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The HSS Student Expo will showcase the work of our outstanding School of Humanities and Social Sciences students. It will bring together in a single forum all of our long-standing HSS department and program end-of-year student events, and expand to highlight student work in programs and departments that will generate student-centered events for the first time. We are looking forward to celebrating all that our students have been able to achieve academically. We greatly appreciate your time and effort in supporting this student-centered event.
HIST 1101H will discuss questions and issues arising from the collection and interpretation of oral history.
Participating Students
Hosted by Dean Philip Napoli.
Two philosophy students respond to claims that the humanities are not worth studying or funding publicly, when STEM and business careers are clearly better options for individuals and society.
Hosted by Professor Daniel Campos.
Undergraduate students discuss current issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the field of speech-language pathology and communication disorders.
Hosted by Associate Professor Akiko Fuse.
Students from our advanced Spanish class captured in words and images objects and spaces from our library that drew their attention. The slides present pictures and short descriptive texts from each student.
Hosted by Lecturer Sara Aponte-Olivieri.
The present study investigates if dynamic engagement of cognitive control improves sentence processing and repetition outcomes. Previous work has found increased efficiency in revising incorrect parsing of sentences immediately after activation of cognitive control (Hsu & Novick, 2016), but it remains unclear whether this phenomenon extends to sentences that are challenging for reasons other than sentence structure.
Hosted by Assistant Professor Anne Therese Frederiksen.
In fall 2023, Chilean feminist activist and performance artist Cheril Linett came to Brooklyn College for a reading and conversation about her groundbreaking work at the intersection of culture, feminism, and political change. For this event, Professor Bernardita Llanos recruited the students of Spanish 3260 to translate a text by Linett and read it aloud during the event. The experience gave the students a challenge and an opportunity to test their translation skills in a real-life setting, before a live audience, and to bring the work of an important international artist-activist to a new public. During this session, Professor Kristina Cordero and students Alma/Kristal Ramirez and William Velasco will offer a brief presentation and a reflection on cultural translation and the rich knowledge exchange it affords.
Participating students
Hosted by Professor Kristina Cordero.
Hosted by Associate Professor Anna Gotlib.
The greater Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora must be viewed as sites of resistance and rebellion, not peripheral, but one where resistance and subversion to racial, colonial, political, and social oppression and other power structures, and activism, be it political or through art and literature, are lasting legacies. From an interrogation of women in dancehall music, to a mapping of the evolution of West Indian gospel music, to a study on the Afro-Guyanese practice of Kwe–Kwe, to an exploration of how writers in the Caribbean diaspora write resistance within narratives of migration, identity, and family, student presenters highlight and historically map how some practices of resistance manifest at home in the Caribbean and abroad.
Hosted by Assistant Professor Aleah Ranjitsingh.
Classics majors and Mellon Undergraduate Transfer Student Research Program participants Kely Christmas and Victoria “Tori” Ritchie will share their work using the digitized archives of Richard Schaefer to identify specimens of exceptionally rare Roman republican coin types and integrate these specimens including relevant data and illustration into the open access type database, Roman Republican Coinage Online. This work is made possible through a partnership with the American Numismatic Society and especially the Roman Republican Die Project.
Hosted by Professor Liv Yarrow.
Humanities and Social Sciences students in the Scholars Program senior thesis class will share their ongoing research.
Hosted by Professor KC Johnson.
In this year’s research conference, four students will present papers on a range of medieval, early modern, and contemporary literary and historical works: Jehan Renart’s Le Lai de l’Ombre (c. 1202–04); William Shakespeare’s Pericles (1609); accounts of the Women’s March on Versailles in 1789 by Edmund Burke, Henriette-Lucie Dillon, and Helen Maria Williams; and Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms (1997).
Hosted by Lecturer Sophia Bamert, Distinguished Professor Ben Lerner, and Professor Nicola Masciandaro.
Students from the Communication Research Course will present their original research. These presentations focus on media representation of different groups.
Hosted by Associate Professor Anastacia Kurylo.
In each paper, students delve deep into the analysis of naturally occurring conversations. Focusing on identity and relationships, these papers provide insight into the mundane and easily overlooked conversations that play an integral role in relationship maintenance.
