BA Final Presentations

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 – Monday, May 9, 2022 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CEST/GMT+2 
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 26 - May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year. 

Tuesday, 26 April, 2022 
  • Gil Gabman — The Effects of Unlimited Vacation Policy on Employees in the Israeli Tech Sector
  • Adam Hardaker — Knowing What You've Done: Self-Assessments and "Green Identity" as Predictors of Environmental Impact
  • Ava Simonds — Illusion and Doubleness: Rousseau's Formulation of Political Rootedness in Emile, or On Education

Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
  • Nicholas Fellows — Habermas's Public Sphere in the Age of Digital Reproducibility: Democratic Deliberation in Shopper's Heaven
  • Yazan Mahboub Alhara — Smart Social Contracts: A Discourse on the Political Philosophy of Decentralized Pacts
  • Maxwell Ennis  — The Ideal Leader on the Threshold of Christianization and Secularization (Tecosca Cormaic and The Prince)
  • Amr Al Jaber — The Future of Money: A Comparison between Central Bank Digital Currencies and Stablecoins 

Thursday, 28 April, 2022
  • Joshua Lucy — Who Watches the Watchmen: Graphic Novel as a Reflection of American Political Life 

Friday, 29 April, 2022
  • Joey Walsh — The Representation of National Politics through the Arts, Architecture, and Industry at the 1937 Paris World's Fair
  • Lejla Zjakic — Awakenings: The New Art Practice in late 1960s Socialist Yugoslavia 
  • Adele Martin — Restitution as a Tool: Decolonizing the Ethnographic Museum
  • Maya Chami — What Power Does Music Have? The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Barenboim-Said Akademie as a Musical Institution in the Face of Political Conflicts 

Monday, 2 May, 2022 
  • Liza Tabliashvili — Hidden in Plain Sight: Soviet Imperialism and the Construction of Ethnicity in Soviet Member Republics
  • Emma Morris — “Quod evenit in labyrintho properantibus: ipsa illos velocitas inplicat”: The Maze and Anxiety in Chapter IX of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Rafat Alkotaini — Feather and Keffiyeh
  • Angela Li — Truth to Feeling: Authority in Autofiction

Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
  • Khalil Hammod — Three Visions of Surveillance: a Comparative Assessment
  • Amineh Sawan — Gender Roles and Women Political Participation: Pre and Post 2011
  • Ehab Badwi — Syrians in Exile: Challenges of Building a Diaspora Community in Germany
  • Sohaib Al Zoubi — Wait, Compete or Leave to Grow? How Do Different States/Political Systems Deal with Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain
  • Isabel Pisarsky — Neoliberalism Reinvented: Understanding Tactics of Variegated Populist Nationalism
  • Julian Thielman — On The Possibility of Post-Keynesian Neo-Keynesianism: A History of Transformations in The Welfare State, Organized Labor, Technology, and the International Economic Order
  • Lucas Engel — Chinese Debt-Trap Diplomacy in Africa: Fiction of Fact Evaluating the Truth Content of Debt-Trap Allegations and Win-win Rhetoric in Four Resource-rich African Countries
  • Parviz Khyber — When does state-building fail? Comparing Germany and Afghanistan

Wednesday, 4 May, 2022 
  • Owen Salamunovich — Intersectionality in the Face of Commodification: The Underground Music Scenes of Berlin since the 1990’s to Present
  • Ira Vengurlekar — Paulo Freire's Ideas on Critical Pedagogy and Their Implementation: A Case Study of the Waldorf and Krishnamurti Foundation India Schools
  • Enkhbujin Ochirbat — The Economics of NFTs: An Art Market Revolution or a Passing Trend?
  • Noor Ender — Fables of the Mundane: The Mythic Functions of Autofiction

Thursday, 5 May, 2022
  • Skye Eytina — The Change in the Image and Visibility of the Black American Female Rapper
  • Erick Moreno Superlano — Coloniality of Power and the UNHCR: A Critical Analysis of Representational Practices in Venezuela's Caminantes
  • Marija Stefanovska — Unemployment, Job Guarantee, and the EU Framework: An Analysis

Friday, 6 May, 2022 
  • Naama Simon — A Different Model: Reimagining The Family in Tarbut Movement, Israel
  • Samet Güçlü — İkizdere: The Depot of Life
  • Amelia Sheesley — Scents of Beauty: An Investigation into the Aesthetic Experience of Olfactory Art
  • Flora Keene — Reimagining a Future in the Face of Climate Adversity: An Analysis of the Work of Julie Mehretu
  • Blue Zahra Lonergan — The Magical Rite of Imazighen Body Art
  • Jakov Sharevski — Democratic Backsliding in Eastern Europe Post EU Membership (2003-2021)
  • Ahmad Denno — Representation and Political Participation of Citizens with Migration Backgrounds in Germany

Monday, 9 May, 2022
  • Jhonatan Garcia — The Influence of the Drug Cartels in Mexican Politics and Society
  • Daniela Lima da Silva — The real “problem with the favelas”: Questioning state action and social dynamics in Rio de Janeiro’s slums
  • Shreya Shukla — How is Music Used as Resistance to Protest Indian Occupation in Kashmir?
  • Aidan Maloof — Method in Madness? Divining a Foreign Policy Doctrine in the Trump Whitehouse

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