Aerial view of campus with Williamsport, the Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Mountain as a backdrop

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

  1. Between Her and Me, I Choose Us: Using Public Relations to Mitigate the Harms of Fashion
    — Lismeylin Feliz Medrano, Kutztown University
  2. Fashioning the Nation: Sumptuary Laws and Utopian Perspectives in Sixteenth Century England
    — Keiyana Mosley, Kutztown University
  3. A Moral Household: Legal and Private Responses to Domestic Abuse in the Plymouth Colony
    — Evelyn Stong, Lycoming College
  4. 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

  1. Glorification and Ableism: Ellen Forney’s Marbles and the Danger of “Positive” Stereotypes towards Disability
    — Sidney Berger, Montclair State University
  2. 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
  3. To the Boy Who Sought Freedom: The Philosophy of Freedom and Social Contract Theory in Attack on Titan
    — Serena Martin, University of Scranton
  4. 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

  1. Evidence for Maya Commoner Ceramic Production at Altar de Sacrificios
    — Amelia Thompson, Lycoming College
  2. Building the Foundations of Class: Victorian England’s Homes as Symbols of Class Conformity
    — Mackenzie Holmes, Lycoming College
  3. 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
  4. 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

  1. La independencia en el Sahara Occidental y las posturas internacionales
    — Adalynn Cherry, Washington & Jefferson College
  2. El amor y el arte: vinculos creativos y obstáculos en las obras de Skármeta y Poniatowska
    — Lee Roby, Juniata College
  3. Does “X” Mark the Spot? A Study of “Latinx” vs. “Latine”
    — Emily Sands, Kutztown University
  4. 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

  1. An Analysis of Nazi Film and Policy: Propagandizing Mass Murder and Genocide
    — Karson Bolanos, St. John Fisher University
  2. Capturing Stalinism: Photography, Reality, Manipulation, and Control in Stalin’s USSR
    — Reese Finnigan, Goucher College
  3. The Scars of Dictatorship: Transgenerational Trauma in La teta asustada
    — Djitshmy Senejuste, Lycoming College
  4. 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

  1. The Faces of Rome: A Comparative Study of Roman Imagines and Roman-Egyptian Mummy Portraits
    — Ali DeLaney, University of Pittsburgh
  2. Ontological Proofs: Anselm to Gödel
    — Mary Krichbaum, University of Scranton
  3. 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

  1. The Impact of Social Class and Perception on Deafness and Communication in Antebellum New England
    — Amelia Settembre, Pennsylvania State University
  2. The Lycoming College History Podcast Series
    — Emma Mitcheltree and Matthew Frantz, Lycoming College
  3. 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

  1. The Business of Art Museums: Jeff Koons and the Guggenheim Bilbao
    — Katryn Yocum, Lycoming College
  2. Curiosities of the Raj: Fanny Parkes’ Collection of Indian Treasures
    — Nidhi Sobrun, Lycoming College
  3. “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
  4. 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

  1. 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
  2. Animating Femininity: Retelling White Snake in 21st-Century Chinese Animation
    — Izzy Coupe, Gettysburg College
  3. “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

  1. 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
  2. The Other Side of the Bar: Women Seeking Agency through Tavern Keeping in Colonial America
    — Emma Mitcheltree, Lycoming College
  3. 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

  1. Universal: The Blending of Musical Traditions in the Music of William Grant Still
    — Hayley Skillens, Commonwealth University - Mansfield
  2. Album Reviews and Political Projects: Elvis, the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, and Black Lives Matter
    — Dylan Sykes, Franklin & Marshall College
  3. Revelation and Refusal: Movement and Stasis in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (1991 and 2013)
    — Leo Quinn, Ursinus College
  4. 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

  1. Heimat and Social Integration
    — Yasemin Cakir, Montclair State University
  2. St. Lucas, Iowa: Preserving Cultural Heritage amidst 20th Century Nativism
    — Elsa Miller, Grove City College
  3. Urban Indian Reconstruction in and through Tommy Orange’s There There
    — Audrey Boytim, Drexel University
  4. 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

  1. Imperial Roman Art and Ideologies in Pre-Fascist Colonial Italy: (D)evolution of the Treatment of Afro-Italian Women
    — Ella Grenci, Bucknell University
  2. The Royal Takeover
    — Lindsey Newcomer, Lycoming College
  3. Recognizing the Autonomy of Future Generations
    — Cassandra Zellner, DeSales University
  4. 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

  1. American Patriots and the Role of Catholicism
    — Anthony Batista, Kutztown University
  2. 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
  3. Whose Morals? A Study of the Religious Right and LGBT Rights in California
    — Nikolai Kochel, Kutztown University
  4. 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

  1. Call me Homosexual
    — Aiden Brown, Lycoming College
  2. Reaction and Response to the Colonial Canon: The Failure of the Physical Utopian in Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales
    — Jordan Ho, Lehigh University
  3. The Games We Play: Systemization of Male Homosociality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    — Jude Beiter, Haverford College
  4. 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