2017 Symposium

"A Wilderness of Mirrors": Reality TV, Fake News, and Surveillance in the Trump Era

Elizabeth Levinson, Oberlin College

King Building 325

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Collaborative Resource Sharing Between the Prospect Elementary School Library and the Oberlin Public Library

Natalie Hartog, Oberlin College

King Building 343

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Deconstructing Hypermasculinity: Combatting the War on Black Men

Aliyah Abu-Hazeem, Oberlin College

King Building 323

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Documenting Oberlin's Native Arctic Collection

Alice Blakely, Oberlin College
Cori Mazer, Oberlin College

King Building 341

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Fearless Foreign Women: Exploring Tamar And Ruth As Characters Within A Post-Exilic Debate on Intermarriage

Rachel Sacks, Oberlin College

King Building 325

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Flight, Musical Expression and Virtuosity

Christiana Rose, Oberlin College

King Building 321

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Goddess Killing: The Combat Myth and Politics in the Revelation of John

Emma Snape, Oberlin College

King Building 325

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Grooves on the Mind: The Call for Music Therapy Practices Applicable to Communities of Color

Khalid Taylor, Oberlin College

King Building 327

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

“Head Start Works,” But Why?: Understanding the Persistence of an American Welfare Program

Leah Awkward-Rich, Oberlin College

King Building 343

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Imagine Trees Like These — A Virtual Reality Narrative Concerning Forests, Futurity, and Ephemerality

Andres Cuervo, Oberlin College

King Building 321

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Judaism Despite Modernity: Schoenberg and the German Tradition

Maurice Cohn, Oberlin College

King Building 335

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Musical Translation: The Translation and Transformation of an Eighteenth-Century German Play into a Modern Opera

Serena Creary, Oberlin College

King Building 335

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Ninety Seconds in Charleston: How Historical Memory and Myth Sustain Racial Inequality in America

Kaia Diringer, Oberlin College

King Building 323

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Nurturing a Community of Trust and Resilience: Coalition Building and Faith-Based Organizing at El Centro

Rachel Leader, Oberlin College

King Building 343

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Poetry by Langston: Lessons Taught and Learned Through Writers-in-the-Schools (WITS)

Nick Rowan Bassman, Oberlin College

King Building 343

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Re-Contextualizing the Object: Fred Wilson's Wildfire Test Pit and the Semiotics of Museum Labels

Elana Bell, Oberlin College

King Building 341

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Responsible Songwriting: Ethical Challenges in Collaborative Autoethnographic Composition

Alexandra Wilder, Oberlin College

King Building 321

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Rethinking Redevelopment: New Urbanism, Neoliberalism, and Sustainable Urban Design Initiatives in Cleveland, Ohio

Julian Geltman, Oberlin College

King Building 323

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Shock Therapy: Horror Aesthetics in German Modernism

Sean Lambert, Oberlin College

King Building 335

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Symphonies of Horror: Musical Experimentation in Howard Shore’s Work with David Cronenberg

Vikram Shankar, Oberlin College

King Building 327

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

The Impact of Music Education on Language Development

Gabrielle Kaufman, Oberlin College

King Building 327

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

The Sonification of Money: Applying Creative Innovation in the Music Industry

Grover Neville, Oberlin College

King Building 327

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Thomas Paine's (Un)Common Sense and the Politics of Disagreement

Jordan Ecker, Oberlin College

King Building 325

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Towards a Relative-Pitch Neural Network System for Chorale Composition and Harmonization

Sam Goree, Oberlin College

King Building 321

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Violence in the Feed: Accelerated Productions and Circulations of Police Brutality Videos

Natalie Ventura Villasana, Oberlin College

King Building 323

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

What's In A Neanderthal: A Comparative Analysis

Taylorlyn Stephan, Oberlin College

King Building 341

1:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Bird Chatter as an Indicator of Safety: To What Extent Do Eastern Gray Squirrels Rely on Public Information?

Marie Lilly, Oberlin College

King Building 343

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Codeswitching in Hiaki Conversational Discourse: An Evaluation of Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language Frame Model

Sophie Pierson, Oberlin College

King Building 327

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Community-Based Social Marketing Research: Sustainable Behavior Change in Oberlin

Lauren Rhodes, Oberlin College
Abigail Carlstad, Oberlin College

King Building 323

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Consider the Mantis Shrimp: Semiotics and Authorship in Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler

Zoe Ginsberg, Oberlin College

King Building 321

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Experiential Composition: An Exploration of Virtual-Environmental Music

Isaac Pearl, Oberlin College

King Building 341

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Experimental Biomechanics on Trinucleid Fringe Pits (trilobita)

Kirk Pearson, Oberlin College

King Building 343

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Georges Bataille: A Body in Motion

Daniel West, Oberlin College

King Building 321

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Including Interstellar Scattering Effects in Pulsar Timing

Jacob Turner, Oberlin College

King Building 323

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Infrared and Thermal-Desorption Spectroscopy of Hydrogen in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Kai Shinbrough, Oberlin College

King Building 323

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Investigating Allomorphy in a Coordinating Conjunction: A Corpus Study of Hiaki (Yaqui) Into(k(o))

Olivia Hay, Oberlin College
Mattea Scheiber Koon, Oberlin College

King Building 327

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Lessons in Resilience: From Biological Systems to Human Food Systems

Liv Scott, Oberlin College

King Building 343

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Reading' the Tracking Shot in Nadja and Marienbad

Eleanor H. Van Buren, Oberlin College

King Building 321

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Structure and Randomness in Iannis Xenakis' Analogique A

Sam Goree, Oberlin College

King Building 341

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

The Endangerment Turn: Tracking the Transition of Vegetarian Discourse in Contemporary China

Brendan Nuse, Oberlin College

King Building 327

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

The Problem of Genre in Opera and Musical Theater

Lily Johnson, Oberlin College

King Building 341

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Transformation through Installation: Portraying Ovidian Metamorphoses via Multimedia

Jackie Milestone, Oberlin College

King Building 321

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Volatile Components of Preen Gland Secretions and Community-Level Interactions in Disease Transmission

Maxwell Butler, Oberlin College

King Building 343

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Articulations of Mestizaje in Early Twentieth-Century Mexican Art

Juan Omar Rodriguez, Oberlin College

King Building 321

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

At the Edges of Queer: Navigating Ambiguity, Community, and Erasure

Madeline McCray Batzli, Oberlin College

King Building 341

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Barbershop Quartets and American Popular Music

Samuel Mellman, Oberlin College

King Building 339

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Between and Beyond the Binary: Gender Pronouns and Community Support

Al Nadeau-Rifkind, Oberlin College

King Building 341

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

By Any Genes Necessary: Enlightened Self-Interest in Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love

Noah Last, Oberlin College

King Building 327

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Depth of Field: Giovanni di Paolo's Landscapes in Fifteenth-Century Siena

Noah Margulis, Oberlin College

King Building 321

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Dignity and Dining Halls: Relations of Power in Oberlin Labor

Jeeva Muhil, Oberlin College

King Building 323

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Does Position Along the Watershed Affect Hybridization Dynamics Between the Native Orconectes Sanbornii and Invasive O. rusticus?

Elisa Casado Henderson, Oberlin College

King Building 343

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Granary C113 from Karanis: A Case of Misidentification

Shelby Raynor, Oberlin College

King Building 335

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Gustavo Gutiérrez's Liberation Theology: A Hermeneutic of Utopian Hope

Hunter Zepeda, Oberlin College

King Building 327

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Hydrology and Terracing in the Monte Pallano area of Abruzzo, Italy

Lucas Brown, Oberlin College

King Building 335

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Inadvertent Naturalists: Turgenev, Aksakov, and Russia's New Ornithology

Walker Griggs, Oberlin College

King Building 325

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

"Interrogating the And": A Study of Environmentalism and Disability

Melissa Cabat, Oberlin College

King Building 341

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Investigating the Effects of Antide Treatment on the Preventative and Restorative Effects of Hippocampal Damage in Alzheimer’s Disease Rats

Emily Curley, Oberlin College

King Building 343

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

It’s a Boys’ Club, Isn’t It?: One Dimensionality in Portrayals of the Female Rocker

Kristin McFadden, Oberlin College

King Building 321

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Mapping Mikt’sqaq Angayuk: A GIS Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Sod House

Maggie Gossiaux, Oberlin College

King Building 335

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Oberlin College Hoops: Sport and Diversity in Higher Education

Zach Moo Young, Oberlin College

King Building 323

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Optimization of Emulsion PCR for Aptamer Selection

Naviya Schuster-Little, Oberlin College

King Building 343

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Pathways In & Out of STEM: An Exploration of School Structure and Its Effects on Underrepresented Minorities at Oberlin College

Xavier Tirado, Oberlin College

King Building 323

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Synthetic Melanin Filtration Agents

Alejandro Vera, Oberlin College

King Building 343

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

The Role of Millet in Pre-Roman Italy

Scott Russell, Oberlin College

King Building 335

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

The Underground Soviet: Shaping Soviet Culture in the Leningrad Metro

Ian Gilchrist, Oberlin College

King Building 325

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

The Vagrant: Where the Soviet Love of Bollywood Began

Sarah Chatta, Oberlin College

King Building 325

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

"This is a Closed Space for Queer Identifying Folx": Queer Spaces on Campus

Tory Sparks, Oberlin College

King Building 341

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

To Make You Feel Something: Analyzing Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon

Anthony Moaton, Oberlin College

King Building 339

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

“Urban Provincianos”: La Música Chicha and Cultural Identity in 1970s and 1980s Lima, Perú

Julian Cranberg, Oberlin College

King Building 321

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Voices from the Forge: Work, Space, and Communication in Early Cistercian Monasticism

Jacob Roosa, Oberlin College

King Building 327

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

"We Need Not Weep Alone": Evelyn C. White's Vision of a World Where Black Women are Free

Natalia Shevin, Oberlin College

King Building 339

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Who is Neotraditional?: Visualizing Postcolonial Identities in J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere's Hairstyles Photographs

Alexandra Nicome, Oberlin College

King Building 339

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Who Is “The Scholar"? or, Looking for Truth with Emerson

Liam McMillin, Oberlin College

King Building 327

4:30 PM - 5:50 PM