Humanities Symposium Sessions
Session I: 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
PANEL A |
HUM 1039 |
| Zachary Ilg | The ”Monsters” We Created: Artificial Life and Humanity in Literature |
| Zach Unger | Responsibility and Authorship in the Age of Creative Co-Agency |
| Isabel Taylor | Glassfolk |
Moderator |
Professor Lee Conell |
PANEL B |
HUM 1040 |
| Nayeli Roldan | The Multiverse of Mourning |
| Rachael Girsang | Between Grief and Giggles |
| Rinn Kress | When the Wind is Still |
Moderator |
Professor Sharon Zechowski |
PANEL C |
HUM 1041 |
| Keara Nielsen | Rendering Consciousness for Readerly Empathy in Dystopian Fiction |
| Brigede Baca Aucca | The Line between Fiction and Reality: Understanding Dark Romance |
| Freyja Berger | Rhythm in the Mountains |
Moderator |
Professor Mariel Rodney |
PANEL D |
HUM 1042 |
| Isabella Spence | The Body of Black Fem Art: A Collagic Harvest of Wangechi Mutu and Lorna Simpson |
| Lilly Martinez | Morado y Negro: El Señor de los Milagros and Afro-Peruvian Catholicism in Colonial Lima |
| Sammie Terpening | Why’d You Do It, Eve? |
Moderator |
Professor Paul Kaplan |
Session II - 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM
PANEL A |
HUM 1039 |
| Maxim Olsen | Diminutivization, Majesty, and Charm: Cast Zoomorphic Bronzes in Medieval Islamic Communities |
| Josie Bradsby | Anti-Essentialism in Sir Gowther and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Study of Agential Identity |
| Pattie Jane Allen | The Heart in Art and the Self: Visualizing Faith and Interiority in Early Modern Art |
Moderator |
Professor Paul Megna |
PANEL B |
HUM 1040 |
| Juniper Lambertson | History Critiquing Itself: Building an Accurate Narrative of Early Roman Imperial Historiography |
| Frank Rega | How Baseball Was Used as a Tool of Propaganda During WWII |
| Jeremy Fox | Environmental Hijacking and Theft of Social Experience in the Digital Age |
Moderator |
Professor Megan Zahay |
PANEL C |
HUM 1041 |
| Sheila Verkaik | Black Americans, Community Organizing, and Public Health during the Great War / Pandemic Period |
| Arundhati Eidinger | American Amnesia: The Liberty Cap’s Uses and Abuses |
| Sheila Verkaik | Collection of Unnamed Short Stories |
Moderator |
Professor Jessica Levy |
PANEL D |
HUM 1042 |
| Paola Anguiano | Broken Families: The Impact of Parental Deportation on Mexican Children |
| Melina Wojcik | Literary Techniques Used to Depict War as Moral Injury |
| Zoey Hawkins | Brooklyn Blues |
Moderator |
Professor Mariel Rodney |
Session III: 11:35 AM - 12:35 PM
PANEL A |
HUM 1039 |
| Marihana Heloany Reis | Invisible Labor: Gendered and Racialized Exploitation in the U.S. Care Sector |
| Sophia Pallozzi | Don’t Forget About Me: How Women are Navigating the Male Dominated Field of Trades |
| Beck Clasen | Gender, Race, and the Technology of Domination: How Perception Enables or Resists Oppressive Structures |
Moderator |
Professor Leandro Benmergui |
PANEL B |
HUM 1040 |
| Isabella Calvão | The Narrative of the Queer American Expatriate |
| Lilith McCarthy | The Political Situation of Transgender Prisoners in the U.S. |
| Alice Vigue | Of Birds & Bodies |
Moderator |
Professor Paul Megna |
PANEL C |
HUM 1041 |
| Ramata “Rama” Diallo | A Letter from the Culture |
| Marissa Mulgrew | Story Pirates |
| Remi Bryan | Kudzu Records |
| Moderator | Professor Anna Ozbek |
PANEL D |
HUM 1042 |
| Kayley Shanks | The Sensibility of Younger Sisters |
| Emma Eager | Transgressive Bodies, Transformed Souls: Reclaiming the Feminine Experience through the Contemporary Short Story |
| Ethan Luce | Dirt God |
Moderator |
Professor Gaura Narayan |