The latest developments in current and ongoing research by world-class faculty in Oshawa were explored as professors, students and the community gathered at Trent University Oshawa Thornton Road campus for Research Day 2012, titled “Understanding the World We Live in.”
Students and professors had the opportunity to share their work with their colleagues and peers and gave members of the community a taste of how academic discussion and the generation of ideas take place.
Michael Morse, from Cultural Studies, presented his talk on History & Dialectics After the Crossroads of Catastrophe. Instructor Joel Baetz, and fourth-year English Literature students, Sara Gallagher, and Sam Rowland, explored modern and contemporary expressions of the interstices created through the enduring and vibrant relations between words and pictures.
Follow the links from a selection of some of the great talks that took place:
Deadbeat Dads? A Closer look at the Married Men Who Joined the Army in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Dr. Jennine Hurl-Eamon, History
Historians have largely accepted the idea that the only married men who enlisted did so to abandon their wives and children.
How Open World and Social Media Games Reproduce Economic and Racial Disparity, Dr. Sara Humphreys, English Literature
Classic frontier narrative formulas, such as the popular western, continue their cultural work to organize identities and classes into hierarchical social strata via digital forms.
Cannibal War and Supernatural Peace in the New Guinea Jungle, Dr. Roger Ivar Lohmann, Anthropology
Endemic warfare among the Asabano and their neighbours in Papua New Guinea has been replaced by a half century of peaceful coexistence.
Sexual Fantasy and Personality: Some Like it Cold, Dr. Beth A. Visser, Psychology
Can the private world of sexual fantasy reveal new information about the "dark side" of normal personality variation?
Community Schools in Saskatchewan: An educational Model for Trent Oshawa? Dr. Jason Doherty, Sociology
The use of the community education model for responding to new operational environments in post-secondary education.
Posted on Friday, April 20, 2012.