2024 Humanities Student Symposium
April 5, 2024
Opening Remarks
11am, Education in Zion Auditorium (B192 JFSB)
Session 1
11:15am-12:30pm
A. Memory, Identity, Media (JFSB B106)
Moderator: Dr. Nate Kramer
–Luka Romney, “Untying the Knot: All of Us Strangers and the Act of Working-Through in Film”
–Emily Johnson, “Assistance from a Satirist: BYU through Bertha’s Eyes”
–Leah Karren, “One Tree Hill’s Eagerness for Adulthood”
–Ansley Morris, “She’s Everything… in Barbie Land: The Separation of Worlds in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie as Feminist Visual Rhetoric”
B. Embodiment and Visual Culture (JFSB B135)
Moderator: Dr. Heather Belnap
–Sophie Hirtle, “Bright Red Dresses and Black Cobweb Shawls: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Fashion and Agency in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand”
–Ella Jackson, “Cut to the Quick: Female Bodies and Capitalism in Kiki Kogelnik’s ‘Untitled (Hanging)’”
–Maren Kennedy, “Initiation, Liberia: Liberating the Spirit of the Sande”
–Grace Truett, “Yukinobu and Komachi: Investigating the Dynamic between Japanese Female Artists”
C. Conflict and Historiography (JFSB 3198)
Moderator: Dr. Robert Colson
–Gavin Miller, “How Half of a Yellow Sun both challenges and fulfills stereotypes of African Culture”
–Addie Ressler, “(Re)painting Belfast: Art as a Medium for Transforming Sectarian Identities”
–Nicole Francis, “The Wheel of Fortune: Why Cannibalism Concluded the Reign of Cyrus the Great”
–Tessa Haney, “Mutilation, Maggots, and Motherhood: Comparing Herodotus’ Presentation of Tomyris and Pheretim”
D. Lucian, Cynicism, and Christianity (JFSB 3002)
Moderator: Dr. Thomas Wayment
–Calan Christensen, “The Rhetoric of Religious and Civic Vulnerability: A Second Century Response to the Threat of Itinerant Preachers”
–Jade Simmons, “Stoic Sarcasm: How Lucian uses Stoicism as a Satirical Device in The Death of Peregrinus”
–Aaron Richards, “Pastoral Principles and Peregrinus: Lessons from Lucian for Religious Leaders and their Laity”
–Catie Keller, “The Disingenuity of Peregrinus’ Conversion to Christianity”
Session 2
1-2:15pm
A. Maternity and Religious Art (JFSB B105)
Moderator: Dr. Elliott Wise
–Eva Greenwell, “Mystère des clés de voûte à la cathédrale de Clermont” : Decoding the Tree of Jesse Motif in Clermont Cathedral’s Keystones”
–Addison Sepulveda, “Shared Suffering of the Virgin and Child Depicted in a Wooden Pieta”
–Cheynie Wray, “Christ as a Maternal Figure: Motherly Depictions of the Son in the Met Cloisters”
–Emma Belnap, “’Who but I should grieve?’: Anna Lea Merritt’s Eve”
B. Rereading, Rewriting (JFSB B101)
Moderator: Dr. Kenneth Hartvigsen
–Elise Hatch, “Aita O Paul Gauguin i Ite i te Parau i te Reo Tahiti: The Visual and Colonial Implications of Gauguin’s Inability to Speak Tahitian”
–Caroline Johnson, “Doing a Little Jig : The Role of Highland Dancing in Illustrating a more Complete History of Scotland in the 18th Century”
–Sophia Osburn, “‘This is The Way’: Expanding Canon in the Star Wars Streaming Series”
–Cordelia McPhie, “Yoko Ono: Creating Art that Requires an Other”
C. Morality and Uncertainty (JFSB B103)
Moderator: Dr. Laura Hatch
–Charles Finlayson, “Crime and Punishment Teaches a Christ-Centered Morality”
–Marcia Tagg, “Love’s Transformation through The Temple by George Herbert”
–Sarah Gensel, “The Rhetoric of the Green Knight”
D. Narrating Non-Elite Roman Lives (JFSB 3002)
Moderator: Dr. Thomas Wayment
–Cameron Quinton, “Reconstructing Rome Through the Eyes of a Prostitute”
–Jared Gaskill, “‘Crappy’ Names: The Rise and Development of the Copronym in the Roman Empire”
–Clare Johnson, “The Papyrological Footprint of Women in Ancient Roman Slavery”
–Catie Keller, “Papyrological Evidence of the Impact of Slaves in Greco-Roman Egypt”
–James Naylor, “Kinaidoi: Insult or Identity? Effeminate Men in Literary and Documentary Sources”