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Keynote: Dr. Shoshanah Jacobs 2

Great Hall Presentations - Morning 3

Great Hall Presentations - Afternoon 7

Library - Poster Map 12

Library - Poster List 13

Schedule at a Glance 15

Thanks & Acknowledgements 16

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April 12, 2018

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Which skills will you need to enter the job market? What are employers looking for? Does a university education teach those skills? Take a moment to reflect on where you want to go in life and which tools you’ll need. The answer may surprise you.

Join Dr. Shoshanah Jacobs for a discussion of disciplinary vs transferable skill set education as she explores the traditional academic framework and suggests ways in which it could be harnessed to teach the whole learner. Students in the audience will leave with a new list of skills to make sure that they learn, and instructors will benefit from a few simple examples of how to teach some key transferable skills within their disciplinary courses. Shoshanah will tell you about Ideas Congress, an experiential learning environment at the University of Guelph that has broken the disciplinary and year level silos of post-secondary education without causing it to crumble!

BIOGRAPHYDr. Jacobs is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and a mem-ber of the steering committee for the CBS Office of Educational Scholarship and Practice.

She has taught over 8,000 students in both large and small courses across all undergrad-uate and graduate levels and has employed a variety of active and experiential teaching techniques. Dr. Jacobs takes a student-centered approach to teaching and works as a learning facilitator specialising in active learning in large classes and supports a research program in multi-level system approaches to experiential learning. She is a winner of the University’s distinguished professor award for excellence in teaching (2015).

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

What Could Our Universities Teach?A Reflection on Disciplinary and Transferable Education

DR. SHOSHANAH JACOBSDepartment of Integrative Biology

CBS Office of Educational Scholarship and Practice

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Great Hall - Morning

Time Presentation Description

9:00AM Coffee and Breakfast Snacks

9:15AM Opening RemarksDr. Christine Tsang, Faculty Director, CURL

Dr. Lucas Savino, Steering Committee Member, CURLDr. Scott Schofield, Steering Committee Member, CURLDr. Andrea King, Steering Committee Member, CURL

9:30AM Keynote AddressWhat Could our Universities Teach? A Reflection on Disciplinary and Transferable Education

Dr. Shoshanah Jacobs, University of Guelph

10:15AM Coffee Break

10:30AM Teacher Conceptions and Teaching Methods for Creativity in Norwegian Classrooms T. Boyd

This study examined what teachers think about creativity and how they foster creativity in their students. Teachers from three elementary schools in Norway’s Telemark region completed in-per-son interviews about their conceptions of creativity, as well as an online questionnaire designed to assess their behaviour supporting the development of student creativity in the classroom. In addi-tion, observations of classrooms ranging from grades 2-7 were recorded and compared to teach-ers’ self-reported classroom behaviour. Results were analyzed for correlations between subscale scores and the ability of teacher characteristics to predict their reported classroom behaviour. Fur-thermore, results were discussed in terms of Vygotskian principles of learning, specifically the role of tools in cultural transmission and how environment influences creativity development, as well as differences in cultural approaches to developing student creativity. Key components of Norwe-gian education which encouraged creative student development included events centered around culturally relevant themes, high levels of independence granted to students in their projects and classroom activities, and use of the outdoors and a wide variety of tools with which to work. The reinforcement of local and Norwegian culture was implicit in activities across a range of subjects was identified by teachers as playing an important role in developing students’ identity.

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10:40AM “Purely Politics”: Reactions of the British Government to German Espionage in the First World War

M. PattersonThis project is an investigation into how the British government reacted to German espionage operations during the First World War. The research was conducted on a grant from the W. Galen Weston Fund for British History, which allowed me to travel to London, England to research in the national archives, where memos and documents sent between the War Office and Foreign Office suggest that the British government was more concerned with the political ramifications of spying than they were with the threat that it posed. Despite massive public paranoia around spying, and efforts by the government to prevent any loss of information, individual cases of spies tended to be handled based on how they could affect global perceptions of Britain. Based on this, the British government treated female operatives and operatives from neutral countries—especially the Unit-ed States—differently than domestic or German operatives, opting for civil trials and imprison-ment rather than courts-martial and executions. My research found that this was decided explicitly for political reasons and that even in cases where members of the War Office felt that a spy needed to be executed for military reasons, political considerations won out. While scholarship on this subjected has tended to focus on public paranoia and the creation of the British Secret Service, my research focuses on how the government reacted to the actual cases of espionage during the war.

10:50AM The Three Metamorphoses of Stanley Kubrick: Nietzschean Myth in 2001: A Space Odyssey T. McGoey

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Three Metamorphoses present parallel journeys about the development of the human mind. This is explored by Leonard Wheat’s Kubrick’s 2001: A Triple Allegory, which explains the importance of Three Metamorphoses in his analysis of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Drawing from Wheat’s study, this paper connects the cinematic understanding of human development and philosophical notions of the human mind. Nietzsche’s Three Metamorphoses involving the camel, lion and child are mirrored in Kubrick’s characters, represented by the apes, Dr. Bowman, and the Star-Child. First, Kubrick’s apes represent a primi-tive society that highlights a plain, static nature of humanity, similar to Nietzsche’s camel. Second, Kubrick’s Dr. Bowman kills H.A.L 9000 to achieve forms of new values, correlating to Nietzsche’s lion, a symbolic representation of bravery in achieving beliefs of its own. Finally, Kubrick’s star-child depicts a new and pure creation of growth symbolizing humans’ understanding of their own consciousness. This philosophy matches Nietzsche’s portrayal of the child, which he believes rep-resents humanity’s final yet-to-be-realized combination of intelligence, strength and dignity.

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Great Hall - Morning

11:00AM Leading Change: Social Responsible Investing at Post-Secondary InstitutionE. Namkung, D. Kotsopoulos

In recent years, numerous movements across the country headed by university students have called for their schools to adopt social responsible investing practices. Social responsible invest-ing is the practice of combining financial objectives with social values to make a fair return while accomplishing social and environmental goals. The deepest roots of socially responsible investing can be traced back to religious avoidance of “sin stocks” like the tobacco, gambling, and alcohol industries. In modern times, social responsible investing has emerged as a tool to catalyze amoral practices and activities and put pressure for change. This research project aims to highlight that post-secondary institutions can play a role in social change by employing social responsible in-vestment techniques on their endowment funds. However, the student movements have been met by resistance from almost all universities citing concerns related to fiduciary duty, pooled funds, and the question whether universities even have a responsibility to take a stance on social and environmental causes. Universities have responded by yielding to the demand but making con-cessions through less “risky” ways such as implementing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations for investment decisions, partially divesting their funds, creating separate funds, and increasing research funding. This project aims to clarify both the risks associated with social responsible investing and the role of universities as agents of social responsibility.

11:10AM An Exploration of Facebook’s Impact on Young Adults’ Romantic Relationships T. Trelford, I. Cheung, J. Wright

Previous research surrounding Facebook and romantic relationships tends to give a bleak out-look on the impact of Facebook on relationships. For example, undergraduates who showed more addictive tendencies towards Facebook also experienced more cognitive jealousy and displayed more surveillance behaviours towards their romantic partners (Elphinston & Noller, 2011). Studies have also looked into factors that are associated with Facebook behaviours that can affect individuals’ romantic relationship satisfaction. For instance, females score higher than males on both Facebook usage and romantic jealousy (Muise et al., 2009) and are more prone to Facebook-evoked jealousy and to jealousy-motivated behaviours than are males (McAndrew & Shah, 2013). However, Wolfe (2015) found that 50 percent of participants stated that Facebook had at least some positive effect on their romantic relationship. Participants also indicated that they believed certain Facebook behaviours led to increased relationship satisfaction while others led to decreased relationship satisfaction. The current study extended past research by examining how these positive and negative Facebook behaviours are possibly moderated by trust to affect relationship satisfaction. A total of 147 participants (who were between the ages of 18-29, users of Facebook, and were currently involved in a romantic relationship with another Facebook user) completed a questionnaire regarding their attachment style, trust, jealous tendencies, positive and negative Facebook behaviours, and relationship satisfaction. It was found that Facebook behaviours, and especially negative Facebook behaviours, influence trust, which in turn, predicts relationship satisfaction.

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11:20AM After Tito: Authoritarian Governments as a Means to Reconciliation C. Scott

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the successes and failures of Josip Tito’s reign as presi-dent of the former Yugoslavia before its infamous ethnic cleansing and subsequent dissolution. The paper identifies key components of a successful government that can curb the complex issue of long-standing intra-nation ethnic conflict, including the establishment of institutions to con-tinue the legacy of a strongman leader and the development of successors to a leader. The failure to accomplish these goals can result in a failed transitional government, as explained by Realistic Conflict Theory. The paper primarily uses the example of Tito, but also draws from examples in Rwanda to Singapore to evaluate the successes of authoritarian strongman. Such examples can pro-vide a pathway to stability in areas with major conflicts and the further development of third world nations that suffer from ethnic conflicts.

11:30AM Follow Back? Instagram’s Influence on Internet Social Capital and Sense of BelongingA. McKenzie, J. Smith, R. Delaney, A. Connor, K. Tomkins, N. Burstein

Social media, in particular Instagram usage, is pervasive among youth. Research by Allen et al. (2014) outlines multiple studies pertaining to social connectedness and its impact on sense of belonging, psychosocial wellbeing, and identity development in adolescents. Their findings in-dicate that increased use of social media provides more opportunities for young people to con-nect, communicate, and interact with each other. They concluded that it may be the experience of connectedness and staying in touch that suffices adolescents’ need to belong. Although the social connectedness potentially gained from social media has demonstrated to enhance sense of belong-ing (Allen et al., 2014); no previous research has looked at the impact of social media use on sense of belonging and social capital. More specifically, no research has analyzed Instagram use and its relationship with sense of belonging and internet social capital. Social capital broadly refers to the resources accumulated through the relationships among people (Coleman, 1988), and is recognized as a by-product of social connectedness (Allen et al., 2014). This study aims to explore the connec-tion between Instagram, internet social capital, and sense of belonging. We will be assessing Ins-tagram usage through a self-reported survey, alongside validated questionnaires to measure sense of belonging and internet social capital. We predict that those more active on Instagram, will have both higher internet social capital and a higher sense of belonging.

11:40AM Poster Session in the LibraryJoin us in the library to freely explore and discuss a range of student posters!

The poster list can be found on page 13.

12:00PM Lunch Break (Posters open)

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12:30PM Presentation of 100th Anniversary of the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Canada2018-19 Project & Announcement of Huron CURL Student Internship

N. Orford, CURL Community Associate

12:40PM Understanding Climate ChangeN. Stacey

Climate change is arguably the most devastating problem facing current and future generations. Despite a wide range of positions on the validity of this issue, from climate change deniers to those searching for a solution, there is nevertheless a consistent lack of understanding. In my presentation I will address why many continue to disregard the imminent threat of climate change. This question will be reviewed by considering perspectives from psychology, philosophy, and sociology, all of which converge on the conclusion that climate change, as we currently understand it, is too abstract to be appropriately recognized. Considering our understanding of threats, through psychology, one can see how humans are unable to contemplate the full unseen, long-term danger that climate change imposes. Furthermore, philosophy, specifically ethics, exposes moral predicaments resulting in misunderstanding and ultimately the inability to take action. Lastly, sociology and western eco-nomic ideologies have a significant role in this disregard of environmental problems; this disregard takes form in consumer culture and businesses’ constant pursuit of profit. Using papers written by Marshall, Hamilton, Leopold, Hardin, and Gardner, I will provide support for this position. Using philosophy, I will address how ethics can pose a tangible solution to climate change that is consistent with our current understanding. The solution I offer would not only serve to protect the environment but also both the current and future inhabitants.

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12:50PM A Portrait of Page: A Collaborative Webpage Design for English and Cultural Studies 2354EN. Cross

This presentation will demonstrate the collaborative process and product researched and de-signed by students in English 2354E: Canadian Literature Since 1914. We aim to tour our audience through the research and web design and to share our metacognitive reflections on the collabo-rative learning process involved in this web design. The webpage was modelled after the existing CanLit Guides website (www.canlitguides.ca) published by the academic journal Canadian Litera-ture, but sought to fill an existing gap in that website by creating an educational guide on the Cana-dian poet P. K. Page. In addition to collaborating as a class of four students, we also engaged with library staff, our instructor, and faculty during our web design and our library mini-conference. The website foregrounds Page’s intersections in poetry and art by highlighting Page’s paintings, sketches, and artistic style. Page travelled extensively, and the website features a summary of her experiences in Brazil and how that time influenced her life and art. The website sees this moment as a focalization point for the consideration of her multifaceted artistic career. In our presentation, we will highlight how the collaborative learning process allowed each student to specialize in an area of research about Page’s life while also interacting with the medium of information distribution unique to some students: the webpage. Creating the webpage for the project enabled us to enhance our understanding of the digital humanities while engaging with the literary criticism and history of this poet.

1:00PM Reward AppraisalO. Chevalier

Research on probability discounting is well established, and dates back to Tversky and Kahneman (1978) and their work on decision making theory. While this research is validated, it tends to focus on self-report questionnaires by asking participants theoretical scenarios about finances. The pres-ent study focused on replicating a study by Weatherly and Derenne (2013) on how a frame of mon-ey being “Won” or “Owed” changed the way participants discounted. The present research recreated the frame in a laboratory setting with real money offered to participants.

1:10PM Reducing Physiological Fear Responses with Fantasy RoleplayP. Giulietti

The study theorized that roleplaying a brave character would result in less fear being demonstrated by participants compared to roleplaying an ordinary character. The study was based on a previous experiment conducted by the researcher as an attempt to replicate and extend the previous results. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In the Bravery condition, partici-pants were asked to imagine themselves as a brave and powerful wizard. In the Ordinary condition, participants imagined themselves as an ordinary human person. Participants in both conditions re-sponded in-character to a series of interactive scenarios that were read to them by the researcher. A galvanic skin response unit was used to record participants’ skin conductance during the study. The participants’ skin conductance during a baseline typing task was compared to their skin conduc-tance while playing the horror computer game, Slender: The Eight Pages. Additionally, participants’ in-game behaviour was recorded and interpreted as either being brave or fearful. A self-reported measure of how much fear was experienced during gameplay was included in a questionnaire. The study is ongoing.

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1:20PM The Waste Land ChroniclesN. Duncan, A. French, T. McGoey, D. Mair

T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, since its creation, has been an enigma to scholars, students, and all readers. This collaborative project aims break down the complexities of Eliot’s poetry, providing scholarly insight, annotations, and an image gallery. Our site most importantly breaks down the poem by the different themes that the user would be able to navigate separately from the poem itself. Our site allows the reader to become more acquainted with Eliot’s work, dissecting the allusions and references that are incorporated into his story. In addition to the annotated poem, we intend to include a performance of Part III of the Waste Land to give the user an idea of how the poem operates through spoken word. We hope the site can embellish the experience of reading The Waste Land, enriching and breaking down the poem that has been read for nearly 100 years.

1:30PM Code to Learn or Learn to Code?The Role of Computational Thinking in Mathematics Education

L. Harris, B. Dickson This study that took place in a grade 7 classroom in an urban setting. In this research, we explored two different approaches to integrating computational thinking in the learning of mathematics in a grade 7 class. Some propose that computational thinking (CT) should be the medium through which mathematical thinking is explored. Others suggest that CT is an object of itself and should be introduced as the basis of other subject-based learning. To explore these contexts we consid-er learning framed as “wide-walls” and we contemplate optimal structures for engaging in both computational thinking and mathematical learning. Our results suggest that caution should be exercised by educators in initially defining the wide walls of CT by the school’s curriculum. In our study, when mathematical thinking using CT was the primary objective, we turned what should have been wide walls simply into walls; that is barriers emerged that prevented the majority of students from engaging in and developing the rudimentary CT skills that were necessary to move into the mathematical thinking. The mathematics became the noise rather than the symphony that could have been orchestrated by a more nuanced understanding and appreciation of the CT via the coding.

1:40PM Coffee Break

1:50PM The Underexamined Impact of the Emerald Ash Borer on Ojibwe Black Ash BasketryM. Bishop

This study explores the impact of the Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive jewel beetle species native to northeastern Asia that feeds on ash tree species, on Ojibwe communities, particularly upon the livelihood and craft of Ojibwe black ash basket makers. I primarily focus on Walpole Island First Nation, although territorial borders are not strictly adhered to due to the international presence of the Emerald Ash Borer as well as the reality of colonial borders cutting through Indigenous lands.Little research has been conducted with regards to the intersection of the Emerald Ash Borer and Indigenous peoples, particularly those whose cultural production is directly affected by its pres-ence. By examining Ojibwe artisans’ reactions to these changes, this project contributes to the ex-isting body of knowledge by investigating an ecological threat and its reality-altering power from an overlooked perspective.

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2:00PM How Much Do You “Like” It? A Study of Instagram and the Benefits to SociabilityM. Puccia, E. Chapnik, J. Arnold

Instagram is unique from other social networking programs as it creates an exclusively visu-al-oriented culture only offered for mobile phone. A study by Lee, Lee, Moon and Sung (2015), explores the relationship between common motives for using Instagram and key social and psychological factors in order to determine the characteristics that lead to avid Instagram use. A survey of 212 Instagram users ages 20-39 in Korea evaluated their primary activities, intention for use, motivation, and attitudes regarding Instagram. On average, participants indicated posting about 61 photos since the creation of their Instagram accounts. Results suggest one the primary social and psychological motives for posting on Instagram is social interaction, as people use the sharing of pictures as a platform to establish and maintain social relationships with other people. Many users chose sharing photos on Instagram over text-forward social media for self-expres-sion and impression management. Lastly, escapism and peeking are primary, motivators because Instagram users find other’s photographs a relaxing alternative to their reality. An article by Tobin and Chulpaiboon (2016), examines that sharing photographs on Instagram is associated with greater satisfaction and happiness. It contains several valid statements that will be helpful in our own research, such as specifying that Instagram, unlike other forms of social media like Facebook or Twitter, focuses exclusively on sharing photographs. In other words, the platform doesn’t have such a strong emphasis on written personal or political posts - it’s more highly concentrated on simply sharing photos. The article concludes that social interaction and the need for belonging is an important motivation for using Instagram, which relates to our study of sociability. Our Hypothesis: Their will be an association between how often an individual post on Instagram and the frequency of their physical social interaction. We expect to see a positive correlation between how often an individual post on Instagram and the frequency of their physical social interaction.

2:10PM Fragments of the Waste LandC. Tuckey, K. O’Donnell, B. Reid-Maroney, G. Ross

We have built an interactive website that examines and interacts with T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”. This website allows the user to explore the fragmentary nature of the poem, interacting with relat-ed artwork, scholarly papers and research, literary/intertextual allusion and other categories. The goal of the website itself is to create a multi-voiced and fragmentary site that reflects the form of “The Wasteland”. While it is multi voiced and fragmentary it also has a sense of cohesion which acts as a guide for translation and interpretation by the user. The user is able to both interact and add to the content, speaking to the process of poetry and art.

2:20PM The Establishment of Statues, Monuments and Plaques of Women in MontrealE. Comber

My study looks into the establishment of statues, monuments and plaques of women in Montreal. My research aims to track documentation such as proposals, town hall hearing records as well as approval/denial paper work. I intend on writing on who these women were as well as how and why they were chosen to be featured as a statue, monument or plaque.

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2:30PM A Comparative Study Between Rwandan Genocide Memorials and American Civil War Memorials

B. DicksonMy research proposes a comparative study between Rwandan Genocide Memorials and Ameri-can Civil War Memorials. My comparison begins by acknowledging the differences between the memorials in each state, namely, the groups which have a controlling interest in the development of new memorials as well as the difference in time elapsed between the end of the conflict and the building of the memorials. I will argue that these seeming inconsistencies between the memorials in fact point to the similarities in the necessity of the memorial networks in each nation to pro-mote reconciliation. It then moves to provide a comparison which, rather than draw lessons from the “more successful” memorial network and apply it to the other system, seeks to demonstrate the shared difficulties of commemoration after internal conflict. I will then move to discuss the necessity for reconciliation after such conflicts. I will establish through this comparison the diffi-culties faced by the victor in each country in incorporating the defeated into themselves. More-over, I will demonstrate the shared embarrassment of each country as it is expressed through the process of commemoration. I will highlight how this led in both nations to flaws in the commem-oration processes in their attempts to move on. Through these comparisons, I draw three import-ant conclusions; the importance of discussing racial tensions at the memorials, creating a space to promote difficult discussions and to compromise in the name of preserving peace around difficult subjects.

2:40PM Symbiotic Relationships: Parasitism in Le Horla and La Morte AmoureuseT. Tomic

A literary analysis using interdisciplinary concepts may provide insights into classic literature. In two French short story classics, Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant and La morte Amoureuse by Théophile Gautier, a parasitic metaphor is used to analyze protagonistic thoughts and behaviours. The distressed psyche of the characters is a result of the full control of a mysterious, supernatural force. In nature, we define a close interaction between two biological organisms as symbiosis. There are three subcategories of symbiotic relationships: mutualism, commensalism, or parasit-ism. In the case of a parasitic symbiotic relationship, the host is harmed while the parasite ben-efits. Thus, parasitic relationships are often beneficial for only one party, and detrimental for the other. The parasite has the ability to completely take control over its host, dominating its behavior in order to prolong its own life cycle. The compelling resemblance serves as a template to define the powerless state of the characters as a means to benefit their parasitic controller. The analy-sis also aims to explain the subconscious desires of the main characters and how they indirectly benefit from their symbiotic relationship as well. They unknowingly project their deepest hunger onto this, arguably, imaginary force they have created to discover a truth about themselves.

2:50PM Awarding of 2018 Summer Research FellowshipsDr. Barry Craig, Principal

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Great Hall - Afternoon

3:00PM CURL at Huron, Success at HuronP. Giulietti, S. Jones, P. Khouri, S. Slager, T. Trelford

As featured on CURL’s magazine, we created a video promotion for CURL at Huron. The video created was based on experimental research findings in persuasion and advertising. Persuasive techniques included in the video consisted of colour, music, animation, and filmography. The video’s outcome is a testament to the role that research plays in fields outside of academia.

3:10PM Closing RemarksDr. Christine Tsang, Faculty Director, CURL

3:15PM-4:30PM

Liberated Arts Launch Party!Join us for the release of the fourth issue of Huron’s yearly academic journal!

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Huron Commons, Library - Poster List

Location Poster Description

A The Impact of Mental Health on the WorkplaceN. Williams

The topic of mental health and mental illness in the workplace is getting attention from organi-zations. As Canadians spend a significant amount of time in the workplace, mental health has a large impact on how organizations perform. Organizational culture is impacted by poor mental health but may also be a cause of poor mental health. The research in this report explores the large financial and economic effects of mental health on Canadian organizations and society and pays particular attention to legislation and CSA voluntary standards surrounding mental health and its disclosure at work.

B The Black Press in CanadaP. Kinghan, N. Reid-Maroney

This presentation highlights work-in-progress for the SSHRC-funded project, “The Black Press in 19thc Canada” (de B’béri; Bonner; Reid-Maroney, 2016-21). As a Huron Public History intern with the project, I am archiving African Canadian print materials, including the London newspaper, “Dawn of Tomorrow,” for the project’s website. By working with the London Public Library, the project helps to create a new research community, with benefits that reach beyond the immediate outcome of making rich historical materials more accessible through the transfer from microfilm to a digital archive. The project highlights the community connections made possible through Huron’s Joint Minor in Public History, and brings new attention to the Lon-don black civil rights activists who produced the Dawn of Tomorrow.

C Le Juste MilieuJ. Smith, A. Gayed, A. Parr, D. Young

For French 2408: French and Francophone Comics) with Dr. King, the authors worked together on a comic book anthology. Each other wrote, designed and drew one comic within the anthol-ogy and they all came together to create an over arching story out of 4 separate comics with the same character. The comic is about the cliché that money doesn’t buy happiness, and in each individual comic, Bean, the main character, tries out a different facet of living to see if he finds happiness. In the end, he does end up finding happiness when he makes a companion.

D The Effect of Patents on Drug InnovationH. Shang, J. Wei

As a tool to protect intelligence property, the effect of patent on innovation is controversial. While protecting the benefits of innovators, patent also causes problems like patent trolling. On the other hand, the innovation of new drugs is an important topic because it is highly associ-ated with the health condition of people. In this project, we want to find the explicit effect of patent on drug innovation by comparing the results of journals. Besides, the difference between the effect of patent in different countries is also our interest.

Poster displays are open 11:40AM-12:30PM.

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E The Effects of Patent Thickets on Firms’ Market EntryM. Baker, P. Wang

This project aims to determine what effects industries with dense patent thickets have on firms’ propensity to entering the market. We examine US and UK literature and conduct a comparative analysis of their findings, and most of the literature measures entry by whether a firm filed a pat-ent for the first time in a technology in a technology area rather than entry into product markets.

F Antislavery in Small ThingsA. Burstein, V. Carranza, J. Davidson, E. Ellwood, E. Feldman, D. Kleinmann, T. Lang, A. Levitin, M. Petrou, C. Sandler, E. Teague, S. Washington, J. Wood (from History 3801E: Historian’s Craft)

This community-based research project brings together the theoretical and practical aspects of the course material in The Historian’s Craft, through partnerships with the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society (CKBHS), the Oberlin College Archives, the University of Huddersfield’s Dig-ital Victorians project, and Huddersfield’s local community partner, Building African Caribbean Communities. The project asked students to read James Walvin’s Slavery in Small Things, and to choose, research, and contextualize an object related to slavery and antislavery from the local collections of the CKBHS or the Oberlin College Archives. The project invites students and the wider community to reflect on critical questions about the creation of historical knowledge, and the place of History in public intellectual and cultural life.

G The Waste Land WordpressM. Noorani, A. Fullerton, A. Marie, S. Menniti, T. Crews

Our project is an interactive Wordpress website. It was constructed with the goal of providing the audience with new and interrelated perspective on T. S. Eliot’s famed poem, “The Waste Land.” Our website includes an annotated version of the poem, along with critical takes, essays, a gallery, and performances. The majority of the content is hyperlinked, encouraging multidimensional and immersive exploration of the site.

H History 2204G Crises and Confederation• Montreal’sBlackRenaissance– P. Nkomo• Liberating the Netherlands: Canada’s Fight for Peace – T. Weatherill• On the Rocks: Public Drinking in Post-Temperance Ontario – C. McCandless• La Bataille Pour l’Egalite : McGill’s French Resistance – B. Dobrishman • Preachers and Teachers: The Struggle for Catholic Schools in Ontario – P. Kinghan • Je me souviens: Nationalism in Quebec – A. Parr• Moral by Law: The Morality Department of the Toronto Police Service – I. Rutherford• Creating a Constitution: The Quebec Conference – D. Bayley• Unheard Voices: The Personal Experience of the Irish War of Independence and the

Road to Reconciliation - G. Youmans• Into the Storm: Romania Leading Into and During the Second

World War, 1919-1943 - A. Wood Balsam• The War of 1812: Another Narrative - A. Tankovic

I The Underexamined Impact of the Emerald Ash Borer on Ojibwe Black Ash BasketryM. Bishop

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Schedule at a Glance

Time Presentations9:00AM Coffee and Breakfast Snacks

9:15AM Opening Remarks

9:30AM Keynote Address: What Could Our Universities Teach?

10:15AM Coffee Break

10:30AM Teacher Conceptions and Teaching Methods for Creativity in Norwegian Classrooms

10:40AM “Purely Politics”: Reactions of the British Government to German Espionage in the First World War

10:50AM The Three Metamorphoses of Stanley Kubrick: Nietzschean Myth in 2001: A Space Odyssey

11:00AM Leading Change: Social Responsible Investing at Post-Secondary Institutions

11:10AM An Exploration of Facebook’s Impact on Young Adults’ Romantic Relationships

11:20AM After Tito: Authoritarian Governments as a Means to Reconciliation

11:30AM Follow Back? Instagram’s Influence on Internet Social Capital and Sense of Belonging

11:40AM Poster Session in the Library

12:00PM Lunch (Posters open)

12:30PM Presentation of 100th Anniversary of the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Canada 2018-19 Project & Announcement of Huron CURL Student Internship

12:40PM Understanding Climate Change

12:50PM A Portrait of Page: A Collaborative Website Design

1:00PM Reward Appraisal

1:10PM Reducing Physiological Fear Responses with Fantasy Roleplay

1:20PM The Wasteland Chronicles

1:30PM Code to Learn or Learn to Code? The Role of CT in Mathematics Education

1:40PM Coffee Break

1:50PM The Underexamined Impact of the Emerald Ash Borer on Ojibwe Black Ash Basketry

2:00PM How Much Do You “Like” It? A Study of Instagram and the Benefits to Sociability

2:10PM Fragments of the Wasteland

2:20PM The Establishment of Statues, Monuments and Plaques of Women in Montreal

2:30PM A Comparative Study Between Rwandan Genocide Memorials and American Civil War Memorials

2:40PM Symbiotic Relationships: Parasitism in Le Horla and La Morte Amoureuse

2:50PM Awarding Summer 2018 Research Fellowships

3:00PM CURL at Huron, Success at Huron

3:10PM Closing Remarks

3:15PM Liberated Arts Launch Party

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Thanks & Acknowledgements

The Centre for Undergraduate Research Learning aims to transform undergraduate learning through supporting Huron students in research activities. This conference

is the culmination of months of hard work and innovation by all the members of our academic community. Congratulations to all Huron students participating today as

we celebrate your efforts!

The Steering Committee thanks Principal Barry Craig and Vice-Principal Meaghan Blight for supporting CURL’s collective and collaborative vision of learning and

scholarship, and for finding the funding to support CURL. We also thank the Huron Library for your beautiful space and innovative contributions; all the students,

faculty and staff who have engaged with CURL over the last 2 years; and the HUCSC Execs for their leadership and dedication to research learning. Finally, thank you to all of our student presenters and their mentors for their time and work on the

amazing research presented at today’s conference. There would be no CURL without all of you!

Special thanks to Ms. Britney Podolinksy for always keeping CURL on track and her unfailing organization; Taylor Boyd, Emma Comber, and Sherri Liska for their amazing work on CURL promotions; and all the members of the CURL Steering

Committee who meet every week without complaint in order to keep CURL up and running.