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Illia Zheng: Charting Mythology: Socio-political Metageography in Chinese Myths
Watch Presentation Video Charting Mythology: Socio-political Metageography in Chinese Myths My project explores the intersection between mythology, geography, and media…
Boheng (Hugh) Zhang: The Nonexistent Religion, the Unimaginable Religious Freedom A Study of Religious Freedom Politics and An Imagination of the Post-secular Futurity
Watch Presentation Video The Nonexistent Religion, the Unimaginable Religious Freedom A Study of Religious Freedom Politics and An Imagination of…
Zoe Vongtau: Decolonial Feminist [Abolitionist] Community Psychology: On The Healing Capacity of Radical Justice in Postcolonial Nigeria
Watch Presentation Video Decolonial Feminist [Abolitionist] Community Psychology: On The Healing Capacity of Radical Justice in Postcolonial Nigeria I spent…
Melchior Tamisier-Fayard: Technology as a Lens for Investigating Social and Cultural Norms in Japan
Watch Presentation Video Technology as a Lens for Investigating Social and Cultural Norms in Japan What can artifacts and technologies…
Jules Talbot: I Am Dead, Horatio
Watch Presentation Video: https://stream.nyu.edu/media/Jules+TalbotA+I+Am+Dead%2C+Horatio/1_3foyd5zu I Am Dead, Horatio My project is a graphic novel adaptation of Hamlet called I Am…
Meagen Tajalle: The Fences that Mark the Boundaries: Expanding the Decolonial Imagination on Guam
Watch Presentation Video The Fences that Mark the Boundaries: Expanding the Decolonial Imagination on Guam This project focuses on American…
Jay Simpson: Emergent Naturecultures: Coyotes in NYC
Watch Presentation Video: https://stream.nyu.edu/media/Emergent+NatureculturesA+Coyotes+in+NYC/1_3loemmup Emergent Naturecultures: Coyotes in NYC Since 1995, coyotes have been known to reside in New York…
Caroline Shadle: Ruth Page’s “La Guiablesse” (1933): Collaboration, Boundary-Crossing, and Social Imagining in 1930s Chicago
Watch Presentation Video Ruth Page’s “La Guiablesse” (1933): Collaboration, Boundary-Crossing, and Social Imagining in 1930s Chicago My summer research, which…
Annick Saralegui: Leveraging the Power of Microbes in Cultivating Regenerative Futures
Watch Presentation Video: https://stream.nyu.edu/media/Saralegui%2C%20Annick%20Video/1_xxidte8i Leveraging the Power of Microbes in Cultivating Regenerative Futures What can we learn from microbes? How…
Neva Luthria: Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide With Copper Selenide Nanoparticles
Watch Presentation Video Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide With Copper Selenide Nanoparticles I have been working on using copper selenide nanoparticles…
Asia Lo Savio: Angola on The World Stage
Watch Presentation Video Angola on The World Stage Elinga Teatro, a theater founded in Angola by Jose Mena Abrantes in…
Joel Lee: Locating the Histories and Definitions of Bara Art & Fan Subjectivities
Watch Presentation Video Locating the Histories and Definitions of Bara Art & Fan Subjectivities My research project is an inquiry…
Sophie Jones: Learning from the ZAD: Anarchism in the Capitalocene
Watch Presentation Video Learning from the ZAD: Anarchism in the Capitalocene Amidst increasing global disaster, I analyze the anarchistic elements…
Perry Gregory: Lesbian Periodicals Now & Then: How Media Informs Community
Watch Presentation Video Lesbian Periodicals Now & Then: How Media Informs Community I noticed similarities between a subsection of lesbian…
Ugochi Egonu: Before We Become Ancestors
Watch Presentation Video Before We Become Ancestors Before We Become Ancestors is an anthology of writing and artwork by Nigerian…
Nika Dzeban: Savrasov, Shishkin and Levitan: Russian Landscape Heroes
Watch Presentation Video Savrasov, Shishkin and Levitan: Russian Landscape Heroes My study focused on the interaction of realism with landscape…
Sarah Daoui: Algeria: Archives, Memory, and Visual Culture
Watch Presentation Video Algeria: Archives, Memory, and Visual Culture In my research, I use Algeria’s archive as a means to…
Sam Cheng: Growing Resistance: Reimagining Urban Agriculture As a Practice of Everyday Citymaking in Dakar, Senegal
Watch Presentation Video Growing Resistance: Reimagining Urban Agriculture As a Practice of Everyday Citymaking in Dakar, Senegal This project aims…
Miriam Ambrosino: Reading Old Texts in New Ways: Employing ‘Outmoded’ Thought in Enacting a Living Phenomenology
Watch Presentation Video Reading Old Texts in New Ways: Employing ‘Outmoded’ Thought in Enacting a Living Phenomenology This paper amplifies…
Perry Gregory: Butch / Femme Media
Image credit to Joan E. Biren, ‘From Eye To Eye’, 1979. As I work towards the final draft of my…
Sam Cheng: On Teranga
If not reading for this project, I have been reading many of my own personal selections just for myself this…
Kai Sundermann: “Queering” and The Academy
I’m beginning to think deeper about the academic trend of ‘queering’ in which queer is made into a radical adjective…
Annick Saralegui: What even is Biotech? – Traditional Wisdom of Fermentation
When I think of “Biotech” the first that comes to mind is CRISPR. Yes, biotech includes genetic manipulation, DNA cloning,…
Meagen Tajalle: Guam on Screen
In digging deeper into my research about Guam and its colonial history, I have been able to solidify the main…
Jules Talbot: Bubble, Bubble . . .
The most deceptively simple but essential art in comics is lettering: or, the speech bubbles. Lettering, sometimes called bubbling, is…
Zoe Vongtau: Lightbulbs and Webs
In the past 2 months, I have tumbled, erased, and drafted my way through the Gallatin Africa House Research Grant…
Nika Dzeban: Looking to Other Exhibits for an Inspiration
Throughout the summer I questioned whether the study of Shishkin, Savrasov and Levitan was a good topic for research, as…
Caroline Shadle: Archives, Interviews, and a Cemetery Trip
The beginning of the school year is somehow swiftly approaching and as I’m drafting my research paper, I’m taking stock…
Asia Lo Savio: The Space In Between.
I left my previous blog post discussing and confronting the dualities and complications of the term “Universal” in relation to…
Joel Lee: Henry Jenkins, my king.
There’s a moment after digging through dozens of articles, going down rabbit holes of literature online, reading abstracts, yelling at…
Illia Zheng: Cross-Cultural and Bilingual Research
At this point I’ve gathered and read through most of the primary sources and scholarly articles for the historical side…
Miriam Ambrosino: The ‘Problem and Promise’ of Interdisciplinary Research
I have spent a great deal of time towards the end of my research on the question of openness in…
Boheng Zhang-Some Post Research Thoughts
It has been about a week since I submitted my final research paper. I have finally settled emotionally about it…
Neva Luthria: Next steps for my research
As the summer comes closer to an end, I am considering the next steps as I work on turning my…
Melchior Tamisier-Fayard: Final interviews
Through a lot of snowballing and reaching out, I was able to conduct my final interviews, and started working on…
Sophie Jones: interviews of zad visitors
The past few weeks have continued to be invigorating and exhausting. Coupling this work with engagement in the uprisings is…
Annick Saralegui: Opportunities in Microbial Pigmentation
The invisible microbial world of bacteria hosts a large range of functions that are vital for all life forms, yet…
Perry Gregory: Conceptualizing Community
The cover of vol, 2 issue 3 of ‘Momazons’, a newsletter for lesbian mothers. September 1993. This past month I…
Jay Simpson: Mapping a multispecies approach to human-canid relationships
To adapt to my new research focus, the past few weeks I have set out to get to know potential…
Joel Lee: A refreshed abstract! & update.
I decided to write another abstract to help center me back at the core of my research. With all the…
Meagen Tajalle – July Blog: Reflections on Self-Guidance
Ahead of Liberation Day on Guam, I came across this article featuring a list of war memorials which encourages Guam…
Zoe Vongtau: The Bodymind at Home
On the one year anniversary of my first return back home to Nigeria in over a decade, I reminisced on…
Ugochi Egonu: On broadening the narrative
One of the things that has shocked me about this process is the fact that contributors have basically been falling…
Sam Cheng: Peanut vs Fonio
I don’t think I have ever read a cookbook cover to cover, but Senegalese chef Pierre Thiam’s The Fonio Cookbook:…
Jules Talbot: Prologue
After a month, I’m now 21 pages into my graphic novel. Hopefully, the prologue and first dozen-something pages will have…
Nika Dzeban: Shishkin and the Beautiful Subtleties
Looking through the artist’s biographies, identifying who they spoke with and seeing which aspects of other artist’s works came into…
Miriam Ambrosino: Care of The Self
In this next chapter of my research I have been studying Foucault’s writings on the care of the self, which…
Illia Zheng: the Matteo Ricci Map
I’m getting into the second stage of my research, crossing from premodern sources to roughly early modern ones. The 1602…
Asia Lo Savio: The Global Map of Angolan Theatre
The third encounter with the director of Elinga Theatre Jose Mena Abrantes happened this afternoon. In the hour before the…