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Hanna Holborn Gray Summer Research Presentations

September 24, 2015

The Hanna Holborn Gray Undergraduate Research Fellowship presentations will be on Wednesday, Sept. 30, and Thursday, Oct. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Dalton 300.

The presentations are open to the Bi-Co community.

The Hanna Holborn Gray Undergraduate Research Fellowship program awards up to 15 students $4500 each to undertake an independent summer project in the humanities or social sciences.
 
See the full schedule below.  Refreshments will be served.

Panel 1, 4:30-5:45 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 30

  • Eliana Chavkin 鈥16 (History) 鈥 The Evolution of an Idea: Woodrow Wilson, Minority Rights, and Paradoxes
  • Brittani Ivan 鈥16 (English) 鈥 Across the Wall: The Limitations Placed on Heroism and Creativity by Setting in Garth Nix鈥檚 鈥極ld Kingdom鈥 Books
  • Elizabeth Erikson 鈥16 (Greek) 鈥 鈥淚t has come into existence鈥: The History of the Platonist Interpretation of Verbs of Becoming in the Timaeus, with Emphasis on John Philoponus鈥 Against Proclus on the Eternity of the World
  • Kristin (K.C.) McConnell 鈥16 (Religion) 鈥鈥淣obody Can Touch Us:鈥 Narratives of Jain Sadhvis and the Complexities of Gendered Empowerment

5:45:-6 p.m. Break

Panel 2, 6:00-7:15 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 30

  • Alexandra Nae 鈥16 (Growth and Structure of Cities) 鈥 Urban Transformation in Center City Bucharest:   A public space-public life study of the Revolution Square
  • Xuenan Ni 鈥16 (Growth and Structure of Cities) 鈥 How Should Beijing Construct Subways? Lessons from Hong Kong鈥檚 TODs and R+P
  • Chanel Williams 鈥16 (Growth and Structure of Cities)Looking Beyond the King Assassination Riots: Reinterpreting the Decline of Shaw Washington, D.C.
  • Leah Kahler 鈥16 (Anthropology) 鈥 (Grounds)keepers of Heritage:  Historical Narrative and Monticello鈥檚 Garden Workers

Panel 3, 4:30-5:45 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1

  • Minh Tran 鈥16 (Growth and Structure of Cities) Land Consolidation in Peri-urban Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Julia Tanenbaum 鈥17 (History) 鈥 To Destroy Domination in All Its Forms: Anarcha-feminist Theory, Organization, and Action 1970-1978
  • Julie Benton 鈥16 (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Classical Languages) 鈥 Cuncta Feminae Oboediebant: Imperial Portraiture and the Public Perception of Agrippina the Elder and Agrippina the Younger
  • Erin Saladin 鈥16 (English & French) 鈥 Dishonest Abe: Lincoln, Martyrdom, and Surrogation in Kindred and 鈥淭he Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire鈥

5:45:-6:00  Break

Panel 4, 6:00-7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1

  • Yitan (Coco) Wang 鈥16 (Philosophy) 鈥 Civil Society in a Non-Democratic Context:  The Study of Contemporary Chinese Civil Society under the Regime of Communism Party
  • Ava Hawkinson 鈥16 (Creative Writing) 鈥 Cultural Destruction and Assimilation During Japanese American Internment
  • Nicole Barker 鈥16 (Anthropology) 鈥 鈥淲hat Will You Gain When You Lose?鈥: Defining Disability Gain Towards a Rhetoric of Constructivity & Positivity in the Disabled Life Experience

Moderators:  HHG Program Graduate Student Mentors: Carrie Young (Graduate School of Social Work), Abbe Walker (Greek, Latin and Classical Studies);Isabelle Barker, Assistant Dean


 

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