ALL TIMES SHOWN IN EDT.

SESSION I: Friday, 11:00a – 12:15p

Unmuted: Women's Voices/Voices for Women
Moderator: Michael Garval, NC State University

  • Anna Gallagher, University of Delaware
    An Unmuted Eve in John Milton's Paradise Lost

  • Dana Singletary, Louisiana State University – Shreveport
    “Which Would Have Woven His Mortal Life of the Self-same Texture with the Celestial:” Hawthorne as an Advocate for Female Sexuality

  • David Griffin Knight, University of Oklahoma
    From Vaudeville to Völkisch: The Improbable Life's Journey of Axis Sally

SESSION II: Friday, 12:30p - 1:45p

Learning to Listen, Learning to Hear
Moderator: Steven A. Burr, Frostburg State University

  • Dr. Joy Hunter Austin, University of Memphis
    Truth in the Telling

  • Hussain Al-Ismail, University of Birmingham
    Voices of Literature: Are We Attuned to Listen?

  • Cheryl R. Solis, Stanford University
    Ghostly Silences: The Negated Voice in Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark

SESSION III: Friday, 2:00p - 3:00p

Visual Technologies in the Digital Age
Moderator: William Nericcio, San Diego State University

  • Carson Poole, San Diego State University
    Romanticizing the Digital Age: Technology, Art, and the Digital Sublime

  • Lue Kraltchev, Southern Methodist University
    Culture in Business: Cultivating the Fullest Expression

SESSION IV: Friday, 3:30p - 4:45p

Medicine and Interdisciplinary Studies Now
Moderator: William Nericcio, San Diego State University

  • Christina Marie Rodley, Arizona State University
    Now You See Me: Invisible People, Invisible Diseases

  • Catherine Behan, Indiana University South Bend
    Looking Away at What Cost? Child Maltreatment Holds Lifelong Pain, But Solutions Remain Elusive

  • Alvine Kapitako, North Carolina State University
    Exploring Health interventions in the Namibian health sector: A concept paper and App Prototype

SESSION V: Friday, 5:00p – 6:15p

Voices for Humanity
Moderator: Jennifer G. Coleman, Western NM University

  • Israel B. Bitton, Johns Hopkins University
    Chosen for Hate (and Love): A Qualitative Explanatory Analysis of the NYPD’s Data on Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes

  • Stephanie Chretien, Rice University
    Black Lives Matter: Some Suggestions for Repairing the Egregious Harms Inflicted on Black People Chronicled In the Past, Present and the Future of America’s Racist Society

  • M.H. Lewis, North Carolina State University
    Is Choosing Choice Costing Us Our Humanity? An exploration of humanity as defined by autonomy and free will

SESSION VI: Friday, 6:30p – 7:45p

To Hear Others, We Must Hear Ourselves
Moderator: Tara W. Kee, University of Delaware

  • Karen J. Borek, University of Pennsylvania
    Unmute Yourself: Voice, Representation, Power

  • Emmeline Miles, Southern Methodist University
    Pretty Hurts: The Sexualization of Women and the Reclamation of the Female Narrative in Twenty-First Century Popular Music

  • Marja Karelia, Simon Fraser University
    Power of the Musical Voice: Searching for a Sense of Agency Through Music at Refugee Camps

SESSION VII: Friday, 8:00p - 9:30p

Narrating Power and Resistance

Moderator: Tom Cook, Rollins College

  • Marla Shaivitz, Johns Hopkins University
    Historiography, Gender and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Lisa M. Jackson, Johns Hopkins University

  • The Role of the 1772 Somerset Case in the American Revolution and its Role in Galvanizing Enslaved Africans

  • Charles C. Isaacs, Indiana University Southeast

  • The White Caps: A Case Study of Violent Resistance to Social and Moral Change in the United States

SESSION VIII: Saturday, 11:00a – 12:15p

Listening and Looking at Culture and Family
Moderator: Amy Danzer, Northwestern University

  • April Zhang, Indiana University South Bend
    The Meritocracy Trap in Asian Americans' Education

  • Kristina Kwacz, SUNY Empire State College
    Unmuting Yourself via Family Photographs

  • Alanna Howard, North Carolina State University
    Better Bytes: Food Tourism in the Digital Age

SESSION IX: Saturday, 12:30p – 1:45p

Voices for Shifting Power
Moderator: Tara W. Kee, University of Delaware

  • Karen Coston, Johns Hopkins University
    Why the ERA Still Matters

  • Tara L. Lipinski, Arizona State University
    Moving Past Patriarchy. The Power of Ecofeminism to Fight Climate Change

  • Gregory George Guthrie, Georgetown University
    Unmute the Labor Movement

SESSION X: Saturday, 2:00p – 3:15p

Empowering Communication
Moderator: Tom Cook, Rollins College

  • Austin C. Haigler, North Carolina State University
    Drug Use Unmuted

  • Cherie Hoepfl, Rice University
    Mental Health and Removing the Stigma

  • Kaitlyn San Miguel, Johns Hopkins University
    Between Fiction and Fact: The Intersection of Truth, Storytelling, Power, and Violence in Trust Exercise

SESSION XI: Saturday, 3:30p – 4:45p

Voices from the Past - History and Memory
Moderator: Christopher Pastore, University of Pennsylvania

  • Emily Felty, Louisiana State University – Shreveport
    Mexican Abolition and Revolution: A More Enlightened War for Independence

  • Christine Gardiner, Johns Hopkins University
    Miskitu Memories and Sandinista Stories: Rumor, Legend, and Civil Conflict in 1980s Nicaragua

  • Carlos Littles, Johns Hopkins University
    A Scribe for an Empire: Locating Indigenous Voices in Comanche Histories

SESSION XII: Saturday, 5:00p – 6:15p

Voices for Equality/Voice as Action
Moderator: Jennifer G. Coleman, Western NM University

  • Michael Breger, Stanford University
    The Howling Inferno: Crying Out in Anguish From Hell to America

  • Susie Callahan, Reed College

  • Agency and Errantry in Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat

  • Jacquelyn Jordan, University of Pennsylvania
    From Queen Latifah to Queen Bee: The Evolution of the Feminist Emcee

SESSION XIII: Saturday, 6:30p – 7:45p

Power of Interpretation
Moderator: Jennifer G. Coleman, Western NM University

  • Lela E. Robichaux, Louisiana State University – Shreveport
    Women of Power in the Canterbury Tales

  • Cally Chisholm, East Tennessee State University
    Revisionist Mythmaking & Ecofeminism in Madeline Miller's Circe

  • Ramisha Ejaz, Northwestern University

  • The Journey of the Guilt Trip: An Exploration of South Asian American Ties to Feminine Shame and Guilt

SESSION XIV: Saturday, 8:00p – 9:15p

Raised Voices and Neglected Stories
Moderator: Steven A. Burr, Frostburg State University

  • Judith McKay, J.D., Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University
    Using Dialogues to Build A Socially Just Community

  • J.T. Hill, University of Texas at Dallas
    Unmuting the Muted: Centering the Periphery through Radical Literature and Critical Literacy

  • Codi Leigh Farris, Johns Hopkins University
    The White Story, But Not the Whole Story: The Case for the Inclusion of Diverse Literary Requirements in American Undergraduate English Programs