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Chinggis Khan's Syncretic Steppe: How Tradition And Innovation Combined To Form The World's Largest And Most Diverse Nomadic Empire, Adrian Ramos

Senior Projects Fall 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

They-See-(Desi)-Mac-N-Cheese: A Conversation To Make The Invisible Visible, Satwik Srikrishnan

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Trapped: A Performance Exploration Of The Illusion Of Confinement, Paul R. Presbrey

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Sometimes we build our own prisons and those prisons go through a crucial stage at which time, outside forces such as other people can help retrieve you from the depths of your own imprisonment. Unfortunately, these outside forces usually end up acting against you, sending a person deeper and deeper into the trap they laid for themselves. These outside forces or people usually do not know that they are contributing to the building of a person’s prison. These people act in direct response to something or even anonymously through things such as surveys. Most of the time people dance around …

Michael Faraday’S “Lines Of Force” And The Role Of Heuristic Models In Early Electromagnetic Field Theory, Nicolas Sandy Engst Matthews

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

The City After: Crises In Contemporary New York Narratives, Rachel Peri Papert

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Remembering Elsewhere, Amelia Ernestine Walsh

Senior Projects Spring 2017

In my works, I tried very hard to create characters with unusual perspectives. I wanted to write from the point of view of children, while avoiding anything overly precious or intentionally naive. The trauma of aging, and eventually dying, are the themes for these works. I attempted to draw forth unusual and thought-provoking imagery that could successfully draw my reader into a constructed reality and, hopefully, draw them to less common questions we might ask regarding human nature.

Mouse Vs. Machine: The Game, Cafferty Aiko Frattarelli

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Many modern video games built by big name companies are coded by a group of people together using, and possibly modifying, an already designed game engine. These games usually have another group of people creating the artwork. In this project, I coded and designed a video game from scratch, as well as created all the artwork used in the game. The player controls a mouse character who fights a variety of monsters. In order to create the complexity of the game, I implement basic neural networks as the enemy artificial intelligence, i.e. the decision making process of the enemy. It …

Spell For The Lost, Branford Hayes Walker

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Spell for the Lost is a novella of prose poems, constructed ekphrasticaly from generated symbols, with the intention of linking writing fiction and the process of magic-doing.

A Street Photographer’S Toolbox: Techniques And Technologies In 20th Century American Street Photography, Jacey Cole Mossack

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Blasian And Proud: Examining Racialized Experiences Amongst Half Black And Half Japanese Youth In Japan, Helen Itsel Aracena

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Problems With Using Statistics To Justify Institutional Policies, Justin Shin

Senior Projects Spring 2017

It is becoming increasingly common for institutions to use statistics to inform policy decisions. We should be prepared to ask ourselves what regulatory principles should be imposed on institutions that seek to justify certain policies through deference to a statistical analysis. This paper will examine the difficulties that come with using statistics to justify actions, and argue that certain standards of transparency and verifiability should be expected from any institution that seeks to involve a statistical analysis in the formation of policies. I will first use Market Share Liability, an established use of statistics, to draw out what responsibilities an …

Together We’Ll Make Magic: Exploring The Relationship Between Empathy And Literature Using Ruth Ozeki’S “A Tale For The Time Being”, Janet Lindsay Dinozzi-Houser

Senior Projects Spring 2017

My project is devoted to untangling the often-misunderstood and misapplied subject of empathy, particularly as it relates to the reading process. I begin with a brief background of the term’s history and the debate surrounding its use by researchers in the fields of both Psychology and Philosophy of Mind. I then apply this critical understanding of a commonly invoked term to a close reading of contemporary novel A Tale for The Time Being by Japanese-American novelist Ruth Ozeki. Dedicated primarily to the fictional story of Nao Yasutani, a teenage girl struggling with her recent move back to Japan after a …

You're The One That I Want, Kirsten Sylvia Harvey

Senior Projects Spring 2017

A theatrical exploration, that began with “the Diva” and eventually evolved into an examination of the impossibility of being a woman, through the fetishization of the 1978 film, Grease.

Miranda: An Exploration Of The Tempest, Lauren Michelle Russo

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Make It Point, Peter Avery Schreiber

Senior Projects Spring 2017

1. Finding a Willingness to Disappoint

Steel, latex paint, wood. An object that attempts to make a self-sufficient structure from a series of failed attempts. Hardware shows as an answer, but over and over, an answer isn’t enough. More than anything, each answer is the sum of its shape and weight, not its’ prescribed function.

2. My Own Sliding Self-Respect

Steel, enamel, latex paint, wood, light fixture, colored light bulb, extension cord. Scale is a measurement of self-worth. Some people know exactly how much space they take up, others lack a sturdy shape in their volume. And light takes up …

Thin Blue Seam, Sebastian Anton-Ojeda

Senior Projects Spring 2017

This performance began as an exploration of liminal spaces in the context of a post-modern world. The lines between a suburban, consumptive society, fraught with binaries and thresholds while on the fringes of nature, were what interested me the most. However, this line of thought quickly took me to far more ancient places, to a view of nature driven by animism and pervaded by spiritual introspection. In Celtic Ireland, to give an example, every stone and river is witness to a myth. The Celts of the old world as described by anthropologist Marie-Louise Sjoestedt are constantly straddling the line between …

Portraits Of The Most Sane, David Leonard Mamukelashvili

Senior Projects Spring 2017

The project discusses Géricault's Portraits of the Insane and interprets them as his self-reflective works, interpreting the series as the projections of artist's socio-political views.

Censorship And Creative Freedom In Shostakovich’S Compositional Style: Music As A Tool For The State, Or The Soul?, Matthea Rile-Schmidt

Senior Projects Spring 2017

In order to truly understand music, you have to understand it’s context. The meaning of a work morphs and changes over time as culture and politics change. To understand what a work meant when it was composed, you have to look at the environment it was composed in. The idea for this program was born from my love of Shostakovich’s viola sonata, who’s haunting melodies and depth captured my heart as soon as I started to play the viola. Although what it means to me has changed over time, the music still haunts me with the same intensity. I began …

Type Z, Zazie Elena Ray-Trapido

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Look At Where You Listen: A Study Of Commercial Music And Mediation, Thomas Walton Moore

Senior Projects Spring 2017

A joint senior project submitted to the divisions of arts and social studies. This project aims to reconsider the 'album' as a format of music distribution that has effects on the consumption-of and relationship-with music as commodity. This project consists of writing and recorded-music-making. Please email tom (at) dpimusic (dot) com for a link.

Pop, Lock, And Bach It/ The Places I'Ve Been, Hannah Madelene Richter Livant

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Five Stars: Contemporary Review And Literary Discourse, Maxwell Louis Sims

Senior Projects Spring 2017

In this project we will look at contemporary review and how it functions as a form of accessible, literary discourse.

"It's [Not] Only Lines On Paper, Folks!": The Curious Literary Identity Of The Graphic Novel, Oona Blood Cullen

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Art Spiegelman's “Maus,” Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' “Watchmen,” and Frank Miller's “The Dark Knight Returns,” created waves in both the literary and comics communities upon their subsequent release in the year 1986. My project seeks to unpack the ways in which the “1986 Big Three” forge identities for themselves both within and without the designations of literature and comics, and ultimately to define the unique literary identity of each work. I examine the ways in which each of these works makes use of the history and traditions of the medium from which they emerge, including use of recognizable tropes …

The Endless Tragedy: Euripides And Camus, Robert Ian Mcmahon

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Free Of Memory: The Importance Of The Underworld To The Completion Of The Archetypal Hero's Quest, Emily Rachel Payne

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Procedure To Exit An Enclosed Space: A Story In Six Parts, Brigid Nell Boll

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

A Path Of Stories Wrapped Around Itself: A Translation And Aesthetic Reading Of Guillermo Meneses’ Short Story “La Mano Junto Al Muro”, Samuel Rotter Bechar

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Questioning Authority: An Exploration Of Montaigne And Borges, Keith Warren Roscoe

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Guru Nanak: Life, Lessons & Relevancy, Rajdeep Singh Dosanjh

Senior Projects Spring 2017

This senior project is centered on understanding the thought of Nanak the founder of Sikhism. It consist of historiography of Nanak, and understanding the core of Nanak's thought as centered around G-d's Immanence

The Manor House: A Novel, Cleo Rose Egnal

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.