David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies

2006 Inquiry Conference Archives

For more information, please contact: Ashley Barker Tolman, 2006 Inquiry Conference organizer, (801) 422-1488.

See detailed schedule with times (PDF)

Wednesday, 1 March—Europe and Asia

Clinton R. Long	Can't We All Just Get a Langue? A Better Language Policy for the European Free Alliance
Kyle McKay Brown	Covet Nothing But Our Own: The Political Case for Fiscal Autonomy in Scotland
Amanda Talbot	Forgotten Classics: A Revival of Three String Quintets by Paul Wranitzky
Julie Crooks	Attachment: As Characterized from Cradle to Grave
Jacob Sohn	KNN: Addressing the Need for Quality Children's Television in the Philippines
Lindsay Dahl	Reevaluating Skin Deep: On Malnutrition and Infant Formula Advertising in the Philippines
Liann Seiter	Arranged Marriages in India: A Conversation with Rural Women about Their Beliefs, Perceptions, and Feelings
Elizabeth McLachlan	Suffering and Compassion: Tibetan Refugees in McLeod Ganj
Jay Bostwick	"You Can't Live in a Place with No God": Sacred Space and Caste in Chavadipudur
SarahLynn Robertson	Sing Me English: Using Music to Enhance English Acquisition

Thursday, 2 March—Latin America

Kristine Whipple	Cultural Construction of Communication: Language, Space, and Kinship among the Maya-K'iche'
Chris Nielsen	Death and the Afterlife in a Highland Maya Town: A Syncretic Belief System
Joseph Stair	Changing Patterns of Social Organization in Xeqakixkan, Antigua Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, Guatemala
Stephen Brady	Meanings and Practices of Relatedness Among the K'iche'
Melarie Wheat	"They Are All My Children:" Grandparenting and Globalization in Rural Guatemala
Eric Bybee	A Day in the Life of El Mozote: A Massacre Revisited
Angela Rosales Challis	Truth in Traditions: an Ethnographic Study of the Participation of Bolivians in the Annual Urkupina Celebration
Rolf Straubhaar	Associação Sete de Setembro: A Case Study of the Flaws in Personalistic Government
Matt Teiter	Why Juanito Can't Read: A Content Analysis and Comparison of Secondary School Language Arts Texts of Provo and Irapuato

Friday, 3 March—Africa

Brooke Menzie	Bonesetting: A Biocultural Study of Manual Therapy Among the Ashanti
Adriana Matos	Maternal Grief and the Vulnerable Infant in Asante, Ghana
Ryan Bailey	Physical Disabilities and Personhood Among the Asante of Ghana
Sheila Bibb	Tuberculosis in the Mampong–Ashanti area of Ghana: A Study of the Beliefs and Issues Associated with the Disease
Documentary Film by Matt Ward	Healers, Priests, and Kings—health care among the Ashanti
Justin Malden	Death, Disease, and Cuban Doctors: The Failure to Effectively Treat Children with Malaria and Tuberculosis in Ghana
Kelli Gailan	No Preaching No Praying No Speaking in Tongues: Mental Health Stigmatization in Ghana, West Africa
Josh Meek	Zamani—We Must Try
Chizuru Asahina	HIV/AIDS Education Program in South Africa The Case Study: The High Transmission Areas Project in East London, South Africa