Music & Dance Panel Check out Panel 4 on Music and Dance featuring the evolution of ballroom dancers’s physicality, electronic…
Category: DASR 2015
Blog posts from the DASR class of 2015
2015 Conference Panel 3: Photography and Film
Photography & Film Panel Check out Panel 3 on Photography and Film featuring documentary work on New York City, an…
2015 Conference Panel 2: History, Politics & Society
History, Politics & Society Panel Check out Panel 2 on History, Politics & Society featuring post-Communist and post-Soviet historical memory, Walter…
2015 Conference Panel 1: Culture, Race, & National Identity
Culture, Race, & National Identity Panel Check out Panel 1 on Culture, Race, & National Identity, Featuring ethnic food communities, the political…
Dancers in Sacred Spaces – #openskyopenroad
The Dean’s Award for Summer Research conference was last Friday. It was incredible to see the work that everyone has…
Tiergarten
I arrived at the Tiergarten by bicycle, after having journeyed through Potsdamer Platz and its strange, steely, empty newness. The…
The Sidekick
From reading journals from the last years of Bearden’s life, it becomes very clear to me that his main focus…
00:00, Aftermath
Hello everyone! At this point in time I’ve shot the documentary (filming was in the afternoon of August 7th), and…
Cutting, Copying, Changing: Editing my film!
Hey all! As I wrote in my post before, I’m currently in the post-production phase for my short film Heavy Feathers….
The Anatomy of History
The history of a city desires to be discovered, excavated, uncovered. The flâneur travels by imaginary roads, streets that no longer exist,…
Production vs Performance in the Abandoned City of Iron
Two hours Southwest of Berlin lies the vacant East German mining monument Ferropolis, a ‘city of iron’…
The Journey of Anti-Racism and Community-Based Theater
Hi everyone, this is Alex Hansen. As a quick recap, I last wrote about how I spent the beginning of…
The Ensemble in The Everday
Hey there everyone! Hope you’re all having beautiful summers. I am sadly done with the program in Ithaca, New York….
Art as Offering
Hi everyone! I am now writing from New York, having returned from Bali just a few days ago. Since my…
The Other Tiny House People
Brendan Ward The Tiny House road trip continues: Luna, my research partner, and I arrived in Portland in the last…
Oaxaca in Review…
Hi there, this is Kitania and I apologize for the late post but I wanted to include some of my developed…
What It Means To Be An Effective Photograph
I’m now back working and researching in New York after my trip to Paris. Paris is an important city to…
The “Nitty Gritty”
My second and final blog post on the black genealogy study will be a bit of an update on the…
History as Rumor, Economics as Fact?
Hi everyone! Throughout July I have continued work on my project, but it has taken an interesting turn in terms…
Political Partnering
When I chose to pursue this whole ballroom thing, it was easy enough to say, “Well, it’s just so political,”…
#openskyopenroad – Em Watson
Hello! My name is Em Watson, and I’m a rising senior. My concentration is called something like “Mapping the Body…
Cultural Distinctiveness, Similarities Through Food
We’re often taught that identity is inextricably tied to place and practice, and people are unalike based on where they’re…
Art and an Imagined History
How does one promote a legacy? That question, I think, is the core of my summer research project, and something…
Berlin’s Electronic Music Scene: Countering the Effects of Urbanization… or at least talking about it
I spent a majority of my last post talking about the undergrounded-ness/overgrounded-ness of the brooklyn warehouse scene. I would like…
Shooting a short film: Heavy Feathers
Hey all! Since this is my first blog post, I’ll tell you a little bit about myself before going into…
00:00, A Tale of Pre-Production
Hello, everyone! My name is Isabel and I’m a rising senior at Gallatin, concentrating in film and cultural anthropology with…
Human Rights in North Korea, Phase 2: A Vlog in 3 Parts!
Hi everyone! I decided to do a vlog for today’s update, for both fun and pragmatic reasons (as I explain)….
A Tiny Village in Madison WI
Hello, I’m Brendan. I’m a rising Gallatin senior studying design and sociology. I am on a journey across the U.S….
Walter Benjamin’s Archive in Berlin
“In my interior life I had more than once found inoculation to be a salutary procedure; therefore, in this situation,…
Complicating my view of history
Hello, my name is Alex Hansen and I am a white, middle-class woman studying theater and social justice. My proposed…
Living Tradition and Innovation in Bali, Çudamani Institute 2015
Hi everyone! My name is Maya and I am a rising senior studying educational psychology and performance studies. This research…
The Streets Speak in Oaxaca, Mexico
Hi everyone, this is Kitania writing from Oaxaca, Mexico. I’m about half way through my trip and I can’t believe…
Manifestations of Memory in Berlin and Prague
Hi everyone, I can’t believe that my research trip is over! I’m still processing everything I read and saw while…
The Diaspora is Now
My name is Brenda and I am a rising senior studying globalization and postcolonial identity narratives. My project centers on…
Forming An Ensemble, Hangar Theatre Lab Company of 2015.
Hi there everyone! As this is my first post I will start off by giving some background information! My name…
Social Change through the Photographic Lens
Hello my name is Maya and I’m a rising senior studying photography and film. My project this summer is exploring photography’s…
The Economic Narrative of National Institutions
Hi All, I hope y’all had a good 4th of July, I know I did :). In terms of my…
Фузион and the Future of Berlin
Every year for the past two decades during the last week of June, Berlin’s music scene has…
Performing Grotesque
Since this is my first post, I suppose I should introduce myself and set the scene a little bit. I…
Meals and Migration in Greece
Making a space feel more like home requires different actions depending on the person. For some, it involves decorations; photographs adorning…
On Family Trees and Black Genealogy
Hi everyone! My name is Mariah. I’m a rising senior studying Legacies of Race and Empire. What began as a…
A Foray into New York’s Underground Electronic Scene
Hi Y’all! By way of introduction, I am Annie, a Gallatin student studying the political, economic, and cultural inequalities of…
Remembering Former Ideology: Sites and Spaces of Communism
Hi everyone, I’m Emily Bell and I’m a rising senior at Gallatin studying narratives of peace and conflict with a…
Dystopian Diplomacy: U.S.-North Korea Relations & Human Rights
Hello everyone! My name is Angie Liao. I am a rising junior at Gallatin studying Human Rights Law & Human…
Welcome to the DASR 2015 Blog!
Welcome to the blog for the 2015 winners of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research (DASR). It’s time for another…
