L&C Festival of Scholars and Artists

EAR FOREST AUDIO WORKS

9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Behind Fields and the Historic Bathhouse | Moderators: Dann Disciglio, Melanie Kohnen

• Amari Abraham, Will Ahlstrom, Julian Colvin-Lima, Ethan Flaum, Sophie Hauselman, Lucy Hisey, Piper Koch, Amelia McClure, Solomon McDaniel, Leon McIntosh, Jo Palladini, Jack Ponting, Gabriel Rosenfield, Sara Santos, Max Starr, Sophia Whyte, Greta Wilbur – Sonic Mediations
• Helena Brown, Miranda Caba Solano, Santiago Longhino, Mira Schwaller – Sonic Immersions
• Isabella Agliolo, Anais Batiz-Fischetti, Eva F. Beals, Stuti Behari, Ellery J. Bloom, Lee Browning, Jude A. Davidge, Tara C. Elsa, Matthew B. Gallart, Sophie E. Goricanec, Conner S. Hilberg, Anna N. Kulbashny, Izz P. Lamola, Brooke L. Lehrhoff, Talis A. Mace, Josephine J. Mann, Ryan S. Marshall, Harmony M. McMullin, Anna H. Moholt, Scotty Montgomery, Trey A. Morris, Ethan R. Sanders, Alistair T. Thorpe, Molly A. Troxel – TerraBytes: The Materiality of Digital Media

MINI GOLF FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Alumni Circle, in between Fields, Miller & the Hoffman | Moderator: Jess Perlitz

• Sophia Mitchell – Hole #1 Warped Blooms
• Charlotte Zerouni – Hole # 2 Potty Time, A Fun Flushing Time
• Lux Blazek – Hole # 3 Code 410: Gone
• Diego Zarate – Hole #4: Frank M(i)nor House
• Allison Gabelman – Hole #5: T’d up
• Emilie Schaefer – Hole #6: The Temple of uívi γκολφ
• Sara Brown – Hole #7: The K-Hole
• Summer Binder – Hole #8: Pill Popper
• Nuria Kiesebrink-Pareick – Hole #9: Grandma’s Tom Cat RAGE
• Katie Alker – Hole #10: Vulva
• Tess Eidson – Hole #11: A Fitting End

PERSONAL JOURNEYS IN LITERATURE | Location: Miller 104 | Moderator: Bruce Suttmeier

Presentations:

• Grace Billings – Some Kind of Tomorrow: Integrating Memory, Imagination, and Historical Traumas into Educational Pedagogies through the Framework of Morrison and Butler
• Meghan Blandon – Sir Cleges is Medieval Family Literature
• Shelby Platt – Self-Narrative and Self-Examination in 16th-/17th-Century Puritan Diaries

ART ACROSS THE AGES | Location: JRHH 202 | Moderator: Hannah Crummé

Presentations:

• Alina Cruz – El Arte es Cultura y La Cultura es Arte: Identity and Disidentification in the Cholo Subculture through Embodied Subversive “Fashion” and the Reclamation of Ethnic Space
• Santiago Longhino – Beyond the Renaissance: A Comparative Study Between the Italian Renaissance and the Mexican Muralist Movement
• Orion Whitcher – Athenian Grave Stelai

LIFE AND DEATH IN THE LAB | Location: Olin 301 | Moderator: Jean-Philippe Gourdine

Presentations:

• Maryam Al-Ghezi – Exploring Therapy Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer
• Lily Johnson – Dynamics of Microswimmers
• Deanna Sunnergren – Sacrifices for Science: Context and Considerations for Euthanasia in Research and Collections

OVER MY DEAD BODY | Location: Miller 105 | Moderator: Andrea Hibbard | LIVESTREAM

Presentations:

• Lauren Caldwell – “A Shroud Enveloped Her Form”: Incest, the Language of Family, and the Legibility of Power in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
• Rebecca Hanson – A Fatal Prejudice: The Power of Naming and Renaming in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

WHEN THE SUM HITS | Location: JRHH 102 | Moderator: Liz Stanhope

Presentations:

• Adin Dajdzic – Listening to Tetrahedra
• Nicholas Dill – Hearing the 3-Sphere
• Wyeth Greenlaw Rollins, Levi Overcast, Caitlyn Wilde – Dependable Computing

ALL ROADS LEAD THERE | Location: Miller 104 | Moderator: Gordon Kelly

Presentations:

• Anna-Marie Ahn – Multisensory Spectacle in the Roman Triclinium
• Elliot McNicholas – Modern Living in an Ancient Legacy: Excavating a Roman Imperial Villa
• Aidan Patrick – Akhenaten’s Ideal Body: The relationship between stylistic and sociopolitical change
• Diego Varela – Caesar’s Predecessors: How Rome’s path for hegemony led to civil war

STAYIN’ ALIVE | Location: Olin 301 | Moderator: Sharon Torigoe

Presentations:

• Elizabeth Cook – Placental Development in a Mouse Model
• Cassidy Floyd-Driscoll – Characterization of the complex behavioral effects of developmental and transgenerational nicotine exposure in Drosophila melanogaster
• Ashley Phan, Finn Watson – How do brown recluse venom toxins affect insects?
• Sarah Swanson – Investigating the Transcriptional Regulation of Pluripotency Gene Klf4

WHERE IS MY MIND? | Location: JRHH 102 | Moderator: Jessica Kleiss

Presentations:

• Liam Egan – Hegel with Lacan, Leeb with Lynch: Founding a Subversive Political Apparatus on (Mis)recognition
• Irene Hilman – Roll for Agency: Therapeutic Impacts of Transformative Immersion in Indie Tabletop Role-playing Games
• Aislinn Sanday – Is Date of Birth Enough: Cutoff Dates and First Grade Readiness in Early Childhood Education

DEVELOPMENTS IN THEATRE PERFORMANCE | Location: Miller 105 | Moderator: Rebecca Lingafelter | LIVESTREAM

Presentations:

• Phoenix Cox – What Happened to the “New Normal”?: Dreaming of COVID Safer Theatre
• Jamie Kushnick – Drag and Race: Can’t Have One Without the Other
• Scotty Montgomery – Materializing the Metaphysical: Visualizing Soyinka’s The Fourth Stage

A LOT’S GONNA CHANGE | Location: JRHH 202 | Moderator: Sarah Warren

Presentations:

• Joy Mahlalela – Beyond Term Limits: Continuismo or Contingency?
• Ava Mccabe, Macy O’Hara, Jack Ponting – Cures for viral misinformation: distinguishing truth in the digital age
• Anthilia Sklavenitis – Radio Freed Alcatraz

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ROUNDTABLE: Excavating a Roman Villa | Location: Miller 102 | Moderator: Gordon Kelly

Panelists:

• Audrey Conant, Noah Goodman, Diego Varela-Ruiz, Orion Whitcher

ROUNDTABLE: Reflections on RELS Senior Research | Location: Miller 104 | Moderator: Susanna Morrill

Panelists:

• Ben Forsberg, Olivia Orr, Addie Rosenthal, Rachel Schoenfeld, Sequoia Snogren-Mcginnis, Anola Stacy

ROUNDTABLE: What I’ve Learned by Studying a Foreign Language | Location: Miller 105 | Moderators: Isabelle DeMarte, Magalí Rabasa | LIVESTREAM

Panelists:

• Séamus Brindley, Caroline Drew, Andrew Fowler, Phebe Perdue, Christian Saavedra, Teresa Sera, Julianna Wullenjohn

ROUNDTABLE: Discover the World of Classical Chinese Novels | Location: JRHH 102 | Moderator: Meiru Liu

Panelists:

• Caroline H. Claeson, Mae A. Hart, Tomohiro Matsunaga, Halli Nguyen, Zac Walker

ROUNDTABLE: LGBTQ, Disability, & Family Structures in Asylum | Location: JRHH 202 | Moderator: Anna Miromanova

Panelists:

• Ava Hall, Izzy Huggins, Ruby Jacobsen, Hailey McHorse, Miles Oki, Clio Petty, Dani Rivas Clavel, Anthi Sklavenitis, Kate Smith, Ila Trevino

POSTER SESSION & DEMONSTRATIONS | Location: Stamm, Fowler Student Center | Moderators: Jens Mache, Norma Velazquez Ulloa

Presentations:

• Deenie Bulyalert, Ishani Hansji, Nando Magallanes, Ainsley Rios, Mika Veres – Sleep Quality, Habits, and Self-Efficacy Among College Students
• Cloe Moreno – Encountering Animals Cultivates Meaningful Shared Experiences Between Children and Parents
• Adin Dajdzic – Application of AI and Machine Learning in Cybersecurity Education
• Zane Mullally, Abi Ramirez, Kenzie Stewart – Noble Metal Nanoparticle Shape Control
• Tess Benrud, Sri Sundaresan, Melissa L. Zurla – Mapping Mutations
• Natalie Sinclair, Avi Strok – How do we find genes in genomes?
• Oren Parthenos – The Mystery of The Apollo Lyre
• Bodie Beaumont-Gould – Geometric Algebra and the Pedagogy of Maxwell’s Equations
• Emma Falk, Emma Hataway – Custom Electromagnets: Design, Simulation, Construction, and Testing
• Rayne Avery – Investigating the Effect of Sequences Flanking the OCT4-SOX2 Binding Site on Transcription
• Johnny Pang – Locating ESRRB and STAT3 protein binding sites in Enhancer E1
• Kiara Salas Morena, Avi Strok – Behavioral Effects of Long Term Nicotine Exposure
• Nea Hochman, Ari Khoruzhenko – Alternatives Ende der Verwandlung” – Alternate Ending to Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”
• Ryder Selikow – The Role of Education in Mitigating Cyber Threats
• Lucy Clifford, Elizabeth Young – Contrasting life history strategies within Salicaceae across environmental gradients
• Gabriela Kuglen-Alvarez – Leaf Area Variation Through Developmental Stage and Canopy Position in Myristicaceae Family
• Makena Andersen, Summer Camper, Jingte Nick Ni, Abi Ramirez, Clover Sinning – Cupcake Periodic Table
• Sam Knofler – Alice in Time and Space
• Louis Greenfield, Sammy Kutsch – Tiny Arthropods in Our Backyards

JAMES J. KOPP LIBRARY RESEARCH AWARD | Location: Smith Hall, Albany Quandrangle | Moderator: Mark Dhal

Panelists:

• Dor Nadler – A Generation Not From This Universe: Female Soviet Combat Soldiers in World War II
• Ella Neff – THE STATE VS THE CONSUMER: How SED failure to provide for East Germans created a socialist state that directly contradicted socialist ideals

EXPLORING GENDER IDENTITIES | Location: Miller 105 | Moderator: Magalí Rabasa | LIVESTREAM

Presentations:

• Índigo Araya R – Gender neutral pronouns, poetry and trans/non-binary social presence in Costa Rica
• Lizzie Lohrer – Defining the Terms of the Debate: Quantifying and Tracking the Use of Anti-Trans Rhetoric by Politicians and the Media
• Josie Stenzel – Cuffing Carnal Desires: The Expansion of Sodomy Laws and the Creation of the “Modern Homosexual”

EXPLORING HISPANIC IDENTITIES | Location: Miller 104 | Moderator: Yung-Pin Chen

Presentations:

• Azucena Morales Santos – ‘I thought I was just Mexican’: Second Generation Indigenous Mexicans
• Peter Smith – “Say Hello to My Little Friend”: US Media Presentation of Mariel Cuban Refugees

MAPS: Wait—they don’t Gov you like I Gov you | Location: JRHH 102 | Moderator: Leah Gilbert

Presentations:

• Kathryn Etzold – Strategic Skies: Deciphering State Decision-Making in Drone Strike Deployment Amid Conflict
• Madeleine MacWilliamson – Computers to Capitol Hill: Examining January 6th Sentencing’s Deterrence Dynamics on 4chan’s /pol/
• Colin McLeod – Babies can feel the people’s power: An understanding of populism across generational divides
• Celeste Schreifels – Determinants of Democratic Transitions: Analyzing the Case of Tunisia

DANCETHASIA | Location: Miller 102 | Moderator: Suhaila Meera

Presentations:

• Michelle Jin – Taoist Asceticism: Fasting and Meditation
• Sophia Kingsbury – Staging a Nation: Indian Classical Dance as a Form of Soft Power
• Kinley LeFevre-Trigg – Issues of Aestheticization and Identity in a South Indian Muslim Song Form

UNFINISHED SYMPATHY: Pain and Healing | Location: JRHH 202 | Moderator: Diana Leonard

Presentations:

• Lena Essak, Caelan Wilkie-Rogers – Hospital Trauma Centers and Crime: The Unintended Consequences of Improving Medical Access
• Zory Smith-Miodownik – Life After a Death: Exploring the Nuances of Pain and Healing
• Rosalie Zuckermann – Nonconsensual Homecoming and the Erosion of Reality in Octavia Butler’s Kindred

GERMAN MOSAIC | Location: Olin 301 | Moderator: Katharina Altpeter-Jones

Presentations:

• Alexandra Flory – Selective Solidarity: Legitimizing difference through policy in Germany’s immigration system
• Andrew Fowler – Mormons Behind the Iron Curtain
• Joniah Helperin-Lange – Systematicity and Hermeneutics in Nietzsche: Paul Loeb’s “Second-Forgetting” and Stanley Rosen’s Chaos Theory

FOSA FEUD PRESENTED BY SAAB | Location: Stamm, Fowler Student Center | Moderator: SAAB

OVERSEAS PROGRAMS: Dinah Dodds Endowment for International Education Recipient Research Project Presentations | Location: Smith Hall, Albany Quadrangle | Moderator: Blythe Knott

Presentations:

• Allison Gabelman – Greece: Exploration of Mural Artists in Athens & Gallery Space Exhibition
• Liam Kruchten – France: Analysis of French Pedagogical Methods in Higher Education
• Britney Li – Ireland: Clashing Actors and Exceptional Lives: One Humanitarian NGO’s Approach to Transforming Space and Time in the North Aegean
• Charlotte Ostrov – Greece: Athens Jazz Scenes: Musical Trends & Practices in Presentational Versus Semi-Participatory Performance Spaces
• Max Reed – India: Tiger Conservation & The Displacement of Forest Dwelling Communities
• Naledi Wiberg – Germany: Green Gentrification in Berlin

MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL: Sponsored by RHMS and Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society | Location: Miller 105 | Moderators: Serena Carubis, Natalie Elstone, Alice Sauter

Presentations:

• Serena Carubis – Queer Joy & the Portrayal of Men in Desert Hearts
• Matt Gallart – The Launderer
• Sophie Goricanec – Conversion “Camp” in But I’m a Cheerleader
• Piper Koch – Queer Visibility in Velvet Goldmine
• Anna Kulbashny, Cleo Lockhart, Mack Mae, Skylar Vayda – de-evolution
• Jamison Richards – Beyond the Frame: Empowering Voices and Language in Queer Storytelling
• Kanani Seward – My Stuff is Your Stuff

ROUNDTABLE: Data Pioneers – Stories from Data Science Internships and Practica | Location: JRHH 202 | Moderator: Ellen Seljan

Panelists:

• Zayd Anderson, Marin Thorne – Data-driven Exploration of Species Occurrence Mapping
• Lizzie Lohrer – Examining Legal Scholarship Using Data Analysis Techniques
• Grace Kazmir, Olivia Spagnuolo, Oliver Sumners, Finn Watson, Kaitlyn Wright – Inspiring 6th – 12th grade students to do data science
• Madeleine MacWilliamson – Academics to ACLU

ROUNDTABLE: What’s for Dinner – A Class Cookbook of Favorite Dishes | Location: Miller 104 | Moderator: Susan Glosser

Panelists:

• Claire C. Bakke, Lucy Clifford, Molly Gibbons, Mira Larrance, Cloe Moreno, Macy O’Hara, Sipowska Sipowska, Peter Smith, Elena Sta. Maria, Beau Staun-List, Henry Stem

ROUNDTABLE: Bipoc Stem Trailblazers – Inspiring Success Stories | Location: JRHH 102 | Moderators: Thoan Nguyen, Alondra Olea, Jesús Romero, Dianara Sagastizado

Panelists:

• Dr.Kayla Puente, Dr. Sweta Suryanarayan, Dr.Norma Velazquez Ulloa

SENIOR ART EXHIBITION: Artists Talks | Location: Hoffman Gallery | Moderator: Dru Donovan

Artists:

• Katie Alker, Nevaeh Allen, Lauren Arriola, Jack Barry, Summer Binder, Marcelo Bond, Klover Bunting, Isha Elboctorcy, Renz Johnsonrenz, Tal Jones, Darian Levey, Max Lobato, Torin Maclaughlin, Corryn Pettingill, Keagan Polentz, Sara Santos

SENIOR ART EXHIBITION: Gallery Opening | Location: Hoffman Gallery

Artists:

• Katie Alker, Nevaeh Allen, Lauren Arriola, Jack Barry, Summer Binder, Marcelo Bond, Klover Bunting, Isha Elboctorcy, Renz Johnsonrenz, Tal Jones, Darian Levey, Max Lobato, Torin Maclaughlin, Corryn Pettingill, Keagan Polentz, Sara Santos

Arts@LC Showcase | Location: JRHH Patio | Moderators: Kathy FizGibbon, Jess Perlitz

• 4:33 pm | Bryn Bollimpalli, Paige Cabral, Evelyn Gore, Emma Greene, Simon Listiak, Zach Martin, Ethan Sanders, Nico Vilches, Marlee Zimmer – “Opening Up” from Waitress by Sara Bareilles
• 4:37 pm | Zach Martin, Nico Vilches – “It was a lover and his lass” from As You Like It by Ralph Vaughan Williams
• 4:41 pm | Shelby Platt – “Greater Love Has No One Than This / My Dearest, Friend”
• 4:46 pm | Séamus Brindley – “The Rainstorm” by Thomas Wiggins (Blind Tom)
• 4:52 pm | Tiani Ertel – “The Screamers”
• 4:58 pm | Lauren Springett – “Gorgeous” from The Apple Tree by Jerry Bock
• 5:01 pm | Piper Clark-White, Anna Kulbashny, Cleo Lockhart, Ash Prodromou, Hoby Reece, Lev Starr – Excerpt from Orpheus and Eurydice
• 5:12 pm | Zach Martin – “Falstaff’s Drinking Song” from The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai
• 5:17 pm | Danielle Phoenix – “On Dropping Off My Friends”
• 5:21 pm | Bryn Bollimpalli – “Winter Has Come” composed by Bryn Bollimpalli; performed by Darlene Cusick
• 5:26 pm | Cleo Rice – “i body your body”
• 5:32 pm | Ruby Keyes, Skylar Vayda – Selected Scenes from Misery
• 5:38 pm | Ashly N. Flores – Reciting Ginsberg
• 5:42 pm | Nico Vilches – “Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun” from Cymberline by Roger Quilter
• 5:47 pm | Sam Mosher – “Oneirophobia”
• 5:51 pm | Zach Martin, Lauren Springett – “This Can’t Be Love” from The Boys of Syracuse by Rodgers and Hart
• 5:55 pm | Emma Greene, Evelyn Gore, Simon Listiak – “A Soft Place to Land” from Waitress by Sara Bareilles
• 5:59 pm | Emma Greene and Zach Martin – “Bad Idea” from Waitress by Sara Bareilles
• 6:03 pm | Charlotte Ostrov – “My Many Colored Days”

FIRE ARTS: A Trip Through Time | Location: Outside Olin 301 | Moderator: Peter Drake

• Ezra Atha, Rose Bialk, Bryn Bollimpalli, Ophelia Glynn-Wilson, Camille Hildum, Saph Leeper, Cleo Lockhart, Ian MacDougall, Kai Mermis-Cava, Joelle Pazoff, Bella Root, Mari Sheppard, Avi Strok, Sri Sundaresan