Plaza Classroom 190

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Schedule
2014
Friday, March 21st
3:30 PM

Public Attitudes toward Bike Lanes in New York City

Wil Fisher, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 190

3:30 PM

3:45 PM

Conservative Vigilantes and the Undoing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Tiffany Bailey, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 190

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

Finding a Frame that Fits: Analyzing and Comparing Rival Framing of American Gun Control Policy in 2013

Alexander Booker, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 190

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

The Benefits of Employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Low Intensity and Irregular Conflict Scenarios

Evan Shorter, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 190

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

Effect of Facebook on Mood

Caroline Roemer, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 190

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

Psychological Correlates of Prostitution

Rosemond Travis, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 190

5:00 PM

5:15 PM

Prostitution as a Business

Steven Zhou, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 190

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

Framing Sex Work Activism: A Sociological View

Nancy Kannampuzha, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 190

5:30 PM

5:45 PM

The Multi-Layered Political Context of Prostitution

Allora Dubay, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 190

5:45 PM

2015
Friday, April 3rd
3:30 PM

Policy Towards the Private Military Industry, A Focus Comparison of Sierra Leone, Croatia, and Iraq

Taylor B. Clausen, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 189

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

3:45 PM

The Primordial Principle to Government-Security Interaction in States: A Case Study of the People’s Republic of China

Kevin F. Dunne, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 189

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

Cyber Warfare: Implications for NATO and Collective Defense

Taylor Goff, Political Science Honors Program

Plaza Classroom 189

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

4:15 PM

Reversing Stereotypes: The Good Black Man America Has Yet to Know

Alexandria Harris, Student

Plaza Classroom 189

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM

BREAK

Please use this time to visit the Art Exhibition in Payson Library.

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

4:45 PM

State Determinants of Drivers’ Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants

Carmen G. Izquierdo, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 189

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM

Evangelical Response to Political Defeat on Same-Sex Marriage

Charles B. Melcombe, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 189

5:00 PM - 5:15 PM

5:15 PM

Police Responses to Sex Trafficking in Southern California: Factors Leading to the Implementation of Model Strategies

Tearah Skie Osborn

Plaza Classroom 189

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Water Poverty in Disadvantaged Communities in California

Alyssa J. Galik, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 189

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM

5:45 PM

Asian American Congressional Representation

Christine S. Kim, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 189

5:45 PM - 6:00 PM

2016
Friday, April 1st
3:30 PM

Armenian Genocide Recognition in Congress

Lilit Elechyan, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 188

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

3:45 PM

Life, Liberty, and the Lack of Paid Parental Leave: An Analysis of Media Framing of Parental Leave in the United States

Marissa A. Baly, Seaver College

Plaza Classroom 188

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

Characteristics of Punitive States

Danielle Savage

Plaza Classroom 188

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

4:15 PM

COERCIVE DIPLOMACY

MELISSA HURTADO, SEAVER COLLEGE POLITICAL SCIENCE UNDERGRADUATE HONORS RESEARCH PROGRAM

Plaza Classroom 188

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

4:45 PM

Fulfilling the Promise: The Reagan Administration and the Ratification of the Genocide Convention

Heather C. Odell, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 188

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM

The Palermo Protocol: Why It Has Been Ineffective in Reducing Human Sex Trafficking

Christina Seideman, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 188

5:00 PM - 5:15 PM

5:15 PM

Linguistic Practices, Attitudes and Identities of Hispanic Immigrants in Los Angeles: Two Case Studies

Heather C. Odell, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 188

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Global Tides International Studies and Languages Panel Discussion

Lauren Margaret Haberstock, Pepperdine University
Rachel Hews, Pepperdine University
Pukun Huang, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 188

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

2017
Friday, March 24th
4:00 PM

Measuring Support for Multiethnic Parties in Zambia

Lionel Ong, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 191

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

4:15 PM

Weaponized Drones: What Drives Proliferation?

Edward Adutwum

Plaza Classroom 191

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM

BREAK

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

4:45 PM

toxiCITY: Environmental Injustice in Los Angeles County

Kenneth C. Warner, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 191

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM

Descriptive Representation of Native American Legislators in the Oklahoma State House of Representatives

Jacob Norte, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 191

5:00 PM - 5:15 PM

5:15 PM

This is the End: The Second Coming of Jesus and its Impact on Policy Attitudes

Joseph M. Osgood

Plaza Classroom 191

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Building Military Helicopter Capacity: Influences on Process and Effectiveness

Rudy Goff, Seaver Undergraduate

Plaza Classroom 191

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM

5:45 PM

Colorblind Attitudes and Religious Fundamentalism as Predictors of Racial and General Campus Climate Perceptions

Jeongbin (Jenny) Song, Pepperdine University
Cindy Miller-Perrin, Pepperdine University

Plaza Classroom 191

5:45 PM - 6:00 PM

2018
Friday, March 23rd
3:45 PM

"Bearing Witness": The Role of Art in Post-Conflict Reconciliation

Meghan J. Doyle, Pepperdine University

BPC 188

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Conflicts throughout the centuries have provided endless fodder for the treatises of historians, politicians, sociologists, and negotiators, who are intent on analyzing geopolitical impact, psychological responses, and mediation techniques. Less frequently, however, have researchers studied the artistic reaction to violent social upheaval, a course of inquiry of critical importance in light of today’s unstable global climate. Using recent conflict in Northern Ireland as the crux of my research, I have uncovered numerous arts approaches to reconciliation processes that prove applicable across time and space. The oeuvre of one contemporary artist in particular, Rita Duffy (1959–), reveals a gradual progression of healing, stages of which appear in the artistic production of many tumultuous periods, from the Greco-Persian wars to tension between Protestant Reformers and Catholic Counter-Reformers to the social justice initiatives of the 20th century. Most important to this project is ensuring the relevance of my work to current situations that could benefit from such practices, as informed by the conflict art of the past. Through this investigation, I ultimately argue for the power of art in the face of divisive circumstances, a conclusion supported by successful outcomes in Northern Ireland. Thus, I paint artists as uniquely situated to lead others in a process of reconciliation after having come to terms with their personal experience of conflict through visual means. These practitioners mount a formidable force when they collectively concentrate their creative capacities toward lasting peace through the process of art.

4:00 PM

#MeToo in Ancient Greek Art: Analyzing the Language Used to Describe Ancient Greek Images of Assault Against Women in Art History Textbooks

Ella Gonzalez

BPC 188

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Art history textbooks including Classical Greek art are rife with images of women in situations of sexual and other forms of physical violence and assault. In this study, I analyze the language used to describe these works of art in art history textbooks. While understanding of these artworks would benefit greatly from both formal and contextual analysis, most descriptions of these works focus on the formal elements of line, color, and composition, as well as the artistic prowess of the individual artist, while virtually ignoring the historical context that informs the subject matter of these works. This has the effect of normalizing these violent assaults against women. In light of the prominence of sexual assault and violence against women across college campuses in the United States, in addition to the current #MeToo movement, it is essential for us to reconsider the language used to describe such works while also emphasizing the context from which such works arise—in this case, a well-documented patriarchal society that glorified passive women and, sometimes, acts of violence against them. Only in this way can we continue to teach about these art historically important works without inadvertently normalizing the violence depicted.

4:15 PM

Journey Through Processing

Jane Yi, Pepperdine University
Mai-ly Nguyen, Pepperdine University

BPC 188

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

During the Fall 2017 semester, my colleague, Mai-ly Nguyen, and I took on the task of learning Processing, a flexible software sketchbook and environment for the visual arts. Through its Java framework for data visualization and sensor-driven applications, our goal was to create pieces that embody and represent organic and natural movement. This video is a compilation of the numerous files we created and arranged together.

As we started to learn Processing, we realized that the files we had created in order to practice our visual literacy delivered a theme of fluid and geometric movement. We continued that theme while incorporating our instincts as coders to produce visuals that encompassed both structure and aesthetic.

After creating a foundation for our collection, we also looked to other Processing users for inspiration. We chose a few pieces that conversed with our own, and modified them to fit our style. None of our pieces contain color in order to draw attention to the movement in each piece, and how it correlates and creates conversation with the following pieces.

This journey was one of the best learning experiences that Mai-ly and I experienced, as we are both students of computer science and digital arts. Processing helped us build a bridge between the technical aspects of coding and the creative elements of creating art.

4:30 PM

Alien Lands

Carissa Mosley

BPC 188

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Alien Lands has been an academic year-long study and cross-media art endeavor, researching the history of palm trees in Los Angeles and documenting their current presence. I photographed and made videos of the palm trees in Los Angeles and ended the project with a ceremonial installation/performance, grieving the colonial history and unsustainability of palm trees by ironically commemorating them. This body of work is meant to provoke discussion of palm trees' iconicization, their ubiquitous invisibility in our environment, their colonial history, and their likely nonexistent future.

4:45 PM

Defining Wang Su and Xinluo School Through the Studying of Figure Paintings

Yiwen Tang

BPC 188

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

The topic of my research is the Chinese artist, Wang Su (1794-1877) and the Xinluo School, which dated to the 17 th to 19 th centuries. While scholars have discussed both the Yangzhou School at the beginning of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) and the Shanghai School at the end, there is a gap between these two schools. Wang Su and some of his contemporaries deserve more attention because they offer an alternative way for defining artists in the Qing dynasty. By categorizing these artists’ stylistic features, one actually can connect Yangzhou School and Shanghai School and so allow for a more comprehensive and coherent understanding of the history of Qing Dynasty art, which closely related to the politics at that time.

Wang Su is the main subject of my research, and I study his connection with the Xinluo School, which is founded by Hua Yan. Specifically, I will analyze figure paintings by these artists to address the connection between their styles, which will create a lineage of Xinluo School, and explain some possible causes for the lack of clear classification of that time. For example, I examine Wang Su’s painting of the legendary figure, Zhong Kui, and compare and contrast it with paintings by Hua Yan and Ni Tian in order to demonstrate the relationship among their styles, which can be considered as a development of Xinluo School. This study will illuminate a critical juncture of Chinese art during the Qing dynasty.

5:00 PM

Color Candy Experiment

Steven Cleare

BPC 188

5:00 PM - 5:15 PM

In my presentation I will be using a method titled the, "Color Candy Experiment," to parallel the impact of contextual reactions in narrative cinema. Further, I will use a modern cinematic example to demonstrate the different forms of contextual reactions that are possible through the manipulation of dramatic chemistry, and will explain the impact of potentially calculating and understanding this currently unexplored field in narrative.

2019
Friday, March 29th
3:15 PM

The Three Torments of Ivan Karamazov

Raquel Grove

Plaza Classroom 188

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Pastors and Politics: Considerations for Missional Church Leaders Addressing Political Matters

Matthew Stinson

Plaza Classroom 188

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

3:45 PM

From Unseen to Undaunted: Mrs. Tulliver’s Rise in The Mill on the Floss

Anemone Hansen

Plaza Classrooms

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

3:45 PM

Wisdom's Folly: Analyzing Fools as Agents of Truth in Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky

Tatum Shackelford

Plaza Classroom 188

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

2021
Friday, April 23rd
4:00 PM

Allegories of Our Youth: An International Collaboration

Natalia Escobedo

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

4:15 PM

Creating Beauty Out of Darkness: An Exploration into the Artistic Resistance of Jewish Music of the Holocaust

Brittany R. Weinstock, Pepperdine University

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM

Gender in Massenet’s Cendrillon

Mallory Bedford

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

2022
Friday, March 25th
3:15 PM

The effect of co-ingesting beetroot juice and vitamin C on blood pressure in Hispanic women: a literature review and a proposal

Mikela de la Flor
Maya Hammer
Noelle Seekamp-Hicks
Rachel Tan

Black Family Plaza Classroom 188

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The effects of acute beetroot juice ingestion on upper and lower body muscular power during weightlifting exercise in men

Grant Weiderman
Chandler Riley
Joanna Powell
Katie Price
Lauren Wideen
Andrew Fest
Justin Kim
Maya Hammer
Sean Karl
Isabella Lincoln
Noelle Seekamp-Hicks
Joshua Leow
Maddy Espinoza
Adam Pennell
Rachel Tan

Black Family Plaza Classroom 188

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

3:45 PM

Examining the Role of Folic Acid Relative to Anxiety and Cognition in Mice

Courtney James, Pepperdine University
Susan E. Helm PhD, Pepperdine University

Black Family Plaza Classroom 188

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

Cytotoxic Effects of Polystyrene Nanoplastics with Adsorbed Propranolol

Kyle Osornia, Pepperdine University
Caleb Lim, Pepperdine University

Black Family Plaza Classroom 188

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

4:15 PM

An Investigation of Inhibitory Mechanisms of Flavonoids Against Bacterial Enoyl-reductase

Puneet Mann

Black Family Plaza Classroom 188

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM