How can a dialogue between design and environmentalism be established in a way that emphasizes a reframing of climate action across disciplines, acknowledging the deep injustice of expropriation of sustainable ways of living?

Parsons BFA Fashion Design- Systems and Society Pathway, PUFY 1100 Sustainable Systems and Parsons first-year professors

Thank you to the BFA Fashion Design department, including Mary Beth McDermott, Tara Maurice and Carolina Obregon. Special thanks to Julia Puaschunder and Eugene Lumpkin for their time and professional insight.

How has the discourse within contemporary digital feminist spaces shifted from collective action and critique of systemic issues towards individual empowerment and visibility? What are the implications of this shift in addressing patriarchal capitalism and neoliberalism?

Digital Feminisms, taught by Kate Eichorn

I would like to thank Professor Kate Eichorn for her guidance and unwavering support in my research and academic endeavors.

How can small regenerative farming practices restore the wellness of a local community affected by historical and political injustices?

Eugene Lang Opportunity Awards Capstone Grant

Special thank you to Jurgen von Mahs for support in consolidating epistemological research and Brittney Benton, Phanat Xanamane, and Carl Cooper Jr. for sharing their land practice and time with me.

What are the rhetorical and structural roles that peripheral adolescent characters play in major political scenes and conversations in Dostoevsky’s final three novels?

Dostoevsky II: Infinite Justice, taught by Val Vinokur

I would like to thank Val for his ongoing support of my ever-increasing interest in Russian literature and my lovely friends for listening to my incessant Dostoevsky references and somehow still deciding to stick around.

How does weight act as a system of oppression? 

Critical Phenomenology, taught by Ryan Gustafson 

I’d like to thank Professor Ryan Gustafson for his ongoing support and all of the inspiring women in my life whose stories helped this project come to be.

Nancy Wei will share analysis from a currently ongoing project that reports a journalistic piece through a video game format. Nancy asks whether it is possible to present a news story as a game, and in doing so asks how the field of journalism may grapple with new technologies going forward. It is a slightly broader version of this question that cuts across all these talks, to ask how we as humans, and our technologies are always in a co-constitutive process of mutual shaping and formation.

What happened to the Pan African Project in Ghana in the Post - Independence Era?

Support for my project comes from Cesar Castillo Garcia's course on the Intellectual History of Neoliberalism.

Special Thank You to Professor Ying Chen and Sanjay Reddy.

What forms of cultural liberation have the Haitian populus created under imperial subjugation?

Support for my project comes from Iliana Cepero and her course Art & Esoteric Systems.

Thank you to director Arnold Antonin, and my family, especially the Haitian side

How did the General Jewish Labor Bund’s use of Yiddish language create a radical political movement encompassing the underrepresented Jewish working class of Eastern Europe, and include women in their administration in unusually high proportions?

Paper originally written for Dr. Philip Keisman’s Jewish History course.

Thank you to Dr. Keisman, the YIVO archives, my dogs Beanie and Sebastian, and the women of the Bund.

How can we bridge the gap between two valid forms of medicine - Western psychotherapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine - and why should we? How can we restructure the approach to mental health to be able to provide the most effective form of therapeutic treatment?

WTEII: The Problem of the Body by Helen Rubinstein- this project was my final for their class.

Thank you to Helen Rubinstein for your unconditional support and encouragement for this project. It would not be where it is today without your assistance and guidance.

How can we rethink and mend social patterns through a material dimension? 

Nancy Wei will share analysis from a currently ongoing project that reports a journalistic piece through a video game format. Nancy asks whether it is possible to present a news story as a game, and in doing so asks how the field of journalism may grapple with new technologies going forward. It is a slightly broader version of this question that cuts across all these talks, to ask how we as humans, and our technologies are always in a co-constitutive process of mutual shaping and formation.

In what ways does Frantisek Kupka’s The Beginning of Life (1900) incorporate Theosophical, Anthroposophical, and Alchemical symbolism? And how does he utilize these symbols in a way that adequately puts his piece in conversation with the socioeconomic state of his time.

Accomplished through Eugene Lang’s Visual Studies class: Art and Esoteric Systems

Thank you to Iliana Cepero for guiding me through the esoteric ideologies and visuals of the nineteenth and twentieth century, and the Symposium for allowing me to showcase my findings.

What does society perceive as interesting and why?

Support for my project: WTEII: The Depths of Boredom, under the direction of Prof. Rollo Romig

How can online literacy and the practice of privatizing personal data help pave the way to a brighter future?

Support for my project: Data Ethics and Digital Cultures, Georgia State University

Thank you to Stephanie Browner, Brianny Morrison, Bizaa Z. Ali, Dean Cox, and my family!

How do we process grief and how do we begin healing, individually and collectively? 

Support for my project: Written for Intermediate Nonfiction with Ricky Tucker

Thank you to Ricky Tucker for giving me the space to write such a deeply personal piece, and to my mom for being so generous in letting me share her life and experiences through this piece.

How does Havana teach us more about ourselves?

Support for my project: Cuba IFP Summer Program 

A special thank you to Gabriel Vignoli, who not only lead the summer program for this project, but also changed the way I think about the world and inspired me to be a better person.

What is the categorical status of loneliness as it exists within twenty-first century quarantine? 

My assertion is that loneliness within quarantine is a new type within the taxonomy of loneliness. Due to facets of digital communication and the collective experience of the pandemic, our current loneliness is  a new one. 

Thank you to Professor Helen Rubinstein in the First-Year Writing Program, along with everyone in  Writing the Essay 3 during Spring 2021.

Nancy Wei will share analysis from a currently ongoing project that reports a journalistic piece through a video game format. Nancy asks whether it is possible to present a news story as a game, and in doing so asks how the field of journalism may grapple with new technologies going forward. It is a slightly broader version of this question that cuts across all these talks, to ask how we as humans, and our technologies are always in a co-constitutive process of mutual shaping and formation.

How can we find hope through reimagining public safety to truly account for the needs of everyone?

Support for my project: Next Gen Politics YVote Summer Civic Forum

Thank you to Michelle Mason for inviting me to collaborate on the workshop that led to this project, and to my parents for always supporting my educational endeavors.

Will God love me more if I’m a man?

Support for my project: WTEII: Bye, Bye, Bi 

Thank you to my parents, sister, grandmother, and Madi for always praising my never-ending thoughts. And to my professor, Kristi Steinmetz, who supported and inspired me to showcase my work.

How can Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber show us what it means for a tale to be ‘feminist’?

Support for my project: WTEII: The Fairy Tale

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Alex Purdue, Dalia Bermack, and the robust support system of friends I have built for encouraging my writing and supporting my work.

What are the depths of harm caused by Transmedicalism? 

Support for my project: WTEII: Return of The Queer Page

Thank you to Miller Oberman for inspiring me to showcase this work and for being so encouraging throughout my entire writing process. Also, a big thank you to my mother who has always been my biggest supporter and somehow always knows the right words to say.

Oftentimes, academia is considered to be the gold standard of objectivity, with published works influencing the perception and understanding of what is culture (and therefore uncultured) of the world of published articles and global society at large. Through dissecting how the culture and people of Somalia are portrayed from early anthropology till now, we can connect modern misconceptions and stereotypes that condition cultural anthropology to narrativize Somalis in a colonial framework as well as highlight Somali anthropologists and artists actively taking part in the narration of our own history.

Thank yous to the Somali community both diasporic and at homeland

Nancy Wei will share analysis from a currently ongoing project that reports a journalistic piece through a video game format. Nancy asks whether it is possible to present a news story as a game, and in doing so asks how the field of journalism may grapple with new technologies going forward. It is a slightly broader version of this question that cuts across all these talks, to ask how we as humans, and our technologies are always in a co-constitutive process of mutual shaping and formation.