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Senior Symposium

The Senior Symposium features a group of graduating Gallatin seniors whose talks span a range of genres and highlight the intellectual diversity of Gallatin's undergraduate scholars. Seniors discuss their academic concentrations, colloquium topics, research projects, extracurricular involvement, and passion projects in the fields of art, science, activism, sustainability, social justice, and more.

 

The 16th Annual Senior Symposium will happen on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. 


Senior Symposium - Past Years

TedX Gallatin Stage Photo

TEDx Gallatin, 2014 (left to right): Daniel Seara, Kerrin Smith, Rachel Brazie, Nicole Johnson, Anthony Giambra, Natalie Nazarian, Mali Bowers


15th Annual Senior Symposium 2023

15th Annual Senior Symposium 2023

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Speakers in Order of Presentation

Nick Gordon 
“small is all”: Grassroots Organizing in Religious Communities in Detroit, MI

Campbell Munn 
Enclosure of Opportunity: The History of Residential Segregation on Long Island’s and the Potential for Reform

Jasper Conacher
Plantations to Prisons: An Examination of Cyclical Racial Oppression and Labor Exploitation in the United States

Naomi Thompkins 
Black Land Ownership as Liberation

Pia Parekh
Technology and the Brain

Sammy Tavassoli
Who Are You? Understanding the Storytelling Mind, from Cells to Selfhood

Armaan Ahmed 
Why you get good ideas in the shower; a Phenomenology of Deletion

Sarika Tatineni Doppalapudi
Stitch by Stitch: Oral Histories with Textile Artists


14th Annual Senior Symposium 2022

Digital Program

Speakers In order of Presentation: 

Sophie Spector “Studying Infectious Disease from an Interdisciplinary Perspective”

Chandani Nash “Laboring Voices: Vocalization, Vibration and Relationality in Childbirth”

Cristina Gutierrez “Reimagining Education in America”

Moosa M. Waraich “The Alternate History of the Hidden Minority”

Hannah Javens “Left Behind: The Material Traces of Crossing the Border”

Robyn Green “Loaded for Bear”

Emma Waddell “Building an Interactive, Music Artificial Intelligence”

Zoë Elizabeth Lillis “Dramatizing History of the Present Moment: Empowering Artists Both On and Offstage”


2021 Senior Showcase

The 2021 Senior Showcase was presented via Zoom on May 26, 2021.

Selections from the 2021 Senior Showcase:

Courtney Curd - "An Imaginative Presentation on an Anti-Imperial History of the Americas”

Kaylee Lamarche - “In Death: Pandemics & the Population”

Dylan Brown - “The Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition: San Quentin and the Legacy of George Jackson”

Sarah Sadia Daoui - “Algeria's Hirak movement & the New York, Paris protests”

Olia Zhang - “Re-Imagine Education for Liberation”


2020 Senior Symposium

2020 Senior Symposium

The 2020 Senior Symposium was presented via Zoom on May 8, 2020.