Virtual Department Conferences

ENGLISH: May 8, 2020 (11:00 AM – 3:20 PM)                                                                                        *To RSVP or register for this URECA/English Honors Symposium (schedule below*), please contact Professor Justin Omar Johnston (justin.johnston@stonybrook.edu).

HISTORY: May 8, 2020 (4:00 PM – 5:15 PM)                                                                                         *To RSVP or register for this conference, please contact Professor Nancy Tomes (nancy.tomes@stonybrook.edu).

HONORS COLLEGE SENIOR SYMPOSIUM: Available via link below.                                             Link: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/honors-college/academics/honors-college-senior-symposium-2020.php

LINGUISTICS: May 8, 2020 (12-1 PM)                                                                                                    *To RSVP or register for this Senior Honors Thesis symposium, please contact Professor Marie Huffman (Marie.Huffman@stonybrook.edu)   

MATERIAL SCIENCES & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: May 7, 2020 (2:30 PM – 4:30 PM)                  *To RSVP or register for this Senior Research Thesis symposium, please contact Professor Miriam Rafailovich (miriam.rafailovich@stonybrook.edu).         

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: May 6, 2020 (1:00 PM – 2:00 PM)                                                          *To RSVP or register for this conference, please contact Professor Jay Mendelson (jay.mendelson@stonybrook.edu).

PHYSICS: May 7, 2020 (2:00 PM)                                                                                                               *To RSVP or register for this conference, please contact Professor Robert McCarthy (robert.mccarthy@stonybrook.edu).

PSYCHOLOGY: May 6, 2020 (1:00 PM – 3:10 PM)                                                                                 *To RSVP or register for this conference, please contact Psi Chi Member, Steven Honovic (steven.honovic@stonybrook.edu).


*English Department Honors Symposium Schedule (Friday, May 8, 2020)

PANEL ONE: 11:00-12:20
Emma CesarioThe Pen in her Hand: Anne’s Voice and the Ending of Persuasion
Annaliese BrellisThe Anorexic Battle for Psychological and Social Control in Laurie Halse        Anderson’s Wintergirls
Zachary SchulmanMatrices of Character: Fictional-World Control-Narrative Discrepancies      Between Authors and Audiences
Lizzy JohnsonThe Macabre of Matriarchy: Fear, Female Empowerment, and the Influence of  Puritanism in Contemporary Horror.

PANEL TWO: 12:30-1:50
Adiba Khan Revisiting Mimicry
Jake VincelOnly All Palaver: Joyce, ​Dubliners​, and the War on Language
Sana Rahman ‘”The worst injury is feeling you don’t belong so much to you”: The Immersive          Voice of Citizen in the American Discussion of Race’.
Melissa McMonagle — TBD

PANEL THREE: 2:00-3:20                                                                                                                        Renee Senzatimore“When Matter learns to love itself” The Vitalist vision of Phillip Pullman      Hunter BuehlerThe Secular Benefits of Religion in the Anthropocene as seen in Atwood’s The Year of the Flood                                                                                                                                       Sean McDonaughJourneys in Belief: An Examination of “The Will to Believe” in As I Lay Dying and The Grapes of Wrath                                                                                                                                 Liam Keith — TBD