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2022 Theories in Action Symposium

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2022 Theories in Action Symposium

Schedule

All of the Independent Concentration (IC) Talks take place in Petteruti Lounge in Faunce/Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center.

The talks will be recorded via Lecture Capture. Light refreshments are available.

Tuesday, May 3 – IC Lightning Talks

4:00-4:15 pm – Charisa Shin ’22: An Engaged Approach to Design Education

4:15-4:30 pm – Alexander John Wicks Kamper ’22: The Space of Sex and Scrap Metal: Bordering Sex as Waste at Allens Ave.

4:30-4:45 pm – Lily Louis ’22: Can Investing Be Sustainable?

4:45-5:00 pm – [break]

5:00-5:15 pm – Evan Dǒng ’22: Data Development in Social Change Organizations

5:15-5:30 pm – Maisy Meyer ’22: Increasing Accessibility to Health Information for Women in Need: A Series of Illustrations, Brochures and Handouts to Improve Education on Women’s Health Issues at the Clinica Esperanza/Hope Clinic in Providence, RI

5:30-5:45 pm – Anya Semizhonova ’22: Telling Folk Tales through Picture and Word.

Tuesday, May 3 – (G)ISP [Independent Studies] Student Showcase

5:00-6:00 pm – Location: 167 Angell Street/Hemisphere Building, room 103

Wednesday, May 4 – IC Thesis Presentations and Lightning Talks

3:30-4:00 pm (Thesis Presentation) – Muskaan Garg ’22: Social-Epistemic Motivation and Perceptions of Algorithmic Fairness in Content Moderation on Social Media

4:00-4:30 pm (Thesis Presentation) – Thomas Manuel Summe ’22: Modeling The Cognitive Process of Evidence-Accumulation for Hierarchical Decision-making in a 4-choice Task Paradigm

4:30-4:45 pm – Carlos Perez-Ruiz ’22: The Making of a Video Game

4:45-5:00 pm – Ilia Giokaris ’22: Redesigning the LapSnap

Thursday, May 5 – IC Thesis Presentations and Lightning Talks

1:30-2:00 pm (Thesis Presentation) – Diego Rodriguez Langevin ’22: Language, Madness and Politics: A Theory of Plurality and Subversive Illegibility Through the Writing of Rita Indiana, Francisco Matos Paoli and his Psychiatrists

2:00-2:15 pm – Sydney Lauren Scott ’22: NextUp Venture: A Music Streaming Platform for Artists

2:15-2:30 pm – Neha Mukherjee ’22: The Ivermectin Story: Covid Misinformation and Media Ecosystems

2:30-3:00 pm – Aïcha Soukab ’22.5: audioAtlas | David Onabanjo ’22: Slow & Reverb: A Quiet Black Sssound

3:00-3:30 pm (Thesis Presentation) – Laila Rodenbeck ’22: 'Partial Liberalization:' Crony Capitalism in Egypt and India

Tuesday, May 10 – GISP 0005: Indigenous Language Learning

4:00-6:00 pm – Location: Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center/Faunce House

Presenters

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    Evan Dǒng

    "Data Development in Social Change Organizations"
    Independent Concentration Sustainability, Institutions, and Organizations, A.B.
    Advisor(s) Rachel Wetts (IC); Andrew Schrank (Capstone)
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    Muskaan Garg

    "Social-Epistemic Motivation and Perceptions of Algorithmic Fairness in Content Moderation on Social Media"
    Independent Concentration Political Psychology and Behavior, A.B.
    Advisor(s) C. Malik Boykin (IC, Thesis); Steven Sloman (Thesis); Paul Testa (Thesis)
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    Ilia Giokaris

    "Redesigning the LapSnap"
    Independent Concentration Human-Centered Design, A.B.
    Advisor(s) Leslie Bostrom, Sarah Skeels (IC); Christopher Bull (Capstone)
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    Alexander John Wicks Kamper

    "The Space of Sex and Scrap Metal: Bordering Sex as Waste at Allens Ave."
    Independent Concentration Geography, A.B.
    Advisor(s) Kevin Mwenda (IC, Capstone)
  • Scott Headshot

    Sydney Lauren Scott

    "NextUp Venture: A Music Streaming Platform for Artists"
    Independent Concentration Entrepreneurship and Music Innovation, A.B.
    Advisor(s) Professor Todd Winkler (IC, Capstone)

  • Lily Louis

    Independent Concentration Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
    Advisor(s) John Tomasi (IC); Daniel D'Amico (Capstone)
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    Thomas Manuel Summe

    "Modeling The Cognitive Process of Evidence-Accumulation for Hierarchical Decision-making in a 4-choice Task Paradigm"
    Independent Concentration Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Sc.B.
    Advisor(s) Michael Frank (IC, Thesis); Matthew Nassar, Alexander Fengler (Thesis)
  • Maya Headshot

    Maisy Meyer

    "Increasing Accessibility to Health Information for Women in Need: A Series of Illustrations, Brochures and Handouts to Improve Education on Women’s Health Issues at the Clinica Esperanza/Hope Clinic in Providence, RI"
    Independent Concentration Human Biological & Medical Illustration, A.B.
    Advisor(s) Dr. John Stein (IC); Dr. Francois Luks (Capstone)
  • Neha Headshot

    Neha Mukherjee

    "The Ivermectin Story: Covid Misinformation and Media Ecosystems"
    Independent Concentration Journalism
    Advisor(s) Jonathan Readey (IC); Stefanie Friedhoff (Capstone)
  • David Headshot

    David Onabanjo

    "Slow & Reverb: A Quiet Black Sssound"
    Independent Concentration Communication and Social Influence
    Advisor(s) Kate Schapira (IC, Capstone)
  • Carlos Headshot

    Carlos Perez-Ruiz

    "The Making of a Video Game"
    Independent Concentration Game Design and Development
    Advisor(s) James Tompkin (IC, Capstone)
  • Laila Headshot

    Laila Rodenbeck

    "‘Partial Liberalization:’ Crony Capitalism in Egypt and India"
    Independent Concentration Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, A.B.
    Advisor(s) Mark Blyth (IC, Thesis); Patrick Heller (Thesis); Arvind Subramanian (Thesis)
  • Diego Headshot

    Diego Rodríguez Langevin

    "Language, Madness and Politics: A Theory of Plurality and Subversive Illegibility Through the Writing of Rita Indiana, Francisco Matos Paoli and his Psychiatrists"
    Independent Concentration Philosophical Inquiry Through Creative Forms, A.B.
    Advisor(s) Thomas Schestag (IC, Thesis); Leela Gandhi and Paget Henry (Thesis)
  • Anya Headshot

    Anya Semizhonova

    "Telling Folk Tales through Picture and Word"
    Independent Concentration Visual Communication, A.B.
    Advisor(s) Evelyn Lincoln (IC, Capstone)
  • Charisa Headshot

    Charisa Shin

    "An Engaged Approach to Design Education"
    Independent Concentration Human-Centered Design, A.B.
    Advisor(s) Jeff Huang (IC); Jinying Li (Capstone)
  • Aïcha Soukab

    Aïcha Soukab

    "audioAtlas"
    Independent Concentration Transnational Indigenous Memory, A.B.
    Advisor(s) Mark Cladis (IC)