Coloniality of the West: The Formation of the UC System Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments […]
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Maya Textile Arts Influence Contemporary Politics in Zapatista Embroidery Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and […]
Situational Features Influences College Students’ Evaluations About Helping Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly […]
The Origins of Kink-Oriented Desires: Perspectives from an Online Community of Kinky People Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us […]
“Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz ” In 2011, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger, […]
Once Helpful, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios The present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder […]
What You Love: The Library at Alexandria, Quotation, and Survival The figure of Sappho is paradigmatic of the queer-feminist archive: she is the founding figure of female artistic genius and […]
Stephen David Engel is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department. Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us […]
In order for a work of art to be great, according to Heidegger, at least one of the conditions it must meet is the community condition. While this condition is […]
Pidgin Comedy in Hawai’i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture In 1970s Hawai’i, Pidgin, also known as Hawai’i Creole english, was the major medium of comedy because it was the […]
“Mom, can you help me with my homework?” Identifying Tools and Conditions for Intergenerational Dialogue Among Southeast Asian Refugees and Their Children The collective memories of the Southeast Asian diaspora […]
“This is Your Life”: Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War In 1955, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the […]
From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle The double portrait of cousins, entitled, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, is truly an anomaly in 18th […]
Shooting Cameras and Shooting Weapons: U.S. Military Violence and Ecological Ruin in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now This presentation examines the shooting history of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), which was […]
Do Lenders Value the Right Characteristics?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending Using a unique dataset of peer-to-peer lending with detailed loan and borrower information, I study the following research questions:|1) What […]
Creative Ecologies of Practice: Collaborative Agential Modes of Eco-Aesthetic Pedagogy This presentation will discuss two collaborative environmental art projects aimed at creating experimental and experiential trans-disciplinary pedagogical practices. Both projects […]
“Its Ok, We’re Safe Here”: Cultural and Eco Activism in the Film Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$) Since 2008, the Karrabing Film Collective has made four films about the various cultural, […]
Israel and Palestine: The Landscape of Separation The Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank not only live under the occupation of Israel but also, contained behind the Wall […]
Sewing the Forest like a state: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949 – 1965 My research aims to counter the prevalent premise that Mao-era China […]
Sustainable Happy cows: Change and Sustainability in California Dairies California dairy advertisements often feature happy cows, but they mask social and environmental concerns over industrial milk production. Currently, California dairy […]
“Writing Hawai’i into the Nation: Narrative Re-mapping in Mark Twain’s Letter’s s a Colonial Prelude to Annexation” This portion of my dissertation project examines the 1866 letters written by Mark […]
“Black Storm Clouds and a Queer Yellow Light: Reading the Affective Edges of Symbolism in Maru” My project is to read postcolonial novels that have typically been analyzed as representations […]
“Historicizing Interviews: A Mode of (Re)living and (Re)writing Memories of the Korean War through Documentary” How can we write a history of the officially unsaid and the unsayable? My talk […]
“Enemy Inside Out: Birth Defects in Fallujah” Hotly debated and widely misunderstood is the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq. While the possibility of knowing the exact cause of […]
