BA Final Presentations
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 – Monday, May 9, 2022 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CEST/GMT+2This 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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