Humanities Symposium Sessions
Session I: 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
PANEL A |
HUM 1039 |
| Alex Del Cueto | Side Barre: Conversations with Dancers |
| Sophia Castro-Astor | Purchase Presents: Season 3, Episode 2 |
| Domenick Esposito | Purchase Presents: Season 3, Episode 2 |
| Purchase Presents: Season 3, Episode 2 | |
Moderator |
Professor Megan Rossman |
PANEL B |
HUM 1040 |
| Erin Motmans | Alienation in William Blake and Karl Marx |
| Paige Merz | Hands-Off Learning: Education’s Shift to Screens and the Effect on Childhood Motor Skills |
| Rose Rodriguez | The Language of Loneliness |
Moderator |
Professor Paul Megna |
PANEL C |
HUM 1041 |
| Catherina Viljoen | From Didactic Literature to Fairy Tale Fantasies: A Comparative and Genealogical Study of Cinderella and Cinderella-like Characters in Children’s Literature |
| Angelica Barreto | The Legacy of Anne Boleyn |
| Jasmine Coy | Fat Camp, Fatter Girls |
Moderator |
Professor Sharon Zechowski |
PANEL D |
HUM 1042 |
| Jack Dennis | Ottoman Origins, 1301-1453 |
| Lilliana Haus | Anti-Semitism in Medieval England and Its Influence on Anti-Semitism in Modern America |
| Caroline Jimenez | Loving Thy Neighbor: How Latin American Immigration Revived the U.S. Catholic Church |
Moderator |
Professor Rachel Hallote |
Session II - 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM
PANEL A |
HUM 1039 |
| Andrew Agosto | Heidegger and World: The Translation between Objectivity and Love |
| Jack Byrne | Seeing Beyond Rage: The Young Baldwin’s Powerful Joy |
| Natalie Tulloch | Need 4 Blood: Understanding The Importance of a Blood Shortage |
Moderator |
Professor Anna Ozbek |
PANEL B |
HUM 1040 |
| Robyn Graygor | Stream-Crossing Critters: How Log Crossings Over Streams Support Wildlife Biodiversity and Aid Habitat Connectivity |
| John Erich | The New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad |
| Marihana Heloany Reis | From Brazil to Port Chester: Oral Histories of Brazilian Women Navigating Immigration, Work, and Faith |
| Manuela Mares | From Brazil to Port Chester: Oral Histories of Brazilian Women Navigating Immigration, Work, and Faith |
Moderator |
Professor Leandro Benmergui |
PANEL C |
HUM 1041 |
| Joanna Perez-Calderon | From Both Sides of the Easel: Women as Both Artists and Models in the 19th Century |
| Alec Hoxha | Queer, Anti Author: Self-Censoring Narration in Contemporary LGBTQ Fiction |
| Cedar Warner | The Knit Stitch |
Moderator |
Professor Gaura Narayan |
PANEL D |
HUM 1042 |
| Douglas Ownbey | Fate and Agency in Fantasy Media |
| Liz Morel | “You will ache like I ache”: Anguished Fame and Sadistic Catharsis in Female Authored Lyric Poetry, From Sylvia Plath to Lana Del Rey |
| Bernardo “Bernie” Manzolillo | The Real Housewives: Agents of Hypernormalisation |
Moderator |
Professor Paul Megna |
Session III: 11:35 AM - 12:35 PM
PANEL A |
HUM 1039 |
| Elysé Ahmad | Slashing Stereotypes: The Substance and Hagsploitation |
| Katherine Kelley | Body Horror and Survival in Trans Young-Adult Fiction |
| Alira Cohen | Cosmic Anxiety |
Moderator |
Professor Megan Zahay |
PANEL B |
HUM 1040 |
| Caiden Oestreicher | Go West Young Woman: Joan Didion and Eve Babitz’s Reinvention of California |
| Jennifer Ward | Silent Struggles: Shedding Light on Children Raised by Alcoholic Mothers |
| Kay Mancino | Apoptosis or Cell Death |
Moderator |
Professor Lee Conell |
PANEL C |
HUM 1041 |
| Brendan Hennessy | Lesser-Known Spies of the American Revolution: Margaret Kemble Gage, Miss Jenny, and Anna Smith Strong |
| Matthew Dragotto | The Paintings of American Wars: Revolution to the Second World War |
| Elizabeth Baldino | An Exploration Into Controlled Morality and Literary Tropes in Choice-Based Video Games Seen Through the Lens of the Western Genre in Red Dead Redemption II |
| Moderator | Professor Laura Chmielewski |
PANEL D |
HUM 1042 |
| Akilo Kelly | The Fictionalization of the Black Experience: The Presence and Absence of Black Femininity |
| Felicia Hoffenberg | Disappearance, Absence, Memory and Metaphor in Colombia |
| Guadalupe Conde | Testimonios: From Oral to Digital Visual Narratives |
Moderator |
Professor Mariel Rodney |