The 29th Annual James C. Young Colloquium
"People, Places, and Objects: Engaging the World"

Saturday February 14th, 2009
The Commons, Third Floor

Each year, the Student Association of Graduate Anthropologists, in conjunction with the Department of Anthropology and the Graduate Student Union, sponsors the colloquium as a platform for graduate students to present papers or posters on anthropological issues that pertain to their research topics. The colloquium provides a place for graduate students to develop professionalism in an informal and friendly setting. In addition, the James C. Young Colloquium is the longest-running student-led conference at the University of California, Riverside. In years past, students from a variety of departments, including Political Science, Linguistics, and Art History, have found the James C. Young Colloquium an inviting space to share their research experiences.

The theme of this year's conference is "People Places and Objects: Engaging the World." We envision a multi-disciplinary conference that emphasizes human interactions with and manipulations of landscapes and environments. These interactions are reflected through the embodiment, remembering, and engagement of and with landscapes and environments. Although grounded in anthropology, the conference seeks to nurture interdisciplinary dialogue. Our hope is that student researchers will be able to explore and develop the connections that link their research experiences to this theme.

SCHEDULE of PANELS and POSTERS for JYC

POSTERS

Poster Session 1 (9:45-10:15 am)

Timothy Dahlum
CSU Dominguez Hills Anthropology
Spatial Analysis of the an Incan Road: A Least Cost Approach to the Tumbes Region

Emily McEwen
UCR History
Dramatize What You Do: Tourist Productions at the Mission Inn

Susan Hall
UCR History
Disney's Grand Californian Experience: Authenticity and the Anthropology of Tourism

Poster Session 2 (2:30-3:00 pm)

Helen Gantenbein
UCR Anthropology
Liminality and Cancer

Kadrina Baker, Andrew Buchanan
UCR Anthropology
Health Ramifications of Riverside Air Pollution

Heddie Richards
Katie DeFea Lab, UCR Biomedicine Department
PAR-2 Stimulated Migration in Cancer Cells is Dependent on the dual specificity of B-arrestin phosphorylation of chronophin (CIN) dephosphorylation and activatio of the actin-filament-(cofilin ) severing protein.

PAPERS

Panel AM 1 Objects (10:15-12:00 pm)

1. Husni Abu Bakar
   UCR Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
   Competing Voices in A. Samad Said's Dosa Pejuang
   
   
2. Jonathan Lee
   UCR Comparative Literature
   Ergo Sum: Witnessing The Witness
   
   
3. Alice Park
   UCR Art History
   Commemoration, Birth, and Healing: An Interpretation of the Doni Portrait Reverses and their Functional and Allegorical Significance
   
   
4. James Battle
   UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Anthropology
   Designs, Devices, and Diabetes: Reconfiguring Risk and Personhood
   
   
5. Richard Niemeyer
   UCR Sociology
   Social Neuroscience: how its insights can supplement and synthesize (but not supplant) sociological theories of culture
   
   
6. Andrew Turner
   UCR Anthropology
   The Maize God and Cosmic Order: A Reinterpretation of the Classic Maya Holmul

Discussant: Dr. Christina Schwenkel

Panel AM 2 Place (10:15-12:00 pm)

1. Akiko Nomura
   UCR History
   The Working out of the Collective Future: Issei political thought and collective memories of the Japanese American Internment, 1941-1945
   
   
2. Jennifer Chmilar
   UCR Anthropology
   The Ancient Maya of the Yalahau Region and Rock Alignments in Wetlands: Beginning to Understand this Human - Environment Interaction
   
   
3. Vanessa Stout
   UCR History
   Movin' on Up, Movin' on Out": Black Flight in Los Angeles from 1970 to 2000
   
   
4. Jun Gines
   UCR Anthropology
   Metro-Manila's Sensescapes: Changing perceptions of vernacular urbanity
   
   
5. Patrick Emmett
   UCR Religious Studies
   The Tactic of Ethical Self-Examination as a Response to Corporate Globalization
   
   
6. Gary Coyne
   UCR Sociology
   The Spread of the English Language: The Case of the Chinese Education System

Discussant: Dr. Paul Ryer

Panel PM 1 People-Bodies (1:00-2:30 pm)

1. Eric Heller
   UCR Anthropology
   Cybernetic Networked Prosthetics
   
   
2. Michelle Butler
   UCR Anthropology
   The Materiality of the Body in Archaeological Investigations in Mesoamerica
   
   
3. Ann Mazzocca
   UCR Dance
   Souvnans: Embodied Remembrance
   
   
4. Amanda Spears
   UCR Sociology
   Making Sense of State Crime: Human Rights Violations and Crimes Against Humanity
   
   
5. Lauren Russo
   UCLA Anthropology
   Identity Formation through the Embodiment of the (Historical) Other

Discussant: Dr. Juliet McMullin

Panel PM 2 Place (1:00-2:30 pm)

1. James W. Love
   UCR Sociology
   Race, Structure, and Income Inequality in the Modern World-System
   
   
2. Angela Orlando
   UCLA Anthropology
   Domestic Aesthetic Preferences in Lima, Peru
   
   
3. John Gust
   UCR Anthropology
   Mapping Signs of Partial Truths
   
   
4. Jessica Bodoh-Creed
   UCR Anthropology
   Room B in the Northwest Palace at Nimrud: An Experience in Kingship and Ideology
   
   
5. C.L. Kieffer
   UNM Anthropology
   Death and Sacrifice in Midnight Terror Cave

Discussant: Dr. Derick Fay

Panel PM 3 People-Gendered Bodies (3:00-4:30 pm)

1. John Alvarado
   UCR Anthropology
   Mixtec Transnational Communities and The Construction of Male Identity: Transnationalism, Governance, and Masculinity
   
   
2. Meghan Andrew
   UCR Anthropology
   Home Sweet Home: Consumption, Family Formation, and Young Women Migrants in Xalapa, Mexico
   
   
3. Kyle Lovell
   UCR Anthropology
   Disorder and Disarray: Masculinity within the Punk Subculture
   
   
4. Rachel Neff
   UCR Hispanic Studies
   Rebeca's disability in 100 years of solitude
   
   
5. Paul Michael L. Atienza
   UC Seatrip
   Virtual Fierceness: Race and Gender Performatives as Cultural Exchange in America's Next Top Model

Discussant: Dr. Christine Gailey

Panel PM 4 People (3:00- 4:30 pm)

1. Adanna K. Jones
   UCR Critical Dance Studies
   Soy Cubana Negra?: An investigation of my performance of Cubanness
   
   
2. Patrick Linder and Silvia Ventura-Luna
   UCR Anthropology
   How Silvia Became White
   
   
3. Richard Alvarado
   UCR Anthropology
   ZZZZ: An Anthropologist's Sleeps
   
   
4. Ty Kenworthy
   BYU Anthropology
   Transformation at Death: American Mortuary Prepartory Procedures Effect a Rite of Passage for the Deceased
   
   
5. Elliot Jordan
   UCR AGSM
   Open Source Ideas for the development of New Religions

Discussant: Dr. Susan Ossman

Key Note Speaker (4:30-5:30 PM)

Introduction by Dr. Derick Fay
Key Note Speaker: Dr. Jake Kosek
UC Berkley
On The Nature of the Beast: On the New Uses of the Honey Bee

For more information, please contact jamesyoungcolloq@gmail.com.