Looking for a Body

By Melia Chendo on November 29, 2023

The physical body is deconstructed and reassembled as a fusion of repetitive moments; movement and its integration invent materiality.

Arts WorkshopVideo collage identity performance sound time

 

How To: Laugh

By Aishia Lin Sampson on November 27, 2023

Check every hollow; follow every crease and let it swallow you down. Let it tickle, that’s it you're fickle. See? You’re weak, you're fickle. Let it tickle you. You are bored almost bored.

Arts WorkshopVideo creativity dance music performance

 

The Gentrification of Thrift Stores and its Ecological Effects

By Olivia Bobadilla on November 24, 2023

The main problems with the increase in thrifting today stem from corporate greed and gentrifiers reselling stock, or just ignoring neighborhood customs and not supporting local businesses.

First-Year Research SeminarResearch clothes consumerism gentrification urban studies

 

The Articulation of Caste in Punjabi Music

By Amer Khosla on November 22, 2023

Music, as a form of expression that is vital to Punjabi articulation regardless of caste/class, loses its potency as a tool for social cohesion if Jatt is truncated to mean Punjabi.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar class india music race

 

Schools Worth Saving

By Sarika Doppalapudi on November 20, 2023

This logic of disposability is one echoed in the language around school closings writ large.

MA ProgramPortfolio education memory oral history textiles

 

Sex Work in the Digitalized Era: OnlyFans

By Ruby Field on November 20, 2023

The utilization of sex positivity to fortify the sexual empowerment claim may be too sanguine.

First-Year Research SeminarResearch capitalism digital media feminism internet Sex sex work

 

Dance as an Approach to Climate Injustice

By Olivia Kick on November 15, 2023

Where traditional approaches to environmentalism and the facts they provide can overwhelm the audiences they are meant to incite, dance can provide an alternative route in communicating the urgency of climate injustice.

First-Year Research SeminarResearch climate change dance ecology environmentalism Nature

 

Field Notes on Various Encounters with the Afternoon

By Imogen Rose Chiasson on November 14, 2023

It feels as though everyone has awoken from il riposo—yawning, stretching their wits before the evening crowd rolls in.

First-Year Research SeminarResearch observation poetics time

 

The Social, Invisible, and Functional Qualities of Religion and Photography in the Age of Contemporary Spirituality

By Simonne Alunan on November 13, 2023

Photography provides the visual language pertinent in studies of post-colonial visual cultures and the new rise of contemporary spirituality.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar photography religion spirituality visibility

 

Dystopian Technologies in Pixar’s WALL-E

By Sam de Alfaro on November 10, 2023

Rebellion against the numbing effects of technology is possible, but it requires a recognition of the self and a connection with the world outside of the numbing medium.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar environmentalism film science fiction technology

 

Titanium Boat

By Eloise Wang on November 8, 2023

She overlooks the exact spot where Harry, Katia, Maurice, and forty others passed away. She stares at that spot, then screams into the void of the Unzen valley and of this dimension.

Creative NonfictionInterdisciplinary Seminar Love science volcanoes

 

Commentary on Black Female Athletes

By Morgan Minnis on November 6, 2023

Black female athletes have more to tackle than their sport of choice.

Interdisciplinary SeminarResearch black women media race representation sports