Monday, April 9, 2018

Stay for the day or stop-by any one of our themed sessions. All presentations will be held in the Louis Riel Room.

9:00 – 10:00 Divergent Modes of Being

• Cierra Stamper, “Examining the Implications of Gender Roles in Serial Killer Couples”
• Trent Nelson, “Assessing the Molecular Consequences of the Loss of Emg1-Utp2 Protein-Protein Interaction in the Bowen-Conradi Hutterite Syndrome Ribosomopathy”
• Anna Hawkins, “The Bipolar Lens”

10:00 – 11:00 The Gene in the Bottle

• Harold Grove, “Plastic is Served to Hungry, Hungry Wax Worms”
• Caleb Northam, “Metabolic and Physiological Effects of Silencing the PGC- 1 Coactivators in Larval Zebrafish”
• Ahmed Omar, “Prostaglandin E2 promotes embryonic growth and angiogenesis in zebrafish”

11:00 – 12:00 Life on the Prairies

• Bradley Bator, “Relationship of Ungulate Population Density to Habitat Quality in Riding Mountain National Park”
• Richelle Bamber, “Restoration of ecotone between harvested and natural peatlands in SE Manitoba”
• Richard Wong, “A Man Without A Land: A Journal Entry”

1:00 – 2:00 It’s All About Location, Location, Location

• Thomas Shaw, “Adding Geo-location to the MQTT Protocol”
• Ursula Geisler, “Should Emergency Management in Canada utilize the Sphere Handbook when Interacting with Indigenous Communities?”
• Bob Macumber, “Home Burial (An Adaptation of Robert Frost’s Poem)”

2:00 – 3:00 New Analyses of Old Issues

• Alexandra Mackay, “Give the Bovines a Break: Re-examining the evolution of tuberculosis”
• Emily Kroeker, “Trouble in Paradise: The Argument in Paradise Lost”
• Bob Macumber, “Ethics and the Postmodern: Analysing New Media in Generosity”

3:00 – 4:00 New Perspectives on War and its Heroes

• Jessi Gilchrist, “Seeing Gender in British Defence Planning: Strategic Bombing, Air Raid Precaution, and Maternalism”
• Justin Shannon, “Glitter Bombing: The Production of the Homonational Subject in the War on Terror.”
• Whitney Hodgins, “Tommy Prince”

4:00 – 5:00 Views on Nations

• Keith Murkin, “Canada against Carbon: What’s wrong with the Pan Canadian Approach?”
• Silas Lee, “Federalism Untold: Indigenous Governance and Sovereignty”
• Bailey Pelletier, “Child Marriage and the Politics of Development in Ghana”