BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2024
Runs through Friday, May 10, 2024
Monday, April 22 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, Lecture Hall
Sarah Wolbach, "The New Marriage Plot: Sally Rooney and the Legacy of Jane Austen"
Monday, April 29 | 11:30am-12:00pm, P24 SR 8
Camila Rosales, "Reconceiving Spaces of Consumption: A Look into Interactions in a Berlin Mall"
Monday, April 29 | 11:30am-12:00pm, Lecture Hall
Ana Mihajlovska, "Empty Shelves: Causes of the Toilet Paper Shortage During the Covid-19 Crisis in the U.S."
Monday, April 29 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, P24 SR 8
Tay Mitchell, "Multiculturalism and the Promotion of Yiddishism through Labour Unions: An Archival Research"
Monday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Olivia Thayer, "Structures of Change: The Breaking of Binaries in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook"
Monday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Renata Álvarez León, "Reclaiming the Capital: Women's Reappropriation of Urban Public Spaces in Mexico City"
Monday, April 29 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, P24 SR 8
Carla Schwingler, "(In)Accessible Education: A Case Study of Bard College Berlin"
Monday, April 29 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Jasmine Ahmed, "Making Waves in the Pacific: Examining the Reasons behind the Chinese Naval Build Up; and the Potential US response"
Monday, April 29 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall
Aisha Khurram, "Education as a Lifeline; The Imperative of Including Education as a Humanitarian Response in Afghanistan"
Monday, April 29 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, Lecture Hall
Ayman Ndam Njoya, "Navigating Modernity: Assessing the Leverage of Traditional Authorities within a Republic and Decentralized Territorial Collectivities "
Monday, April 29 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, Lecture Hall
Sultana Taib, "The Socio-Economic Implications of Policy Reforms in Higher Education: A Case of the UK"
Tuesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Mouadh Elarbi, "Microfinance in North Africa: Learning from Past Failures"
Tuesday, April 30 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Anđela Despotović, "In Search of a Mother’s Tongue: Dinçer Güçyeter’s Unser Deutschlandmärchen as a Writing in 'Postmonolingual' Condition"
Thursday, May 2 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W70 SR 10
Eve Sanchez, "A Critical Inquiry into Israel’s Mobilization of Happiness Discourse to Stimulate Normalization of Occupation: Exploring the Relationship Between Governments and National Happiness"
Thursday, May 2 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W15 Cafe
Elma Talić, "Where Did The Enemy Go? Performing LAIBACH In Post-Ideological Era"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, W70 SR 10
Milica Vučić, "Democracy in Crisis: a Historical Analysis from the Time of Kemalist Reforms to the AKP and How Secularism Became the Defining Force of Turkish Politics"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, W15 Cafe
Wanda Alvesová, "Staging Authenticity: An Exploration of ‘Real People’ in She She Pop’s Theatre"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 2
Lara Habboub, "The Algorithmic Oracle: Decoding the Human-Machine Feedback Loop of Value Capture"
Thursday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8
Andrea Kalife de la Garza, "A Symbolic Disorder: Language & Addiction"
Tuesday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 11
Andrej Jovičić, "Jugonostalgija: The Response to the Aftermath of Genocidal and Economic Violence in Post-Conflict and Post-Transition Bosnia and Herzegovina"
Thursday, May 2 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, K24 SR 11
Salma Barakat, "Settler Colonialism in Kashmir and Palestine: Exploring Themes of Ecocide, Memoricide, and Spaciocide"
Thursday, May 2 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, P24 SR 8
Jacob Horack, "Artificial Cognition: An Ethics of the Creation of Minds"
Friday, May 3 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Maia Angela Villarica, "Democracy and Disinformation: Addressing the Problem of Post-Truth in Social Media"
Friday, May 3 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Harri Thomas, "Peace After Parapolitics: The Red Right Hand of Liberal Democracy and its Challenges for Peacebuilding"
Friday, May 3 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall
Isabel Castro Dominguez, "Safeguarding Indigenous Cultural Heritage in the Face of Land Grabbing in the Colombian Amazon"
Monday, May 6 | 11:30am-12:00pm, Lecture Hall
Hang Nguyen, "Echoed Narratives: Transnational and Transgenerational Memories of Former Vietnamese Contract Workers in Germany"
Monday, May 6 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall
Julia Mazal, "Redefining 'Arte Popular' in Mexico. Past and Present"
Monday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 2
Selo Uğuzeş, "Aesthetics, Politics, and Life: Autonomous Zones as Places of Cultural Production"
Monday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Lilith Gao, "Limits of Universality: Reassessing Xu Bing's Language Experiments"
Monday, May 6 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Ibrar Mirzai, "Energy, Infrastructure, and Sustainability, Mapping Ukraine's Post-War Reconstruction with EU Alignment"
Monday, May 6 | 1:00-1:30pm, P24 SR 8
Zoe Whiteman, "Metamorphic Digestion: The Aesthetic’s of Fear in La Casa Lobo"
Monday, May 6 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, Lecture Hall
Kai Bradley-Gutiérrez de Terán, "Consitutional Barriers: Evaluating the Efficiency of the German Constitution in Safeguarding Against Fascist Resurgence"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11
Rylee Mora, "Historical Narratives of Artificial Intelligence and their Ethical Implications"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 1
Abdullah Zahidi, "The European Union's Regulatory Framework for Crypto-Assets: The Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR 2
Yensen LeBeau, "The Cost of Being Known: How Overexposure to Media Online Leads to Apathetic and Extreme Identity"
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 12
Héctor Miró Beltrán, "Byung-Chul Han’s Catalunya: An Understanding of the Catalan Independence Movement through Han's Psychopolitics"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, P98 SR 2
Izzy Monroe, "The Subject of Accountability: Bridging Critical Theory and Transformative Justice Practice"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, K24 SR 11
Maria Castillo Gomez, "Under the Banner of Peace and Friendship: Latin American Intellectuals Interpreting Soviet Cultural Diplomacy at the 1957 Moscow World Youth Festival"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:00pm, 1:30pm, P24 SR 8
Leonie Hüppe, "More-than-Human Storytelling and Interspecies Communication in Richard Powers' The Overstory"
Tuesday, May 7 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, K24 SR 11
Gracie Kuppenbender, "Embracing Modernity: An Exploration of Young Indigenous Artists' Search for Cultural Preservation"
Tuesday, May 7 | 3:45pm-4:15pm, K24 SR 12
Grace Klein, "Unveiling the Layers: Deconstructing Ethnic and Racial Hierarchies in Zionist Thought"
Wednesday, May 8 | 10:00am-10:30am, Lecture Hall
Imogen Hilton-Barber, "Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and South Africa's 'Neutrality'"
Wednesday, May 8 | 10:00am-10:30am, W15 Cafe
Katie Lyle, "The Connection Between Death and Nightmare in the Art of Bosch and Redon"
Wednesday, May 8 | 10:30am-11:00am, W15 Cafe
Kaitlyn Woodburn, "Colonizing The Stars: Space Age Aesthetics and High Frontier Visions of Utopia"
Wednesday, May 8 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe
Elena Eßer, "Examining The Difference Between Counterterrorism Policies In Right-Wing Extremism And Islamic Extremism - A Case Study Of Germany"
Wednesday, May 8 | 11:00am-11:30am, P24 SR 8
Lena Brun, "Stories for a Better World: The Interaction Between Jewish Storytelling and Speculative Fiction"
Wednesday, May 8 | 11:30am-12:00pm, W15 Cafe
Júlia Tamási, "From 'Existing Socialism' to Existing Capitalism - What Can we Learn from Hungary's Transition"
Wednesday, May 8 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, P24 SR 8
Lily Ellerbrock, "Soft Facts of Education: A Student's Guide to Creativity"
Wednesday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR 8
Fiona French, "Empowered Mothering: Painterly Expressions of Motherhood in Contemporary Art"
Wednesday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR 11
Christin Alhalabi, "Peddling, Assimilation and Racial Democracy, Levantine Arab Memory in Rio de Janeiro"
Wednesday, May 8 | 1:00pm-1:30pm, Lecture Hall
Drinlon Madani, "The Different Effects of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation on Employees' Job Engagement and Satisfaction"
Wednesday, May 8 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, P98 SR 2
Jasmin Rossi, "Policy Analysis of the Government Subsidized Psychotherapy in Finland - Who is Eligible and Why?"
Friday, May 10 | 9:15am-09:45am, P98 SR 2
Bianca Hopkins
Friday, May 10 | 9:45am-10:15am, P98 SR 2
Deborah Cesar Oliveira, "To What Extent do Different Countries' Data Regulations Limit Interpol's Role in Combating Cross-Border Financial Crimes? A Case Study on the United States"
Friday, May 10 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR 2
Attila Noyan, "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001-2021) and the Hazara Genocide"
Friday, May 10 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR 2
Frances Grimm, "From the Mine Wars to a Just Transition: A Marxist Analysis of the UMWA"
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Daria Khomiakova, "The Arctic - A Political Struggle for Sustainable Development"