24Th Annual Richard A. Harrison Symposium
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2020 Harrison Symposium Lawrence University Table of Contents 1. PREFACE ......................................................................................................................... 3 2. CONTRIBUTORS ............................................................................................................... 4 3. DRESSING THE WORLD: FROM FAST-FASHION TO SECOND-HAND FASHION IN FIVE GLOBAL LOCATIONS ....................................................................................................... 8 Interview with Tamima Tabishat, 2019 Harrison Grant Recipient 4. LA EVOLUCIÓN DE LA IDENTIDAD PUERTORRIQUEÑA EN LAS ARTES VISUALES ........... 14 Meralis N. Álvarez Morales 5. VENGEANCE IN EXCESS ................................................................................................. 27 Tia Colbert 6. FALSE COURAGE AND THE UNHAPPY HERO ................................................................. 36 Maggie Davis 7. RAMEN AND PEANUT BUTTER: FOOD INSECURITY AT LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ............ 46 Barbara I. Espinosa Barrera 8. MY MAN ERNST: EXPLORING THE RADICAL QUEER POTENTIALS OF THE ERNST LUBITSCH PICTURE ........................................................................................................ 64 Sam Goldbeck 9. EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE IN THE NETHERLANDS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RISKS CONCERNING PEOPLE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, AND HOW TO ADDRESS THEM ............................................................................................................. 72 Tom Goldberg 10. OPENING UP A DARK CORNER OF THE RUSSIAN CANON: KAZAKHSTANI POETRY AND THE EXPANDING RUSSOPHONE WORLD ........................................................................ 82 Clancy Loebl 11. OF MONSTERS AND MEN; OR, AMBIGUITY AND INEVITABILITY IN HORROR ................ 92 Cynfor Lu 1 12. VIDEO GAMES, VIRTUAL REALITY, AND THE PROGRESSION OF THE CINEMA OF INTERACTIONS ............................................................................................................ 101 Sam Luedtke 13. FORMALISM AND FILM: WHAT AESTHETIC THEORIES OF ART MEAN FOR CINEMA .... 111 Sam Miller 14. WHERE DID THE MONEY GO? INTERNAL MIGRATION, REMITTANCES, AND HOUSEHOLD SPENDING IN INDONESIA ....................................................................... 121 Hikari Mine 15. I LOVE YOU GOD (P.S. WE’RE BREAKING UP): HOW EMERGING ADULTS ARE NAVIGATING RELIGIOUS AMBIGUITY THROUGH TAIZÉ .............................................. 133 Katherine Mueller 16. WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO DECARBONIZE THE ECONOMY?: THE CASE OF VIETNAM . 145 Thuy Nguyen 17. LAS LOCAS EN LA NATURALEZA ................................................................................. 159 Callie Ochs 18. JUST TERRORISM IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL LIBERATION ........................................ 167 Logan Robison 19. “THEY’RE MOVING NORTH”: MILWAUKEE, THE MEDIA, AND THE MURDER OF BARBARA ANDERSON ................................................................................................. 176 Benjamin Schultz 20. HOW DO I SAY THIS WITHOUT ROLLING MY EYES? THE TELEVISUAL ATTITUDES SURROUNDING DAVID FOSTER WALLACE’S “E UNIBUS PLURAM” ............................. 189 Martha Strawbridge 21. THE USE OF GINSENG IN AMERICA ............................................................................. 199 Zhiru Wang 2 Preface The Harrison Symposium celebrates independent and collaborative student research in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The Harrison is usually held as an annual conference in May, but this year’s shift to remote teaching and the new coronavirus pandemic eliminated the opportunity for in-person presentations. Instead of cancelling the event, students nominated by faculty members were invited either to participate in next year’s Harrison, or to contribute to the volume you are now reading. Reimagining the Harrison as a written artifact was inspired by the 1997 Harrison Symposium. In the early years of the conference, the Dean of Faculty Richard A. Harrison (1991-1997) published the proceedings of the symposium – formerly known as the Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium though the event was later renamed in Harrison’s honor – as a collection of papers. Margaret E. Madden, then Associate Dean of the Faculty, notes in the introduction to the 1998 proceedings that “Faculty members and departments on campus who received the first symposium collection were pleased to have some visible record of the high level of accomplishments of humanities and social science students, whose products are often not as visible as those students of the performing arts or sciences.” I hope that this version of the Harrison will also serve as a way to publicly and communally celebrate the wide-ranging and incisive research undertaken by students at Lawrence. Although this year’s volume continues the tradition of showcasing excellent student work, it challenged students to ready their research for print instead of oral presentation. I want to thank all of the nominated students for their work this term, along with a number of faculty and staff that supported the process. Many thanks to: Faculty members who nominated students Gretchen Revie at Mudd Library for reference and resource expertise Julie Haurykiewicz at the Center for Academic Success for editing expertise Colette Lunday Brautigam at Mudd Library for arranging a permanent home for the volume in Lux Carrie Naumann Korb for designing the Harrison cover-art Thelma Jimenez-Anglada for advice and resources on running the Harrison Associate Dean of the Faculty Peter Blitstein The Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculty Lawrence University Archives for access to Harrison symposia proceedings Personally, it has been meaningful to engage with students I wouldn’t otherwise have met, and to witness the mentorship and expertise my colleagues offer their students. I am pleased to invite you to join me in admiring the innovation and creativity of Lawrence students. To the contributors, thank you for sharing your work with us. Chloe Armstrong (2020 Harrison Organizer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy) Contributors Contributors Meralis Álvarez-Morales (’22, nominated by Professor Fares) is a global studies major with a concentration in arts and exchange and Spanish minor. Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and raised in the southside of the city of Chicago, her culture, heritage, and its expression has always been important to her. As an artist herself, she is fascinated with the expressions and origins of cultural and national identities and the self through the visual and performance arts. Tia Colbert (’20, nominated by Professor Brook) is majoring in English and minoring in creative writing and Greek. Maggie Davis ('21, nominated by Professor Armstrong) is a classics and linguistics major and a German minor from Abington, PA. She was nominated for her work in Epics and Ethics (CLAS 260) with Professors Brook and Armstrong. Barbara Espinosa Barrera (’20, nominated by Professor Mark Jenike) is from Ecuador and majoring in economics and anthropology with a minor in biomedical ethics. Barbara has been passionate about fighting hunger since before coming to Lawrence, and is so glad that they were able to conduct this study as their last project at Lawrence. Barbara thanks Prof. Mark Jenike, for guiding them through this process and for nominating their work. 4 Contributors Sam Goldbeck (’20, nominated by Professor Ongiri) is a film studies major. Inspiration for this paper came from a love of classic Hollywood film and an investment in the liberation of marginalized communities. Tom Goldberg (’20, nominated by Professor Albrecht) is a mathematics and philosophy double-major from Redwood City, CA. His experiences with friends and family members with ASD inspired his paper, which he completed in the Philosophy Capstone 600. Clancy Loebl (’20, nominated by Professor Kononova) is a Russian Studies major with minors in economics and English creative writing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Clancy’s love of poetry inspired the translation project, and Clancy is very grateful to their capstone advisor, Victoria Kononova, for all of her help and support these past two terms. Cynfor Lu (’20, nominated by Professor Hoffmann) is an English and economics double- major from Australia and Oregon, depending on how you define where you are from. This work, completed in the English Senior Capstone, was inspired by a curiosity of why something becoming animate that isn’t supposed to be animate is so scary, but quickly evolved into its current iteration when Cynfor realized that the act of becoming animate wasn’t the horrifying part. Instead, it was everything afterwards. Sam Luedtke (’20, nominated by Professor Ongiri) is a computer science and film studies double-major with a minor in mathematics. He developed this project in Computer Science Senior Seminar and Film Studies Senior Seminar. 5 Contributors Sam Miller (’20, nominated by Professors Albrecht, Guenther-Pal, and Ongiri) is a film studies and philosophy double-major, and developed this project in the Philosophy Capstone 600. Hikari Mine (’20, nominated by Professors Caruthers and Lhost) completed their work in the Economics Senior Experience. Katherine Mueller (’20, nominated by Professors Carr and Downing) is graduating with a degree in religious studies and music. She's passionate about understanding how individuals tell the story of their spiritual identity, as well as the role that shared creativity plays in strengthening our communities. This project was inspired