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 (Advisor: Shanti Morell-Hart)

Amira Haileab – A Black Red Sea: Understanding the Red Sea in Black Geography through the Conscript (Advisors: Kim Gallon, Jennifer Johnson)

Kento Suzuki – Integral Shugendo (Advisor: Larson Difiori)

Moderator – Amari Boyd, Associate Dean of the College

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

Charles Pliner – Bringing Sports Management to Brown, Part One (Advisors: Barrett Hazeltine, Thano Chaltas, Jonathan Readey)

Nikolas Rohrmann – Bringing Sports Management to Brown, Part Two (Advisors: Barrett Hazeltine, Thano Chaltas, Jonathan Readey)

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 (Advisor: Christina Smith)

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 (Advisor: Karla Kaun)

Moderator – Kelly Watts, Assistant Dean of the College for Experiential Learning

3:00 – 3:50 p.m. | Roundtable:

Arts/Culture

Cara Ianuale – Concept, Copy, and Controversy: How Sherrie Levine’s After Walker Evans Challenges Legal Standards of Authorship and Originality (Advisor: Douglas Nickel)

Mariana Waller – Dicks Are for Chicks: Ungendered Flesh and Disruptive Femininity in Black Trans Theater (Advisor: Lisa Biggs)

Moderator – Jasmine Sykes-Kunk, Head of Research Services, John Hay Library