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"Memory"

Location

All events will take place in the Price Center.

Schedule

 

11:00 – 12:15 Registration and Resource Fair

(Price Center East Ballroom, Lobby – To Be Confirmed)

 

11:30 Luncheon Service Begins

(Price Center Ballroom – TBA)

Choice of Char-grilled Tri Tip served chilled or Marinated-and-Grilled Vegetables; Sonoma Green Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette; Assorted La Mousse Bars; Cheese and Fruit tray; assorted rolls and butter; ice tea; and water.

12:15 - 12:25 Opening Remarks: Nick Saenz

President, Graduate Student Association

(Price Center Ballroom – TBA)

 

12:25 - 1:25 Keynote Address: Steven Cassedy

Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature

Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

(Price Center Ballroom – TBA)

 

1:30 – 2:50 Session 1

1A: Illumination (Location TBA)

Moderator:

 

  • Gena Glickman (Psychology), Circadian memories light the corners of my mind

  • Rajaram Krishnan (Bioengineering), A Novel AC Electrokinetic device for Cancer Cell, Stem Cell and DNA Biomarker Isolation and Detection

  • Clay McPheeters (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Enhancement of quantum-dot solar cells via light scattering by nanoparticles

 

1B: Visual Constructions of Memory (Location TBA)

Moderator:

 

  • Aaron Gidding (Anthropology), Photographs as Memory in Archaeology and Their Application Beyond

  • Kyle Knabb (Anthropology), StarCAVE 3D: Virtual Reality, Anthropology and Archaeology

  • Elizabeth Plunger (Anthropology), Woven Connections: Group Identity, Style, and The Textiles of the ‘A’ and ‘B’ Cemeteries at the Site of Río Muerto (M43), Moquegua Valley, Southern Peru

  • Elle Weatherup (Literature), Transforming the Act of Self: Beau Brummell and Performative Impressionism

 

1C: Narratives (Location TBA)

Moderator:

 

  • Chuk Moran (Communication), Social Significance of Undo

  • Paula Saravia (Anthropology), How experience becomes memory: subjectivity and narratives of tuberculosis in Chile (1880s-1940). A historical-anthropological approach

  • Darin Woolpert (Language & Comm. Dis.), Developing Literacy in English Learners

 

1D: Memory and Spain (Location TBA)

Moderator:

 

  • Nick Saenz

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3:00 – 4:20 Session 2

 

2A: Economies (Location TBA)

Moderator:

 

  • Jennie Daniels (Literature), Remembering the Criminal as a Social Norm: Narrative Voice in Plata quemada

  • Claudia Espinosa (IRPS), What about the Mexicans? The Impact of Mexican Migration on Economic Development

  • Michael Ewens (Economics), Spinoffs in the Venture Capital Industry

  • Xiahua (Anny) Wei (Rady School of Management), Mobile Number Portability: Global Evidence on How Government Policy Affects Consumer Switching Costs, Industry Competition, and Operators Performance

 

2B: Communities of Memory and Identity (Location TBA)

Moderator:

 

  • Sarah Baitzel (Anthropology), Social Memory and Return Migration in the pre-colonial Peru: A paleodemographic approach

  • Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen (Ethnic Studies), Vietnamese Berlins 1975-2010: Historical Divergence, Contemporary Integration

  • Marisa Peeters (Anthropology), Remembering Ellen G. White: an analysis of the management of the Seventh-day Adventist collective memory

  • Nathan Weaver Olson (Latin American Studies), Memory and Forgetfulness in Vallegrande, Bolivia

 

2C: Political Agency (Location TBA)

Moderator:

 

  • Alicia Boswell (Anthropology), Chimu Frontier in the Moche Valley, Peru

  • Esin Duzel (Anthropology), Memory and Political Agency in the Military Coup Movies in Turkey

  • Emily Matthews (Political Science), Should we go steady? Understanding when advocacy groups will seek out long-term lobbying relationships.

  • Gabriela Santizo (Literature), Contesting the Neoliberal City: The Role of Memory in De perlas y cicatrices and La oscura memoria de las armas

 

 

4:30 – 6:00 Poster Session and Reception (with exhibitors present)

 

5:30 Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks

 

 

 

            

 

Prizes

The Graduate Student Association will offer prize money for exemplary presentations. Each moderator will name one presentor to receive a prize from each panel. A jury of UCSD graduate student alumni will judge entries included in the poster portion of the event. In addition to recognizing the work of presentors, GSA has put money foward to recognize the important supporting role of department colleagues. Two departments will receive additional social event funding for outstanding representation at the day's events. One large department (100 students or more) will receive the award for the largest number of attendees. A second, small department (less than 100 students) will receive the award for best percentage attendance. In order to be counted, all attendees must register with the check-in desk located between Price Center Ballrooms A and B. The announcement of prizes will take place at the afternoon reception beginning at 5:00pm in Price Center Ballroom B.

Keynote Speaker

Steven Cassedy received his undergraduate degree in comparative literature at the University of Michigan in 1974 and his Ph.D. in comparative literature at Princeton University in 1979. He has been a member of the Department of Literature since 1980. He is currently Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, Director of Eleanor Roosevelt College's Making of the Modern World (a core sequence in world civilization), and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. His teaching and research interests include Russian literature, other Western European literatures, intellectual history of the West, and Russian-Jewish and American-Jewish cultural history. 

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Questions

Please contact GSA Vice President of Academic Affairs Mat Jarvis at gsaacademic@ucsd.edu or OGS Intern at ogs-intern@ucsd.edu.