Humanities Capstone Presentations

Capstone Presentations for HUMN 2440, Dialogues in the Humanities, will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 14th and 15th, in FAB 70. This semester's Dialogues course focused on the nature and uses of propaganda. Needless to say, there was no shortage of material for students to examine.

Presentations will range from consideration of important propaganda theories to considerations of specific uses of propaganda such as staged events and atrocity propaganda. Several presentations focus on propaganda in certain historical periods, such as Britain's use of propaganda in WWI and Hitler's use of propaganda in his rise to power after WWI. Others focus on propaganda from specific countries, such as Russia and China. Still others focus on the art and presentations of propaganda posters.

We have 16 presentations, so we will run on a fairly tight schedule. The format is as follows: a 10 minute presentation, followed by a 5 minute question and answer session, followed by a 5 minute transition and setup for the next presenter.

In the time honored tradition of capstone presentations, some of these presentations are still evolving, so there may be some slight changes to the schedule which follows.

Wednesday, Dec. 14th

• 2:05 Cecil Moon Contrary to Popular Belief: Jacques Ellul, Education, Propaganda, and the Technological Society
• 2:25 Annie Workman The Role of Positive Propaganda
• 2:45 Jenny Gilmore Negative Uses of Propaganda
• 3:05 Angie Spann Propaganda and Political Polling
• 3:25 Jaimee Szlemko Selling World War I in Britain
• 3:45 Graham Skinner Staged Events: The Stimuli of the Masses
• 4:05 Maria Anderson Advertising and Propaganda: Two Sides of the Same Coin
• 4:35 Sabrina Tseng Propaganda and Posters in China
• 5:05 Erin Lovelady Heart Mountain Relocation Center & the Effects of WWII
  

Thursday, Dec. 15th

• 2:15 Robert Constein Infomercials: A Modern Reflection of Aristotle’s Rhetoric
• 2:35 Stephen Mayo Propaganda and 9/11
• 2:55 Katie Roemmich Women in Propaganda Posters of WWII
• 3:15 Amanda Enriques How Hitler Took Over the Minds, Ideals, and Morals of the German Volk
• 3:35 Lindsay Bischoff Atrocity Propaganda: Persuading the World to Hate
• 3:55 Juris Jasans USSR Propaganda Posters: A Reeducation Tool
• 4:15 Lisa Chestnut Propaganda posters