First-Year Research Seminar – Page 4

Performative Woketivism

by Isabella CohenPosted on May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Fashion has become a way to wear a statement, and brands have decided to capitalize on stances against injustice to make money and secure their place on the imaginary wokeness scale of which the public seems so conscious.

Guinea’s Ethnic Conflict

by Aisatou DialloPosted on October 29, 2019March 30, 2023

When West Africans resettle in the United States, Europe, or elsewhere, the tension disappears and they take on one identity, as Guinean, in a new foreign land. I am interested in exploring the factors that suddenly leads to unity and eventually the formation of a community in the foreign land but doesn’t seem to happen in their own home country.

First-Year Research SeminarResearch20th century 21st century guinea history identity politics postcolonialism

In Search of Perfect Work

by Aliya JonesPosted on September 4, 2019January 28, 2020

On Thomas More's "Utopia", John Milton's "Paradise Lost," and contemporary American work culture

CriticismFirst-Year Research SeminarResearchadam and eve career john milton labor utopia work

Fashion, Fantasy, and Melancholia

by Caroline ReaganPosted on May 3, 2019July 20, 2021

Examining the Image of the Fashion Model

CriticismFirst-Year Research Seminaradvertising fantasy fashion gender mental health models visual culture

Trump Talk

by Ariella ReubenPosted on November 5, 2018April 1, 2021

The Theoretical and Historical Roots of Trump’s Populist Rhetoric and Fear Appeals

First-Year Research SeminarResearchdonald trump politics populism rhetoric united states history

Nuclear Consumers

by Elie Pariente CohenPosted on October 30, 2018April 1, 2021

During the Cold War, was the United States government was able to dissuade the American public into believing in a “safe” atomic bomb?

First-Year Research SeminarResearchcold war propaganda united states history

Visualizing Horror

by Julia Martina CruzPosted on October 25, 2018April 1, 2021

"How and to what extent does photography translate the horror of the Nazi concentration camps to the distanced viewer?"

First-Year Research SeminarResearchholocaust journalism photo journalism photography representation world war II

Great Power

by Sarah QuintasPosted on September 7, 2018March 30, 2023

The Silver Age of Superhero Comics and How Marvel’s Spider-Man Brought it to an End

First-Year Research SeminarResearchcensorship cold war comics twentieth century united states history

Utopian Happiness and Choice

by Travis SchuhardtPosted on August 30, 2018March 25, 2021

Do utopian societies depend on the complete subservience of a population to a rule or ruler? A look at the Eden of Paradise Lost and the global state of Brave New World.

CriticismFirst-Year Research Seminaradam and eve john milton the bible utopia

Disney and the Cold War

by Brooke TuchmanPosted on April 26, 2018March 18, 2021

How Walt Disney's anti-Communist beliefs permeated his company and its cultural products

First-Year Research SeminarResearchcold war entertainment politics pop culture

Politics on Ice

by James BifulcoPosted on February 23, 2018February 25, 2021

"Typically, sports provide an outlet for society to escape political pressures. However, the United States’ triumph over the Soviet Union in men’s hockey during the 1980 Winter Olympics seemingly had the opposite effect."

First-Year Research SeminarResearchcold war soviet union sports united states

War Images: “Napalm Girl”

by Sara BergerPosted on February 14, 2018February 25, 2021

"To what extent can a still image really be held accountable for influencing the standpoint of a nation and its growing disenchantment with the Vietnam War?"

First-Year Research SeminarResearchjournalism photo journalism photography vietnam war war

A Trick of the Light

by Lauren LaytonPosted on November 29, 2017February 16, 2021

“A photograph is not a moment; it is a single representation of a moment, influenced entirely by the eye behind the lens.”

CriticismFirst-Year Research Seminarethics photography representation truth

“Goods”?

by Morgan SpencerPosted on November 14, 2017February 16, 2021

"Globalization has connected each and every person in the world through free market trade. However, such an interconnection is not necessarily mutually beneficial."

First-Year Research SeminarResearchglobalization inequality trade

Framing the City as Language

by Elizabeth CheshirePosted on September 26, 2017February 9, 2021

"I propose viewing each city as a unique language with its own linguistic features such as vocabulary, grammar, and syntax."

First-Year Research SeminarResearcharchitecture linguistics

Confluence

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