Mapping Space, Imagining Community: Anthropology Senior Thesis Symposium
Monday, April 18th, 2016
Scheps Memorial Library, 457 Schermerhorn Extension
Symposium Schedule:
10:30–10:45: Welcome
10:45–11:45: Panel 1, Technology
Benjamin Moe, "The Caring Office: Constructing Passion and Productivity in the Modern Tech Startup”
Thomas Hallaran, "Heroic Contradictions: the Errant Tweets, New Enclosures, and Social Reproduction of Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists”
Discussant: Max Foxman
* coffee break *
12:00–1:00: Panel 2, Art
Darya Fraiman, "Unstructured Time: the Formation of a Ceramics Community in a New York City Basement"
Ramis J. Wadood, "Hometown Hip-Hop: Music and South Asian Identity in Detroit’s Suburbs"
Discussant: George Bajalia
* lunch break *
1:45–3:15: Panel 3, Nation
Alexandra Baer Chan, "From One Nation One People to the American Melting Pot: Changing Community and Identity for the American Lhotsampa Refugees"
Jing Hao Liong, "Nationalism in Crisis: Analyzing Media Coverage of Corruption and Protest in Malaysia”
Rozanne Gooding Silverwood, "The Indigenous ‘Uncanny’: An Ethnography of Erasure and the Resurgence of Chickasaw Identity"
Discussant: Tamar Blickstein
* coffee break *
3:30–4:45: Keynote
Vanessa Agard-Jones, “Chemical Kin/Esthesia”
4:45–6:00: Reception
Anthropology Lounge, 465 Schermerhorn Extension
