2022

Schedule

All of the Independent Concentration (IC) Talks take place in Petteruti Lounge in Faunce/Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center.

The talks will be recorded via Lecture Capture. Light refreshments are available.

TUESDAY, MAY 3 – IC LIGHTNING TALKS

4:00-4:15 pm – Charisa Shin ’22: An Engaged Approach to Design Education

4:15-4:30 pm – Alexander John Wicks Kamper ’22: The Space of Sex and Scrap Metal: Bordering Sex as Waste at Allens Ave.

4:30-4:45 pm – Lily Louis ’22: Can Investing Be Sustainable?

4:45-5:00 pm – [break]

5:00-5:15 pm – Evan Dǒng ’22: Data Development in Social Change Organizations

5:15-5:30 pm – Maisy Meyer ’22: Increasing Accessibility to Health Information for Women in Need: A Series of Illustrations, Brochures and Handouts to Improve Education on Women’s Health Issues at the Clinica Esperanza/Hope Clinic in Providence, RI

5:30-5:45 pm – Anya Semizhonova ’22: Telling Folk Tales through Picture and Word. [website]

TUESDAY, MAY 3 – (G)ISP [INDEPENDENT STUDIES] STUDENT SHOWCASE

5:00-6:00 pm – Location: 167 Angell Street/Hemisphere Building, room 103

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 – IC THESIS PRESENTATIONS AND LIGHTNING TALKS

3:30-4:00 pm (Thesis Presentation) – Muskaan Garg ’22: Social-Epistemic Motivation and Perceptions of Algorithmic Fairness in Content Moderation on Social Media

4:00-4:30 pm (Thesis Presentation) – Thomas Manuel Summe ’22: Modeling The Cognitive Process of Evidence-Accumulation for Hierarchical Decision-making in a 4-choice Task Paradigm

4:30-4:45 pm – Carlos Perez-Ruiz ’22: The Making of a Video Game

4:45-5:00 pm – Ilia Giokaris ’22: Redesigning the LapSnap

THURSDAY, MAY 5 – IC THESIS PRESENTATIONS AND LIGHTNING TALKS

1:30-2:00 pm (Thesis Presentation) – Diego Rodriguez Langevin ’22: Language, Madness and Politics: A Theory of Plurality and Subversive Illegibility Through the Writing of Rita Indiana, Francisco Matos Paoli and his Psychiatrists

2:00-2:15 pm – Sydney Lauren Scott ’22: NextUp Venture: A Music Streaming Platform for Artists

2:15-2:30 pm – Neha Mukherjee ’22: The Ivermectin Story: Covid Misinformation and Media Ecosystems

2:30-3:00 pm – Aïcha Soukab ’22.5: audioAtlas | David Onabanjo ’22: Slow & Reverb: A Quiet Black Sssound

3:00-3:30 pm (Thesis Presentation) – Laila Rodenbeck ’22: 'Partial Liberalization:' Crony Capitalism in Egypt and India

TUESDAY, MAY 10 – GISP 0005: INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE LEARNING

4:00-6:00 pm – Location: Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center/Faunce House