Students

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

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

Room 104

• Mattigan Haller – “Intercultural Medicine”
• Daisha Rivas – “Women in Honduran Garfuna Communities”
• Riley Winebrenner – “Percepciones y Usos del Lenguaje Inclusivo Entre Los Estudiantes de Español en Lawrence University”

Room 201

• 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

• 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 216

• 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

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

Room 404

• 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

• Aria Djamali – “Feminismo y Carmen Boullosa”
• William Seigl-Gesin – “Censorship and Memory in Argentina 1984, by Santiago Mitre”
• Sofia Williams – “La feminine, la identidad transgénero, y lo monstruoso en El beso de la mujer araña”

Room 201

• 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

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

Room 216

• 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

• 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

• 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”