Festival Schedule
ALL DAY EVENTS | 9:00 AM-6:00 PM
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- Creative Sound Artworks – Digital Media I & II: EAR Forest
- Poems for the Forest: EAR Forest
- Presenters:
- Students Art 112: Ishan Abraham, Ruby Chavez, Brooklyn N. Cruzado, Karlee K. Dailey, Ryan P. Deguzman, Jose R. Hernandez-Carver III, Diego Gomez-Hernandez, Everett M. Holbrook, Stas Ivanov, Madison J. Thrash, Vesna Uzunova, Isla Watson
- Students ART 212: Elizabeth M. Brixen, Archer S. Carew, Ahnalya M. De Leeuw, Ariel P. Dean, Delaney L. Jones, Leon K. McIntosh
- The World is your Dumpster Fire: An 8-hole Mini Golf Course | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Fields Alumni Circle
- Presenters:
- Students ART 213/313: Sabine Heier, Elsie Lee, Bertie Mahoney, Kailie Park, Liam Pignolet, Zoe Rommel, Alli Sanders, Alicia Starkey
9:00 – 10:30 AM
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- Reimagining Fairy Tales and Narrative Traditions (Panel 1) | Location: Miller 102 | Moderator: Rishona Zimring
- Presentations:
- Anna Marie Kinney | Fairy tale, Gender, Film analysis
- Hailey Wortham | Love and Stability: A Comparison of Relationships in Beaumont’s Beauty and the Beast and Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses.
- Carson Cook | Nostalgia and Imagination in the Forsterian Traveler: Delving into Modernism’s Introspective Experiences of Old Age
- Narratives of Resistance and Political Power (Panel 2) | Location: Miller 105 | Moderator: Mo Healy
- Presentations:
- Olivia Fendrich | Conflict and the Fallen World: St. Augustine of Hippo, Carl Schmitt, and the Role of Religion in Political Realism
- Declan Cloutier | Stars, Stripes, Shamrocks, and Spheres: The 1864 Chicago Irish National Fair, Irish-American Identity, and Nationalist Women
- Jessie Storz | Rhetoric of the Manifesto: Media, Murder, and the Art of Consumable Crime
- Systems of Authority and Structural Inequality (Panel 3) | Location: JRHH 202 | Moderator: Yung-Pin Chen
- Presentations:
- Skyler Tompkins | Civil Asset Forfeiture Law Reform at the State Level: A Comparative Analysis
- Gina Kennedy | “I’m Destroying My Body for This Class”: Bureaucracy, Disability, and Access at Lewis & Clark College
- Ruby Jacobsen | “Plantation Homes and Log Cabins: Strategies of Desire at the Augusta National and Lincoln Golf Clubs”
- Rethinking Ethics in Science, Technology and Activism (Panel 4) | Location: Miller 104 | Moderator: Tamily Weissman
- Presentations:
- Ava Cameron | “You are the Medicine: Ethics and Relational Ontologies in Psychedelic Ceremonial and Therapeutic Spaces”
- Kate O’Farrell | An Exploration of the Effect the Digital Age on Political Activism
- Alexis Marie Rana | Click, Shift, Shine: Optimising OregonFluor Scaffolds for Quantitative iPAI
- Critique of Social Worlds in Philosophy and Literature (Panel 5) | Location: JRHH 102 | Moderator: J. M. Fritzman
- Presentations:
- Anli Davis | Benhabib, Ingram, and Lyotard on The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
- Monty Caruso | Outside the Margins: Revolutions, Assemblages, Multiplicity, and Provocation through Deleuze, Guattari, and Badiou
- Katarina Tapia-Mills | Chilean Arpilleras: Textile Testimonies to Gender Abuse and Violence under Dictatorship
- Liv Lyons | Loneliness and Friendship in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
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- 2025 James J. Kopp Library Research Award Winners | Location: Smith Hall | Moderator: Erica Jensen
- Awardees:
- Marin Cady | “Moral and Economic Rationales for Romania’s Pronatalist Policy”
- Margot Velthoen | “Reiki’s Liminality: Blending the Realms of Science, Religion, and Medicine”
- Erin Connelly | “A Comparative Between Gold Leaf Illumination Techniques in Ancient Egypt and Medieval Europe”
10:40 AM – 12:10 PM
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- Digital Culture, Consumerism, and Social Narratives (Panel 6) | Location: Olin 301 | Moderator: Duncan Parks
- Presentations:
- Aspen Sollars | CleanTok: Gendered Performance and Labor in Online Cleaning Content
- Grace Kelley | Discipline or Disorder: The Rhetoric of Gym Culture in the 21st Century
- Clash Orsborn | The Legitimation of Unethical Purchasing Habits: How SHEIN Customers Defend the Brand
- Sierra Barnes | Breaking the Barn Door: How Litigation Shapes Public Discourse on Industrial Animal Agriculture
- The Body in Culture, Art, and Medicine (Panel 7) | Location: JRHH 202 | Moderator: Jessie Starling
- Presentations:
- Eliana Bly | “Peso Pesado”: Body Image, Diet Culture, and Disordered Eating in Chile
- Evelyn Gore | This is Exactly What the Doctor Ordered: An Integration of Applied Theatre into the Practice of Medicine to Humanize Healthcare.
- Maiya Robinson | Symptoms of a System: Menopause, Biomedicine, and the Politics of Women’s Aging
- Biological Processes and Environmental Interaction (Panel 8) | Location: JRHH 102 | Moderator: JP Gourdine
- Presentations:
- Aeddon Woods | Population Ecology of Two Species of Terrestrial Bromeliads in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador
- Elie Al Khoury | Monitoring the Growth of Urinary Bacteria on Carbohydrates
- Madison Scroggins | Effect of developmental nicotine exposure at the embryonic stage in Drosophila melanogaster
- Kathryn Macy | Effect of developmental nicotine exposure at the embryonic stage in Drosophila melanogaster
- Sound, Culture, and the Politics of Music (Panel 9) | Location: Gregg Pavilion | Moderator: Kaley Mason
- Presentations:
- Mia Raju | Coded Composition: Opacity of Dissent in the Instrumental Works of Shostakovich
- Oren Parthenos Camelia Whiting | Sounding the Divide: Political Expression in Portland’s Folk Music Scene
- Sofia Robles | El Apagón as Cultural Resistance: Reclaiming Puerto Rico Through Reggaeton
- Illicit Economies and Global Human Rights (Panel 10) | Location: Miller 105 | Moderator: Keith Dede
- Presentations:
- Jana Qasem | Illicit Flows: Transnational Criminal Organizations and the Blood Diamond Trade in Sierra Leone
- Marta Alpresa Balaguer | Transnational enforcement, domestic avoidance: The case of cross-border bride trafficking in Southeast Asia
- Diego Flores Hernandez | Lawful Outlaws: Exploring The Conditions Under Which Rebel Groups Respect the Laws of War
- Nostalgia and Ethics in Literature and Politics (Panel 11) | Location: Miller 102 | Moderator: Rachel Cole
- Presentations:
- Katie Coiteux | The Thimble and the Snore: Woolf’s Fantastical Authorship in “Nurse Lugton’s Curtain”
- Katherine Wade | Ambition, Ordered Liberty, and the Issue of Endurance: Hamilton’s Conservative Liberalism
- Julia Laurich | Self-Discovery, Autonomy, and the Moral Gray Areas of Little Red Riding Hood
- Mathematics and Approaches to Data Visualization (Panel 12) | Location: Miller 104 | Moderator: Grace Lawley
- Presentations:
- Calliope Ruskin and Moss Kaiser | Dynamics in Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations Modeling Plant-Pollinator Mutualisms
- Sidra Wernli | Wildfire Risk in Washington State
- April Suleski | An Informal Introduction to Formal Verification
12:20 – 1:50 PM
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- Roundtable: What I Learned From Studying a World Language | Location: Gregg Pavilion | Moderator: Isabel DeMarte
- Presenters:
- Ava Lockwood, Cole Mizutani, Clio Torbenson, Ava Hall, Anna Marie Kinney
- Political Ethics and Governance (Panel 13) | Location: Miller 105 | Moderator: Todd Lochner
- Presentations:
- Zane Emerson | Last Resort: The Bounds of Morally Permissible Torture
- Peyton Broll | Follow the Money and See Where it Goes: The Informational Value of Campaign Finance Disclosure in Ballot Measure Campaigns
- Sydney Schubbe | The More Voters Know: Political Knowledge’s Influence on Polarization Throughout Trump-Associated Elections.
- Mapping Environmental and Urban Change (Panel 14) | Location: JRHH 102 | Moderator: Heidi Liere
- Presentations:
- Tessa Forth | Fringe in the Fallout: Monitoring Hurricane Responses in Puerto Rican Mangrove Reserves
- Naomi Ortiz | Community De-Fence: Space-as-media and Control Through the Echo Park Lake Operation
- Thomas Schwiebert | Cities and Psyches: Urban Renewal and Recovery Housing in Portland, Oregon, 1940-2005
- Ali Kerschner | Into the Third Dimension: Studying the Conical Webs of a Local Spider Genus
- Power, Symbolism, and Authority in Historical Context (Panel 15) | Location: JRHH 202 | Moderator: John Holzwarth
- Presentations:
- Sam Barton | The Portrayals of the Eunuchs, Samonas and Constantine the Paphlagonian, in Tenth-Century Byzantine Chronicles
- Roman Curry | Animal of the In-Between: Significance and Symbolism of Serpents in Greco-Roman Cult and Art
- Maggie O’Leary | Edmund Burke’s Romantic Sentimentality is not only compatible with William Wordsworth’s but Crucial to his Fundamentally Progressive Conception of Human Nature
- Posters & Demonstrations | Location: Stamm
- Group Presentations:
- Abraham Hafron, Aidan Petrarca, Aj Schroeder, Anais Mrkoci, Angie Bennett, Anika Evanoff, Clover Sinning, Colin McLeod, Donovan Taylor, Eliot Woods, Fenley Lopez, Isaac Tung, Jackson Altstaetter, Jonas Kra-Caskey, Kate Franzen, Katie Fowler, Leilani Medley, Masha Glazneva, Lillian Cassell, Margot Esposito, Mischa Vanek, Randall Wise, River Aitken, Rowan Simoni | Electron Microscope Trivia
- Abby Morrow, Lillian Cassell, Lindsey Stobbs, Margot Esposito, River Aitken, Tristan Van Brocklin | Periodic Table of Cupcakes
- Ainsley Rios, Deenie Bulyalert, Gabriella Russo, Hattie Weinroth, Keesee Bennett McDonnell, Sofia Dimaggio, Tess Doran | Self-Efficacy and FOMO: Intervention to Improve Sleep Quality Among Young Adults
- Archer Carew, Lila Kunkel, Rain Damon-Espinas | Mixed Perspectives: A Content Analysis of Multiracial, Multiethnic Perspectives of White-Passing on Reddit
- Charlotte Connor, George Groebner | How did the 2014-2016 Northeast Pacific Marine heatwave change bioproductivity in the Gulf of Alaska and East Bering Sea?
- Erin Connelly, Evan Jackson | Medieval Ink in the Modern Day: Making Iron Gall Ink from Historical Recipes
- Elan Acevedo, Ryan Jurischk | Dynamics of Microswimmers: optical trapping as a tool to explore the physics of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii
- Amara Stromberg, Ryan Sanderson | Characterizing the I.4.JS mutation in Drosophila melanogaster
- Katie Fowler, Leilani Medley | ZnO Nanorods for Environmental Cleanup
- Individual Presentations:
- Anna Dreher | The Impact of Public Transport on Public Health
- Carla Romero | Five Ladies and a Kiss
- Cate Barrett | Blinded by Dogma: A Meta-Textual Analysis of Vision in Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People”
- Corey Near-Ansari | Objects in Production: Making a Dream World Tangible
- Ella Shanava | False Memories and Variability in Mental Imagery: Insights from Aphantasia
- Em Melroy | Frogs on Parade: Tactical Frivolity in Portland, Oregon
- Evan Stover | Degree or Not Degree? The Relationship Between Large Language Models, Tasks, and the College Wage Premium
- Finn Goldberger-Judd | Establishing Lewis & Clark’s Fungarium
- Frasier Shanker | Fall Fungi of Lewis & Clark
- Ishan Abraham | SLMs Meet GraphRAG: A Structured Approach to Context-Aware Cybersecurity Hint Generation
- Jazmin Contreras | Does La Pension del Bienestar Improve Household Wellbeing? Evidence from Mexico’s non-contributory pension system
- JG Madsen and Liam Pignolet | Trade Winds
- Jy Yankosky | Cybersecurity DDoS: Attack and defend
- Lewis Eibner | How People Make Social Decisions in Service Settings
- Lillian Cassell | Computational Studies of Photoconductive Nanomaterials
- Lily Cahill | Electricity Market Restructuring and Electricity Prices in the United States
- Marion Richardson-Beatty | “Yerma” and “All About Adeline” Scenic and Props Design – Process and Product
- Morgan Berghof | Laser System for Two-Dimensional Magneto-Optical Trapping of Lithium Atoms
- Ryder Selikow | The Cybersecurity Skills Gap is an Infrastructure Problem: Building an Open-Source, Kubernetes-Native Cyber Range
- Sam Rudderow | Innovation & Inequality: Investigating the Effects of Automation on Labor Markets
- Sammy Joyce | Authorship as Afterlife: Narratorial Allusiveness in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping
- Suzie Myles | Competition and Predation by Native and Non-native Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) at Various Temperature Conditions
- Wade McDermott | Topology As a Lens: Visualizing Data Geometry
- Zayd Anderson | Venom Evolution in Anguimorpha: A Morphological and Phylogenetic Analysis
- Evans Showcase | Location: Evans Auditorium
- Performances:
- Zachary Martin | Afrenthalt Senior Vocal Recital
- Deirdre Jones | Poetry Reading
- Isla Watson | Poetry Reading: “America, My Mind Right Now”
- Bodie Beaumont-Gould | Poetry Reading
- Erin Montgomery | Poetry Reading
- Samantha Knofler | Theatrical Showcase: “Commencement”
- Indira Heller | Poetry Reading: “Flower Girl Vows”
- Nicolas Vilches, Zoe Thrope, Mia Raju. Kaylee Granzian, Tillie Schwartz-Ketchner | “Dover Beach” (Baritone and String Quartet)
2:00 – 3:30 PM
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- Philosophy and Power in Contemporary Global Struggles (Panel 16) | Location: JRHH 102 | Moderator: Mitch Reyes
- Presentations:
- Jocelyn Brandon | Preliminary thesis title: Conflict escalation in the case of the Nagorno-Karabakh
- Eldridge Orum | Wrestling With G-d: Emergent Jewish Culture in the Movement for Palestinian Liberation Since the Al Aqsa Flood
- Tristan Van Brocklin | Feenberg and Abromeit on Marcuse’s Critique of Technological Rationality
- Construction of Gender and Identity in Art (Panel 17) | Location: Miller 105 | Moderator: Reiko Hillyer
- Presentations:
- Alli Sanders | Weaving Identity: Craft, Consumerism, and the Commodification of Tradition
- Annabelle Burg | A Garden of Words: Floriographic Imaginings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Paintings of Women
- Kyle Gunderson | Foucault & Baudrillard on the Social Conditioning of Sexuality Under Capitalism
- Lillian Witsoe | Muglerized Bodies, Speaking Objects: An Analysis of Mugler’s FW 1995 Collection
- Language, Identity, and Social Scripts (Panel 18) | Location: JRHH 202 | Moderator: Bruce Suttmeier
- Presentations:
- Liam Murphy | How Do You Call Yourself?: Linguistic Flows Inside and Outside the Language Classroom
- Ellie Boian | Pedagogies of Sexual Consent: An Analysis of Reddit’s r/AskMen
- Kai Mermis-Cava | The Aesthetics of Ignorance: Reader Response to Cabaret’s Master of Ceremonies
- Gender and Sexuality in Art and Literature (Panel 19) | Location: Miller 102 | Moderator: Joseph P. Skudlarek
- Presentations:
- Luce Wohlmut | Mermaids & Courtesans, Andersen & Mogador
- Marion Richardson-Beatty | Passing and Drag: Models of Gender Construction in Italian Baroque Opera
- Miriam Baena | The Exploration of Identity, Desires, and Autonomy through the Inescapable Lust of Dreaming
- Philosophical Thought in Contemporary Discourse (Panel 20) | Location: Miller 104
- Presentations:
- Charlize Pope | Politics Through Edits: Utilization of the Narrative Paradigm to Influence Politics
- Ava Mullen | Sen’s Critique of Krishna’s Views of Negation in Nyāya
- Ella Trickel | Fritzman Verses Anderson: Views on the Bhagavadgītā
- Roundtable: Religious Studies Thesis | Location: Gregg Pavilion | Moderator: Susanna Morrill
- Presenters:
- Adam Wright, Ezra Billing, Fellow Moratti, Mattie Harrop, Roman Curry, Romeo Vilkin
2:00 – 5:00 PM
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- Artists Talks | Location: Hoffman Gallery | Moderators: Dru Donovan and Dann Disciglio
- Presenters:
- Luna Beckett, Rose Bialk, Mack Burnett, Anna Geise, Indy (India) Griffin, Mina Gudis, Leaf Hart, Sophie Hauselman, Sabine Heier, Daisy Hockett, Katy Hoesel, Orla Irish-Hurlow, Cecily Munster, Suzie Myles, Atticus Savering, Grayson Greer Smith, Alex Stross, Robin Stump, Naomi Taylor, Sarah Anita Walker, Kai Willis
3:40 – 5:10 PM
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- Roundtable: LC Alumni: Behind the Scenes in Academia | Location: Gregg Pavilion | Moderators: Jessica Gabriel Garcia Bocaletti, Monique Bittencourt Dias, Dianara Sagastizado
- Presenters:
- Maya Postigo ’23, Noe Rodriguez ’23, Grace Lawley ’17, McKenna Finley ’23
- Sacred Narratives and Cultural Landscapes (Panel 21) | Location: JRHH 102 | Moderator: Andrew Bernstein
- Presentations:
- Indira Heller | Bridging the Gap in the Middle English Poem, Pearl: The Dreamer’s Transcendence into The Cloud of Unknowing
- Sofija Aviles-Lindsey | That Pearl of Great Price: Evoking the Divine Through Devotional Objects and Poetry in Pearl
- Iris Swanberg | Conserving an Animate Landscape: How the Blackfoot River Redefined Property and Community, 1970-1995
- Isaac Babus | Religiosity and Violence in The Golem
- Exploring Structure in Physical and Biological Systems (Panel 22) | Location: JRHH 202 | Moderator: Ben Olsen
- Presentations:
- Kaia O’Neill | Quantum Particles in a Perturbed Harmonic Trap
- Olivia Price | Investigating the Grammar of Enhancers
- Andrew Olmsted | Modeling Early High Temperatures on Embryonic Heart Development
- Policy Debates and Emerging Industries (Panel 23) | Location: Miller 105 | Moderator: Joel Fisher
- Presentations:
- Clio Petty | Death Penalty Moratoria: A Study of Gubernatorial Decision Making
- Bri Deleon | Organic, Fair Trade Weed? A Decade of Change in Portland’s Legal, Sustainable Marijuana Market
- Abby Burke | Organic, Fair Trade Weed? A Decade of Change in Portland’s Legal, Sustainable Marijuana Market
- Philosophy, Ethics, and the Human Condition (Panel 24) | Location: Miller 102 | Moderator: J.M. Fritzman
- Presentations:
- Anna Littlejohn | The Gawain-Poet’s Epistemologies of Virtue: An Exploration of Moral Systems in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Bela Salinger | “I Don’t Grieve Them, I Live Them”: Archiving, Memorializing, and Languaging Intergenerational Death
- Gannon Clarkson | White’s Critique of Foundationalism in Habermas’s Epistemology and Ethics
- Fate, Faith, Gender, and Righteousness in the Great Classical Chinese Novels (Panel 25) | Location: Miller 104 | Moderator: Meiru Liu
- Presenters:
- Tanner Lee
- Marta Alpresa Balaguer
- Kaitlyn Milner
- Dinah Dodds Endowment for International Education Recipient Research Project Presentations | Location: Smith Hall | Moderator: Blythe Knott
- Awardees:
- Elise Barton | A Comparative Study of Traditional and Industrial Fishing Practices in Valparaíso, Chile
- Natalie Connelly | They Uproot Trees, and Still We Plant More: Food Sovereignty and Anti-Militarism in Jordan and Palestine
- Tully Jones-Wilkins | Imagining Place: Adventure Tourism and Place-making in Ecuador
- Lazar Lukac | Clearing the Skies: Exploring Deadweight Loss and Payment Inefficiencies in Global Aviation at IATA’s World Financial Symposium
- Kevin Matisheck | Continuing Italian language Study Post-Program
- Eyla Mitchell | Prague Life Drawing
- Fellow Moratti | “Tourist Gaze” and Pilgrimage: Greek Orthodox Icons as Both Souvenirs and Sacred Items
- Liam Murphy | How do you call yourself?: Linguistic Flows Inside and Outside the Language Classroom
- Romeo Vilkin | Sacred Plants, Outsider Hands: Iquitos, Peru & An Analysis of Non-Indigenous Facilitation of Amazonian Ancestral Medicine
3:40 – 6:00 PM
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- Food Trucks | Location: Academic Quad
4:00 – 5:30 PM
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- Arts@LC Showcase | Location: Academic Quad
- Performances:
- Kyra Jorgensen | Love Bomber
- Nadia Tonantzin Cota: Animal, Seed & Slowness
- Zoe Chinn and Jamie Kushnick | When We Slept in Trees: Touching Grief
- Jamie Kushnick | Poem
- Sawyer Orme | Poem to an Absent Beloved
- Marlee Zimmer and Lila Kunkel | All About Adeline
- Jazz Buskin, Will Wrobel, Angie Bennett and directed by Quinn Newberry | I Mourned For All Of Spring
- Lillian Witsoe: Poem
- Milo Hodges | Alborada & Allegro Solemne Classical Guitar
- Josh Nguyen, Andrew Van Vorhees, Evelyn Gore | Scene from Yerma
- Gianvito Cassanelli | Scene from When We Slept in Trees
5:00 – 7:00 PM
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- Senior Art Exhibit Opening Reception | Location: Hoffman Gallery
5:20 PM – 6:50 PM
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- MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL – A screening of short films and video essays: Sponsored by RHMS and Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society | Location: Miller 105 | Moderators: Brady Vinlove and Lorelai Gango
- Presenters: TBA
8:00 – 9:00 PM
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- FoeSA | Location: Olin Courtyard | Faculty Advisor: Peter Drake
- Performers:
- Srinidhi Sundaresan, Saph Leeper, Maxine Cadman, Miles Doucette, Eden McCoy, Alia Thorn, Aster Daellenbach, Kai Mermis-Cava, Adriana Jergušova, Ian MacDougall, River Aitken, Peter Drake, Kyra Milner, Kaitlen Milner, Colin Farrow, Sam Rudderow
