Conference #1: Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Student Research for the 21st Century
Paper: Dancing in the Street: Danza, Azteca and its Role in the Formation of Chicano Spritual Identity
Location: Denver Campus, University of Colorado
Date: November 16th, 2009
Conference#2: Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder Graduate Student Research Conference on Other Bodies: Performance and Theatricality in Spanish and Portuguese Literature, Language and Arts
Panel titled: Denounce, Disfigure, Transform: Working Towards a New Perspective
Paper: Dancing in the Street: Danza Azteca as a Transformative Syncretic Tradition
Location: Boulder Campus, University of Colorado
Date: April 10th, 2010
Conference: Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Student Research for the 21st Century
Paper: Tales of the Code Breakers: Allied Code Breakers During World War II
Location: University of Colorado, Denver
Date: November 16th, 2009
Conference #1: (En) Gendering Social Inquiry: Critical Feminist Concerns
Paper: Niggaz, Bitches, Cars and Cribs: Idealizing Masculine Identity to Erase Feminine Identity to Rap Music
Date: February 16th, 2010
Location: Arizona University
Award: Master of Humanities and Master of Social Science Grant
Conference #2: Revitalizing the Sociological Imagination: Individual Troubles and Social Issues in a Turbulent World
Paper: Paper: Niggaz, Bitches, Cars and Cribs: Idealizing Masculine Identity to Erase Feminine Identity to Rap Music
Date: April 8-11th, 2010
Location: 81st Annual PSA Meeting in California
Award: Master of Humanities and Master of Social Science Grant
All day event presented by Oxford's Department of Education
Study Day: Art and the Metaphysics of Quality in the Writings of E H Gombrich and Robert Pirsig. David opened with a one hour talk wherein his task was to explain exactly what Pirsig meant by Quality. Two other professors presented also. One presented recordings of Pirsig being interviewed, and the other related Pirsig's work to Gombrich's. All three participated in question and answer periods throughout the day.
Date: October 24th, 2009
Location: University of Oxford, London
Award: Master of Humanities and Master of Social Science Grant
20th Annual Women and Society Conference
Paper: Evoking Myth: Ecofeminism's Use of the Spiritual for the Political
Date: October 21-22, 2011
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Award: University of Colorado Denver, Graduate School Dean's Travel Award
Case Study: Woman/Nonhuman Animal Links and the Bride
Publication: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science
Date: Vol. 2 No. 20 (Special Issue - October, 2012)
National Weather Association Meeting
Paper: Using Tsunami Perceptions to Measure Climate Change Literacy
Date: October 15-21, 2011
Location: Birmingham, AL
Award: University of Colorado Denver, Graduate School Dean's Travel Award
Susan works for the Visitor Use Management Team in the Denver Service Center Planning Division within the National Parks Service
Conference #1: Sixth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Paper: Landscape Alteration Due to Renewable Energy Development: Agenda Setting in the Social Sciences
Abstract: Renewable energy development is expanding throughout the United States. With the rapid increase in wind and other renewable energy production, the question of where such development is taking place becomes increasingly important. While many investigations of renewable energy structures' physical ecological impacts have been undertaken, the aesthetic and social impacts of such landscape alteration have been studied to a much lesser degree. Moreover, current research on how this type of landscape alteration affects the individuals and communities for whom development is visible is concentrated within areas where development has already taken place, not in areas where development is likely to occur. The core arguments against such development are rooted in the conflict between ideals of development and conservation. How people react to this clash of ideals is important to understand as the placement of future wind farms, solar panels, solar collectors and other renewable energy structures is decided. Landscape alteration due to renewable energy development needs to become a forefront agenda item for the social sciences. The topic specifically needs to be investigated before development takes place and, most importantly, needs to add to local, regional and national conversations about where and how development should be adopted. This paper will present an affective starting point for this important social science agenda item.
Date: July 11-13, 2011
Location: University of New Orleans
Award: Master of Humanities and Master of Social Science Grant
Conference#2: The George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas & Cultural Sites
Papers: Renewable Energry and Landscape Alteration Surrounding U.S. National Parks
Abstract: With the rapid increase of renewable energy production, a key question of where such development is taking place is raised. The National Park Service (NPS) is one agency which currently finds itself grappling with difficult managerial decisions concerning renewable energy development. The alteration of landscapes visible from or associated with National Parks is highly likely to occur as renewable energy development occurs throughout the U.S. The question then becomes how will renewable energy structures visually impact a landscape and in turn, will those impacts affect NPS park visitors? Two projects highlight how that question can be addressed using a combination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and social sciences. The first project addresses how GIS can be used to anticipate landscape alteration and the second on how GIS and social sciences can be used together to ask and answer questions about visitor experience.
Date: March 14-18, 2011
Location: New Orleans
Event to raise funds for Documentary film about the Denver Girls Rock and Roll Camp
Date: July 27th, 2011
Location: Denver, CO
Date: September 13th, 2011
Position: Full-time Faculty member
Department: Department of Health Care Ethics
Institution: Rueckert-Hartman School of Health Professionals at Regis University
Position: Director of Operations, RedLine Art Gallery, Denver, CO
Louise holds a Master of Humanities degree (2010) with a focus in Contemporary Art History & Music and has nine years management experience in both for-profit and non-profit arts organizations. In addition, Ms. Martorano has four years experience in the film industry producing and fundraising for independent films that have received international festival recognition in Dallas, Austin, Poland, and Denver. This year brought her first co-curated art production entitled Project Hello at Denver's Taxi by Zeppelin complex. Project Hello was a juried exhibition of 40 emerging Denver artists working in film, design, craft, poetry, and music, culinary, visual and performing arts that welcomed over 400 visitors.
Master of Humanities alumn (2010) Mike Yost recently e-published his MH project, a novella entitled Remnants of Light with Whaley Digital Press (http://www.Remnants-Of-Light.com). The story focuses on two soldiers who form an unlikely friendship during the Iraq war and find themselves challenged as POWs and under the shadow of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The novella has been nominated for a 2011 Lambda Literary Award and has occasioned the launch of www.OUTArmedForces.com, on October 11th, 2011, National Coming Out Day.
Conference #1: 8th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability
Paper: Eco-Ontology and Mental Intention: Animus, Enmity, Amity
Abstract: Social and cultural concepts permeate into both the individual psyche and have consequences for the natural world. This is due to the fact that these three entities (the natural world, the realm of the collective life-world, and the individual psyche) are nodes which correspond on a nexus and thereby create reality or existence. Therefore, changes or alterations in any one correspondingly affect the system in its entirety. Let us then examine the concept of the individual/social/world as it exists under the dominating episteme of our times in order to determine the consequences that it holds for us today. These three components formulate an interrelated, corresponding, and overlapping existence. They constitute the entirety of the phenomenological realm. Not only are these components of existence reciprocal, but there is a logical intention―performed and harmonized by all three―that I will call Animus. What then are the psychological, social, and environmental consequences that are produced when this system is unbalanced?
Date: January 9-12th, 2012
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Award: Graduate School Dean's Travel Award
Conference #2: 55th Annual Western Social Science Association Conference
Paper: The Forming Activity of the Mind: An Essay on the Philosophical Origins
of Dialectical Psychology
Date: April 10-13th, 2013
Location: Denver, CO
Conference: Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Cultural Associations Conference
Paper: The Frontier of Myth and the Indian in Benjamin West Paintings
Date: February 8-11th, 2012
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Award: Graduate School Dean's Travel Award
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Date: April 26-29th, 2012
Location: Denver, CO
Recipient of grant from The Mind and Life Institute.