3:15 - 3:45 p.m. - Meet the Student Presenters, 1st Floor Rotunda
4 - 5:30 p.m. - Student Presentations, MMC 237 and 238 classroom
20 minute presentations followed by Q&A

Martha Miller, Classroom 237
Welcome & Introductions

Dr. Huw Lewis
Music Faculty

4:00-4:30 pm | Turn and Face the Strange: Andy Warhol's

Queer Art Legacy
Nina Kay, Senior

Art History and Women and Gender Studies double major, Writing minor
Paper written for Dr. Kraus, Contemporary Art History course

4:30-5:00 pm | "The Will to Win": how the athletic program
of a small Christian college has been shaped by its most
notorious fraternity

Joey Williams, Senior
History and Economics double major

Paper written for Dr. Jonathan Hagood, Local History course

5:00-5:30 pm | Social Agency through Cultural Practices

and Resistance: Slave Women on Sugar
Plantations in the Caribbean
Natalie Fulk, Senior
History, Spanish, and Political Science majors

Paper written for Dr. Lauren Janes, Summer 2017 History Research

Martha Miller, Classroom 238

Welcome & Introductions
Dr. Marla Lunderberg
English Faculty

4:00-4:30 pm |The Homosexual Relationship in

The Merchant of Venice
Hannah Barnes, Junior

English (creative writing emphasis) major, Classical Studies minor
Paper written for Dr. Marla Lunderberg, Shakespeare’s Plays course

4:30-5:00 pm | Sometimes It's Not Better, Just Different

Lauren Postma, Senior

English (creative writing emphasis) and Classical Studies double major
Paper written for Dr. Kendra Parker, Black Women Writers course

5:00-5:30 pm | In Search of "IT": the Act of Writing

in On the Road
Mitch Van Acker, Sophomore

English (creative writing emphasis) and Studio Art double major
Paper written for Dr. Stephen Hemenway, Beatnik Literature course

Abstracts:

Hannah Barnes
This paper will explore the character of Antonio as a homosexual in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The definition and history of the term “homosexual” will be explored and Joseph Pequigney’s article “The Two Antonios and Same-Sex Love in Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice” will be examined and refuted. Antonio’s homosexuality will be supported by textual evidence, specifically the speech Antonio makes in act four, scene one
before he expects to die.

Natalie Fulk
Throughout the Caribbean, slave women were repressed into roles of submission in sugar plantation society due to their race and gender.
Sugar cane production and its monoculture control over the region placed slave women at the lowest social position in many areas of life,
including their percentage of the slave population, work, relationships, and motherhood. However, slave women worked to rise above this
oppression and create some agency for themselves by maintaining aspects of their cultural identity and resisting the slave owners and society that intended to control and use them.

Nina Kay
There was more to Pop Artist Andy Warhol than a commentary on mass production and an obsession with celebrity culture. Through Warhol’s artistic experimentation and an examination of the constructability of human
identities, he blurred the borders that entrapped gender and sexuality both in his artwork and personal life in New York City--the capital of the post-World War II art world.

Lauren Postma
This paper looks at the two literary texts The Warmth of Other Suns, Parable of the Sower, and the play In the Blood, and analyzes where the characters start in the text compared to where they end, looking at how their circumstances changed for better and for worse. Schools often teach students that once the slaves were freed and after Martin Luther King's
movement their lives were better. However, these three works show only a glimpse into just how wrong that sentiment is.

Mitch Van Acker
What distinguishes On the Road as an “unconventional novel” isn’t just its style, subject matter, or symbiotic relationship with the pervading counterculture of the late 1950s. On the Road is unconventional in that the novel isn’t driven by a moral argument whose characters, settings, and plot lines are designed to be dissenting or concurring manifestations of a
theme. This project seeks to analyze On the Road as a novel driven by the act of writing itself: a feverish searching for “IT” by attempting to possess other times, traditions, places, and people encountered in the promise of the great
American wilderness.

Joey Williams
Over the course of its history, the Fraternal Society has been both controversial and prolific. The Fraternal Society and other Greek
fraternities are often viewed as a scourge to the campus life of colleges, particularly on the campus of a small Christian college like Hope.
However, historical research reveals that, in fact, the impact that members of the Fraternal Society have had on campus is wide-reaching and
diverse. This impact is measured by the group’s participation in varsity athletics. This paper argues that, throughout its history and up to
today, the Fraternal Society, or “Fraters”, despite its negative reputation, has been fundamental to the development and success of Hope College
athletics.