AMCS Spring Research Colloquium
Please join us for our annual AMCS Spring Research Colloquium!
We are excited to present AMCS Majors who will share their culminating research with the community.
AMCS Majors complete their capstone projects under the direction of a project advisor or in the context of an approved, upper-level seminar.
Schedule for AMCS Spring Research Colloquium
10:00: Opening remarks from AMCS Director Elaine Peña and Assistant Director Noah Cohan
10:10: Jessica Weiss — Defining Liberalism: Columbia University’s Academic Freedom Debates & Antisemitism in the 1930s
10:30: Bram Hoffman — Between Empowerment and Submission: The Fight to Keep the Electorate Conscious
11:10: Judy Li — Sorority Recruitment
11:30: Shaye Herman — “I Don’t Like Bullies. I Don’t Care Where They’re From”: Captain America, The Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the Political Moment
11:50: Parker Satenberg — Stop-Motion Animation and the Politics of Embodiment in the Digital Age
12:10: BREAK
12:30: Cela Lopez — "How Digital Interface and Aesthetic Shape Modern Horror in Unfriended (2014) & Host (2020)"
12:50: Grace Tyau — When a Nudge Becomes a Cage: Persuasive Technology’s Exploitation of the Human Mind
1:10: Hannah Gallin — The New Opioid Epidemic: Marginalization, Disproportionate Punishment, Ineffective Treatment & the Widening Black-White Fatal Overdose Gap
1:30: Noah Kaller — Pedagogical Implications of Florida’s HB 1557
1:50: Dajuantay Wynter — Living in Two Realities: How Policy Molds the Black American Experience.
2:10: BREAK
2:30: Maggie Lu — Sewing Resistance: Analyzing the Organizing Strategies of Immigrant Women During the 1982 International Ladies Garment Workers Union Strike in New York City’s Chinatown
2:50: Quinn Bailey — Staking the Fandom: Tension and Endurance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan Communities
3:10: Marissa Mathieson — Tó éí íná át’é: Understanding Navajo Water Sovereignty Struggles as a Form of Incarceration