About a month ago, I intended to pursue a few different avenues of investigation in order to fill some holes…
Category: 2023 Summer Research
Lex Jacquet: A Family of Six
Driving down the backroads of southern Louisiana is a beautiful sight as you travel westward from New Orleans and on…
Gabriel McDerment: Complexities of Scope
I’ve had some issues with the embedding of the videos. Here is the link if the video does not work…
Meredith Wade: Stud Country, Sincerity, and Subversion
Neon purple lights bloomed out of a concrete platform, gilded with an enormous disco ball visible from the sidewalk. My…
Zihniah, Namirah: Shaping Up My Focus
I have been working on narrowing down the focus of my research these past few weeks. I have also been…
Sophia Opferman – Legal Interpretation and Effective Counsel
The recent supreme court rulings concerning student loan forgiveness and affirmative action, building on last year’s reversal of the right…
Ke (Kay) Fang: Can Large Language Models like GPT4 Make Human-like Emotional and Moral Judgements? (Part 1)
This month, I’ve shifted my research focus slightly, moving from my initial experiment to exploring the utility of large language…
Eloise Wang: Multilingualism in Theatre Blog Post 2
My research has moved on from the fundamentals of linguistic code-switching to dramaturgy and performance studies. My goal is to…
Annika World: exploring perception and drafting the comic
This month, I read Hallucinations by neurologist Oliver Sacks, in which he analyzes a variety of non-psychiatric medical conditions that…
Brianna Bellamy: New Ways of Relating to Earth
My research is in full swing with oral interviews and history, I have been doing interviews roughly once a week….
Lauren Conroy: Experiencing New Art Forms
I began my research this summer with the idea of finding a rich history of performing arts aesthetics that would…
Alexandra Friedman: Melting Obsidian and Visiting a Volcano
This month has brought about an intense amount of learning and growth with my research. I melted and stretched obsidian…
Lex Jacquet: Food, Culture, Identity
I seize the sugar mill’s singing throatcrush its hymn its grind nailedto a settler’s lust merciless thiefof land…
Nora Teter: Human and Non-Human Animals in the Rehab/Rescue Paradigm
After just two days at a wildlife rehabilitation center in peri-rural Oregon, I was reminded in a very beautiful way…
Yassmine Hussein: Sex work, a Trade as Old as Time
In order to investigate the trend of sex work in Cairo Egypt, it seemed necessary to begin by understanding how…
Elliot Wright: Artificial Intelligence’s Self Portraiture
My first few weeks investigating intersections of artificial intelligence and creativity have already begun to yield unanticipated results. My approach…
Ke (Kay) Fang: Extremist contents spread faster, but do they shape public opinion?
I am particularly interested in studying extremist speeches on social media. Social media platforms have become powerful channels for the…
Zihniah, Namirah: Scratching the Surface of Indonesian Women in Films
My research revolves around the themes of diversity in global cinema with a specific focus on Indonesian women’s representation in…
Olivia, Krivitsky: Development of a Novel Biomaterial Post 1
Hi! For my first blog post, I am going to introduce a little bit about myself as well as a…
Jay Wood: First Week in Tunis
Sidi Bou Said, A hillside neighborhood in Tunis with a rich artistic history My research in Tunis has taken many…
Sophia Opferman: Harm and Care
I recently finished Mariame Kaba’s We Do This Till We Free Us as part of my preliminary research into the persistent failures…
Lauren Conroy: The Beginning of Eight Whiskus
Over the course of this first month of my summer research, I’ve begun hashing out the kinds of archives I…
Annika World: cool comics and compassing research directions
This past month I finalized my summer reading list and began engaging with some texts and artworks. I watched All…
Gabriel McDerment: To Bergen (Blog Post 1)
Link to NYU Stream Video Page: https://stream.nyu.edu/media/McDerment%2C+GabrielA+To+Bergen+%28Blog+Post+1%29/1_5acm8svv Pictures from Bergen so far: Caption: Gabriel in front of the main building…
Ben Cresto: Exploring the Herbarium and Greenhouse
The past month has been filled with exciting developments for my project! I have been meeting with Elaine Ayers, who…
Eloise Wang: Multilingualism in Theatre June Blog Post
My Gallatin concentration lands on the intersection between arts and sciences, using scientific theories and philosophies to guide my dramatic…
Meredith Wade: Cowboy Centos
Despite evolving out of both European and African musical traditions, country music has been constructed as a genre by and…
Amer Khosla, Blog post 1
This was my first actual week of research, after returning from a holiday and recovering from illness, so despite its…
Lillian Lippold: Mythologies
Being in the Writers in Florence program hasn’t necessarily been especially conducive to working on The Alien Theory Quartet in…
Brianna Bellamy: Lake Field Work and Archival Research
My research this month has been incredibly exciting! I arrived back in Utah on May 17th and since then I…
Alexandra Friedman: Borosilicate Glass Beginnings
This first month has been full of stops and starts. I took my first borosilicate glass class, and spoke at…