Senior Thesis Presentations: Part 1
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 – Friday, April 30, 2021
The first round of presentations will take place on Wednesday, April 28, Thursday, April 29, and Friday, April 30.
Wednesday, April 28
12:30
Jonas Lieb - Supply Chain Risk Management and Human Rights in the Textile Industry
14:00
Michael Torkaman - An Experimental Inquiry Into The Role Of Empathy and Individual Risk Preferences In Decision Making For Others.
14:45
Adrianadayl Porraid Ordonez - Education and Capabilities: How Women's Sexual and Reproductive Well-being Is Impacted By Education In Nicaragua
15:30
Sofya Mayer - The Danse Macabre and Human Attitudes towards Death in the Sixteenth Century
16:15
Danny Dubner - Apokalypsis, the Clock, and its Makers: Remedios Varo's "Revelación"
17:00
Jelizaveta Ostrovska -The Place of the Human in Relation to Nature in the Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci
Thursday, April 29
15:30
Esme Thompson-Turcotte - “Spiritual Marxism”: Mika Rottenberg’s Aesthetic Amalgam of 21st Century Economy
16:15
Aziza Izamova - "The Louvre of the Steppes": The Igor Savitsky Collection in Nukus, Uzbekistan
17:45
Leigh Ronen - Winging the News: How Political Journalists Navigate Their Careers on Twitter
Friday, April 30
11:45
Maria Jose Sarmiento Isaac - Growing Wings: A Performance Studies Approach to Women's Demonstrations in Mexico City
12:30
Maya Abdulqader - Life Online: The Impacts of Social Media Influencing on Gen Z
13:15
Mohamed Othman - Reconstruction in Syria: Political Actors and Possible Scenarios
14:00
Federica Ianni - Contradicting Desires and the Ambivalent Role of the State and Church in Kleist’s Work: Art, History, Superstition and Fanaticism in “Saint Cecilia or the Power of Music”
14:45
Christine van den Berg - Disidentification: How Postmigrant Cultural Activism Resists Discourses of Leitkultur and Integration in Germany
16:30
Mátyás György Endrey - Real-estate development in public parks: a case of new-build environmental gentrification
Coming Up:
Part 2
Monday, May 3
12:30
Oceanne Fry - Corrupted Credibility and Asylum in the Aegean: The 2020 International Protection Act, Mistrust, and EU Border Mismanagement
13:15
Schuyler Curriden - Eternal Paradox: W.E.B. Du Bois on the Problems of Democracy
14:00
Yuanfang Ding - Ideological Construction: The Emperor's New Clothes
14:45
Karina Chada - 'Strong Female Lead': Exploring Television Representations of the Empowered Woman
15:30
Valentino La Villa - A Mad Quest Through Novelistic Space Toward a New Post-capitalist Subjectivity
16:15
Hannah Scharmer - Art as a Teacher of Resonance
17:00
River Tabor - In Reaching for God They Found the Gesamtkunstwerk: An Inquiry into Dante's Commedia and Strasbourg Cathedral
17:45
Claire Uicker - In on the Joke: Political Satire in 1960s-70s American Counterculture, Its Strategies and Legacy
18:30
Alva Guzzini - Dynamic Threesomes: Beholders facing problematic art(ists) in contemporary controversies
Tuesday, May 4
12:30
Sami Gerezghiher - China's Belt and Road Initiative: Between Debt-Trap Diplomacy and Cooperation
13:15
Roxanne Drewry - Breaking Bread Together: Food and Community in Moments of Crisis
14:00
Tinca Joyner - Creating Justice: Testimony as Response to Sexual Violence in the DRC
14:30
Amy Clare Murthy-Putnam - Tactics of Displacement: The Making of Government Center in Postwar Boston
14:45
Solveig Vanniez - Decolonizing the North: Colonialism in Sápmi, Norway, and the survival of the yoik
16:15
Alexandra Huff - “It is not for fun”: Salvation and the Sartorial in Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies
17:45
Lucari Jordan - Developmental Effects of Major Hydroelectric Infrastructure on Cross Border Fluvial Communities
Wednesday, May 5
14:00
Ryan Miller - Snow: Lutz Bacher's Dispersal of Subjecthood and Authorship
14:45
Hyuna Choe - The Tragedy in Oldboy
15:30
Jessie Kao - Till Death Do us Part: The Arnolfini Portrait in Relation to Faith, Innocence, and Time
16:15
Caleb Smith - Enlightenment: Objectivity in Crisis
17:00
Anna Winslow - Polyvocality and the Cyborg Choir: From Bodily Mutilation to Bionic Extension
17:45
Frances Witherspoon - Changing Shape: The implications of Western Beauty Ideals on Body Image, Body Dissatisfaction and Instagram
18:15
Mary Grace Campbell - Performing Collectivity: The Case of Grand Union
Part 3
Thursday, May 6
11:00
Kaya Stein - #MeToo / NotYou: Questioning Hegemonic Representations of Sexual Violence Victims in the American Media Coverage of the #MeToo Movement
11:45
Mohamed Ali Nanah - Metamorphosis: Trauma and Becoming-Beast
14:00
Roman Steindler - Politics v. The Supreme Court of the United States: How and Why a Majority-Conservative Supreme Court Defended the Right to Gender Self-Determination
14:45
Mohamed Nafeh Kurdi - Refugees' Impact on the German Economy: An Analysis of the Integration Process in the Labor Market
16:15
Simon Plougholt Kastberg - Arctic Exceptionalism in a Shifting International Order
17:00
Charlene Batlle - Reading Plato's Republic in Cuba
17:45
Andrei Chiva - Corporate Superpowers: Foreign Policy in the Age of Big Tech
Friday, May 7
11:00
Angela Huang - Emotional Well-being of Migrant Care Workers: A Feminist Economic Analysis
11:45
Rebecca Singer - Rhetoric vs Policy in International Trade: the Case of the Trump Administration
12:30
Idil Morsallioglu - A Sudden Overview: Art and Everyday
13:15
Benetta Nayou - A Girl Like Me: The Unspoken Narratives of Former Liberian Refugee Women and Their Journeys From Exile
14:00
Mohamad Hesha Moadamani - Construction of the Syrian Collective Memory Before and After the 2011 Uprising
14:45
Adeeb Hadi - Arab Women Between Screen and Reality
15:30
Melanija Damjanovic - Reality Follows Fiction: How Serbian Film Perpetuates Gender Inequality
16:15
Beltran Arellnes - Neoliberal Capitalism as Conspiracy Theory Intensifier
17:00
Ethan Gutman - The Role of the Gunslinger in Liberal Democracy
Monday, May 10
12:00
Sam Zamrik - The Politics of a Rogue State: An Analysis of Assadist National Occupation
12:45
Elena Rahel Kyra Müller - Safeguards for Settlers? The Protective Efficacy of the World Bank’s Urban Infrastructure Projects between 2002 and 2019
Coming Up:
Part 2
Monday, May 3
12:30
Oceanne Fry - Corrupted Credibility and Asylum in the Aegean: The 2020 International Protection Act, Mistrust, and EU Border Mismanagement
13:15
Schuyler Curriden - Eternal Paradox: W.E.B. Du Bois on the Problems of Democracy
14:00
Yuanfang Ding - Ideological Construction: The Emperor's New Clothes
14:45
Karina Chada - 'Strong Female Lead': Exploring Television Representations of the Empowered Woman
15:30
Valentino La Villa - A Mad Quest Through Novelistic Space Toward a New Post-capitalist Subjectivity
16:15
Hannah Scharmer - Art as a Teacher of Resonance
17:00
River Tabor - In Reaching for God They Found the Gesamtkunstwerk: An Inquiry into Dante's Commedia and Strasbourg Cathedral
17:45
Claire Uicker - In on the Joke: Political Satire in 1960s-70s American Counterculture, Its Strategies and Legacy
18:30
Alva Guzzini - Dynamic Threesomes: Beholders facing problematic art(ists) in contemporary controversies
Tuesday, May 4
12:30
Sami Gerezghiher - China's Belt and Road Initiative: Between Debt-Trap Diplomacy and Cooperation
13:15
Roxanne Drewry - Breaking Bread Together: Food and Community in Moments of Crisis
14:00
Tinca Joyner - Creating Justice: Testimony as Response to Sexual Violence in the DRC
14:30
Amy Clare Murthy-Putnam - Tactics of Displacement: The Making of Government Center in Postwar Boston
14:45
Solveig Vanniez - Decolonizing the North: Colonialism in Sápmi, Norway, and the survival of the yoik
16:15
Alexandra Huff - “It is not for fun”: Salvation and the Sartorial in Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies
17:45
Lucari Jordan - Developmental Effects of Major Hydroelectric Infrastructure on Cross Border Fluvial Communities
Wednesday, May 5
14:00
Ryan Miller - Snow: Lutz Bacher's Dispersal of Subjecthood and Authorship
14:45
Hyuna Choe - The Tragedy in Oldboy
15:30
Jessie Kao - Till Death Do us Part: The Arnolfini Portrait in Relation to Faith, Innocence, and Time
16:15
Caleb Smith - Enlightenment: Objectivity in Crisis
17:00
Anna Winslow - Polyvocality and the Cyborg Choir: From Bodily Mutilation to Bionic Extension
17:45
Frances Witherspoon - Changing Shape: The implications of Western Beauty Ideals on Body Image, Body Dissatisfaction and Instagram
18:15
Mary Grace Campbell - Performing Collectivity: The Case of Grand Union
Part 3
Thursday, May 6
11:00
Kaya Stein - #MeToo / NotYou: Questioning Hegemonic Representations of Sexual Violence Victims in the American Media Coverage of the #MeToo Movement
11:45
Mohamed Ali Nanah - Metamorphosis: Trauma and Becoming-Beast
14:00
Roman Steindler - Politics v. The Supreme Court of the United States: How and Why a Majority-Conservative Supreme Court Defended the Right to Gender Self-Determination
14:45
Mohamed Nafeh Kurdi - Refugees' Impact on the German Economy: An Analysis of the Integration Process in the Labor Market
16:15
Simon Plougholt Kastberg - Arctic Exceptionalism in a Shifting International Order
17:00
Charlene Batlle - Reading Plato's Republic in Cuba
17:45
Andrei Chiva - Corporate Superpowers: Foreign Policy in the Age of Big Tech
Friday, May 7
11:00
Angela Huang - Emotional Well-being of Migrant Care Workers: A Feminist Economic Analysis
11:45
Rebecca Singer - Rhetoric vs Policy in International Trade: the Case of the Trump Administration
12:30
Idil Morsallioglu - A Sudden Overview: Art and Everyday
13:15
Benetta Nayou - A Girl Like Me: The Unspoken Narratives of Former Liberian Refugee Women and Their Journeys From Exile
14:00
Mohamad Hesha Moadamani - Construction of the Syrian Collective Memory Before and After the 2011 Uprising
14:45
Adeeb Hadi - Arab Women Between Screen and Reality
15:30
Melanija Damjanovic - Reality Follows Fiction: How Serbian Film Perpetuates Gender Inequality
16:15
Beltran Arellnes - Neoliberal Capitalism as Conspiracy Theory Intensifier
17:00
Ethan Gutman - The Role of the Gunslinger in Liberal Democracy
Monday, May 10
12:00
Sam Zamrik - The Politics of a Rogue State: An Analysis of Assadist National Occupation
12:45
Elena Rahel Kyra Müller - Safeguards for Settlers? The Protective Efficacy of the World Bank’s Urban Infrastructure Projects between 2002 and 2019
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