gatta - San Francisco State University
The Ritual of the Dance - The Lost Man in the Big City: Jake Barnes and
Holden Caulfield
Chair:
Mary Ann Wilson - University
of Louisiana (Lafayette)
In Another Country: Gertrude Stein, Natalie Barney, Romaine Brooks, and
Paris of the 1920s
4:00 - 5:30 PM Session V
Logan
Room: Section A
Crossing Genres
Natalie
M. Rosinsky - Independent Scholar
Watershed Moments: Poems that Cross Generations and Genres
Alison
Sperling - San Francisco State University
Not to be "grasped . . . in its natural state": The Repressed Critic Confronts
the Interpretive Limitations of Film Noir
Chair:
Lisa Graley - University of
Louisiana (Lafayette)
"A Pox On You": The Art of the Plague
Madison
Room: Section B
Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Brigitte
Weltman-Aron - University of Florida
No Man's Land: The Ethics of Contemporary Landscape Design
Michael
Bryson - Roosevelt University
Reading the Landscape of the City: Interdisciplinary Investigations of
Nature and Culture in the Chicago Region
Chair:
Sara J. Northerner - University
of Louisville
A Force of Nature or the Beauty of Art?: Determining a Contemporary Aesthetic
Experience
Marshfield
Room: Section C
Extremities of Nature and Humanism
Monica
Krupinski - University of Louisville
Unforgettable and Memorable are not the Same Thing
Daniel
Brooks - Aquinas College
The Nature of the Humanist: Twenty Years of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Education
Chair:
Nell Rose Hill - Ferris State University
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Wilson
Room: Section D
Nature as History, Philosophy, and Representational Discourse
Allan
Johnston - Columbia College Chicago
The Collapse of Metaphors of Nature in Western Nineteenth Century Discourse
Ryan
Young - San Francisco State University
Nature as History, History as Nature: The Messianic Power of the Ethical
in I.B. Singer's "The Slave" and Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History"
Chair:
Paul Jurczak - Lansing Community
College
Nature as Educator in Thoreau
7:00 PM Crystal Room Plenary Session
Welcome - Therese Tomaszak, President
Presentation of Awards-Marcia Green, Executive Director
Keynote
Speaker:
Curtis White
Illinois State University (Normal)
The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature
8:30 PM Wabash Room Welcoming Reception
Friday, April 10, 2009
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration and Book Exhibit
9:00 - 10:30 AM Session VI
Logan
Room: Section A
Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Folklore and Fairy Tales
Julie
McQuinn - Lawrence University (Conservatory of Music)
"I've Been Dreaming of a True Love's Kiss": The Power of Music and the
Naturalness of Gender Roles in Filmic Fairy Tale Revisions of "Shrek" (2001)
and "Enchanted" (2007)
Boria
Sax - Independent Scholar
Animal Familiars in the Context of Folklore
Chair:
Doré Ripley - California State
University (East Bay)
Cinderella: Nature to the Rescue in the Hero(ine)'s Journey
Madison
Room: Section B
The Nature of Music: Intercultural Approaches
Marina
Korsakova-Kreyn - University of Texas (Dallas)
In-Toning Thought: Objecthood in Music
Rachna
Raman - University of Texas (Dallas)
Analyzing Modulation in Scales in South Indian Classical Music: A Behavioral
Study
Chair:
Molly Cryderman-Weber - Lansing Community
College
Teaching Rhythmic Analysis and Composition using the Natural Overtone Series
Marshfield
Room: Section C
Teaching Nature, Nature as Teacher
Patricia
Boyd - Arizona State University
Environmental Education on Yellowstone National Park's Website
Karianna
Rosenberg - Independent Scholar Earth
Honoring Education: Integrating Nature into the Curriculum
Chair:
James Reitter - University
of Wisconsin (Sheboygan)
Fishing Out of Myette Point, Louisiana
Wilson
Room: Section D
Humanistic Learning Environments
Shawn
Tucker - Elon University
The Benefits of Laughing in Coping with Cognitive Conflict in First Year
College Students
Chair:
Therese Tomaszek and
Suzanne Gut - Davenport
University
The Language Partners Project: An Interdisciplinary, Experiential Learning
Collaboration of Students in ESL and Humanities Classes
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session VII
Wilson
Room: Section A
Interdisciplinary Nature: Physiology, Philosophy, and Crisis
Justin Pack - Brigham Young University
Nietzsche's Instincts: Why Better Technology Won't Fix the Current Environmental
Crisis
Christopher
Zepeda - San Francisco State University
The Silent Voice of Nature in Anne Sexton's "The Abortion"
Chair:
Lucas McGranahan - University of California (Santa Cruz)
Nietzsche: Physiology as Embodied Interdisciplinarity
Marshfield
Room: Section B
Intercultural Representation: Worlds,Words, and Art
Doug
Sjoquist - Lansing Community College
The Eight Views of Omi: The Crossroads of Nature, Art, and Poetry in Japan
Shiloh
Blair - Arizona State University
Female Equestrian Prints in Japan: Female Warriors and Foreign Women
Chair:
Michael Call - Brigham Young
University
Painting as Science: Darwinian Nature and Impressionist Aesthetics
Logan
Room: Section C
Interdisciplinary Performance
Jennifer
R. Jenkins - Northwestern University
Of Genius . . . and Judy: Looking Back at Orpheus
Matthew
Moore - Stanford University
"Stifter's Dinge": Representation as Misrecognition or Revising Anthropocentric
Perception through Performance
Chair:
David Helvering - Lawrence
University
Music and the Representation of Emotion and Mood in Film
Madison
Room: Section D
Cultures, Contexts, and Learning
Ralph
Vunderink - Aquinas College
The Aeneid of Virgil
Martin
Turkis - San Francisco State University
Teaching English: How, What, and Why
Chair:
Sharon Vriend-Robinette-
Davenport University
The Naturalized Artist: The Representation of Marian Anderson in an Intercultural,
Cold War Context
12:30 - 2:00 PM Session VIII
Logan
Room: Section A
Workshop - Becoming Friends of the Humanities
Sylvia
Bienvenu and Carol Ross - The Friends of the Humanities (Lafayette, Louisiana)
Madison
Room: Section B
Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives
Zuhre
Indirkas - Istanbul University
Mother Goddess in Anatolia and Her Shadow in Contemporary Turkish Art
Anna
Jensen - Brigham Young University
José Clemente Orozco's "The Epic of American Civilization"
Chair:
James Larner - Marian College (Indianapolis)
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci": The Anti-Muse in Western Culture
Marshfield
Room: Section C
Reading Nature: Myths, Cultures, and Crisis
Catherine
Morris - Florida State University
John Constable's "The Hay Wain" and Visual Textual Culture: Toward an Ecocritque
Maria
Laakso - University of Tampere (Finland)
The Persistence of Robinson-myth: Will Robinson Crusoe Survive in a Time
of Ecological Crisis?
Chair:
Wai-Leung Kwok - San Francisco State
University
Reading Nature: The Work of the Negative in Romantic Poetics
Wilson
Room: Sction D
Maps of Humanistic Meaning: Reading Cities and Architecture
Fred Thompson - Peninsula
College
Of Cities, Emergence Theory, and the Organized Complexities of Art
Joy
Lisi Rankin - Yale University
Studying the 1590 White-de Bry Virginia Map: Reading Between and beyond
the Lines
Chair:
William Chandler - University of
Wisconsin (Whitewater)
Nature Reborn: Antoni Gaudi's Use of Nature in His Architectural Designs
2:15 - 3:45 PM Session IX
Madison
Room: Section A
Nature in Cinematic and Cultural Context
Katie
Golsan - University of the Pacific
Rivers Flowing East and West in Jean Renoir's Cinema
Carole
Barnett - Jacksonville University & UAE
The Nature of Trees as Narrative: Crossing Cultures
Chair:
Rachelle Woodbury - Lansing Community College
Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke": Ecological Critique through Anime
Marshfield
Room: Section B
Dissonant Themes: Sound, Image, Culture
David
L. Mosley - Bellarmine University
The Soundscapes of Gustav Mahler
Michelle
Moffett - San Francisco State University
Dissonant Identities: The Culture of Jazz and its Formative Effects
Chair:
Michael Nealon - Lansing Community
College
Variations on a Theme in Nature: The "Canyon Pieces" of Thomas Moran, David
Hockney, Ferde Grofé, and Oliver Messiaen
Logan
Room: Section C
The Nature of Musical Seduction
Marcia
Green - San Francisco State University
The Nature of "Carmen" Revealed through her Music
Chair: Geoffrey Faust - Independent
Scholar, Attorney at Law
Don Giovanni: Mozart's Musical Con Man
Wilson
Room: Section D
Workshop - What Dying Taught Me about Living
John Otterbacher - Independent Scholar with assistance from Barbara Craft
4:00 - 5:30 PM Session X
Logan
Room: Section A
Extreme States: Artistic and Representative Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Dawn
von Wiegand - Lansing Community College
Nature as Spiritual Metaphor in Leonardo da Vinci's Paintings of the Madonna
Heather Sexton Graham
- University of California (Los Angeles)
Affecting the Christian Self: Guido Mazzoni's Neapolitan "Lamentation"
Chair:
Barbara Hassid -Independent
Scholar
The "Eroica" Enigma: Did Beethoven have a Napoleon Complex
Madison
Room: Section B
Nature, Culture, Technology: Words, Shapes, Images
Jonathan
Rinck - Lansing Community College
Nature as a Catalyst for a Better World: The Sculptural Intent of Barbara
Hepworth
Jeffrey
Woo - San Francisco State University
Through a Technological Lens: Photography and the Role of Death in Roland
Barthes's "Camera Lucida" and Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead"
Chair:
John Lawson - Robert Morris University
Nature vs. Culture in Neo-Modern Verse: Bayes, Beatty, Clifton, and Collins
Wilson
Room: Section C
Intercultural Environments
Alice
Derry - Peninsula College
For Your Reading Pleasure: Into the Wild
Toni
Lahtinen - University of Tampere (Finland)
Child as an Environmental Savior?: Environmental Activism in Contemporary
Finnish Literature
Chair:
Laura Vernon - Utah State University
Lessons from Love Canal: Exploring the Grassroots Rhetoric of a Community
in Crisis
Marshfield
Room: Section D
Workshop - Using Drama and Theater Strategies to Teach Literature
Gina Grandi - Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School (San Francisco)
5:30 - 6:30 PM Featured Speaker
Crystal Room
Geoffrey
Green
San Francisco State University
Reads from his novel:
Voices
in a Mask
(Northwestern University Press, 2008)
Saturday, April 11, 2009
9:00 - 10:30 AM Session XI
Wilson
Room: Section A
Panel - Restorying Nature: Environmental Stories and Storytelling in Humanities
Research and Education
Marion
W. Copeland - Humane Society University
David Aftandilian - Texas Christian
University
Patricia Monaghan - DePaul University
Boria Sax - Independent Scholar
Marshfield
Room: Section B
Workshop-Environmental Paths and Progress
Guillemette
Johnston - DePaul University
Hatha Yoga and the Yoga Sutra: A Path to the Natural Inner and Outer Environments
Nancy
VanKanegan - Columbia College Chicago
Yoga in the 21st Century-Post-modern Animism
Madison
Room: Section C
Nature/Anti-Nature: A Reading of Creative Work
Janet Wondra, S.L. Wisenberg, and Scott Blackwood - Roosevelt University
Logan Room: Section D
Narratives of Cultural and Technological Change
Andrew
Plisner - University of Kansas
Arboreal Dialogics: An Ecocritical Exploration of Octavia Butler's "Dawn"
Viola
Lasmana - San Francisco State University
From the Natural to the Digital: Writing and Reading in an Aletheic Realm
of Digitality
Chair:
Michael Williams - Aquinas
College
Evolution of the Idea of Love in Western Civilization
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session XII
Madison
Room: Section A
Workshop - Global Competency: Can You be more Specific?
Terri Tomaszek - Davenport
University
Alan Walczak - Davenport
University
Wilson
Room: Sction B
Workshop - Humanities Instruction in the Field: Delivery and Assessment from
China
Stephen Husarik - University of Arkansas (Fort Smith)
Marshfield
Room: Section C
Panel - Involving Students In Research
Jim
Bell - Grand Valley State University
David Hatch - Utah Valley University
Rachel Anderson - Grand Valley State University
Logan
Room: Section D
Featured Poetry Reading
Alice Derry--reads from her new collection, Tremelo
Sally A. Fiedler--reads from her new collection, A Trick of Seeing
Crystal Room
Closing Luncheon 12:30 - 2
Cover
Art
Right - Two Men Looking at the Moon by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)
Bottom - Two Men Talking to the Moon by Ma Yuan (1190-1230)
The Humanities Education and Research Association and Interdisciplinary Humanities want to thank the following for their generous contributions and support.
The
Friends of the Humanities, Lafayette, Louisiana
Sylvia Bienvenu, President
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For her services to keep HERA's website in operation.
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and Maria Ampola
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For their generous support of HERA's website
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L. Mazur, Senior Underwriter for Montpelier U.S. Insurance Company (MUSIC)
For donating her time and effort to HERA
Dr. Henry Rinne, Dean College of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
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of Texas, El Paso-College of Liberal Arts
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