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Monday 19 October

• Introduction to the Conference: Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter): Why Interdisciplinarity?
• Keynote: Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes): ‘The Rainbow Bridge’: Reflections on Interdisciplinarity in the Cybernetic Age
• Paper: Anne H. Charity Hudley (College of William and Mary) & Christine Mallinson (University of Maryland, Baltimore County): Communicating about Communication: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educating Educators about Language Variation
  • Commentators:
  • Becky Childs (Coastal Carolina University)
  • Kristen Denham (Western Washington University)
  • Sonja Lanehart (University of Texas at San Antonio)

• Paper: Daniel Wasserman Soler (University of Virginia): Language and Communication in the Spanish Conquest of America
  • Commentators:
  • Patricia Seed (University of California, Irvine)
  • Camilla Townsend (Rutgers)

• Publishing workshop: Michael Bradshaw (University of Leicester): Why Write a Review Paper? And How to Do It!
• Meet the Speaker SecondLife Cocktail Bar: Keynote speaker, Roger Griffin, 9am BST

Tuesday 20 October

• Keynote: David Crystal (University of Wales, Bangor): Language Death: a Problem for All
• Paper: Wendy Turner (Augusta State University): Human Rights, Royal Rights and the Mentally Disabled in Late Medieval England
  • Commentators:
  • Elizabeth Mellyn (University of New Hampshire)
  • Aleksandra Pfau (Hendrix College)

• Paper: Maeve M. O’Donovan (College of Notre Dame of Maryland): The Status of the Learning Disabled in Philosophy of Mind and Disability Studies
  • Commentator: David Wasserman (Yeshiva University)

Wednesday 21 October

• Paper: Nancy Naples (University of Connecticut): Borderlands Studies and Border Theory: Linking Activism and Scholarship for Social Justice
  • Commentator: Anna Liisa Aunio (Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l’Université de Montréal [CRÉUM])
• Paper: Alexander Diener (Pepperdine University) & Joshua Hagen (Marshall University): Theorizing Borders in a ‘Borderless World’: Globalization, Territory and Identity
  • Commentators:
  • Carl Grundy-Warr (National University of Singapore)
  • Victor Konrad (Carleton University)

• Publishing workshop: Kivmars Bowling (Wiley-Blackwell): The Online Author’s Survival Guide
• Meet the Speaker SecondLife Cocktail Bar: Meet the Compass Team, 12pm EDT / 5pm BST

Thursday 22 October

• Keynote: Mark Macklin (University of Wales, Aberystwyth): Floodplain Catastrophes and Climate Change: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Riverine Societies
• Paper: Susan Morrison (Texas State University – San Marcos): Waste Studies ‐ A New Paradigm for Literary Analysis, Something is Rotten in the Denmark of Beowulf and Hamlet
  • Commentators:
  • Valerie Allen (John Jay College, CUNY)
  • John Scanlan (Manchester Metropolitan University)

• Paper: Tim Cooper (University of Exeter): Recycling Modernity: Towards an Environmental History of Waste
  • Commentators:
  • Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • John Scanlan (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Friday 23 October

• Paper: Dennis Mazur (Oregon Health and Sciences University): Full Disclosure of the “Raw Data” of Research on Humans: Citizens’ Rights, Product Manufacturer’s Obligations and the Quality of the Scientific Database
  • Commentators:
  • Alicia Hall (California State University, Fresno)
  • Karen Melham (University of Oxford)

• Paper: Eileen Smith-Cavros (Nova Southeastern University): Fertility and Inequality Across Borders: Assisted Reproductive Technology and Globalization
  • Commentators:
  • Jyotsna Gupta (Leiden University)
  • Lauren Jade Martin (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

• Publishing workshop: Duane Wegener (Purdue University): Top 10 mistakes New Scholars Make When Trying to Get Published

Monday 26 October

• Keynote: Peter Ludlow (Northwestern University) Virtual Communities, Virtual Cultures, Virtual Governance
• Paper: Adam Brown (Deakin University): Beyond ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’: Breaking Down Binary Oppositions in Holocaust Representations of ‘Privileged’ Jews
  • Commentator: Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester)
• Paper: Brian V. Klocke (State University of New York, Plattsburgh) & Glenn Muschert (Miami University): A Hybrid Model of Moral Panics: Synthesizing the Theory and Practice of Moral Panic Research
  • Commentators:
  • Sean Hier (University of Victoria)
  • Gary Marx (MIT)
  • Kenneth Thompson (Open University)

• Publishing workshop: Vanessa Lafaye (Wiley-Blackwell): The Secret to Online Publishing Success
• Meet the Speaker SecondLife Cocktail Bar: Keynote speaker, Peter Ludlow, 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT

Tuesday 27 October

• Keynote: Roy Baumeister (Florida State University): Human Nature and Culture: What is the Human Mind Designed for?
• Paper: Sheila Hones (University of Tokyo): Text as It Happens: Literary Geography
  • Commentators:
  • Michael Crang (University of Durham)
  • James Kneale (University College London)

• Paper: Stefan Müller (University of Duisburg-Essen): Equal Representation of Time and Space: Arno Peters’ Universal History

• Publishing workshop: Devonya Havis (Canisius College): Teaching with Compass

Wednesday 28 October

• Paper: Diane Crane (University of Pennsylvania): Cultural Sociology and Other Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in the Cultural Sciences
  • Commentators:
  • Gabriel Ignatow (University of North Texas)
  • Mark Jacobs (George Mason University)

• Paper: Christine Mallinson (University of Maryland): Sociolinguistics and Sociology: Current Directions, Future Partnerships
  • Commentators:
  • Richard Cameron (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Robin Dodsworth (North Carolina State University)

• Publishing workshop: Catherine Sanderson (Amherst College): The Joys and Sorrows of Writing an Undergraduate Textbook
• Meet the Speaker SecondLife Cocktail Bar: Meet the Compass Team, 9am GMT

Thursday 29 October

• Keynote: Eileen Joy (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville): Reading Beowulf in the Ruins of Grozny: Pre/modern, Post/human, and the Question of Being-Together
• Paper: P. Grady Dixon (Mississippi State University) & Adam J Kalkstein (United States Military Academy): Climate–Suicide Relationships: A Research Problem in Need of Geographic Methods and Cross‐Disciplinary Perspectives
  • Commentators:
  • Scott Greene (University of Oklahoma)
  • Victoria Likhvar (National Institute for Environmental Studies)
  • Neville Nicholls (Monash University)
  • Darren Ruddell (Arizona State University)

• Paper: Nicole Mathieu (CNRS, University of Paris): Constructing an interdisciplinary concept of sustainable urban milieu
• Publishing workshop: Greg Maney (Hofstra University): How to Survive the Review Process

Friday 30 October

• Closing comments and discussion
• Opportunity to provide feedback on the conference and win a year’s subscription to a Compass journal of your choice!

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