2023 Humanities Student Symposium
April 7, 2023
Opening Remarks, 2:00 pm
Education in Zion Auditorium (B192 JFSB)
Session 1, 2:10-3:30 pm
A. Reading Jane Austen (JFSB B030)
Moderator: Laura Hatch
Kyle Belanger, “Inventing the Modern Novel: Jane Austen’s Literary Innovation in Northanger Abbey”
Genevieve Cole, “Hysteria in the Regency Era”
Bryn Stewart, “Jane Austen and Franco: An Unlikely Duo”
B. Commemorating the Dead (JFSB B062)
Moderator: Allen Christenson
Annie Cantoran Temple, “Love Never Dies: Funerary Art of Antiquity”
Natalie Rasmussen, “Ancient Apotropaic Fayum Portraits”
Emma Belnap, “Whistleblowers: A Maya Narration on the Participation of the Dead in the Cycle of Life and Death”
Elise Hatch, “Memorializing the Absent Dead”
C. Approaching Marcus Aurelius (JFSB B042 )
Moderator: Stephen Bay
McKay Hammarstrom, “Heraclitus as an Ethical Thinker in Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations”
Madeleine Sorenson, “All the World’s a Stage”: Marcus Aurelius’ Theatrical Metaphor”
Curtis Nielson, “Persecutor or Critic? Christianity in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”
D. Gender and Art (JFSB B094)
Moderator: Alexandra Butterfield
Mary Pedersen, “Camille Claudel: Pretty Good…For a Woman”
Ellie Hinds, “Feeble Even Unto Effeminacy:” Gendering the Body in Romantic Mesmerism”
Rachel Macdonald, “Mockery as Misogyny: The Truth Behind the Comic Trope of Cross-Dressing”
Daylin Paul, “The Dressers of the Maize God”
E. American Identities (JFSB B104)
Moderator: James Swensen
Caroline Johnson, “The Reinterpretation of the Round Shaker Barn: How Patriarchal Values Changed the Doctrine, History and Architecture of a Religion”
Bryn Vasquez, “La Santisma Trenidad, a Spelling Error Turned Global Lovechild”
Colette Burton, “The Subversive Religion of Hampton’s Throne”
Meredith Williams, “East-West-Individuality Obsessed”
F. Theological Perspectives (JFSB B152)
Moderator: Joe Parry
Aaron Gorner, “David and the Lion: Mormon Atonement Theory Without Satisfaction”
Candace Brown, “A Catholic Reads the Book of Mormon: Folk Carvings of Roman Śledź”
Tessa Haney, “Mercy Seat, Martyrdom, or Miscellaneous? Paul’s Use of ἱλαστήριον in Romans 3:25”
Janessa Castaneda, “The Metamorphosis Between Letters and Figures as an Analogy of the Incarnation in The Book of Kells‘ Chi Rho Page”
Session 2, 3:40-5:00 pm
A. Gender and Art (JFSB B030)
Moderator: Daylin Paul
Nicole Francis, “A Pauline Dress Code or Roman Analogy: Reinterpreting Paul’s Discourse in 1 Corinthians 11:1-16”
Jeff Matheson, “Saint George and the Woman–A Feminist Interpretation of Raphael’s Saint George and the Dragon”
Alexandra Butterfield, “War and Women in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands: The Trojan Tapestry Love Triangle”
B. English Literature (JFSB B042)
Moderator: Ellie Hinds
Sophie Hirtle, “An Examination of Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn: Two Differing Approaches to Male Authority Inside and Outside the Private Sphere”
Olivia Drew Swasey, “Shakespearean Conversation: Destruction, Maintenance, and Creation of the Self”
Katie Johnson, “Justice for Lestrade”
C. War and Memory (JFSB B062)
Moderator: Colette Burton
Kendall Clawson da Silva, “Toys and Tourniquets: The Commodification, Dehumanization, and Weaponization of Soldiers in Vik Muniz’s Toy Soldier”
Lydia Hall, “Unreadable: Memory and Post-Memory in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
Isabella Titus, “WWII Propaganda: Abroad and at Home”
Garrett Maxwell, “Revisiting the Origins of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”
D. Cultural Hybridity (JFSB B094)
Moderator: Francesca Lawson
Erin Eastmond, “Hearing the Unseen: Musical Affordances in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: A Novel”
Lauren Walker, “Exoticism in a Countercultural Revolution: How the Beatles’ Appropriated Hindustani Music and Culture”
Alberto Morales, “Chifa: Chinese Peruvian Cuisine and Me”
Abi Wallace, “Video Games, Breath of the Wild, and Active Representations of Traumatic Memory”
E. On Water (JFSB B104)
Moderator: Seth Jeppesen
Benjamin Austin, “The Saga of Sauna”
Addison Sepulveda, “The Colorado River Intertwined with the Human Presence”
James Ioannou, “Roman Baths: The Keystone of Pompeii”
Closing Remarks and Awards, 5:00 pm
Education in Zion Auditorium (B192 JFSB)
Reception, 5:15pm
The FLAC (B003 JFSB)
2023 Symposium Awards of Merit
Genevieve Cole, “Hysteria in the Regency Era”
Rachel Macdonald, “Mockery as Misogyny: The Truth Behind the Comic Trope of Cross-Dressing”
Candace Brown, “A Catholic Reads the Book of Mormon: Folk Carvings of Roman Śledź”
Tessa Haney, “Mercy Seat, Martyrdom, or Miscellaneous? Paul’s Use of ἱλαστήριον in Romans 3:25”
Jeff Matheson, “Saint George and the Woman–A Feminist Interpretation of Raphael’s Saint George and the Dragon”
Olivia Drew Swasey, “Shakespearean Conversation: Destruction, Maintenance, and Creation of the Self”
Kendall Clawson da Silva, “Toys and Tourniquets: The Commodification, Dehumanization, and Weaponization of Soldiers in Vik Muniz’s Toy Soldier”
Erin Eastmond, “Hearing the Unseen: Musical Affordances in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: A Novel”
Addison Sepulveda, “The Colorado River Intertwined with the Human Presence”
Madeleine Sorenson, “All the World’s a Stage”: Marcus Aurelius’ Theatrical Metaphor”
Emma Belnap, “Whistleblowers: A Maya Narration on the Participation of the Dead in the Cycle of Life and Death”
Elise Hatch, “Memorializing the Absent Dead”