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This year's Scholarship and Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference will take place on April 18th and 19th, 2024.
Thursday, Apr 18, 2024
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3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Faculty Panel : Cultivating Justice: Black Ecologists' Community Insights on Race, Ecology, and Action
Location: Parlor Room, First Floor, Phillips Brooks House (Harvard Yard, 1, Cambridge, MA 02138)
Speakers:
J.T. Roane, PhD, Assistant Professor and Andrew W. Mellon chair in Global Racial Justice in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Rutgers University
Teona Williams, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Jayson Porter, PhD, Post Doctoral Associate, University of Maryland
Fushcia-Ann Hoover, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Moderator: George Aumoithe, PhD, Harvard University
Friday, Apr 19, 2024
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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast and Networking
Location: Penthouse Floor Lobby, Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH)
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Welcome and Keynote, Marcos Luna, PhD
Location: Performance Hall, Penthouse, Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH)
Speaker: Marcos Luna, PhD, Professor Geography & Sustainability, Salem State University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Concurrent Panels: Student Panels A & B
Safety, Security and Justice
Respondent: Teona Williams, PhD
“Pipeline to Prostitution” A Study of Sex Culture and Taboo Conversations within the California Child Welfare System
Mellony Palma, University of California-Berkeley
Marginalization, Medical Mistrust, and Resistance: Korean Immigrant Women’s Experiences Living with Chronic Pain in the United States
Hannah Lee, Princeton University
The Food Distribution Paradox: Neoliberalism, Responsibilization, and Food Sovereignty Practices in New York City's Food Distribution System
Ramatoulaye Diarra, The City College of New York
Community v. North Carolina: The Persisting War between Medical Racism and Reproductive Justice
Maite McPherson, Duke University
Global Impressions
Respondent: Americo Mendoza-Mori, PhD
Exploring Healthcare Barriers and Collective Healing Practices Among Rural Women in Pakistan
Urooj Ahmed, Georgetown University
Not a Burden: Community Self-help through Entrepreneurship among Ukrainian Refugees in Poland
Anna Rygielska, New York University-Abu Dhabi
Ancient Cures to Modern Diseases: The Role of Traditional South Indian Medical Knowledge in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Shruthi Kumar, Harvard College
Institutionalizing Migrant Reception: Exploring the Transformation of Low and Middle-Income Countries’ Inclusive Citizenship Regimes
Juan Carlos Venancio, Harvard University
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Lunch and Poster Review
Location: Penthouse Lounge
Lunch will not be provided for non-speakers/presenters. Please plan to bring your own.
Physical Posters will be on display during lunch and recorded presentations will be played on a TV screen. Presentations will also be viewable online.
Who’s the Man: Decoding Black Precariat Masculinity in Reagan Era Gangsta Rap
Jay Nelson, Hunter College
Casteist Ideology Hidden by the Ruse of Decolonization: Ex-Colonial Language as a Possible Tool of Dalit Liberation
Abisha Joyce, Simmons University
What’s the Effect of Service?: A Multidimensional Assessment of the Relationships Between Merrimack Students’ Service Learning Participation and Comprehension of Social Justice Curriculum
Clare Bowen, Anthony Clapp, Kyle Donahue, Rori Donaldson, Emma Festa, Lucas Gammal, Marissa Kobelski, Maddie Lorenz, Rebecca Rau, William Saunders, Jasmine Syriac, Ariam Tavarez, Taiya Wohr (Merrimack College)
Miss the Motherland? Mix the Music! How Jamaican Selectahs, alongside Greater West-Indian Audio Mixers and Disc Jockeys, Transformed the Urban Geography of Brooklyn (1960s to 2010)
Anique Edward, Barnard College
“Love at First Card”: Analyzing Quezon City's Right to Care Card through a Social Justice Lens
Riona Bianca S. Basco, Jerhode Erceil Dandan, and Jericho Angelo Navarro (Ateneo de Manila University)
An Intersectional Approach to Experiences of Belonging & its Influence on Wellbeing for AAPI in the LGBT+ Community
Rachel Zhou, Harvard College
Muslims’ Experiences with the Healthcare System in Massachusetts
Leila Aydibi, Simmons University
Erasing the 'Jerusalem of the Balkans': Assault in Jewish Life in Interwar Thessaloniki
Julia Tellides, Harvard College
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Concurrent Panels: Student Panels C, D, & E
Location: Penthouse Classrooms, SOCH
Narratives & Images
Respondent: Jayson Porter, PhD
Trafficker or Trafficked? Introducing a Typology of Women Indicted for Sex Trafficking Crimes
Sarah Elizabeth Sowell & Ava Kamden, Rice University
The Girl with the Medusa Tattoo: Sexuality, Radical Resistance, and Dis-Respectability at Spelman College
Kourtney Payne, Spelman College
The Stolen Spaces of Pop Culture: How Feminist Narratives of Afro-Latinidad and the Migration of Blackness Reshape Understandings of Misogynoir in Pop Culture
Simone Jacque, Spelman College*
Imperial Ink: Tracing the “Devilish Child” Motif in American Media Representations of Filipinos, 1898-1902
Ryan Doan Nguyen, Harvard College
Sustainability and Resilience in Black Communities
Respondent: Marcos Luna, PhD
Growing Subversion; Black Queer Kinship and Chocolate
Victoria Harwell, Washington University
Consuming Chocolate and Blackness: Reparative Imagery and Policy to Address Racial Injustice in the Chocolate Industry
Ebony Smith, Harvard College
Ridin’ Clean: Equity for Black Americans in Access to Electric Vehicle Technology
Brady Dye, Howard University
’This Is A Place of Healing:’ A Study of Sustainable Food Justice in Northeast Ohio through the Radical Interior of Black Women Farmers
Kai Vera Menafee, Oberlin College
Mental Health, Education and Resistance
Respondent: JT Roane, PhD
Where the Streets are Made of Music: A Visual Exploration of Music Therapy's Impact Between Socioeconomic Groups in New York City
Gabriel McDerment, New York University
Subsidizing Sickness: State Subsidies, Environmental Degradation, and Community Well-being in Louisiana
Charles Milne-Home, Wagner College
The Dilemma of Educational Inequity in the United States
Emily Muniz, New York University; Dominic Woods, University of Pennsylvania
From Marginalization to Empowerment: Resisting Epistemic Injustice in the Mental Health Narratives of Our Daily Lives
Serenity Chavez, University of California-San Bernadino
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM Reflection & Closing
Location: SOCH Performance Hall
Speaker: Habiba Braimah, Senior Director, Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations