Spagnuolo Hall is located in the Campus Center.
9:30-11:00
Student and Faculty Poster Session
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12:00-12:30
Jackie Robinson Talk
Michael T. Brown
1:00-2:00
Perpetual Journey: The Story of Five FPU Students and Their Teachers Walking the Camino de Santiago -- A Documentary Film
Faculty Film Presentation
Douglas Challenger, Laurie Challenger
This is the story of the journey of five college students and their faculty leaders walking the 500-mile Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail as their semester abroad – a journey that three other groups of students from Franklin Pierce University have undertaken in years before. They immerse themselves in the simple and arduous pilgrim way of life that both reveals their character and offers them opportunity to grow and change. Will they be able to complete the journey? What obstacles will they encounter as a group and as individuals en route to their goal of reaching Santiago on foot? How will the journey change them? What will they learn from the experience?
2:30-3:30
Ritual, Celebration, and Social Change in Southern Ukrainian Malanca
Faculty Film Presentation
Alin Rus
Ukraine is one of the ex-soviet republics for which transition to democracy was accompanied by profound changes and extreme challenges. Revolutions, social unrest, war, economic decline, and political turmoil were all present in the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In spite of these events, the rural communities in Southern Ukraine still perform their traditional New Year ritual – Malanca. At first glance, Malanca seems to be a folk custom that is celebrated “just like any other rural tradition of our ancestors, the same as hundreds of years ago," as locals use to declare to any strangers who happen to visit their locality during winter time. Nevertheless, a more thorough examination of this ritual presents it as “time machine” that transports the anthropologists in the history of these communities, through the memories of the local inhabitants. In fact, Malanca can be seen as radiography of southern Ukrainian rural communities, which crossed a troubled and tumultuous history, since the first years of Communism to the more recent events of the postsocialist transition to democracy. This movie is an attempt to catch, through the analysis of a rural ritual, the latest social changes in Southern Ukraine.
4:15-5:30
Raven Brain Bowl
Andrew Hoenig
The Raven Brain Bowl is a part of Academic Showcase that pits teams of Franklin Pierce students in a winner-take-all contest for academic supremacy! The winners get their names engraved on the beautiful Brain Bowl trophy itself, housed in the Library.
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5:00-5:45
Raven Bingo
Jennie Brown
