Senior thesis presentations
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 – Friday, May 3, 2019Bard College Berlin Lecture Hall, Platanenstr. 98a, Berlin - Pankow
On April 23-May 3, 2019, graduating students in the BA in Humanities, the Arts, and Social Thought, and in the BA in Economics, Politics, and Social Thought will give public presentations of their senior theses.
The schedule of the presentations is as follows:
Tuesday, 23 April
11:45 – 12:30
Julia Damphouse
Oh, die Bourgeoislüge von Bildung! Education in the German Social Democratic Movement before 1914
12:30 – 13:15
Nora Andrews
Fragments and Stories: Individual and Collective Memory in Persepolis and Disoriental
13:15 – 14:00
Brenna O'Brien
Looking Through the Gaze: Unfolding Meaning in the Reclining Female Nude
17:30 – 18:15
Ibrahim Bozdemir
Monetary Policy before and after the Crisis: Developments in the Inflation-Targeting Framework
Wednesday, 24 April
13:15 – 14:00
Loulou Oudshoorn
Hans Haacke and Systems: The Physical, Ecological and the Social
19:15 – 20:00
Alona Cohen
Unreality and the Photogenic World
Thursday, 25 April
12:30 – 13:15
Elizaveta Proiaeva
Artwork as an organism and new understanding of liveness in contemporary art: Piere Huyghe's After ALife Ahead and UUmwelt
13:15 – 14:00
Wilma Ewerhart
Stenographic Practice in the German Bundestag as an Element of Democratic Infrastructure
17:30 – 18:15
Alexander Pechmann
Development as Quality of Government: The Effect on Income Inequality and Subjective Well-Being
18:15 – 19:00
Sebastian Schiller
Consumer willingness to pay for fairtrade coffee
Friday, 26 April
10:30 – 11:15
Farah Badr
Ideology in Twentieth Century Egypt: From Socialism to Nasserism
11:15 – 12:00
Nancy Stanley
Brachen and the Regulation of Nature in Berlin: Tempelhofer Feld as a Case Study
12:00 – 12:45
Mohammadali Ghods
The In/Justice of Private Property: A Humean Response
12:45 – 13:30
Margarethe Hattingh
Business Ethics: A contradiction in terms? Examining the Case for Corporate Social Responsibility
13:30 – 14:15
Marta Vuković
Why is right-wing populism thriving in different contexts? The cases of Brazil, Germany, and the United States
14:15 – 15:00
Matei Gaginsky
Analyzing the Particularities of Housing-Related Urban Development in Eastern Europe through Comparative Study
15:00 – 15:45
Sonam Gurung
The Role of the Peasantry in Reimagining Political Autonomy as Embodied by the Zapatistas
15:45 – 16:30
Muhannad Qaiconie
We Refugees
16:30 – 17:15
Maheen Atif
Migration Culture and Survival Memory among the Hazaras of the World
17:15 – 18:00
Nana Iashvili
Propagating the Georgian Nation: The Construction of National Cultural Memory of the 1956 and 1978 Demonstrations in Contemporary Georgian History Textbooks
18:00 – 18:45
Tanya Sharma
A Family Emergency: Challenging India’s Family Planning Policies imposed under the 1975 Emergency through Mistry and Rushdie’s Representation of the Family
Monday, 29 April
12:30 – 13:15
Lena Kocutar
Beyond the Rhizome: Contemporary art and Feminism
13:15 – 14:00
Arianna Adabachi
A Seat at The Table: Last Supper as Icon
15:45 – 16:30
Elena Gagovska
Describing the Balkans: Orientalism, Balkanism and Anti-Colonialism in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
17:15 – 18:00
Acacia Mays
Echoes from Narcissus: Seeing and Thinking as Cognitive Metaphor
Tuesday, 30 April
11:00 – 11:45
Anna Gersh
Emotion as Community-Formation: The Afro-German Case
12:30 – 13:15
Ahmad Mobaiyed
Post-conflict international state-building: Factors affecting the state-building process in post-war nations
13:15 – 14:00
Paula Pinto
The arrival of Oil Giants in the Ecuadorian Amazon and it’s implication on the Waorani Tribe: an analysis of corporate and government policies
17:30 – 18:15
Mohvindh Manirajah
Ownership of productive capital and wealth: An analysis of ownership and control patterns and its macroeconomic impacts in Malaysia
18:15 – 19:00
Jemal Zabakhidze
The Effect of Police Reforms on Foreign Direct Investment and Overall Economy in Georgia
Thursday, 2 May
10:45-11:30
Santiago Olabarri Oriol
A Forgotten Panel and an Old Question Giotto’s Die Grablegung Mariae
11:30 – 12:15
Lana Praprotnik
Divine Landscapes
13:00 – 13:45
Mariam Chkheidze
Economic and Political Benefits of Trade: The Case of Georgia
13:45 – 14:30
Cassidy Putnam
Theory of Mind and the Viewer’s Relationship to an Artwork
18:30 – 19:15
Bono Siebelink
Reproducing Whiteness in Dutch Cities' Diversity Policy
19:15 – 20:00
Mikalai Maksimchuk
What We Are Not Given
20:00 – 20:45
Farhan Mohd Fauzi
Social Justice in a Socialist City: The Case of Shenzhen
Friday, 3 May
13:15 – 14:00
Victoria Martinez
Sexual Representation through the Screen: From Analogue Lenses to Virtual Bots
16:45 – 17:30
Thomas Trafford
The Great Mosque Of Paris: The Nexus Of The Taw of Laïcité?
17:30 – 18:15
Ido Nahari
How spacious is Cyberspace? Utopian Geographies and Gentrification in the Development of the World Wide Web
18:15 – 19:00
Tamar Maare
Stolen Arab Art: Violations of Intellectual Property Rights as a Response to the Cultural Boycott of Israel
Venue: Bard College Berlin Lecture Hall
Platanenstr. 98a, Berlin - Pankow
The presentations are open to all those interested.
Email: communications@berlin.bard.edu