UNDERGRADUATE HONORS SYMPOSIUM:
The World of Arthur Miller

April 16, 2004
Laurie White, Coordinator
Keith Cushman, Program Chair

Welcome & Opening Remarks
Dennis Leyden, Director of the Honors Program
Laurie White, Assistant Director of the Honors Program

Poetry, Photography, The Movies
Lauren McAlister, “The New Poesy: A Comparison of American Beat Poets and the British Mavericks & Movement Poets in the 1950s”
Kerry Bannen, “Photography in the 1950s”
Alana F. Baker, “Arthur and Marilyn: An Imperfect Fit”
Respondent: Annette Van, Department of English

Death of a Salesman Revisited
Nathan Bryant, “Loman’s Long Season of Agony: Death of a Salesman & the Refiguration of Tragedy”
Anne Marie Taber, “Conflicting Constructions of Masculinity in Death of a Salesman”
Jesse Kehr, “Children of a Dream, Parents of an Illusion: Reality & Fantasy in Miller and Albee”
Respondent: Walter Beale, Department of English

Cold War Considerations
Heather Smith, “The New Witch Hunts: Political & Social Causes of McCarthyism”
Irwin J. Jose, “Going Back In: The Social &Political Situation of the Homosexual Subculture during the 1950s Resulting from McCarthyism”
Randy Herman, “Causes &Consequences of the Iranian Coup of 1953 in its Cold War & Contemporary Context”
Respondent: Paul Mazgaj, Department of History

Banquet
Keynote Speaker: John Gulley, Department of Theatre
6:00 Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House

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