2021 Humanities Student Symposium
9:30 AM-11 AM
Ecologies
Moderator: Professor George Handley
Jordan Long, “A New Digital Ecology: Death Stranding and Thing-Power Materialism”
Garrett Maxwell, “God’s Rain: Revisiting Qur’anic Repetition”
Meagan Anderson, “An Ecocritical Evaluation of Maynard Dixon”
10 AM-11:30 AM
Women in Art History
Passcode: HUMSYMP2021!
Moderator: Professor Heather Belnap
Katrina Lee, “Materiality in the Maesta”
Madeline Drewes, “‘As in a Glass:’ The Devotional Function of Reflections and Replications in the Saint Veronica Tapestry”
Alexandra Carlile, “Faithful Femininity: Raphael’s Depiction of Ideal Italian Womanhood”
Noelle Baer, “The Black Hours: Weaving a Spiritual Fabric through Marginalia of a Sacred Text”
11 AM-12 PM
Mesoamerica
Moderator: Professor Allen Christensen
Alyssa Koontz Ferrell, “Mayan Love Letters: A Case for Female Importance in Late Classic Tikal”
Travis Meyer, “Nahua-Christian Actors: The Continuance of Nahua Culture in The Life of Don Sebastian, a Nahua-produced Play“
Kaeli Glissmeyer, “Harvesting the Life Source of Pakal the Great: The Ultimate Act of Immortalization“
12 PM-1:30 PM
American Poetics
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Moderator: Professor Marlene Esplin
Joseph Rowley, “In the Shadow of Epic and Empire: Gaining a Clearer Vision of St. Lucia Through the Narrative Journeys in Omeros“
Abby Thatcher, “Undressing the Crossdresser: Walt Whitman’s Nonbinary ‘Body’ of Text within ‘Song of Myself'”
Daniela Cota, “The Powerful Life and Poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca”
1 PM-2:30 PM
Insights from Roman Period Papyri
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Moderator: Professor Thomas Wayment
Braxton Johannson, “Justice Outside the Law: Curse Tablets as Psuedo Legal Documents”
Bailey Hill, “[They] were Soldiers”
Hannah Carlson, “Letters to Apollodorus: the Ancient Family in Times of War”
Bryce Klabacka, “Wrath in Egyptian papyri and the Bibliotheca by Pseudo Apollodorus”
Art and Violence
Moderator: Professor Francesca Lawson
Bailey Jorgensen, “The Continuation of Maya Artform in Tikal”
Emma Barlow, “For the Love of Art: The Nazi Plunder as Hitler’s Personal Quest”
Megan Orr, “Blood and Brotherhood: Emblematic Solidarity in the Painted Ceiling of Rossend Castle”
2:30 PM-4 PM
Reception and Media
Moderator: Professor Michael Call
Tessa Haney, “Fantastic Myths and Where to Read Them: An Analysis of J.K. Rowling’s Use of Greco-Roman Mythology in the Harry Potter Series”
Kody Wilde, “Play as Treatment and Training: The Intersection of Medicine and Video Games”
Samantha Elton, “Fully Embracing Emotions: Why Context in Music Enhances Musical Experience”
Anika Gemmell, “Matisse’s Stations of the Cross”
4 PM-5:30 PM
Grace, Power, and the Sacred Image
Moderator: Professor Elliott Wise
Nathan Osborn, “For the Kingdom of God Is Not in Word, but in Power: Caravaggio’s St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness and the Catholic Church’s Cultural Hegemony“
Josie Ableman, “The Fecundity of Matter: Grisaille and Hans Holbein’s Basel Diptych“
LeeAnn Broderick, “”With His Stripes We Are Healed: Connecting the Passion in Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz’s Christ Consoled by Angels“
2021 Symposium Awards of Merit
Alexandra Carlile, “Faithful Femininity: Raphael’s Depiction of Ideal Italian Womanhood”
Hannah Carlson, “Letters to Apollodorus: the Ancient Family in Times of War”
Travis Meyer, “Nahua-Christian Actors: The Continuance of Nahua Culture in The Life of Don Sebastian, a Nahua-produced Play“
Megan Orr, “Blood and Brotherhood: Emblematic Solidarity in the Painted Ceiling of Rossend Castle”
Abby Thatcher, “Undressing the Crossdresser: Walt Whitman’s Nonbinary ‘Body’ of Text within ‘Song of Myself’”