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Lycoming Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference Program
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Check-in opens 8:30 a.m.
Humanities Research Center, Academic Center/Wendle Hall, 2nd Floor C-201
Coffee with Continental Breakfast, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Academic Center, 2nd Floor Lobby
Panels and Presentations
(Academic Center, 2nd Floor)
Session 1 (9:30 - 10:45 a.m.)
Legally Strong: The Law and Personhood
9:30-10:45 a.m.
B-202
- Between Her and Me, I Choose Us: Using Public Relations to Mitigate the Harms of Fashion
— Lismeylin Feliz Medrano, Kutztown University
- Fashioning the Nation: Sumptuary Laws and Utopian Perspectives in Sixteenth Century England
— Keiyana Mosley, Kutztown University
- A Moral Household: Legal and Private Responses to Domestic Abuse in the Plymouth Colony
— Evelyn Stong, Lycoming College
- Legal Theatrics: Exploring the Impact of Theatrical Technique in Law
— Gabriella Palmer, University of Scranton
Tearing Down the Walls: Morality in Freedom and Ignorance
9:30-10:45 a.m.
B-207
- Glorification and Ableism: Ellen Forney’s Marbles and the Danger of “Positive” Stereotypes towards Disability
— Sidney Berger, Montclair State University
- Epistemic Responsibility in the Face of Ignorance: The Failure of Internalism to Appropriately Account for Instances of Implicit Bias and Active Ignorance
— Sam Ault, Allegheny College
- To the Boy Who Sought Freedom: The Philosophy of Freedom and Social Contract Theory in Attack on Titan
— Serena Martin, University of Scranton
- Taking up the Torch: Destruction of Property in Colonial New England
— Amanda Charowsky, Lycoming College
Decorated Spaces: Identity, the Body, and Home
9:30-10:45 a.m.
B-210
- Evidence for Maya Commoner Ceramic Production at Altar de Sacrificios
— Amelia Thompson, Lycoming College
- Building the Foundations of Class: Victorian England’s Homes as Symbols of Class Conformity
— Mackenzie Holmes, Lycoming College
- The Body and Mapplethorpe: An Examination of Philosophy of the Body as a Place and Medium of Art Through the Works of Robert Mapplethorpe with Focus on Lisa Lyons and The Scorpion
— Sean Logue, Slippery Rock University
- The Importance of Storytelling amongst Indigenous Generations
— Sophia Mattia, Drexel University
Session 2 (11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.)
Lenguaje, Poder, y Narrativas
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
B-202
- La independencia en el Sahara Occidental y las posturas internacionales
— Adalynn Cherry, Washington & Jefferson College
- El amor y el arte: vinculos creativos y obstáculos en las obras de Skármeta y Poniatowska
— Lee Roby, Juniata College
- Does “X” Mark the Spot? A Study of “Latinx” vs. “Latine”
— Emily Sands, Kutztown University
- Expanding the Narrative: Digital Humanities and the Visibility of Cuban Women Filmmakers
— Juan Martinez and Gabriel Montoya, Lycoming College
Art, Dictatorship, and Cultural Memory
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
B-207
- An Analysis of Nazi Film and Policy: Propagandizing Mass Murder and Genocide
— Karson Bolanos, St. John Fisher University
- Capturing Stalinism: Photography, Reality, Manipulation, and Control in Stalin’s USSR
— Reese Finnigan, Goucher College
- The Scars of Dictatorship: Transgenerational Trauma in La teta asustada
— Djitshmy Senejuste, Lycoming College
- The Fragrance of Time: Restaging, Reminiscence, and Cultural Memory in Hai Bo’s They Photography Series, 1997-2000
— Stephanie Chang, Kenyon College
Gods, Spirits, and the Afterlife
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
B-208
- The Faces of Rome: A Comparative Study of Roman Imagines and Roman-Egyptian Mummy Portraits
— Ali DeLaney, University of Pittsburgh
- Ontological Proofs: Anselm to Gödel
— Mary Krichbaum, University of Scranton
- Negotiating Narratives: The Multifaceted Representations of Fox Spirits in 21st Century Chinese Cinema
— Jessica Chen, Gettysburg College
Get Some Sense: Learning and Perception
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
B-210
- The Impact of Social Class and Perception on Deafness and Communication in Antebellum New England
— Amelia Settembre, Pennsylvania State University
- The Lycoming College History Podcast Series
— Emma Mitcheltree and Matthew Frantz, Lycoming College
- From Eye to Mind’s Eye: Perception, Representation, and the Architecture of Thought
— Jack Grotke, Lehigh University
Lunch Break
12:15-1:45 p.m.
Session 3 (1:45 - 3:00 p.m.)
Cultural Imperialism and Resistance
1:45-3:00 p.m.
B-202
- The Business of Art Museums: Jeff Koons and the Guggenheim Bilbao
— Katryn Yocum, Lycoming College
- Curiosities of the Raj: Fanny Parkes’ Collection of Indian Treasures
— Nidhi Sobrun, Lycoming College
- “Poor Scotland – the Outcast of all the Nations of the World”: The Reactionary Rhetoric of Suffering in Covenanter Sermons, 1638 – 1645
— William Bedingfield, Grove City College
- Innocence and Brutality: Native American Poetry and the Transformations of Racial Perceptions
— Maeby Gantvoort, Drexel University
The Role of Women in Storytelling
1:45-3:00 p.m.
B-207
- Active Goddess, Passive Christian: The Feminine Roles of Morgan le Fay and Queen Guinevere in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
— Sophie Lynn, Bryn Mawr College
- Animating Femininity: Retelling White Snake in 21st-Century Chinese Animation
— Izzy Coupe, Gettysburg College
- “Whatever Is Silenced Will Clamor to be Heard”: Nurturing Resistance in The Handmaid’s Tale
— Abigail Miller, Kutztown University
Righting the Record: Women as Transgressors
1:45-3:00 p.m.
B-208
- Review of Contemporary Literature Depicting Women’s Hysteria Used to Portray Societal Pressure Contrasted against Women’s Neural Health in Modern Medicine as Depicted in Neuroscientific Research and Public Health Survey Analysis
— Madelynn Quinn, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- The Other Side of the Bar: Women Seeking Agency through Tavern Keeping in Colonial America
— Emma Mitcheltree, Lycoming College
- Equal Lights for Equal Rights: A Look into Women’s 1920s Cigarette Advertising
— Lauren Travieso, Grove City College
Power and Pushback in the Arts
1:45-3:00 p.m.
B-210
- Universal: The Blending of Musical Traditions in the Music of William Grant Still
— Hayley Skillens, Commonwealth University - Mansfield
- Album Reviews and Political Projects: Elvis, the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, and Black Lives Matter
— Dylan Sykes, Franklin & Marshall College
- Revelation and Refusal: Movement and Stasis in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (1991 and 2013)
— Leo Quinn, Ursinus College
- Love, Power, and the Metaphysics of Control in Flamenca and El mal querer
— Ana-Christina Verch, Temple University
Session 4 (3:15-4:30 p.m.)
Migration Tales: Cultural Formation and Preservation
3:15-4:30 p.m.
B-202
- Heimat and Social Integration
— Yasemin Cakir, Montclair State University
- St. Lucas, Iowa: Preserving Cultural Heritage amidst 20th Century Nativism
— Elsa Miller, Grove City College
- Urban Indian Reconstruction in and through Tommy Orange’s There There
— Audrey Boytim, Drexel University
- The Carpathian Echo: Origins of Eastern Orthodox Churches in Binghamton
— Deniz Gulay, Binghamton University
Shifting Tides: Transitional Moments in History
3:15-4:30 p.m.
B-207
- Imperial Roman Art and Ideologies in Pre-Fascist Colonial Italy: (D)evolution of the Treatment of Afro-Italian Women
— Ella Grenci, Bucknell University
- The Royal Takeover
— Lindsey Newcomer, Lycoming College
- Recognizing the Autonomy of Future Generations
— Cassandra Zellner, DeSales University
- Cultural Identity of Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Late Bronze/Iron Age Transition
— Cole Clark, Lycoming College
Church Chat: The Weaponization of Religion
3:15-4:30 p.m.
B-208
- American Patriots and the Role of Catholicism
— Anthony Batista, Kutztown University
- Religious Anthropology and Women’s Narratives within the Context of Reproductive Healthcare: Comparative Analysis of the United States and Ireland
— Brigid Carlin, University of Scranton
- Whose Morals? A Study of the Religious Right and LGBT Rights in California
— Nikolai Kochel, Kutztown University
- Amidst the Storm: Demonic Fluidity in the Writings of St. Jerome
— Ginger Schiffmayer, Grove City College
New Lense, Old Text
3:15-4:30 p.m.
B-210
- Call me Homosexual
— Aiden Brown, Lycoming College
- Reaction and Response to the Colonial Canon: The Failure of the Physical Utopian in Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales
— Jordan Ho, Lehigh University
- The Games We Play: Systemization of Male Homosociality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
— Jude Beiter, Haverford College
- The Qur’an as Muhaymin: How it Engages with Prior Revelations and Beliefs
— Aryan Chandavarkar, University of Scranton
Awards Ceremony & Keynote Address
5:00-6:15 p.m.
Trogner Presentation Room, Krapf Gateway Building
— Zara Chowdhary, author of The Lucky Ones: A Memoir