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Conference Presentations by Year

Quick, Joe. “Accounting for the Good Life in Highland Ecuador.” 43rd Annual Meeting for the Society for Economic Anthropology. Evanston, IL. May 19, 2023.

Rozga, Margaret. “Connecting Community Through Poetry,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Seattle, WA, March 8-11,  2023

Ayoub, Mohamed. “S.T.E.M. Entrepreneurial Education,” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Innovators Expo, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, May 6, 2022.

Ayoub, Mohamed. “Examining the Nature of π- complex Intermediate for Electrophilic Addition of Hydrogen Halides to Alkenes and Alkynes,” American Chemical Society Spring 2022 Virtual Meeting, March 20-24, 2022.

Ayoub, Mohamed and Ilya Avdeev. “Cross-campus Curricular Collaboration around Entrepreneurial Education in S.T.E.M.” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Teaching and Learning Virtual Symposium, January 13, 2022.

Hager, Lisa. “When Mama Becomes a Papa; Or, Rather, No Parent at All: Trans Panic and the New Woman in Rhoda Broughton’s Dear Faustina (1897).” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. Virtual Vancouver. 3-6 March 2022.

Lee, Julia (et al.). "Representation Matters: Storytime and Collection Diversity". 2022 Wisconsin Library Association Annual Confernece, November 4, 2022.

Lem, Ellyn. "Re-Envisioning the Multicultural Literature Class: Creating Dialogue Between Past and present". American Literature Association Symposia, Santa Fe, NM. 2022.

Quick, Joe R. "Defending against Out-Migration: Rural Precarity, Tourism, and Hope in Quilotoa, Ecuador." American Anthropological Association. Seattle, WA. Nov. 12, 2022.

Ayoub, Mohamed. “Natural Energy Decomposition Analysis for Isomeric Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers,” University of Wisconsin-System Virtual Chemistry Faculties Meeting, November 4-5, 2021.

Ayoub, Mohamed. “Natural Energy Decomposition Analysis with Application to Isomeric Hydrogen Bonding Dimers,” 13th Frontiers in Chemistry and Biology Interface Virtual Symposium, May 7, 2021.

Ayoub, Mohamed. “Investigating Isomeric Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers with Natural Energy Decomposition Analysis,” American Chemical Society Spring 2021 Virtual Meeting, April 21, 2021.

Lem, Ellyn. “Better Than the Book? How Television Made Relationships in Sally Rooney’s Normal People Feel More Real”. Midwest Popular Culture Association, Minneapolis, MN, 2021.

Liss Barry. (November, 2021). Panel Discussion of Corey Anton’s How Non-Being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance. Presentation at the National Communication Association’s 107th Annual Convention. Seattle, WA.

Liss, Barry. (July, 2021). The Gods as Media. Paper presented virtually at the Twenty-Second Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association.

Quick, Joe R. "The Social Páramo: Contesting Environmental Responsibility in Highland Ecuador." American Anthropological Association. Baltimore, MD. Nov. 17-21, 2021.

Scholz, Stephane. “How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Washington County Drug Treatment Court.” Washington County Bar Association Panel Presentation, West Bend, WI. 2021.

Szabo, Tait. "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Neoliberalism as an Illiberal Political Philosophy," International Social Philosophy Conference, North American Society for Social Philosophy, virtual conference, July 2021.

Ayoub, Mohamed. “Natural Energy Decomposition Analysis for Weak Hydrogen Bonded Dimers,” Virtual Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, July 26-30, 2020.  

Ayoub, Mohamed. “Thinking Systematically: Green Chemistry in S.T.E.M. Education,” 24th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Virtual Conference, June 15-19, 2020.

Braedon Brehm and Dominic Robson (Students), and Mohamed Ayoub (Faculty Mentor), “Natural Energy Decomposition Analysis for Molecular Interactions: Applications to Hydrogen Bonding,” at the 2020 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium, May 1, 2020.

R. Gulotta, J. Quick, J. Rinzel, D. Bennett, and G. Jamison. "Social Impacts of Safer at Home Instruction." Wisconsin Sociological Association. Nov. 13, 2020.

Liss, Barry. (June, 2020). The Zossima Principle as an Axiomatic Ideal for Media Ecology Praxis Paper Accepted for Presented to at the Twenty-First Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, June 18–21, 2020.

Malcuit, William. “Whitman and the Failure of a United States.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Boston, MA. March 2020.

Rinzel, J. (2020). POGIL in Psychology. Presented at the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology, St. Pete Beach, FL, January 4, 2020.

Scholz, Stephane. “Measuring the Effectiveness of Diversion Programs.” Washington County Bar Association Panel Presentation, West Bend, WI. 2020

Wang, Juchuan Colin. “How to Teach the Sociology of Race and Ethnic Relations in Today’s Toxic, Divided, and Shifting Political Environment?” at Wisconsin Sociological Association Virtual Conference, 2020.

Yogerst, Chris. “Hidden Persuaders: Selling World War II in 1940s Hollywood,” 2020 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Denver, CO, April 2020.

Alitto, J.M. (April 2019). "Academic stress and self-perception through the grit and mindset lens". Presentation at the Midwest Psychological Association’s annual conference, Chicago, IL.

Alitto, J.M. (January, 2019). "Flipping the psychology classroom while remaining right-side up." Presentation at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology annual conference, St. Pete’s Beach, FL.

Alitto, J.M. & Rinzel, J. (April 2019). What’s up with tech? Engaging students with and without technology. Presentation at the Midwest Psychological Association’s annual conference, Chicago, IL

Ayoub, Mohamed. “20 Years of S.T.E.M. Education and Collaboration,” SySTEMnow Conference, Italian Community Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 13, 2019.

Ayoub, Mohamed. “Modeling the Hydrogen Bond at the Chemistry-Biology Interface,” 12th Annual Frontiers in Chemistry and Biology Interface Symposium, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, May 3, 2019.

Gahala, C. & Duffey, A. (March 2019). The Effectiveness of Practice Tests to Improve Student Learning. Paper presented at the Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

Hankenson, Margaret and Timothy Dunn. “All the President’s Tweets: Media Coverage of Twitter and Its Impact on Democracy.” Midwest Political Science Association, April4-7, 2019.

Lem, Ellyn. "From Golden Girls to the Cool Kids: Television’s Successes and Failures in Representing Older Adults”. Popular Culture Association Conference, Washington, D.C., 2019.

Liss, Barry. (November, 2019). Media Ecological Approach to the History of Music Notation:  The Neume, Staff and Mensural Rhythm. Paper presented to the Media Ecology Caucus at the National Communication Association’s 2019 Annual Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, November 16 in scholar to scholar session. 

 Liss, Barry. (November, 2019). Communication Strategies for Alleviating the National Referee Shortage in Youth Sport. Paper presented to the Communication and Sport Division for consideration of presentation at the National Communication Association’s 2019 Annual Convention in scholar to scholar session, November 15 in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Liss, Barry. (June, 2019). Marshall McLuhan as Reconfiguring Art Form: Analysis of the Interviews, Debates and Lectures. Paper Presented at the 20th Annual Media Ecology Convention, June 28, 2019 at the University of Toronto/St. Michael’s College, Canada.

Peterson, Mark CE. “It’s All Wet: Thales Watering the Roots of a New Environmentalism.” Religion/Water/Climate: Changing Cultures and Landscapes conference. University College, Cork, Ireland. June 15th, 2019.

Peterson, Mark CE. “Back to the Future for Professional Ethics” and “Ethics and Environmental Problems.” Central States Water Environment Association 92nd Annual Meeting, May 16, 2019, Monona Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin.

Peterson, Mark CE. “Back to the Future: Sustainability in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.” Wake Forest University, October 3, 2019

Scholz, Stephane. “Root Causes and Opportunities for Talent Retention and Attraction in the Hartford Area: Labor Market Analytics and Employee Net Promoter Score Results.” Economic Development Corporation of Washington County presentation to the Board of Directors, Hartford, WI. 2019.

Selby, Talitha et al. "Kinetic Investigations of the CH (X2Π) Radical Reaction with Cyclopentadiene," Pacific Conference on Spectroscopy and Dynamics (2019)

Selby, Talitha et al. "Understanding Combustion: Gas Phase Kinetics of the CH Radical and Cyclopentadiene Reaction,” National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (2019)

Selby, Talitha et al. "Experimental and Theoretical Studies of CN Radical Reactions in the Gas Phase,” The 11th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium (2019)

Selby, Talitha et al. Investigations into the Reaction of Cyclopentadiene with CH(X2P) Radicals: A Novel Route to Benzene Formation,” The 25th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics and Related Phenomena (2018).

Szabo, Tait. “The Road to Neoliberalism in Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom,” Indiana Philosophical Association, Fall Workshop on Socio-Political Philosophy, Marian University, Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 9, 2019.

Szabo, Tait. “The Road to Neoliberalism in Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom,” 71st Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, October 25-26, 2019.

Szabo, Tait. “Defining Neoliberalism,” Central States Philosophical Association 2019 Meeting, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, October 18-19, 2019.

Szabo, Tait. “Defining Neoliberalism,” Wisconsin Philosophical Association, Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, WI, April 13, 2019.

Teweldemedhin, A. “Students Store by Similarities and Retrieve by dierences: a Personal Perspective”, Northcentral Technical College, Wausau, September 28, 2019.

Widmayer, Anne. “Cautionary Tales about Taboo Gendered Emotions: Medea, Odysseus, and Achilles,” presented at the 2019 Midwest Conference for British Studies conference, Chicago, IL.

Widmayer, Anne. “Self-Conscious Literary Change: Engaging the Audience in the Emerging Novel,” invited talk for a seminar at the Research Centre on the Anglophone World at Aix-Marseille University (https://britaix.hypotheses.org/), March 2019.

Alitto, J., & Rinzel, J. (2018). Step off My Coattails! Strategies to Avoid Social Loafing in Academic Work Group. Presented at the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology Annual Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL, January 4th, 2018.

Ayoub, Mohamed. “π-Hydrogen Bonding of Weakly Bound Dimers between Nonpolar Organic Molecules and Some Polar Molecules,” Presentation at the 50th Midwest Theoretical Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, June 21-23, 2018.  

Hansen, A., B. Spicer [Students] and Mohamed Ayoub [Faculty Mentor], Poster at the 17th Annual University of Wisconsin System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 20, 2018.

Hansen, A., B. Spicer [Students] and Mohamed Ayoub [Faculty Mentor], “Testing Experimental and Theoretical Descriptors of Selected Hydrogen Bonded Complexes: Natural Bond Orbital Study,” Poster at the 15th Annual University of Wisconsin System Research in the Rotunda, Madison, Wisconsin, April 11, 2018.

Brunette-Hill, Sandi. Best Practices in Teaching Deviance: An Integrated Studies Model Wisconsin Sociological Association University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. October 5, 2018

Dunn, Timothy and Margaret Hankenson. “Telling the Truth About Lies: Journalism in the Time of Trump,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL April, 2018

Gahala, C., & Duffey, A. (April 2018). Embezzlement in Dairyland. Paper presented at the Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL

Halverson, J., Gahala, C., & Schmidt, B. (April 2018). General Business Education in a Crowded Curriculum. Panel presentation at the Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

Hager, Lisa. “Outing the Work of Gender: Victorian Studies & Transgender Studies.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. St. Petersburg, Florida. 11-14 October 2018.

Hays, Christopher. Are the Fiber-Tempered Sherds from the ClaiborneSite (22HA501) Locally Made or Imported? (with R. Weinstein and R. Saunders) Mid-South Annual Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge. 2018

Kryukov, A. "Mathematics and physics of consistency of the Born rule with normal probability distribution", DICE2018, Castiglioncello (Tuscany) 2018.

Kryukov, A. "On the motion of microscopic bodies and observation of position in quantum theory", Bar-Ilan University and Ariel University (Israel) 2018

Kryukov, A. "On observation of position of macroscopic and microscopic particles", IARD2018, Merida, Yucutan, Mexico.

Liss, Barry. (June, 2018). Chilling Out the Medium: 10 Media Ecological Axioms Regarding Aesthetic Practice. Paper presented at the 19th Annual Media Ecology Association Conference at the University of Maine, June 21-24, 2018. 

 Liss, Barry. (June, 2018). Hot Media, Technological Transformation and the Plague of the Dark Emotions: Erich Fromm, Viktor Frankl and the Recovery of Meaning. Paper presented at the 19th Annual Media Ecology Association Conference at the University of Maine, June 21-24, 2018. This essay won the conference’s top paper award and was published in the peer- reviewed journal Explorations in Media Ecology

 Liss, Barry. (November, 2018). In Defense of the Athenian Way: Neil Postman and Eric Hoffers’ Arguments Regarding Aesthetic Creativity. Paper presented at the National Communication Association’s 104th Annual Convention in St. Lake City, November 8-11, 2018. 

 Liss, Barry. (November, 2018). The Philistine as a Rhetorical Persona. Paper presented at the 104th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (pending acceptance) in St. Lake City, UT, November 8-11, 2018.

Malcuit, William. “The New Lyric Theory in Modernist Studies.” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Columbus, OH. November 2018.

Rinzel, J. (2018). The Associations between Grit, Academic Enablers, and Personality. Presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 12, 2018.

Scholz, Stephane. “Treatment Alternatives and Diversion for Opioid and OWI Clients in Washington
County.” Regular Session on Crime and Justice at the Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin
Sociological Association, Milwaukee, WI. 2018

Selby, Talitha et al. "“Kinetic investigations of the gas phase reaction between the CH radical and cyclopentadiene,”. The 10th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium (2018)

Widmayer, Anne. “Charlotte Charke’s Antiheroes in The History of Henry Dumont and Charlotte Evelyn(1756),” in Against Conventions:Uncommon Social Roles of Women and Men from Early Modern Times to 1945, eds. Magdaleny Gibiec, Doroty Wiśniewskiej, and Leszka Ziątkowskiego. Kraków: Księgarnia Akamicka, 2018. 367-80.

Widmayer, Anne. Raging Women and Crying Men: Taboo Gendered Emotions,” presentedas part of a special workshop on the history of emotions at the 2018 North American Conference on British Studies, Providence, RI

Yogerst, Chris. “Battle in Washington: Isolationist Hysteria, Hollywood, and the United States Senate Investigation on Motion Picture Propaganda” at the 2018 Film & History Conference (Madison, WI).

Yogerst, Chris. “Patriotic Propaganda: How Hollywood Defended Anti-Nazi Production Trends Prior to World War II” at the 2018 Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Toronto, ON).