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…
JULY/August Update Bangkok to NYC
Sorry Everyone for the late post! I’ve been waiting on my camera back from immigration- little did I know that…
Summer in China and Change in Direction
by Samantha Seid For the past two months, I was studying abroad at NYU Shanghai through the Gallatin China Summer…
The Power of Place
The relationship between visual imagery, historical memory, and the public sphere reveals just how a place can function as the…
Recycled Icons
Dear all, A lot has developed since I last posted here. I am in the works of creating the structure…
More Thoughts Towards Anselm Kiefer’s Visual Critical Theory (Gabrielle Jensen)
Throughout July and August, I have been doing a lot of reading and thinking about Anselm Kiefer and ghostlinesses of…
Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza (Carly Krakow)
My research project examines the intersection of environmental issues and human rights violations in Palestine and Israel with a focus…
The Anaconda Project: Post-Trip
Hi Everyone! I just got back from my five day trip to Anaconda, MT yesterday! I have not fully begun…
Defining DIY After the Millenium
Hello Everyone! It has been the most hectic summer of my life – I began this project trying to define…
Brazilian Concrete Poetry-Week 1
My interest in Brazilian poetry started with Concrete poetry. In general my poetry interest is in digital poetry. The Concrete…
Visual Literacy and Critique
Since my last post, I have made a great deal of progress on a number of my projects. I spent…
NYC Worships: Religion in Art and Art in Religion
The best type of research is the kind that produces not only answers, but more questions. My more recent explorations…
Mannheim vs. Strauss-Howe: Finding a Medium Between the Trees and the Forest
As I have continued with my project, I have begun to develop a framework through which to understand the context…
China: Past and Present
For the past month since I have returned from China I have begun on the postproduction phase of my project….
At a Crossroads: Civil Society & Development
This summer has been most challenging and yet, invaluable. I must admit, I completely overestimated my ability to balance my…
Diversity in Oral Histories
Having just arrived back from Dallas, Texas, I found that this was the perfect time to reflect on my summer…
End of this Dance
And, just like that, it’s the final stretch of the Summer Professional Semester at Broadway Dance Center. The past seven…
Literature and “Anti-Literature” in Jewish Diaspora Writing
In my last blog post, I briefly discussed the exile-writing of Spanish Republican expatriates in the first half of the…
Temporal Musical Landmarks: Considering sentimentality and WHAT did I get myself into?!
The Fales Library (It looks really boring in this photo but I promise that it harbors some incredible resources!!!) Hello…
Pedagogy and Visual Literacy
Thus far this summer, I have been doing a great deal of reading on pedagogy and visual culture in conjunction…
NYC Worships: My experiences thus far
Although I’m only a few weeks into my project, I’ve already been quite surprised and inspired by the direction it…
Elyse Frenchman: Sustainable Design in China
Hi everyone! I recently arrived back from my month in June filming my documentary. I have yet to delve into…
Initial Research With Millennial Political Identity
In my first few weeks of research I’ve largely been laying out how I’m going to organize my topic, the…
Stories and Movement in Vieques, Puerto Rico
I’ve been in New York for 24 hours now, finally home after five weeks of travel—first to Vieques, Puerto Rico…
Gabrielle Jensen: Anselm Kiefer and a Haunted Europe
Hi all! After four weeks of nonstop travel throughout Europe looking at postwar art, Holocaust memorials, concentration camps, and other…
Jonah Walters: Exilic Role-Reversal
In the beginning stages of this project, I’ve found myself performing an exilic role-reversal. At the end of May, I travelled…
Anaconda Project: Prep Stage
Hi everyone! For my research project, I plan to conduct ethnographic and visual research in Anaconda, Montana. This research will…
Philip Colgan
For the past three weeks, I have been fortunate enough to be studying dance intensely, surrounded by some of the…
Greetings!
HI ALL! I look forward to reading about everyone’s projects and will share a little bit about what I will…
Vanessa Castro
Hello everyone! So the purpose for my blog posts will be keeping everyone up with my curatorial process up until…