Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

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2022

Isaak and Madsen Present at AGLSP Conference 2022, BiblioTECHa - Reading the Past, Performing the Present, Writing the Future
October 10-12

MALS students David Isaak and Thor Madsen delivered stellar presentations at the AGLSP conference in San Antonio, held October 10–12.

David Isaak's (pictured above) presentation, Ceding Control: A Genealogy of Bibliographic Data, is a winner of the AGLSP Student Presentation Award. David's presentation was adapted from a paper for Kris Cohen’s MALS course Approaches to Media Studies.

Thor Madsen (pictured above) presented Scripting the Unscriptable: Navigating Identity Between Two Worlds, also inspired in part from his research in Kris Cohen's Approaches to Media Studies and adapted from a paper for Kjersten Whittington’s Science and Social Difference course..

Congratulations, David and Thor!

Also at this year's conference, MALS program director Ashley Hudson was elected to the AGLSP Board of Directors, a three-year appointment.

2021

MALS student Susie Callahan presents paper at AGLSP conference, Unmute Yourself: Voice, Representation, Power
Hosted virtually by AGLSP
October 14-16

MALS student Susie Callahan presented Agency and Errantry in Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat at the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies 2021 virtual conference Unmute Yourself: Voice, Representation, Power.

Schock, Holland, and Yetter Present at Fourteenth Annual GLS Symposium

Hosted by Dominican University of California, June 18-20, 2021
Information on the Program: https://scholar.dominican.edu/graduate-liberal-studies-symposium/

Reed MALS students presented the following papers:

• Michael Schock, The Structural Development and Social Function of Popular Film Genres
• Emma Holland, VIBROTHERAPY: The Medicalization of Female Sexuality
• Lynette Yetter, A Tale of Two Allegories: Who are the Real Cannibals?

2020

Lynette Yetter (MALS '21) presents at State of the Coast

Lynette Yetter presented her art and poetry at the State of the Coast virtual conference, which took place online November 5-6, 2020. Lynette won Best of Show! Visit this site to view Lynette's art and a video presentation.

Yetter and Ramiller present MALS work at AGLSP Conference, History, Heritage, and Identity

Two Reed MALS students presented papers: Lynette Yetter presented "Competing Cannibal Identities: Stradano’s America and Guaman Poma’s Allegory of Authorities Feared by the Indians" and Susie Callahan presented “Parading as a Means of Joyfully Choreographing a Future: Úumbal and Second-Lining,” which was published in the Spring 2020 issue of Confluence. MALS alum Neil Ramiller (MALS '17) presented his paper "Hi-fi in Suburbia: Technology, Music, and Adult Male Identity in Cold War America." Meg Cook (MALS '20) accepted the 2020 Confluence Award for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Writing for her essay “Reception Theory and the Kafka Reader.” The Confluence awards celebrate excellence in creative and interdisciplinary writing by graduate students and recent alumnae/i of member programs of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs. Cook was honored at the 2020 virtual AGLSP Annual Conference, and her essay was published in the Fall 2020 issue of Confluence: The Journal of the AGLSP.

2019

Anderson, Ramiller, Yetter present at Thirteenth Annual GLS Symposium

Reed MALS students presented the following papers:

• Mary Lou Anderson, The Snow was General
  
• Neil Ramiller, Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society and the Making of Modern Science
  
• Lynette Yetter, Searching for Coya Queens in the List of Twelve Inka Kings

Reed MALS presenters and director 2019 St. John's GLS Symposium

2018

MALS Students Present Research, Accept Awards at AGLSP Conference, Borders and Migrations

Hosted by Arizona State University
October 11-13, Tempe

Mary Lou, Director Amen, Mark, Libby, and Meg at 2018 AGLSP Conference

Team Reed made an impressive showing at the Arizona conference. Two students, Mark Pettibone and Meg Cook, were in attendance to receive their awards and recognition for winning the national best interdisciplinary writing awards in 2017 and 2018 respectively. (Read their interviews on the home page under News & Announcements.) In addition, two students presented papers from their recent MALS classes:  Mary Lou Anderson, "Navigating the Digital Divide" and Libby O'Neil, "Meet Alexa": Voice-Mediated Consumption and Gendered Artificial Intelligence." Libby's paper was selected as one of the three best student presentations at the conference (which included close to 20 student presentations). 

Mark Pettibone, Libby O'Neil, and Meg Cook at AGLSP conference

Six MALS Students Present at Twelfth Annual GLS Symposium

Hosted by Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; June 22-24, 2018

Reed MALS students presented the following papers:

• Meg Cook, America's Poshlust Vaccum: Understanding Commodity Fetishism, the Young-Girl, and the Role of the Artist in Nabokov's Lolita
• Derek Finn, Émigré Identity in Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin
  
• Claire Michie, Touching Texts to See How They Sound: Vladimir Nabokov as Reader's Guide to the Sensory and Physical Pleasures of Reading
• Elizabeth O'Neil, Wedding (and Divorcing) the Brides of Christ
• Michael Schock, Basic Structures of ideological Communication in Traditional Hollywood Feature Film Narratives
• Lynette Yetter, Sita Sings the Blues: "A woman like me" as deity and creator

Reed MALS presenters and director at Stanford Symposium, 2018

2017

Four MALS Students Present at Eleventh Annual GLS Symposium

Hosted by University of Washington, Tacoma; June 16-18, 2017

Reed MALS students and alumnus presented the following papers:

• Derek Finn, Plato, Protagoras, and the Problem with Democracy
  
• Elizabeth O'Neil, Who Can Change the World?: Gendered Citizenship and Non-Resistance in American Abolitionism
  
• Neil Ramiller, Inventorying 'Ithaca': Things, Identity, and Character in James Joyce's Ulysses
  
• Lynette Yetter, Virgin Mary/Pachamama Syncretism: Exploring filial ayni relationship with the Divine Feminine in early-colonial Copacabana, Bolivia

Reed MALS presenters and director 2017 UWTacoma Symposium

Read more about the 2017 GLS Symposium and the four Reed students who presented papers!

2015

Felix, Michie, and Ramiller Present at Ninth Annual GLS Symposium

Hosted by Reed College MALS, June 19-21, 2015

Reed MALS students and alumna presented the following papers:

• Julie Felix, Helen's Autopsy: A Forensic Approach to Myth in Herodotus's Histories
• Claire Michie, The Role of Practice Babies in Home Economics Education during the Great Depression
• Neil Ramiller, Representation of Technology and Place in Leslie Ragan's New 20th Century Limited

 2012

Conference, The Crisis of the Book: Worlds of Opportunity, Worlds of Change
Hosted by the Reed College MALS program
October 18-20, Portland, OR

From scroll to codex, printing press to computer screen, revolutions in technology have changed the way we receive and process information, and even the way we think about ideas. This interdisciplinary conference will place the transformation in print culture in a historical framework, and will reflect upon the changing nature of text delivery and the experience of reading.

How is knowledge produced? What role does the book play as cultural, material, and sacred object? What is the place of the modern library in the electronic age? How does the field of new media studies reflect evolving social contexts? How do we “see” graphic novels or navigate through hypertext fiction? What questions concerning copyright and intellectual property does the digital age raise?

Reading is at the heart of what we do in the academy, both personally and professionally. What is the future of your practice of reading?

Keynote Speakers:
"...as long as there are readers there will be scrolls"
Molly Raphael, 2011-12 president, American Library Association; former director of the Multnomah Country Library and District of Columbia Public Library systems.

"The Future is Medieval" Some Lessons about Books, Reading, and Information from the Dark Ages"
William J. Diebold, Jane Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History and Humanities, Reed College

Complete 2012 Conference Program available as a pdf file.