an interdisciplinary symposium for seniors at Brown University

April 22 & 28–29, 2026

Critical Connections, Reflecting on the Journey

Symposium Schedule

[Day 3] Wednesday, April 29, Petteruti Lounge

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Roundtable: 

Embodied Geographies: Land, Memory, and Transformation 

Elizabeth Flores – Bridging Foodways in Providence: K’iche’ Maya Engagement with Narragansett Ecological Knowledge for Survival 

Amira Haileab – A Black Red Sea: Understanding the Red Sea in Black Geography through the Conscript 

Kento Suzuki – Integral Shugendo 

12:30-12:50 p.m. | Pecha Kucha Lightning Talks 

Charles Pliner – Bringing Sports Management to Brown, Part One (12:30) 

Nikolas Rohrmann – Bringing Sports Management to Brown, Part Two (12:40) 

1:00 – 2:15 p.m. | Roundtable: 

From S/NC factors to fiction to flies: How Brown inspires passion outside the classroom 

Roya Barakzai – Navigating ABC vs. S/NC: Student Decision- Making & Faculty Perspectives at Brown University 

Avani Ghosh – My book world tour: Reading a book from every country 

Megan Wang – Morphological changes within a two-neuron circuit encoding alcohol preference in Drosophila melanogaster 

3:00 – 3:50 p.m. | Roundtable: 

Arts/Culture 

Cara Inaule – Concept, Copy, and Controversy: How Sherrie Levine’s After Walker Evans Challenges Legal Standards of Authorship and Originality 

Mariana Waller – Dicks Are for Chicks: Ungendered Flesh and Disruptive Femininity in Black Trans Theater 

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