The Georgia Tech community and guests are invited to the fourth annual Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student paper conference to be held on Friday, 1/29/16, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. Hall Building, 215 Bobby Dodd Way. Presentations are scheduled from 9am-5pm, with a lunch at 12:20pm and a reception following. Please see full schedule below.

The conference is organized by the IAC Graduate Student Advisory Board and includes presentations from graduate students in all Ivan Allen College schools.

Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts CRIDC Graduate Student Paper Conference Program

8:30 am: Bagels and coffee

8:55am: Opening remarks: Christopher Zakroff, History and Sociology

9-10am: Infrastructure: Energy, Water, and Food   
Chair: Alexander Smith (SPP)

• Jenna McGrath (SPP) – Terrorist Attacks on the United State’s Energy Infrastructure: 1970-2014
• Jonah Bea-Taylor (HSOC) - Masking vulnerability: How the Corps of Engineers Reduced Flooding in Miami and Houston
• Rebecca Watts Hull (HSOC) - Campus Commitments to Local, Sustainable Food Procurement: Trends, Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities

10:05-11:05am: Public Health and Society                                                 
Chair: Alice Clifton (HSOC)

• Renee Shelby (HSOC) - Whose Rape Kit? Aims, Realities, and Justice
• Tongyang Yang (ECON) - Does Ethnicity Matter for Food Choices? An Empirical Analysis of Asian Immigrant Time Use
• Xincheng Shen (HSOC) - City of Gold: A History of Human Waste Management in Shanghai 1850-1949

11:15am-12:15pm: Cities: Development and Preservation                       
Chair: Mariam Asad (LMC)

• Johann Weber (SPP) - Bicycle Policy Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Role of Leadership in Affecting Policy Change at the Municipal Level
• Firaz Peer (LMC) - Zillow Fever—Data Aggregates and the Crisis of Context in the Housing Market
• Gene Kansas (LMC) - “Preserving the World”

12:20-12:50pm: Lunch provided to all attendees

12:50-1:50pm: Business, Technology, and Innovation                            
Chair: Sandjar Kozubaev (LMC)

• Yeong Jae Kim (SPP) - Clean Disruption: the Impact of Incandescent Light Bulb Standard
• Michael Vogel (LMC) - Independent Game Development in Japan
• Yin Li (SPP) - Using web mining to understand Triple Helix innovation partnership at micro level: application to US green manufacturing sectors

1:55-2:55pm: Global Knowledge Circulation                               
Chair: Brian Jirout (HSOC)

• Christopher Zakroff (HSOC) - Bypassing Turbulence: Soviet Acoustic Science and the Technopolitics of the Jet Age.
• Sooa Lee (HSOC) - A Multi-dimensional Approach to (South) Korean International Research Collaboration
• Mario Bianchini (HSOC) - Human Economics: Germany, Economists, and the Cold War

2:55-3:05: Afternoon break

3:05-4:05pm: Social Dimensions of Economic Development
Chair:  Caroline Appleton (SPP)

• Yunxin Fan (ECON) - Labor Shortage, Technology Advancement, and Change on International Trade Patterns
• Emily Gibson (HSOC) - “Dans tous les ciels:” Air France and French Colonial Development in West Africa, 1948-1960
• Wenman Liu (SPP) - See the Trees for Forest: Analyzing bundles of resource rights and gross forest change in developing world

4:05-5:05pm: Computing and Games                                                          
Chair: Albith Delgado (LMC)

• Devin Wilson (LMC) - Games and Rosenblatt's Efferent-Aesthetic Continuum
• Kera Allen (HSOC) -  “I was supposed to make things pretty”: A Study of Workplace Culture for Women in the Computing and Information Technology Workforce
• Rachel Miles (LMC) - GameBridge: A convergence point for narrative media

5:05pm-6pm: Reception