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.
TEDx Gallatin, 2014 (left to right): Daniel Seara, Kerrin Smith, Rachel Brazie, Nicole Johnson, Anthony Giambra, Natalie Nazarian, Mali Bowers
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
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”
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”
Selections from the 2019 Senior Symposium:
Jenzia Burgos - Breaking Bombshells
Sabrina Illiano - The Weaponization of Cultural History
Hajra Jamal - Food Security in a Changing Climate
Jonathan Ji - Towards a Queer(er) Christianity
Lila Rimalovski - Seeding the Resistance
Rachel Stern - Resources and Power: Why Beowulf Matters Today