TriCampus-Undergraduate-Virtual-Conference

Welcome to the TriCampus Undergraduate Conference Questions That Endure Presenting liberal arts scholarship from Concordia University, Irvine, Fresno Pacific University, and Pepperdine University Saturday, February 27th, 2021 9am: Welcome to the conference (Plenary Room) 9:15: Keynote address (Plenary Room) Jeff Mallinson, CUI: The Liberal Arts as Medicine for Our Ailing Times 10:00: Q&A (Plenary Room) 10:30: Break 10:45: Session One Session 1A: Society and Justice (Panel Room 1A) Faculty host: David Schulz, CUI Student moderators: Savanna Winchel, Elizabeth Sedgwick Session 1B: Friendship in the Face of Isolation (Panel Room 1B) Faculty host: John Norton, CUI Student moderators: Greta Moons, Sean Nowlan Justice: The Discrepancies Between Idealism and Reality (Natalie Alderton, Pepperdine) Stereotyping the Other: Misconceptions of Life in Communism (Anastassiya Barakhoyeva, FPU) Revealing Hidden Forces: How the Sociological Imagination Uncovers Social Problems (Kaylee de la Motte, CUI) Breaking the Barriers: Liberating African Americans and Women from Racism and Sexism (Veronica Mendez Garcia, FPU) A More Caring Society (Chloe Ruiz, CUI) Friendship in 1984: An Aristotelian Interpretation (Annika Carlander, Pepperdine) Lady Bird: The Search for a Virtuous Life (Lauren Chivers, Pepperdine) “How dreary - to be - Somebody” (Ella Hachee, CUI) Intentional Intentionality: Hexis and the Accidents of Friendship (Rachel Tillmann, CUI) 12:15: Lunch 1:00: Session Two Session 2A: Politics: Presidents, Tyrants, and the Ideal King (Panel Room 2A) Faculty hosts: Kristen Koenig, CJ Armstrong, CUI Student moderators: Breyanna Taylor, Savanna Winchel The Necessity of Tyranny in Ancient Athens (Carter Annema, CUI) State Glorified and Swamp Drained: Donald Trump as a Roman Leader (Mia Boyd, Pepperdine) The Light of the North: Redeeming Reception of Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle through J.R.R.Tolkien and C.S Lewis (Luke Fredette, FPU) The Lost King of the Gilgamesh Epic (Jacob Lange, CUI) The Tyrant’s Triumph: How Pindar Extols Hieron of Syracuse Through Poetic Innovation (Emily Yamada, CUI) Session 2B: Theology and the Liberal Arts (Panel Room 2B) Faculty host: Jeff Mallinson, CUI Student moderators: Hannah Christian, Greta Moons Recultivating Purpose Through the Liberal Arts and Scriptural Wisdom (Emmalyn Doyle, CUI) The First Step Back to God: Augustine on the Habit of Humility (Olivia Eilers, Pepperdine) Wretchedness Through the Lens of Separation from God (Alexis Olmstead, Pepperdine) Navigating Our Differences with the Words of C.S Lewis (Luke Smith, FPU) 2:30: Break 3:00: Session Three Session 3A: Cultural and Community: There and Then, Here and Now (Panel Room 3A) Faculty host: Sarah Karam, CUI Student moderators: Savanna Winchel, Hannah Christian The Five Suns: How the Aztec Empire Justified Imperial Expansion (Kaitlyn Gleeson, CUI) There’s No Prince Charming (Tiffany Hall, Pepperdine) A Llorona for the Chicana: Reshaping Mexican Tragedy to Tell the Chicana’s Story (Kirstie Skogerboe, CUI) Nuances of Context and Character in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Sarahjean St John, CUI) Corium: The Elephant’s Footprint Within Chernobyl (Ceceli Vega, FPU) 4:30: Break 4:45: Summary reflections and conference conclusion (Plenary Room) Session 3B: The Literary Lens: Tale-Tellers and the Storied Life (Panel Room 3B) Faculty host: Kerri Tom, CUI Student moderators: Sean Nowlan, Breyanna Taylor The Power of Death (Haley Brouwer, Pepperdine) Suggestions for Effective Civil Discourse from The Canterbury Tales (Cassandra Cate, CUI) Heroism in Sophocles’ Ajax (Nathan Estrick, CUI) Through Avian Eyes: The Power of Costumes in Aristophanes’ The Birds (Evangeline Gahn, CUI) Author's Odyssey: The Role of the Storyteller in Omeros (Elianna Swan, CUI) Special thanks to: Tuan Hoang, Pepperdine University Pamela Johnston, Fresno Pacific University Marshall Johnston, Fresno Pacific University Greg Camp, Fresno Pacific University CJ Armstrong, Concordia University, Irvine John Lu, Concordia University, Irvine - [Plenary room link:] https://cui-edu.zoom.us/j/96829559272?pwd=a1dNMzMwUVVXWHdKL1IySW5HcEJCQT09 [Panel room 1A link:] https://cui-edu.zoom.us/j/96180778990?pwd=ZUl0THMzdVhFeXhKZmVIdjQyUHZ6UT09 [Panel room 1B link:] https://cui-edu.zoom.us/j/91268821366?pwd=TFpCNmdkU09TKyt4Sm1lTDhINDA3Zz09 [Panel room 2A link:] https://cui-edu.zoom.us/j/96441381914?pwd=bWtvZFFHMDVvUnZDSy90ZStBU1Vjdz09 [Panel room 2B link:] https://cui-edu.zoom.us/j/94327566911?pwd=ZjNSbEVkQjZHYzJLY3ZhRXI3YzBiQT09 [Panel room 3A link:] https://cui-edu.zoom.us/j/98779013568?pwd=bFVQSWpzcHhsOHI1UnNqcC9vWEREUT09 [Panel room 3B link:] https://cui-edu.zoom.us/j/99172417519?pwd=Wm1DWE9nNUxoTkNXd1B2dkwwQ2hyQT09