Student Conference Archive
Open Books – Open Minds is pleased to announce the 2020 Student Conference Writing and Multimedia Award Winners!
Research Papers
1st Place: Jameson Pommenville,
“Protect the Trees”
Honorable Mention: Marissa Menard,
“Killing Trees Is Killing Us”
Honorable Mention: Julianne Svoboda,
“Trees Create Music”
Creative Nonfiction
1st Place: Brenda McClain,
“College Graduation and Welfare Recidivism” - McNair Scholar
Multimedia
Lab Girl Presentation
English 120 students:
Jocelyn Azulay
Brittany Chito
Sokkim HoAlison Lei
Poster Award
Poster
First-Year Writing Honors students:
Haya Abaherah
Abdullah S. Ahmad
Nailea Estrada
Marissa Menard
Jameson Pommenville
Lance A. Preston, Jr.
Hannah Simonds
Julianne Svoboda
The Ninth Annual Open Books - Open Minds
Student Conference Goes Online!
Rhode Island College’s Open Books – Open Minds Program invites students to submit papers and creative projects to be featured on our website. We are seeking submissions in a range of formats and media on any topic inspired by Hope Jahren’s
Lab Girl:
Visual art / Musical performances / Skits or dramatic performances / Poetry readings
Creative pieces / Academic writing
Awards will be given in these categories:
- Research papers
- Creative writing
- Innovative visual/audio media
Deadline for submissions to be considered for awards: April 20, 2020.
Email submissions or inquiries to
aduneer@ric.edu or
bhawk@ric.edu.
Possible topics:
- Ecocriticism
- Global Warming / Climate Change
- Earth Day
- Environmental Activism / Youth Climate Activism
- Why should we care about trees?
- Trees as literary subjects: poetry, stories, songs
- Ecosystems and aesthetics
- Women and other underrepresented groups in science and academia
- Mentorship in science
- Work and motherhood
- Creative approaches to research and writing
- Literary influences and references in Lab Girl (David Copperfield, Antigone, Finnegan’s Wake, Jean Genet)
- Rhetorical strategies in memoir
- Self-writing and Nature
- Nature Writing (Thoreau’s Walden)
- Interdisciplinary and/or disciplinary specific approaches to creative and critical thinking
- Science Writing
- The Personal in the Professional: Navigation of personal, professional, and political spheres in real life and/or in writing
- Money in Science: Grant writing and finding other sources of funding for research
- Mental health and Success (personal and professional) as related to work, family, parenting, and/or creativity
- Diversity and/or collaboration in the sciences and humanities
- Cultural and ethical implications of science
- Laboratories and other Sacred Spaces
Download Call For Papers & Creative Projects document
The Eighth Annual Open Books – Open Minds Conference
April 12, 2019
Call for Papers, Panels, and Poster Sessions inspired by
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid.
Call for Papers
The Seventh Annual Open Books – Open Minds Conference
April 13, 2018
Call for Papers, Panels, and Poster Sessions inspired by
Ta-Nehisi Coates's
Between the World and Me
Call for Papers
The Sixth Annual Open Books – Open Minds Conference
April 19, 2017
Call for Papers, Panels, and Poster Sessions inspired by
Nicholas Carr’s
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Call for Papers
2016 Open Books – Open Minds Writing Awards
First Place: Makara Keo, The Faceless Man: Loss of Identity in the Canefields
Second Place: Zackary Heon, Fukú Americanus: A Geopolitical and (Neo)Colonial Curse
Third Place: Jessica Simpson, Gender in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Honorable Mention: Brian Gould,
Radical Nerd Trilingualis
Honorable Mention: Rachel Plunkett, Not a Bad Guy: Sexism in Junot Diaz’s This is How You Lose Her
The Fifth Annual Open Books – Open Minds Conference
April 8, 2016
Call for Papers, Panels, and Poster Sessions inspired by Junot Díaz’s
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Call for Papers
Conference Program
Previous Calls for Papers and Conference Programs:
The Fourth Annual Open Books – Open Minds Conference
April 10, 2015
Theme:
Music and the Brain - Inspired by the 2014-2015 common book,
Musicophilia
(Call For Papers)
Conference Program
2015 Open Books – Open Minds
Writing Awards
First Place: Lauren McDonough,
Playing the Way to Equality in the Civil Rights, Feminism, and LGBTQ Movements
Second Place: Remson DeJoseph,My Soul Has Sung Deep Like the Rivers: How the Abolition of Slavery Birthed Generations of Music
Third Place: Max St. George,
Music vs. Noise: Philosophical and Aesthetic Perspectives
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The Third Annual Open Books – Open Minds Conference
April 11, 2014
Theme:
Imagination and Exploration - Inspired by the 2013-2014 common book:
PYM
( Call For Papers)
Conference Program |
Poster/Multimedia Exhibits
2014 Open Books – Open Minds
Writing Awards
First Place: Jessica Mandeville,
Poe, Melville, and Whiteness
Second Place: Cameron Osteen,Paintings and the Biodome: Simulacra and Simulation in PYM
Third Place: Patrick Pride,
Tsalal: the 19th-Century American Nightmare
2014 Poster and Multimedia Exhibit Awards
Individual Poster Award: Gabriel Morrison,
The Empty Gallery
Group Poster Award: Identity in America, project created in FYS: Talkies and More
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The Second Annual Open Books – Open Minds Student Conference
April 12, 2013
2012-2013 common book:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
(Call for Papers)
Conference Program
The 2013 Open Books – Open Minds
Writing Awards
First Place: Dawn Danella,
Night Doctors: Exhuming the Truth
Second Place: Philip Goldman,
Trusting the Reliable Narrator: Narratological and Lacanian and Perspectives on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Third Place: Matthew Leo,
Henrietta Lacks: Copyright 2010
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The Inaugural Open Books – Open Minds Student Conference
2011-2012 common book:
When the Emperor Was Divine March 30, 2012
(Call for papers)
Conference Program
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