About a month ago, I intended to pursue a few different avenues of investigation in order to fill some holes…
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…
Ama Sarpomaa: Political Ecology and the Environmental Distress scale
The last month of my research project consisted of a series of listening, questioning, and digesting. Is there a foreseeable…
Karina Gamez: Authority is not an imposition, it is a gift.
Authority is not an imposition, it is a gift. Perhaps it was a slogan on the side of a building,…
Naomi Thompkins: Community Education and Collaboration
This month I wanted to look at different community organizations that are working to alleviate food insecurity in Brooklyn, New…
Joseph Redmond: Thoughts on the Explorers of the Internet
Lately I’ve been trying to hone in my idea of my research. I’ve been fairly scattered about my topics for…
Ben Cresto: Reflections, and Moving Forward
As I reflect on this summer’s research, I am amazed with just how circuitous its development has been, how serpentine…
Conny Zhao: More Naadam festivals, meeting Mongolian celebrities, and the hardest hike of my life
In my last blog post, I wrote a lot about Naadam week in Mongolia. It turns out I was wrong…
Sarika Doppalapudi: Embroidery, Quilting, and Binding
Over the past month, I have been working on embroidering the pull quotes on my quilt tops, quilting all three…
Fion Fong: Drawing as Research
In my last post, I mentioned the way George Perec’s writing on the everyday provided a clear direction for my…
Jun Zhou: Avatars, Extended Reality, and Neo-Public Space: Forming the New Identity- Update 2
This month I’ve been working on making my paper outline, revising the first 1/2 part, and planning the creative output…
Ellington B.: Final Reflections
At this point in my research project, I am synthesizing the information that I have gathered so that I may…
Abney Turner: Ceta-Ethics: The Symbol of the Whale and Its Ethical History
Since returning from New Bedford, I have been contextualizing my findings within different philosophical, anthropological, and historical frameworks. In my…
Alex Smythe: Seneca Village August 15th post
End of Summer Research
Kira Williams: Final Steps and Reflections
I am conducting some final interviews, arranging the photographs for my exhibit, and beginning to analyze interview transcripts. So far,…
Sammy Tavassoli: How Movement Shapes Our Perception of Ourselves and the World Around Us
This past month, I focused on analyzing the data that we collected for our main cognitive science experiment on perceptual…
Valeria Cuervo: The Fight Over the Viking Legacy
A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) to interview professors, activists, festival directors, and reenactors,…
Charli Fritzner: Following from afar
With only three weeks to go before the plebiscite on the new proposed Chilean Constitution and with both campaigns ramping…
Micaela Suminski: House The People
Last week I returned from spending 8 days in Kansas City, MO filming with KC Tenants. I was blown away…