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 |