LAHSS-CON - Program

Index:

all times are Eastern
all sessions are held at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor

Breakfast refreshments will be available each morning, including coffee, tea, and baked goods.

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SHORTCUTS:
THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY

Thursday, April 9th

Workshop - 8:30 - 9:30
- Dawna Cerney, Joe Alberti, Rachel Faerber-Ovaska
- The Geography of your AI Pedagogy
Poster Session A - 9:35 - 9:55
- Melina Mottiqua
  - Interpreting the Constitution or Advancing Ideology?: An Analysis on the United States Judicial Branch
- Silvana Martinez Alvarez
  - City of Youngstown Community Based Program: Impact on the emotional well being and confidence through cultural and linguistic diversity?
- Grace Bishop
  - The Change of Roe v. Wade
- Elizabeth Crockett
  - How State Political Polarization Has Shaped U.S. Climate Mitigation Efforts in Comparison to the Federal Government
- Sonya Lenoir
  - Nonprofit Civic Education Programming For Youth Civic Engagement
- Lauryn Swanson
  - DEI Impact On College Universities
- Meygan Graff
  - Dealing with Mental Health behind bars: Evaluating The Impact of the Justice System on different types of Mental Health Disorder
- Meygan Graff
  - The Decrease of Power in the Legislative Branch Over The Years
- Ayed S. Emeeshat
  - Untitled Political Science Senior Capstone
- Hannah Diaz
  - Puerto Rico: Estado o Territorio?
- Madison Anders
  - Untitled Political Science Senior Capstone
Poster Session B - 10:00 - 10:20
- McKinley Fielding
  - Enforcement mechanisms on humanitarian violations and international courts
- Sofie Myers
  - Untitled Political Science Capstone
- Cameron Pykare
  - US Government Corruption: Why Aren’t Our Leaders Held Accountable?
- Ben Davis
  - The Sino-American Cold War
- Brandon Tabak
  - National Identity and Democratization in Ukraine and Belarus
- Tamara Myers
  - An emotional State
- Selina R. Jones
  - AI versus Copyright: Artificial Intelligence copyright policies and the impact on copyright infringement of musical artists rights and streaming policies
- Angelina M. Myers
  - Law Without Morality: A Study of How Legal Systems Define Justice When Moral Values Conflict, Evolve, or Disappear
- Connor Hanshaw
  - U.S. Relations to East Asian Countries
- Camille Shelton
  - Untitled Political Science Capstone
- Richard Sandberg
  - Untitled Political Science Capstone
Paper Session: Bodies, Data & Decisions - 10:30 - 10:59
- Leah Webb
  - Why consumers don’t switch to non-toxic cleaning and beauty brands
- Viktoryia Paliakovich
  - Multilingual Tension and Power Dynamics in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.
Panel Session & Lunch - 11:30 - 1:00
- Jada Marsh, Brandon Evans, Megan Rowley
  - The Genetic Panopticon: Navigating the Ethics of Modern DNA Investigation
History Capstone Session 1 - 1:00 - 1:53
- Rees Beckman
  - The Enlightenment: Natural Rights in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions
- Michael Vinkler
  - The Holocaust Comes Home: A Story from the Honigman Family
- Evan Lewis
  - From Ragtime to Striding Rhythm: Music, Society, and Spiritual Expressions from 1899-1929
- Thomas Kempe
  - Echoes of the Bell Witch: Folklore, Fear, and Memory in the American South
History Capstone Session 2 - 2:00 - 3:15
- Madison Lutz
  - Manufacturing the Highland Threat
- Sage Vavro
  - Transforming the Mahoning River
- Connor Tapp
  - Local Voices in a National Struggle: Grassroots LGBTQ Organizing During the Marriage Amendment Era
- AnnaBelle Boone
  - Leveling the Playing Field: Title IX in College Sports
- Seth Daugherty
  - The Debate on Hiroshima: Was It Right to Drop the Bomb?
History Capstone Session 3 - 3:15 - 4:10
- Natalie Snedden
  - The Illyrian Movement and Literature
- Cameron Jaros
  - The Soundtrack of Protest
- Anthony Guarino
  - When Prohibition Backfired: The Rise of Criminal Activity in the Mahoning Valley
Paper Session: Social Perceptions and Ethical Questions - 4:15 - 5:15
- Emily Vero
  - “If You Need Two Seats, You Should Pay for Them” – Anti-Obesity Rhetoric in Online Discussion of Southwest Airlines' “Extra Free Seat” Policy
- Hannah Murray
  - Hedonic Analysis on the Housing Price Impacts of the 2023 East Palestine Train Derailment
- Anthony Hake
  - How does user expertise influence prompt strategy use in LLM systems?
- Chelsea Moorhead
  - How TikTok Portrayals Impact Stigmatization Attitudes towards DID

Friday, April 10th

Paper Session: Confronting Change Past & Present - 9:00 - 9:45
- Darcy McTigue
  - The Ideals of Renaissance Virtue: “The (Abridged) History of Virtue from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period”
- Dil Rawat
  - Advancing Digital Civil Rights: A Web Accessibility Assessment and Reference Tool for Public-Sector Digital Content
- Lydia Brownlee
  - School Shootings: An American Epidemic
Poster Session C - 10:00 - 10:20
- Grace Narkum
  - Anxiety as Norm Defiance
- Ciera Cruse
  - Working Class Experiences and Perceptions Under Capitalism
- Katelyn Obermiyer
  - Clearing Campus Lungs: Proposal to Implement Vaping Awareness Activities at Youngstown State University
- Truc Ho
  - Healthy Smiles: Bringing Oral Health Into Primary Care
- Gabriella Evans
  - Untitled Sociology Capstone
Paper Session: Culture, Community & Historical Expression - 11:00 - 11:30
- Nicarlyle Hanchard
  - Sharing Culture and Building Community in the Mahoning Valley
- Anna Airhart
  - Theatre of the Second World War
Shipka/Reeder Keynote Lecture & Lunch - 11:45 - 1:00
- Paul Finkelman
  - Native American Rights, Race, Slavery, and Religious Liberty: The Progressive Visions of the Northwest Ordinance
Paper Session: Interpreting the Meaning of Film & Writing - 1:15 - 1:56
- Justin Gonatas
  - 21st Century American Dream Films: A Classification by Look and Feel
- Nathaniel P. Stokes
  - Authentic Interest: The Importance of Student Value Assessment in Their Own Writing
- Ashley Marie Kollar
  - Beyond Talk Therapy: Why Interoceptive and Proprioceptive Awareness Are Foundational to Trauma Recovery
Roundtable - 2:00 - 3:00
- Laura Beadling, Lucas Hardy, Dolores Sisco
  - Teaching Toni Morrison’s Fiction
Workshop - 3:00 - 4:00
- David Simonelli
  - Taking the OAE: Strategies
Paper Session: People on the Margins - 4:00 - 4:45
- Anna Spagnola
  - The Ethics of Endangered Languages in Translation: A Case Study of the Revitalization of Breton
- Max Kennedy
  - Trans Humanity: The Invisible Group That Needs to be Seen
- Isabella Anderson
  - “Mrs. Satan”: The Most Demonized Reformer of the Gilded Age
Phi Alpha Theta Reception - 5:00 - 6:00
Merchant Lecture Series - 6:00
- Donna DeBlasio
  - McDonald, Ohio: The Consummate Company Town

Saturday, April 11th (Virtual)

10:00 - 12:00
- Benedict Wong
  - The Transparency Paradox: How Behavioral Cynicism Drives Strategic Extraction of Crowd Sentiment
- Brendan Moore
  - What Do We Know About the Working Class?
- Dimitry Razumov
  - Facilitating Transformative Learning Experiences: A Comprehensive Methodological Framework
- Aditi Basu
  - Periodizing COVID-19 in the Global South: A Case-Study of India’s Ecofeminist Transitions
- Jack Shaw
  - A Moment of Crisis: The Nature of the Global Multiversity
- Daniel Herrera
  - The Prison Nation: How Eritrea Traps Its People in Endless Crisis

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