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Harrison Symposium

Saturday, May 24 | 8 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Main Hall

Student presenters will represent almost every department in the humanities and social sciences. This is one of the highlights of the academic year, and everyone is welcome to attend.

Schedule of Events

8-9 a.m.Steitz AtriumWelcome Reception
8:30 a.m.Steitz Atrium Remarks by Provost Blitstein
9-10:30 a.m.Main Hall Session 1
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.Main HallSession 2
12:15 p.m.Andrew CommonsLunch
Participants and guests who wish to eat in the Commons will receive a voucher to cover the cost of their meal

Session 1: 9-10:30 a.m.

Room 104 – Moderator, Madera Allan (Spanish)

  • Daisha Rivas – “Las mujeres en las comunidades garífunas de Honduras”
  • Mattigan Haller – “La medicina intercultural”
  • Riley Winebrenner – “Percepciones y usos del lenguaje inclusivo entre los estudiantes de español en Lawrence University”

Room 105 – Moderator, Mason Wheelock-Johnson (Classics)

  • Jackson Bertman – “Cicero’s Representation of the Gracchi through the Perspective of Agricultural Metaphor”
  • Sophia Eckdale-Dudley – “Conceptual Metaphor in Ancient Romans Ritual: LOVE IS FIRE”
  • Delia Lipkin – “The Answer is Beneath Us: Katabasis in Modern Media”
  • Silas O’Connell – “Truth and Knowledge from Imitative Fiction”

Room 201 – Moderator, Erica Scheinberg (Musicology)

  • Alex Alden – “The Pachelbel Pseudo-Portrait: Wishful Thinking in an Unmonitored Digital Age”
  • Garrett Myers – “Blurring Boundaries: Artifice, Sincerity, and Identity in Jacob Collier’s WELLLL”
  • Eli Jordan – “The Face of Another: Mitski and the Real Self”

Room 211 – Moderator, Alexandra Galombosh (Linguistics)

  • Matthew Carlson – “Developing an Opera Corpus for Subject-Specific Vocabulary Acquisitions in L2 Italian Learners”
  • Tanvi Thatai – “Using Conceptual Blending to Analyze Gestures Used in Operatic Singing Instruction”

Room 216 – Moderator, Claire Kervin (English)

  • Evelyn Best – “Toni Morrison’s Denver: Moving Us Forward”
  • Beatrice Kennedy-Logan – “‘To Preserve These, Our Bodies, Breathing and Unaccounted For’: Little Dog’s Written Memorial in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
  • Deirdre Spaulding – “Fashion, Aesthetics, and Politics: Exploring the Legacy of Vivienne Westwood”

Room 401 – Moderator, Victoria Kononova (Russian)

  • Audrey Deppen – “Pursuing Happiness: Ambiguity and Perspective in Chekhov’s Short Stories”
  • Isabel Dorn – “Examining the Impacts of Globalization on Sex Trafficking in Post-Soviet States”
  • Miranda R. Kirsche-Follmann – “Empyreal Trans*cendence: A Trans Dialogue on Saint Ksenia Petersburgskaia or Andrei Fyodorovich”

Room 404 – Moderator, Melissa Range (English)

  • Anna Dlugi – “Poetry and Music: Florence Earle Coates and Amy Beach”
    Winner of the 2024 Richard A. Harrison Award for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Session 2: 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Room 104 – Moderator, Rosa Tapia (Spanish)

  • Aria Djamali – “Feminismo y Carmen Boullosa”
  • William Seigl-Gesin – “Censura y memoria en Argentina, 1985, de Santiago Mitre”
  • Sofia Williams – “Lo femenino, la identidad transgénero y lo monstruoso en El beso de la mujer araña de Manuel Puig”

Room 201 – Moderator, Brigid Vance (History)

  • Aleksandra Jimerson-McKinnies – “Burned in Berlin, Banned in Boston: Censorship of Booksellers in Germany and the U.S. During the Interwar Period, 1919-1939”
  • Paul McMahon – “The 2010 Guangzhou Cantonese Protests and Language Policy in China”
  • Irina Starostin – “A Study of Media Consumption and Attitudes of Russian Citizens Towards Foreign Countries”

Room 211 – Moderator, Alexandra Galombosh (Linguistics)

  • Mirella Ramos – “A Cognitive Linguistics Inspired Method for Teaching Russian Prepositions”
  • Eitan Price – “Using Sound Change to Study Phonological Representations: The Case of American English Diphthongs”

Room 216 – Moderator, Austin Segrest (English)

  • Kaitlin Buelow – “Reading in the Age of the Algorithm: Social Media Discourses and Defining What It Means to Read with Colleen Hoover”
  • Elizabeth Rienstra – “Feminine Virtues Do Not Stifle America’s Path Forward: Breaking Down the Reaganite Politics in the American Girl Books”
  • Nina Schifano – “Desire, Disobedience, and Drag: My Lesbian Fangirling of Emily Dickinson, Aaron Copland, and Alena Smith”

Room 401 – Moderator, Mark Jenike (Anthropology)

  • Myra Johnson – “Construction Safety: Enforcement and Knowledge in Commercial and Residential Settings”
  • T.K. Marr and Gabby DeBoer – “Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Fox Valley Third Graders”

Room 404 – Moderator, Jason Brozek (Government)

  • Cao Le Quynh Anh – “The Inclusivity Trap in Peace Negotiations: Explaining the Breakdown of Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (2011-2015)”
  • Tahlia Moe – “The ‘Other’ Caitlin Clark Effect: The White Racial Frame and the Manufactured Rivalry Between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese”