Research Symposium

Breakfast 9:30am - 9:45AM

Session 1 | 9:45 - 10:45 AM

• Session 1A: Walnut Room
  Schools and Families as Sites of Belonging & Boundary Formation
  Moderator: Dr. Bo Hyun Lee

  • Zinah George (Psychological & Brain Sciences) – “Family Obligations Among Arab American Immigrant and Refugee Families”

  • Victoria DiMartile (Anthropology) – “Affirming My Humanity: Colorblind Racial Ideology and Testimonial Smothering in Transracial Adoptive Families”

  • Bienz Michael (School of Education) – “Every Time I Said Myanmar, No One Knew What It Was: Interviewing Refugee Youth from Burma”

• Session 1B: Maple Room
  Incarceration, Disability & Transgressive Politics: Erasures within Black Art
  Moderator: Dr. Andrés Guzman

  • Bruna Kalil Othero (Spanish and Portuguese) – “Rediscovering The First Afro-Brazilian Poet: Editing Unpublished Poems by Domingos Caldas Barbosa 230 Years Later”

  • Filipe Dias Vieira (Spanish and Portuguese) – “Between Scholarly and Popular: Henrique Alves de Mesquita and the Construction of Brazilian Music”

  • Mia Moore (American Studies) – “The Audibility of Disability in Hip Hop”

Session 2 | 11:00 - 12:00 PM

• Session 2A: Walnut Room
  Race & Performance in the Americas
  Moderator: Dr. Solimar Otero

  • Charles Exdell (Folklore and Ethnomusicology) – “Jurema and Time’s Arrows: Genealogy, Anthropology, and the Historical Imagination of Race”

  • Magaly Gastélum (Spanish and Portuguese) – “‘Sin pijama’ y sin /s/: The Intersection of Language, Race, and Performance in Becky G”

  • Kimberley Watson (Folklore and Ethnomusicology) – “Green Skin: Defiance, Difference, and the Power of Perception”

• Session 2B: Maple Room
  The Imposition of Racialized Aesthetics, Sexuality & Sociability
  Moderator: Dr. Cynthia Wu

  • Gao Haoxuan (Sociology) – “First Impressions? Implications of Sociability, Masculinity, and Femininity in Asian American Interracial Dating”

  • Ha Jade Jungmin (O’Neill) – “’Flat Face’: Camera Technology, Racial Facial Features, and the Image Standard in Contemporary K-pop Beauty Culture”

  • R Hunsicker (Gender Studies) – “Pursuing Asexual Consciousness: Tracing the Roots of Online Asexual Spaces and Activism from Black Feminist Consciousness Raising”

Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 PM

Session 3 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM

• Session 3A: Walnut Room
  Epigenetic Harm, Grief & Collective Care
  Moderator: Dr. Angela Jackson-Brown
  

  • Deziree Jackson (Sociology) – “(IN)Equitable Environments and Biological Aging”
    

  • Sasha Weiss (American Studies) – “Seeing Ghosts in Times of Disappearance"
    

  • Keyonna White (AAAS) – “Systemic Lynching and Biological Memory: Africana Approaches to Racialized Epigenetic Harm Through Education, Agency, and Praxis”.

• Session 3B: Maple Room
  Negotiating Cultural Difference within State & Intergovernmental Institutions
  Moderator: Dr. Lucia Stavig

  • Baron Shitemi (The Media School) – “Examining Cultural Nuances in Communicating Climate Forecasts in the Horn of Africa”

  • Beatriz Lima Ribeiro (Anthropology) – “Indigenous Rights in the Midst of Global Governance: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Articulations”

  • Gaya Morris (Anthropology) – “Tensions in Senegal's Transition to a Bilingual Model of Education: Reflecting Critically on a Linguistic Anthropological Contribution”

Session 4 | 2:15 - 3:15 PM

• Session 4A: Walnut Room
  Food, Social Media, and the Limits of Community Care
  Moderator: Dr. Christina Collins

  • Liliana Leon (Anthropology) – “Food Justice Strategies of Latino Immigrants in Bloomington, IN”

  • Priscilla Boateng (The Media School) – “Racialized Coping in the Digital Sphere: Black IU Students' Use of Social Media for Mental Health and Community Care”

  • Aya Shohatee (School of Education) – “Help-Seeking Intentions in Arabs: Modeling Community Belonging”

• Session 4B: Maple Room
  Making National Heroes: Race, Gender and Political Legibility
  Moderator: Dr. Olimpia Rosenthal

  • Paul Garza (American Studies) – “Remembering Border Patrol: Reproducing Racial Binaries at the US Border Patrol Museum”

  • William Morgan (History) – “Revolutionary Emancipation: The Fall of Slavery in New England”

  • Uzoamaka Nwachukwu (History) – “No Women Were Killed or Injured: Gender, Race, and the Archival Framing of Violence in Colonial Nigeria”