Humanities

Iain Anderson, Elisabeth Anthony, Chloe Appleby, Alice Berndt, Jan Brentjens, Catherine Cole, Julianne Cottone, Lauren do, Marc Ferlet, Anna French, James Hoyt, Jonas Jacobson, Athena Kalamaras, Gabriel Levy, Alivia McAtee, Leah Mell, Andrew Nolte, Addison Sharp, Charlotte Smith, Jack Swinson, Hampton Tucker, Cathy Xu

Faculty Sponsor: Alan Michael Parker

Studying otherness, and we do not know about others, remain at the center of World Literatures. In this course, we have engaged texts by German, Indian, Israeli, Japanese, Kenyan, Palestinian, Polish, Puerto Rican, and South African writers. The one-minute selfie assignment asks students to write a script in which they consider a concept in the course that mattered to them, and film the results (speaking themselves, or with an actor). We then will place these videos in conversation with one another via simultaneous viewing on multiple monitors.

Mimi Schrimsher, Maggie Cushman, Mateo Alzate-Rodrigo

Faculty Sponsor: Rosaline Kyo

The goal of our museum exhibition, Cave Temples of Asia, is to provide viewers with a visual history of the construction of cave temples across Asia. The construction of cave temples originated in India around the 3rd century BCE as a means to promote Buddhist practices and worship. Eventually, as the Buddhist religion spread Westward through Buddhist images and depictions traded by way of the silk road, the construction of Buddhist cave temples became a popularized practice in China during the 5th century BCE. During this time, while Buddhism was spreading West towards China, cave temples were becoming a popularized architecture style among the Hindu religion. Although many Buddhist cave temples occupied sites of worship in India, as Hinduism grew in prominence the practice of constructing cave temples became associated with forms of Hindu worship as well. As cave temples became associated with both Buddhist and Hindu forms of worship, the construction of cave temples spread throughout countries of Central Asia. Within our exhibition we will focus on the spread of cave temples from India, to the Himalayan regions of Central Asia, and eventually on to China.

Cynthia (Xinyi) Fan, Anna French, Adrienne Lee, Jonah Lane

Faculty Sponsor: Rosaline Kyo

Gold has always been considered as an object of value, and this was certainly not an exception in earlier periods of time. Through our virtual exhibition, we hope to explore the diverse paths the use of gold took over the years in Asia ranging from 4th to 19th centuries. We will be overviewing the following eight countries: China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Indonesia, and Cambodia. We have delineated some of the most noteworthy and significant uses of gold within our cultures and assembled them under relevant, descriptive categories. In our virtual exhibition, the viewer will be maneuvered through the following subsections: ceremonies and rituals, royalties and burials, objects (such as jewelry and pottery), and wearables and paintings. By proceeding in this order, we aim to emphasize the use of gold in terms of its versatility, as it branched out of its common realm of royalty and became much more diversely employed in individual countries.

Enitan Awe, Isabelle Bradberry, Taylor Burey, Itzy Cuellar, Tristan Cummings, Liza Daniels, Trinity Davis, Maya Eggert, Cynthia Fan, Joe Gallinghouse, Emma Goodman, Cam Hall, Mia Hodges, Lisset Jarquin, Anna Jones, Patrick Kelly, Ethan Landen, Katy Lawlor, Alexis LeMone, Clare Mackie, Jared McDonald, Brigham McKee, Luis Montero-Lopez, Meghan Rankins, Jack Robinson, Andrea Shill, Claire Sibold, Liz Small, Lucy Smith, Kianna Speight, Cassie Stoltenberg

Faculty Sponsor: Ann Fox

This display shows the range of comics made by the thirty-one students enrolled in ENG 110 Graphic Medicine: Drawing Disability. Over the course of the semester, students read a range of graphic novels depicting the experience of navigating illness and medicine as patient, caregiver, or medical practitioner. In combining visuals and text, such novels are an important way to show the social and economic contexts of medicine, the lived experience of disability and illness, and push back against old stereotypes of stigma, shame, or fear. Students wrote their own disability narratives and then turned them into comics of their own. They were able to write about any disability experience they liked: it could be something that they witnessed, something that happened to them, or something that happened to someone they loved. In translating those stories into comics, the only stipulation was that the work be original and drawn by their own hand (i.e., no comics-generating programs). They each had to make decisions including: how can I push past worrying about virtuosity to make a visually meaningful comic? How should I sequence my narrative? What visuals convey the tone and ideas I want to share about this experience? What tropes can I lean on — and which do I want to reject? What materials do I want to use? Should I color my comic? Ink it? Use photographs or other archival materials? What do I want to leave my reader thinking about beyond my own experience? What work is this comic meant to do in the worlds of medicine, illness, and disability?

Catherine Jackson

Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Shyam Gour Suresh

In 2001, T.J Wilkin proposed the Accelerator Theory saying that increased weight does not only increase risk of having Type 1 diabetes but accelerates the process and is the reason for the increase in Type 1 diabetes diagnoses among increasingly younger children. This paper explores the validity of the Accelerator Hypothesis by testing the relationship between BMI standard deviation score and the age of diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes patients in South Africa. The data consists of information from 265 patients diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes from 2009 to 2018. The results indicate there is an inverse relationship between BMI standard deviation score and age of diagnosis.