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Points Of Attachment, Calvert Truxtun Jacks

Senior Projects Fall 2021

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

Between Space And Memory, Arhant Shrestha

Senior Projects Fall 2021

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

"Bothe The Heye And The Lowe": Role Reversal And Medieval Animal Allegory, Rose A. Rugendorf

Senior Projects Fall 2021

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

The Meaning Of Music, Caleb Loius Orenstein Carman

Senior Projects Fall 2021

This project combines solo performances of music on piano, collaborative playing/rehearsing, improvisation, and composition. In both parts of the project, I share my performances of François Couperin, J. S. Bach, Schubert, and Ravel, and include my own compositions alongside. I tackle certain pieces that lie within the ‘long eighteenth century’ and demonstrate how improvisation is an integral part of music-making for composers. I believe in order to fulfill my own desires as a musician, I need to develop my aptitude in multiple areas — performance, composition, improvisation, chamber music, etc. — in such a way that the practice of one …

Si Solo Tu Supiera', Andy Garcia

Senior Projects Fall 2021

From my twelfth-floor apartment in the Manhattanville Projects, I look down at the valley that constitutes the 125th Street Fault and the trestle that supports the 1 Train. The fault line and the trestle symbolize a fracture in the continuity of Harlem on the y-axis of Broadway separating the newly constructed Columbia University Manhattanville Campus from the Manhattanville Projects and the General Grant Houses. This fracture is exacerbated by the physical geographic feature of the fault, the man-made trestle, as well as a division that was drawn by Columbia University and its disruption of the justice system that had existed …

Phanostrate And The Legitimization Of Professional Female Healers In Fourth Century Athens, Hannah Cremo

Senior Projects Fall 2021

The goal of this paper is to discuss the origins of female medical professionals and to explore the ways in which ancient female healers represented themselves. I argue that in fourth century Athens, legitimacy as a female medical professional in the eyes of doctors and the whole polis comes from a combination of using masculinized language to engage in medical discourse and feminine self-representation to expand the ideal of a “respectable woman.” Phanostrate’s funerary monument is the first look into how female healers legitimized themselves in the professional medical world, and so using her as a model, we can better …

Moral Systems In Nabokov's Fiction: Commentaries On Two Short Stories, Benjamin Yung Nathaniel Shaw

Senior Projects Fall 2021

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

Sonified Hudson Valley Landscapes And The Influence Of Industry, Jess Belardi

Senior Projects Fall 2021

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

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

Dependence Theory, Levi Lakota Lowe

Senior Projects Fall 2021

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

A Lamb To His Left, Dean Jamieson

Senior Projects Fall 2021

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

Writing At The Horizon: How Producing Imagined Narratives Affects Mood, David Yu-Zhong Liang

Senior Projects Fall 2021

The present study explores the effect of three different writing activities and their subsequent effects on participant mood. Writing has been of particular interest for psychologists due to its use in interventions aimed at working through traumatic or stressful periods, and recent research has begun to explore the use of narrative in placing traumatic events and experiences in greater context. However, purely therapeutic, intervention-based writing exercises exclude a large amount of more expressive, imagined creations and narratives, which may have the capacity to reorient, contextualize, and otherwise positively affect a person’s mood. This study investigates whether employing the imagination may …

No Sentiments, Peter Cheung

Senior Projects Fall 2021

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

From The Outside Looking In: Mass Media Representations Of Jews In The U.S., Evyatar Guttman

Senior Projects Fall 2021

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

Andres Polytropoi: Conceptions Of Identity In Homer And Lucian, Ruby Alling Ostrow

Senior Projects Fall 2021

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

I Can Speak For You, Tchad Kayla Ross

Senior Projects Fall 2021

This novella is about a queer Caribbean- American young woman named Nessa struggling with her relationship with her mother. A death occurs that leads Nessa to discover her mother may not be who she previously thought she was. This coming of age story confronts the delayed state of self actualization that occurs when Caribbean culture meets queer identity.

Dreams To Remember, Seamus William Heady

Senior Projects Fall 2021

Dreams to Remember is a hybrid short film, somewhere between documentary and narrative fiction, offering a peek into the mind of my aging father, Peter. Eight years ago, Peter was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and subsequently Parkinson’s disease. As Peter’s body withers and his mind begins to betray him, he seeks refuge and redemption in his dreams.

Dreams to Remember’s candid narration, recorded in documentary style interviews with Peter, tell a story of struggle, grief, and mortality. Juxtaposing the frailty and solitude of life’s final chapter, preposterous dream sequence vignettes inject Peter’s humor and desires, allowing Peter to rewrite …

Mysterious Proposal, Henry Berger

Senior Projects Fall 2021

This is a mysterious proposal regarding a trio of films which harness an ‘energizing vision’ that lingers beyond the movie theatre. There is a focus on travel, memory, landscape and the internal world. I was interested in the ways in which the ephemeral experience of film may alter the way we take in the world around us; the way we process each other.

The Minx, Amirah B. Miller

Senior Projects Fall 2021

This story follows a reference to the biblical Jezebel with a modern twist using a fictional character called Trinity, an 18-year-old college student with a dark past.