2015 Symposium | Senior Symposium

April 24, 2015 from 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Oberlin College Science Center

The sixth annual Senior Symposium at Oberlin College and Conservatory celebrates the academic and artistic endeavors of members of the Class of 2015. More than 70 seniors and fifth-years on 21 panels will each give a 12-minute presentation regarding work they performed for honors or capstones or research they conducted individually or with a faculty mentor.

The 2015 Senior Symposium is cosponsored by the Office of the Dean of Studies and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences.

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Schedule
2015
Friday, April 24th
1:30 PM	An Ethic of Care: Trans* Children, Hormone Therapy, and Parental Responsibility Anna Field, Oberlin College Science Center, A254 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Climate Change and Displacement: Defining Rights in Rising Tides and Stormy Seas Mary Esler, Oberlin College Science Center, A254 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	“Das Dennoch jedes Buchstabens”: Hilde Domin’s Writing and Resistance Emily Wilkerson, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Designing the CRISP Document Format: A Secure Declarative Language for the Web Laura Watiker, Oberlin College Science Center, A255 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Eat me/Drink me: Lewis Carroll’s Alice as Canonical Commodity Emma Hadden, Oberlin College Science Center, A262 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Epigenetic Modifying Drugs and Cohesin Mutations in Leukemia Ellen Drake, Oberlin College Science Center, A155 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Errors in Judgment: The Fundamental Attribution Error and Supreme Court Decision-making Kalind Parish, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Gaels, Galls and Friars: The Dominican Order and Ethnic Tension in Ireland, 1224-1536 Sarah Blenko, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	German-Persian Connections: Goethe and Hafez in Dialogue in West-östlicher Divan Caroline de Vries, Oberlin College Science Center, K209 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Moved by the Spirit or the Music? Analyzing Modern Evangelical Worship Music Practices Gabriel Moore, Oberlin College Science Center, K209 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Negotiating the Musical “Active”: Political and Creative Agency in Hip Hop in Dakar, Oberlin, and Beyond Dylan McDonnell, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Norman Jacobson’s Search for Authenticity Kai Gardner, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	“Oh, come è bello e morbido!”: Exposing the Strangeness of Puccini’s La Boheme Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit, Oberlin College Science Center, A262 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Promoting Systems Thinking Through Metaphor Annie Winneg, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Selfish Routing on the Deterministic Queuing Model Christine Antonsen, Oberlin College Science Center, A255 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	The Effects of Light on Ant-Aphid Mutualisms Annika Nelson, Oberlin College Science Center, A155 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	The Language of Intersex: Definitions of Sex and Gender in Research on Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Sophie Meade, Oberlin College Science Center, A254 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Timekeeping in Roundworm Digestion Christopher Ayoub, Oberlin College Science Center, A155 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Untenable Boundaries: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and the Autobiography of All Writing Sarah Westbrook, Oberlin College Science Center, A262 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Validating Measures of Alcohol Expectancies, Responses, and Consequences in Adolescents Stephanie Zellers, Oberlin College Science Center, A255 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM	Violence and Nonviolence in the Gospels Sarah Johnson, Oberlin College Science Center, K209 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:45 PM	A Reevaluation and Reinterpretation of the Association for the Advancement of Women, 1873-1897 Claire Payne, Oberlin College Science Center, A155 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	America in Wonderland: Defining the Nation in the Early Amusement Parks of Minneapolis/St. Paul Kathleen Thornton, Oberlin College Science Center, A155 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Competitive Facility Location: Where Should I Put my Banana Stand? Amanda Strominger, Oberlin College Science Center, K209 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Cross-Cultural Communication and Musical Affect Through the Music of Diali Cissokho and KairaBa Joseph MacPhail, Oberlin College Science Center, A262 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Damsels in Distress no More: Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Modern Conceptions of Girlhood Kasey Cheydleur, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Devil in a White Dress: From Survival to Policing in the Modesty Standards of Black Holiness Congregations Ambre Dromgoole, Oberlin College Science Center, A262 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Four Lives in One: The Autobiographical Prose of Ruth Zernova Will Watkins, Oberlin College Science Center, A254 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Freewheeling Women? The Conservative Normalization of American Women’s Cycling, 1890-1900 Hanna Van Reed, Oberlin College Science Center, A155 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Faust “Feminized”: Reconceptualizing the Role of Marguerite in Romantic Music Natalie Oswald, Oberlin College Science Center, A254 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Lost in Translating: Exploring the Poetry of Guido Catalano Arianna Valocchi, Oberlin College Science Center, A254 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Misreading the River: Heraclitean Hope in Postmodern Texts Nancy Roane, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Multilateralism and its Discontents: India in the Post-independence Era and the United Nations Saksham Khosla, Oberlin College Science Center, A255 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Not Just for Teenage Girls: Adult Fans of One Direction Edmund Metzold, Oberlin College Science Center, A262 2:45 PM - 5:30 PM
2:45 PM	Rainbows and the Rising Sun Simone Christen, Oberlin College Science Center, A255 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Reading the Landscape: Race, Gender, and Capital in Western Constructions of Nature Asher Kaplan, Oberlin College Science Center, K209 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Reconstructing Seville: A Translation and Contextualization of Capital Sur Hannah Varadi, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Slave Life at Madison’s Montpelier: Comparing Field and House Slave Quarters Laura Weiner, Oberlin College Science Center, K209 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	The Feminine in Singer-songwriter Music: On Agency, Vulnerability, and the Right to Wear Flowers in our Hair Autumn Burnett, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	The White Feminist Movement, Obstetrical Reform, and the Invisible Narratives of Working-class Women and Women of Color Ronni Getz, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Tracing the Language of Multiracialism in Postwar Japan Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura, Oberlin College Science Center, A255 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
2:45 PM	Translation, Interpretation, a New Creation: Stefan George and His Umdichtungen Mariko Wakayama, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
4:00 PM	A 16th-century Franco-Venetian Book of Hours in Oberlin Library’s Special Collections Emma Kimmel, Oberlin College Science Center, A262 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	A Story of Old Bones Margaret Miller, Oberlin College Science Center, A262 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Broken Windows, Workfare, and the Battle for Public Space in Giuliani’s New York Jacob Ertel, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Community-based Art and Community Formation: A Case Study in West Oakland Pablo Cerdera, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Conceptualizing a Developmental State in Post-genocide Rwanda Simbarashe Runyowa, Oberlin College Science Center, K209 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Debussy’s Departure: A Meditation on the Preludes Michael Martinez, Oberlin College Science Center, A155 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Ethnography and the Surrealist Lens: Photographer Roger Parry and André Malraux’s Le Musée Imaginaire Mallory Cohen, Oberlin College Science Center, A155 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Exposure to Chlorpyrifos and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Striatal Cell Model of Huntington’s Disease Gifty Dominah, Oberlin College Science Center, A255 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Gene-Environment Interaction in a Cell Model of Parkinson’s Disease: Alpha-synuclein Modulates Cadmium Transport Dynamics and Homeostasis Weelic Chong, Oberlin College Science Center, A255 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Genetic Control of Lateral Root Positioning and Root Elongation Jeremy Gottfried, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Hildegard of Bingen’s Music and Unknown Language Sarah Kahn, Oberlin College Science Center, A254 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Investigating Filovirus Expression in Monodelphis domestica Daniel Stuff, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Northern Goshawk Diversity and Connectivity Among the Forests of the Northern Great Basin Stephanie Szarmach, Oberlin College Science Center, A255 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Partnerships and Mandates: Power Relations Between Donor and Recipient NGOs Promoting Gender Equality in Nicaragua Alyssa Phelps, Oberlin College Science Center, K209 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct: The Development of an Intervention Program at Oberlin Jolie De Feis, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Revealing a Continuity of Sequence Similarity Between Seemingly Unrelated Protein Structures Sarah Page, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron and Modernism’s Bilderverbot Andrew Groble, Oberlin College Science Center, A155 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Shakespeare in the Round: Harmonic Logic of the Globe Sophia Richardson, Oberlin College Science Center, A254 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Sobreviviendo the Academic Industrial Complex: A Medicinal History of Oberlin College’s La Alianza Latinx Ana Robelo, Oberlin College Science Center, K209 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Sound Worlds: How Video Games Immerse Us Teresa Tippens, Oberlin College Science Center, A262 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Sperm Pairing in the Gray Short-tailed Opossum, Monodelphis domestica Megan Michel, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	Suddenly, I Remember: Hormonal Treatments and Memory Rescue in an Animal Model of Schizophrenia Alexander Riordan, Oberlin College Science Center, A255 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	The Efficacy of the Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct Training Program Among Student Athletes Kaitlyn Custer, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	The Efficacy of the Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct Training Program Among Student Athletes Sarah MacFadden, Oberlin College Science Center, A142 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	The Importance of Water Availability for Plant Community Structure in Restored Prairies Laura Messman, Oberlin College Science Center, A154 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	The Politics of Narrative in Post-9/11 Conceptions of Justice Michael Stenovec, Oberlin College Science Center, K209 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	The Tomb of Ny-ankh-nesut William L. Austin, Oberlin College Science Center, A262 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM	“The Whole Vexed Question”: Seamus Heaney, Old English, and Language Troubles Una Creedon-Carey, Oberlin College Science Center, A254 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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