Center Talk! SHI & Casanova Pre-Doc Scholars Symposium
UCLA SUMMER HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
& CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SALLY CASANOVA
PRE-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS
SYMPOSIUM
Funded through grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of California Office of the President, the Bunche Center hosted its thirteenth Summer Humanities Institute (SHI) which will run until Saturday, August 17, 2013.
SHI admits high-achieving students from historically under-represented groups planning to pursue a doctoral degree in the humanities and social sciences, with a focus on the African American experience. The 2013 cohort hails from eight different schools, primarily historically black colleges and universities.
On Tuesday, August 13th and Wednesday, August 14th, SHI and California State University Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholars participants will present their research projects in a symposium at the UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1617 [Map].
The symposium will be held in the Downstairs Lounge on Tuesday and in the Hacienda Room on Wednesday. The symposium will run from 9:00am until noon each day. Continental breakfast will be included. The Center invites faculty, staff, students, and the general public to attend. The symposium is free.
All-day parking ($12) and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available in Lots 2, 3 or 4 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues). UCLA is smoke-free and tobacco-free. The use of cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and all other tobacco products, as well as electronic cigarettes, will be prohibited on UCLA’s campus and at sites owned or fully leased by the university. For more information, please visit: https://ccle.ucla.edu/course/view/UCLA_tobacco_free_task_force.
Symposium Schedule
(Click here to read the Summer Humanities Institute Symposium Abstracts)
Tuesday, August 13 – UCLA Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge
9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:30am Welcome: Dr. Ana-Christina Ramon
9:35am Opening Remarks: Dr. Darnell Hunt
Panel 1 – Moderator: Kimberly Mack
9:45am
Halimat Somotan
Undergraduate Institution: Fairfield University
Harlem Renaissance as a Pan-African Phenomenon: Langston Hughes, Gladys May Casely-Hayford and the African Heritage
10:00am
Amanda Powell
Undergraduate Institution: Tuskegee University
African American Women and Obesity: Linking the Past and the Present
10:15am
Yasmin Ismail
Undergraduate Institution: Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
A Thin Line Between Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta, Black Situation Comedy, and Minstrelsy
10:30am Q & A
10:45am – 11:00am Break
Panel 2 – Moderator: Jonathan Collins
11:00am
Aaron Coleman
Undergraduate Institution: Fort Valley State University
Direct Action: December 5, 1955-April 4, 1968
11:15am
Bhaven Mistry
Graduate School: California State University, Northridge
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Pressure Induced Pore Transport through an Incommensurate Channel
11:30am
Scott Lydon
Graduate School: California State University, East Bay
Climate Change and the Fremont People of Utah: A Multiproxy Analysis of Climate During the Past Thousand Years for Denise Lake, Utah
11:45am Q & A
12:00pm Concluding Remarks
Wednesday, August 14 – UCLA Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:25am Welcome
Panel 1 – Moderator: Sam Sheppard
9:30am
Leroy Myers
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland Eastern Shore
The Marginalization of Blacks in Indian Territory
9:45am
Donna Nelson
Undergraduate Institution: North Carolina Central University
The Erased Soldier: African American Participation in World War I
10:00am
Christopher Johnson
Undergraduate Institution: University of South Carolina Upstate
Tales from the Other Side: Earl Caldwell and Resistance to Normative Journalistic Narratives about Black Power in the 1960s
10:15am
Shikaylah Brown
Undergraduate Institution: Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
Angela Davis: Persecution through Media
10:30am Q & A
10:45am – 11:00 Break
Panel 2 – Moderator: Kimber Thomas
11:00am
Michael Taylor
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Peer Pressure and its Effect on Academic Success among Young Black Males
11:15am
Jiun Shen
Graduate School: California State University, Long Beach
The Role of Family Conflict in Romantic Stress and Internalizing Symptoms in Asian-American and European-American Adolescents
11:30am
Sandra Davidson
Undergraduate Institution: Bennett College
Intimate Partner Violence among Black Female Students at an HBCU: Personal and Sociological Factors
11:45am Q & A
12:00pm Concluding Remarks
Click here to read all of the Summer Humanities Institute Symposium Abstracts