It’s time for Showcase!!!

Montgomery College-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship Showcase Event

We the People: America’s Grand and Radical Experiment

with Democracy

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Science Center #152, Rockville campus

Program Schedule

2:00 Welcome and Introductions– Sara Ducey, Collegewide Chair for Integrative Studies and Paul Peck Humanities Institute director.

2:15 Eddie Arana (World Languages, RV): Including and Accessing U.S. American Citizenry through Dual Cultural Identities in Heritage Speakers of Spanish

2:30 Raquele Licamele (English and Reading, RV) Practicing Democracy: Writing About Protest and Activism in U.S. American Society

2:45 David Sowards (English, GT)Democracy: Making an Argument for Rights

3:00 Rachel Bonaparte (Communications, RV) “We the People: The Shaping of a New Democracy”

3:15 David Lott (ELAP, TPSS) Democratic or Authoritarian? New Thematic Content for ELAR 980

3:30 Break

3:45 Brett Pelham (Psychology, GT) Learning about America’s Grand Experiment with Democracy

4:00  Osmond Farrell(Communications, RV) Advancing Democracy Through Freedom of Speech

4:15  Monica Mellini(Engineering, GT)Democratizing Engineering through Identity Formation

4:30  Alejandro Leopardi (English, GT) Democracy, the Foreign Experience, and How We Are All Connected

4:45 Deb Solomon (Media Arts and Technology, RV) Project: Gaming and Democracy