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Abstracts 9:30–10:40am Humanities the artist’s manipulation of memory and of entrenched to the cultural identity of identity through the use of texts engraved. Norway, unwrapping the fabrics of public Chinese Today: Near and Afar policy and cultural history, design processes (panel discussion) Founders Hall 126 Problems of Place: Judenplatz and artistic choices, reveals that the symbols Memorial in Vienna of the park is more contested than it appears Sophia S. Chen ’13, East Asian Studies, Wendy Cassandra Tavolarella ’13, Architecture to the local and international audience. M. Foo ’14, Economics, Virginia Hung ’13, AdvisoR: Patricia Berman, Art Mathematics, Kelsey A. Ridge ’13, English and You Can’t Evict an Idea: The Giant of East Asian Studies, Christianne L. Wolfsen The Judenplatz Memorial in Vienna, built by Boston and the Spaces of Subversion ’13, Chinese Language & Literature, Audrey Rachel Whiteread, is a contested monument in Public Art M. Wozniak ’14, Music, Ji Qing Wu ’15 to the memory of the Holocaust. Built on top Laura Marin ’13, Art History Economics and Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences of the ruins of a Jewish synagogue that was AdvisoR: Patricia Berman, Art AdvisoR: Shiao Wei Tham, East Asian destroyed in the 15th century, the “Nameless Languages & Literatures Library” interrogates the collective memory The recent mural painted by the Brazilian and accessibility of Jewish history. The street artists Os Gemeos in Dewey Square This panel discusses research topics that “Nameless Library” is situated in the Jewish represents a major shift in the public art students in CHIN 231/331 pursued as part quarter of Vienna, and is the only Holocaust of Boston as well as a crucial juncture in of the study of the linguistic, historical, memorial in Austria. Similar to a concrete the collective memory surrounding the site cultural, and sociopolitical factors that shape bunker or mausoleum and lined with claimed by the Occupy movement less than a our understanding of what constitutes the outward facing books, the “Nameless Library” year before the mural’s execution. The artists Chinese language. The course examined dedicates itself to the anonymous victims, loss enjoyed the support and blessing of the City the various language families in China in of culture, and knowledge. of Boston and several cultural and municipal terms of writing systems, phonetics, word organizations to paint what becomes, upon and sentence structure, how and why these Whose King? A Case Study on the closer inspection, a rather subversive image. languages have changed, and the ongoing Martin Luther King, Jr. National My paper seeks to explore how the potentially changes that are taking place in them. Memorial radical implications of the Os Gemeos mural We report on linguistic trends in Chinese Caitlin Greenhill Caldera ’14, Art History play out in a project validated and legitimized language use online as a result of censorship, and Studio Art by the city’s cultural and municipal authori- gender in the Chinese language, the use ties. I will contextualize the artists’ strategies of Mandarin in Asian-American cinema, AdvisoR: Patricia Berman, Art within a wider Brazilian modernist strategy linguistic fieldwork on the Hakka dialect, and A dream deferred twenty-seven years, the of cultural cannibalism as a tool to subvert Chinese as a foreign language in the U.S. In Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Western hegemony and explore how this all, our reports concern the past, present, and on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall approach has carried on into our globalized future of the Chinese language from a global was finally erected by the MLK Memorial present. standpoint and how it influences and affects Foundation to commemorate the legacy of our daily lives. MLK, Jr. in 2011. Due to multiple govern- ment and corporate interventions, budgetary Science & Technology Controversial Public Art and problems, and the MLK memorial founda- Its Politics tion’s own foolish search for a ‘universal’ Breaking Bad: Drugs, Delivery, (panel discussion) Jewett Arts Center 450 MLK, the memorial is not the realization of and Disease A Text-Based Monument: How Roy a dream but the execution of a colossal and (short talks) Pendleton Hall East 139 Moore Manipulated Memory and controversial nightmare: a soviet-style social Two Methods of Synthesizing Novel Identity in His Ten Commandments realist propaganda sculpture of superfluously Thiocarbonyl Agents for Drug-Resistant Monument enormous proportions that conveys the Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Katherine E. Dresdner ’13, Art History opposite of King’s ideologies. Alexa Jackson ’13, Economics and Chemistry, AdvisoR: Patricia Berman, Art Amelia S. Williams ’13, History Vigeland Park: A Study of Its Symbols Chief Justice Roy Moore chose to display AdvisoR: Michael Hearn, Chemistry Diana Huynh ’15, Art History and Political his Ten Commandments monument in the Science Each year, approximately 9 million new public rotunda of the Alabama State Supreme cases of tuberculosis are identified across Court building. The monument and its loca- AdvisoR: Patricia Berman, Art the globe, predominantly in developing and tion in the state courthouse on July 31, 2001 The Vigeland Park (1924-1949) in Oslo, emerging nations. [1]Even more concerning ignited a national firestorm and resulted in Norway, named after its creator, Gustav is the growing proportion of these cases constitutional litigation in the Federal courts. Vigeland, is known as a national emblem – a caused by drug-resistant strains. In the This case study examines the artist’s use of monument representative of Norwegian extreme, a few patients have recently been public art to reconstruct one of the most culture. In this case study, I question its role diagnosed with strains of tuberculosis that fundamental tenets in American law – the as a national public space by focusing on the are completely unresponsive to currently- separation of church and state. Key issues controversies surrounding Vigeland and his available drug therapy, heightening the in this original interdisciplinary analysis are commission. Despite it being remarkably urgency of developing new pharmaceuticals 20 WELLESLEY COLLEGE RUHLMAN CONFERENCE 2013 9:30–10:40am effective against drug-resistant strains. The A stroke is defined as death of tissue, and can High Impact Science on the thiocarbonyl moiety, present in several be caused by a variety of mechanisms includ- Final Frontier resistant strain therapies, is hypothesized ing excessive blood clotting and hemorrhage. (short talks) Science Center 104 to produce tuberculostatic activity. We With an adviser from Boston Children’s Simple Impact Crater Morphometry: endeavor to incorporate a thiocarbonyl into Hospital and Wellesley College, I have Distribution and Analysis of Martian new tuberculostatic compounds via the been tackling this question from a clinical Craters thioamide or thiourea functional group. perspective. My project aims to determine the Lynn M. Geiger ’13, Geosciences and Alkyl-substituted thioamides were produced safety and efficacy of drug treatments in treat- Astronomy from substituted benzaldehydes and aromatic ment of childhood stroke events. Data was Wesley Watters, Astronomy amines via a modified Willgerodt-Kindler collected retrospectively and systematically AdvisoR: reaction. Diphenyl thioureas were synthesized from patients referred to the Cerebrovascular Impact craters, which are caused by mete- by nucleophilic attack of aniline derivatives Disorders and Stroke program at Boston orites, are the most widespread geological on the electrophilic carbon of aryl isothio- Children’s Hospital for disease consultation feature in the solar system, found everywhere, cyanates. Both series were synthesized in and management. Our preliminary results from planets to asteroids. On Earth, the good yield and purity and show promising corroborate those of previous studies, atmosphere is too thick for smaller craters to preliminary biological results (Funded by indicating that there are nuanced differences form, so we have to look elsewhere to study the Department of Chemistry and Howard in outcome between three standard treatment them. With the implementation of new high- Hughes Medical Institute). strategies. These findings represent a step resolution stereo cameras in orbit around towards comprehensive categorization of Mars, studying small craters is now possible. [1] “WHO Report 2011: Global Tuberculosis safety and efficacy of treatments for child- The focus of my research is taking these new Control.” World Health Organization. World hood stroke. data and finding impact craters to study Health Organization, 2011. Web. September simple crater shape distribution. My research 2012. Progress Towards the Synthesis of combines morphometery statistics with a Novel Electroactive Compound physical data, to better understand how the The Synthesis and Evaluation of for Surface Modification of Gold underlying geology and surface environment Residues 6-36 of Alpha-Synuclein Nanoparticles of an impact site affects crater formation, Madelyn P. Kallman ’13, Chemistry and Nicole A. Spiegelman ’13, Chemistry, Hong crater morphology and the evolution of Mathematics Zhang ’15, Undeclared craters over time. AdvisoR: Julia Miwa, Chemistry AdvisoR: Dora Carrico-Moniz, Chemistry Circular Polarization and Incident Parkinson’s disease is linked to the neuro- In recent years, scientific research has Wavelength Independence in the protein alpha-synuclein. Several factors, placed