BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2026
Thursday, April 23, 2026 – Wednesday, May 13, 2026Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 21 to May 13. 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, April 21 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alejandro Gilardi Ramirez, "Effects of Mexico's 2020 and 2024 Pension Reforms on Formal Sector Participation: A Two-Period Sector Choice Model"
Wednesday, April 22 | 10:00am-10:30am, P98A Lecture Hall
William Learnard, "Isa Genzken’s Assemblage, 1997–2018"
Wednesday, April 22 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Jakub (Kuba) Laichter, "Metaphor of Fragmentation in the Ukrainian Wartime Narrative: Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War"
Thursday, April 23 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Sarah Lo Vecchio, "Staging Presence, Producing Absence: Self-Staging and Female Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany"
Thursday, April 23 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Alma Dasberg, "Bound to the Living: The Fate of the Corpse in Conflict"
Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Samantha Carroll Aikman, "In the Shadow of a Cloud: An Ecocritical Comparison of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land"
Thursday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Nadina Laura Skudrina, "Unpacking the Structure and Components of the Gender Wage Gap in Latvia"
Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Taycia Xelari Linford Perez, "Orality to Algorithm: Communication Technology, Consciousness, and Generative AI"
Thursday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Rusudan (Ruska) Tskhvediani, "The Dichotomy of (Wo)men: Exploring Tragic Duality in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona"
Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Georgii Kalakutskii, "Carrying the Aid: How Individual Agency Shaped US Democracy Funding for Russian Civil Society, 2022–2025"
Friday, April 24 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Mathilde Ramata Traoré-Delavigne, "‘You Can’t Fish for Money’: How Has Artisanal Fishing Evolved in Taiwan Since 1970? A Case Study of Yilan from the Perspectives of Livelihoods, Modes of Fishing and Labor"
Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Kabir Kaul Dutta, "The Price of Birth: The Indian Caste System and Its Implications for the Contemporary Indian Labour Market"
Friday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Oona Asher Montandon, "The Opposition of Magical Realism and the Fantastic in David Almond's Skellig"
Monday, April 27 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Camas Elena Oxford, "Gone Fishing: Settler Colonialism and the Production of Alaskan Identity on the Kenai"
Tuesday, April 28 | 10:00am-10:30am, JJK Cafe
Alisa Maiarchuk-Dysa, "Wartime Language ‘Conversion’? Shifting Linguistic Practices of Young Ukrainians Post-2022"
Tuesday, April 28 | 10:45am-11:15am, JJK Cafe
Teodorina Constantin, "On the Silencing of Palestinian Organizing at the APO-Archiv of Free University Berlin"
Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30am-12:00pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Krychevska, "One Minute Is (Not) Enough: Commemoration Practices in Ukraine Since the Russian Full-Scale Invasion"
Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yuliia Nidzelska, "Ukrainian Electronic Music Scene in Berlin: Bodies in Exile"
Tuesday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 1
Omer Fallah Sarmast, "Civic Engagement as Pathway for Displaced Students' Empowerment and Integration"
Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Mada Al Zoabi, "Violence as the Cure and Poison: What Fanon and Arendt Reveal About the Two Biggest Syrian Revolutions"
Tuesday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Yesieniia Kudriavtseva, "Echoes of the Nation: Ukrainian Eurovision Songs as Acts of Memory, Resistance, and Identity"
Wednesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Davit Chankseliani, "Collective Forgetting and the Politics of Post-Conflict Space in Belfast"
Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandre Kilasonia, "The Digital Forum: Contemporary Democracy in Decadence"
Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ananyaa Sathyanarayana, "Sovereign Spectacle and Colonial Codification: The Visual Construction of Hierarchy in Mughal and British India"
Wednesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Alysha Subendran, "Who Leaves and Why? Ethnic Differences in Migration Motivations under Malaysia’s New Economic Policy"
Thursday, April 30 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Muhammed Tayyib Sayed, "Beyond the Unit Price: The Hidden Economics of Short-Range Drone Warfare"
Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Liana Sendetska, "Bound by Democracy: Securitizing Russian Disinformation in Germany Since 2022"
Thursday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Seminar Room 4
Sanskriti Shrestha, "Healing as a Transitional State — Rethinking Chronic Illness through Integrative Care and Sonic Embodiment"
Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Diana Kimak, "Employment and Working Hours Effects of the 2022 Minimum Wage Reform in Germany: A Regional Exposure and Gender Analysis"
Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Yelizaveta (Liza) Mamon, "The Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park — an (Un)regulated Space?"
Thursday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Yixin Wang, "Twin Peaks as Bardo: David Lynch and Tibetan Buddhism"
Thursday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, JJK Cafe
Mariia Artiushina, "The Iwan and Gate of al-Thaʿāliba: Historiography, Condition, and Challenges of Preservation"
Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-3:30pm, JJK Cafe
Gabriel Rosario Martinez Zuviria, "Aid Without Sovereignty: UNRWA and the PLO in Lebanon"
Monday, May 4 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Doren Johansen, "A Burlesque Prison: Dance Moms as a Microcosm of US Society, in Conversation with Neil Postman"
Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45am-12:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Safar Ali Muhammadi, "Beyond National Averages: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being in Afghanistan"
Tuesday, May 5 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Sula Kazuri Cecania Kalski-Caines, "The Politics of Beauty: How Aesthetic Standards & Desire Naturalize Social Hierarchies"
Tuesday, May 5 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Gwendolyn Marie (Gwen) Woerishofer, "Personal Fictions and Archival Interventions: Mapping Queer Artists in Rural Wisconsin"
Tuesday, May 5 | 4:30pm-5:00pm, Online
Grace Elizabeth Morgan, "In Search of Authenticity Abroad"
Wednesday, May 6 | 10:45am-11:15am, P98A Lecture Hall
Amarachi Precious Chukwukezie, "Confronting Infertility Stigma in Contemporary Nigeria: The Politics of Womanhood in Ayọbámí Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me"
Wednesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ketevan Lomidze, "Bauhaus Products and Their Social Significance in the Emerging Aesthetic Economy"
Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Magdalena (Mar) Parra, "Reimagining Queer Futures: Transfuturity, Decolonial Praxis, and Healing in Prayer for Tending Death and Aribada"
Thursday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Lisa Gabriela Karin Rüffel, "The AfD's View on Women: How Does the AfD Portray Women?"
Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Anastasiia Bilak, "Education Policy and Incentive Design: Financial Rewards and Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Performance"
Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Ruby Devoe, "B(r)ought to Our Attention: Ritual, Spectacle and the Cultural Commons in the Age of Distraction"
Thursday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 Seminar Room 8
Dariia Petrushko, "Tryvozhna Valizka: Young Ukrainians’ Emotional Attachment to Material Objects"
Friday, May 8 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Ismail Sekyanzi, "Europe United? The History of European Integration through Eurafrica and Its Colonial Foundations (1815–1957)"
Monday, May 11 | 11:45am-12:15pm, Online
Tamara Iashvili, "The Georgian Avant-Garde: The Years of Independence and Beyond"
Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 Seminar Room 2
Isabella Letona, "Feminist Movements in Costa Rica and Their Resistance Across History, Discourse, and Cultural Expression"
Wednesday, May 13 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 Seminar Room 11
Silvia Mamporia, "Performative Resistance under Authoritarianism: Collective Actions and the Reconfiguration of Collectivity, Ritual, and Participation in the Late Soviet Time"
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