2020 Humanities Student Symposium
Graduate Studies: Rome and Byzantium
Moderator: Professor Chip Oscarson
Josie Ableman, “Pilgrims, Places, and Panels: How Rome Becomes a New Jerusalem”
Meagan Anderson, “The American Indian as a Symbol of ‘Americanness’ in Nineteenth-Century Rome”
Kris Kryscynski, “The Image Speaks: Early Modern Icon Reception”
Art and Religion I: Creative Devotion
Moderator: Professor Allen Christenson
Isabella Wright, “The Christ-Figure Post-Impressionist”
Aria Clawson, “Incredible Companions: William Holman Hunt’s The Awakening Conscience and The Light of the World”
McCaela Michas, “Power in the Plate: Fertility Imagery and Creative Power of the Underworld Plate”
Literary Studies
Moderator: Professor Marlene Esplin
Zachary Weaver, “A Midnight Dreary: How Poe’s Gothic Darkness Rejects Enlightenment Thought”
Abby Thatcher, “The Spectacle of Obstinance and the Deadlocked State within Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’”
Elizabeth Wallace, “Fearing What We Can’t See: Returning to the World of Children”
Caroline Coppersmith, “Inscribed in the Flesh: Female Transgression and the Supernatural in Victorian Gothic Fiction”
Art and Religion II: Icons and Images
Moderator: Professor Charlotte Stanford
Miranda Underwood, “The Madonna della Salute: Christ as Ultimate Healer and the Benefits of Spiritual Healing”
Shannon Brown, “Beating, Pierced, and Broken: A Study on the Medieval Reliquary Pendant of the Holy Thorn and How it Proves the Depth of Medieval Intelligence and Faith”
Madeline Drewes, “In His Image: The Freedom of Transformation Found in Depictions of the Bearded Female Saint”
New Media: Film, Comics, and Video Games
Moderator: Professor Michael Call
Tahoe Jorgenson, “Ludicrous Lessons – What Video Games Can Teach Us about Ourselves”
Thomas De Groff, “Snoopy vs. Mr. Sunday: Newspaper Comics after the Death of the Newspaper”
Jessi Ivie, “Incomplete Metamorphosis: An Essay on Perfect Blue”
Megan Sharp, “Consumable vs. Compassionate Feminism: Advantageous’ Unique Use of Relatable Sci-fi to Spark Conversations about the Future”
Art of the Northern Renaissance
Moderator: Professor Elliott Wise
Megan Mayfield, “Albrecht Durer’s Meisterstiche: Remembering Mortality and Exploring Levels of Salvation”
Aksel Koponen, “‘Judge Righteous Judgement,’ a Secular Warning in Lucas van Leyden’s Last Judgment Altarpiece”
Allison Hale, “The Path to God: Enclosure Themes in Gossart’s Malavagna Triptych”
Jacob Jensen, “Deification in Sixteenth-Century German Art: Grunewald’s Small Crucifixion”
The Humanities and Medicine
Moderator: Professor Francesca Lawson
Alexandra Carlile, “Baroque C-Section as Triumph: Furini’s Birth of Benjamin and Death of Rachel”
Kody Wilde, “The Medical Humanities: Helping Doctors Become Better Communicators”
Feminine Figures in Augustan Poetry
Moderator: Professor Roger Macfarlane
Hanna Seariac, “Canidia: Meta-Muse of Anti-Elegy”
Brynna Gang, “What’s Ailing Galatea? Conflicting Loyalties for the Roman Woman”
Rebekah Pimentel, “Examining Vergil’s Understanding of Homer through Nausicaa and Dido”
Cultural Exchanges
Moderator: Professor Robert Colson
Allison Foster, “Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Grand Canyon: Mary Colter’s Desert View Watchtower”
Megan Orr, “Sarah Forbes Bonetta: Britain’s Forgotten African Princess”
Elena Arana, “Living Legends: Maintaining a Transcultural Identity through Narrative”
Joseph Rowley, “Rethinking the Renaissance: An Exploration of the Influence of Islamic Motifs in Modern Western Art”
Interart Panel
Moderator: Professor Francesca Lawson
Talmage Lamb, “The Pictorial Paradox: Edvard Munch’s Grappling with the Invisible”
Katelynn Bayley, “Peter Jackson’s Trial in adapting The Lord of the Rings to Film”
Abbie Calhoun, “Secular vs. Sectarian: A Comparison of Politically and Religiously Based Environmental Efforts”
2020 Symposium Awards of Merit
Madeline Drewes, “In His Image: The Freedom of Transformation Found in Depictions of the Bearded Female Saint”
Talmage Lamb, “The Pictorial Paradox: Edvard Munch’s Grappling with the Invisible”
Abby Thatcher, “The Green Screen at Play: The Spectacle of the Spectator within Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener'”
Megan Sharp, “Consumable vs. Compassionate Feminism: Advantageous’ Unique Use of Relatable Sci-fi to Spark Conversations about the Future”
McCaela Michas, “Power in the Plate: Fertility Imagery and Creative Power of the Underworld Plate”
Kris Kryscynski, “The Image Speaks: Early Modern Icon Reception”