Schedule

8:30 am

Arrive from 8:30 am to check your schedules and find your place. Parking is free. Light refreshments are provided.

9am
- 10:00

Business 1 – Virtuous Marketing Through Incorporation of Artificial Intelligence, Community Involvement and Corporate Governance (Moderator: Dr Murray MacTavish)

Aaron Hammond, “Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in Marketing”

Chelsea Huliganga, “Empowering Communities Through Co-Creation: A Marketing Approach”

Jackson Potter, “The Efficacy of ESG Reporting Regulations on Company Behaviour”

Arts 1 – The Art of Performance: Considering the Roles of Composers and Audiences (Moderator: Dr Mark Bartel)

John Matthew Cabalsa, “Saviour of the Nations, Come: A Presentation and Analysis of an Original Composition”

Alyssa Michaud, John Glanville, Anna Konrad, “Creating Concert Culture: How Fan Behaviour at the Taylor Swift Eras Tour Movie Highlights Audience Co-Creation in Concert Experiences”

Humanities 1 – Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Moderator: Dr Jonathan Goosen)

Shifra Hetherington, “‘Of Contradiction the Man Sings Not’: Fame in Dante’s Divine Comedy”

Breeanne Nickel, “Predestination and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus”

Theology 1 – Panel 1 (Moderator: Dr Colin Toffelmire)

Shannon Zumwalt, “The Lamb of God: Jesus’ Expanded Identity in Revelation”

Beth Stovell, “The Glory of this Present House: Temple Conceptualization, Persian Imperial Power, and Hope in Haggai”

Social Sciences 1 – Cultural Psychology Research Collaborative I (Moderator: Dr James Cresswell)

Dibora Mehari, “Pedagogy of Connection: Mitigating the Ideological Dissonance of Eritrean Immigrants in

Canadian Education”

James Cresswell, “On Democratic Engagement: Ironic Subjectivity as a Catalyst for Public Dialogue”

10:10
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11:10

Business 2 – Session B: Technology and Virtuous Business (Moderator: Dr Murray MacTavish)

Nikita Marchenkov, “Navigating Ethical Marketing: Unveiling Digital Media Manipulation Strategies”

Donovan Olichny, “An Examination of the Transformative Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Resource Practices”

Noah Bears, “Integrating Blockchain Technology into Corporate MIS Systems for Increased Data Reliability and Fraud Reduction”

Sciences 1 –  Panel 1 (Moderator: Dr Matthew Morris)

Elijah Babcock, “Studying the longitudinal effects of acute COVID-19 infection on neurologic hypoxia in young adults using near-infrared spectroscopy”

Nathan Yeung, “Novel meristic description and morphometric analysis of mouth shape in Alberta populations of Catostomus species”

Matthew Morris, “Finding the source: using haplotype networks to identify potential origin of an invasive fish (Carassius gibelio) in Alberta”

Ana Montibeller, “Analyzing Total Phenolic Content in Native Albertan Berries: A Folin – Ciocalteu Spectrophotometric Study”

Humanities 2 - Humanities for our World (Moderator: Dr Ken Draper)

Aaron Fraser, “Compassionate Patriotism: A Response to So-Called Christian Nationalism”

Sarah Johnson, “Instagram needs the Humanities: Critical Thinking and Infographics”

Ellen Tiessen, “Goodreads: A Book’s Social Media”

Theology 2 – Panel 2 (Moderator: Dr Beth Stovell)

Shannon Zumwalt, “Return to Creatureliness: How the Disability Experience Informs and Corrects our Understanding of Humanity”

Caleb Moore, “A Guilty Canadian Church- Bonhoeffer’s Theology Responsibility and Living in Truth and Reconciliation Canada” 

Russell Clarke, “John Wesley and the Communion of Saints: sanctified people called into fellowship as the body of Christ”

Social Sciences 2 – Cultural Psychology Research Collaborative II (Moderator: Dr James Cresswell)

Karen Marin, “Personal Deindividuation & Inducing the Flow State in High Performance Athletes”

Breeanne Nickel, “From Virginity Pledges to ‘Revirgination’ Surgery: Exploring the Link Between Moral Reasoning and Christian Purity Culture”

11:20
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12:30

Airhart Theatre (A1085) – Plenary Presentation: “Academic Excellence Amid Democratic Decline: A Platonic Survival Story”

Dr Ken Nickel, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Humanities

12:30

Lunch Break: Food is provided in the Atrium for those who signed up for lunch at registration. Paid lunch is also available in the Calf.

Time

Room A2131

Room A2133

Room A2210

Room L2084

Room L2100

12:40

In the Upper Atrium from 12:40

Science Poster Presentations - (Moderator: Dr Matthew Morris)

Julia Michota & Gracey Nichol - Alberta's new aquatic invader - The Chinese Mystery Snail Cipangopaludina chinensis

Harsheen Kaur - Our little friends may be saying goodbye: Why Physella johnsoni (Banff Spring Snail) is endangered, and what we can do about it

Joy Watson - Whispering pines, screaming consequences: The role of climate change in Mountain Pine Beetle success in Alberta

Faith Solecki & Rachel Barg - The itch from the parasites under your skin - The Avian schistosome Trichobilharzia ocellata as an accidental parasite of humans in Alberta

Noah Verhoef, Hudson Wiebe & Vincenzo Manzoni - Battling the budworm: Unveiling the threat on Alberta's forests

Lucas Cusanelli & Quaton Roett - Deadly dance: The impact of Apochephalus borealis  on Alberta's honeybees and ecosystem

Kimberly Giebler - Untangling the web: Dispelling the myths of the Black Widow

1:10
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2:20

Airhart Theatre (A1085) at 1:10 – Author Meets Critics

Derek Cook’s The Art of Hope: Healing the Broken City, with Dr Alex Sanderson and Dr Murray MacTavish

 (Moderator: Dr James Cresswell)

2:30
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3:30

Business 3 – Innovating Academic Engagement through Escape Rooms: A Case Study at the University Library (Moderator: Dr Wilian Gatti, Jr)

Explore a new way of learning with our escape room at the University Library. "Innovating Academic Engagement through Escape Rooms" offers a unique blend of problem-solving and subject matter integration. This experience is designed for a research conference, providing a thoughtful and interactive approach to understanding complex concepts. Join us to engage with education in a novel and interactive format.

Max Attendance: 10 people

Please sign up for this session by emailing Dr Gatti, Jr at Wilian.Gatti@ambrose.edu.

*This SBUS session will take place in the library.

Humanities 4 – Prudence and Justice in English Literature (Moderator: Dr Jonathan Goosen)

Stephanie Studzinski, “Reimagining Justice via Multiverse Theory”

Erin Clark, “Beowulf: A King’s Guide to Ageing with Prudence”

Humanities 3 – Historical Research on Nazi Germany (Moderator: Dr Ryan Wilkinson)

Elijah Coutts, “The Social Composition of Early Nazi Supporters, the SA, and Their Attraction to Nazism”

Kayla Sobolewski, “Using Wombs as Warfare: Nazi Policy on Women”

Kyle Jantzen, “Bending Christianity to Far-Right Politics in Nazi Germany”

Sciences 2 – Panel 2 (Moderator: Dr Stephen Jeans)

Lucas Cusanelli, “Ecosystem management planning: Spatiotemporal land cover/use mapping for justice”

Sierra Menchini-McHugh, “Environmental assessment design: Courage to let nature inform development”

Stephen Jeans, “Bio-geoscience research and the undergraduate: Prudence in environmental studies”

Social Sciences 3 – Individual and Societal Wellbeing (Moderator: Dr Joel Thiessen)

Emanuel Cusanelli and Caleb Carlson, “Mental Health and Illness in Canadian Congregations”

Joni Avram, “Can Virtue Be Caught?”