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35th Annual Young Historians Conference Program, Portland State University History Department, Portland State University Challenge Program

Young Historians Conference

This is the 2025 Young Historians Conference schedule and abstracts.

Slavic Influences In The Soviet Adaptation Of The Fellowship Of The Rings, Martina Juričková

Journal of Tolkien Research

In 1991 Leningrad TV published a dramatization miniseries based on the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, entitled Khraniteli (Хранители). Unfortunately, due to the turbulent political situation in the Soviet Union at that time, the series was only televised once, the idea of making sequels based off the other two volumes abandoned, and the whole project fell into oblivion until 2021, when the sucessor of Lenigrad TV uploaded Khraniteli to its youtube channel. Naturally, this aroused a lot of commotion among Tolkien fans who, comparing it to the better known Jackson’s adaptation, found it funny and ridiculous. This …

Bars, Barristers, And Bias: A Content Analysis Of Legal Plays, Evan Chartock

Media and Communication Studies Honors Papers

This content analysis paper investigates the portrayal of the legal profession onstage within legal dramas first performed in the twenty-first century. There has been no previous research that has focused on a comprehensive analysis of the specific content of legal dramas, so this study is exploratory in nature. This study emphasizes the importance of learning about the content characteristics of legal plays and legal characters. This content analysis seeks to answer two research questions. First, do playwrights of legal plays first performed between 2000-2024 belong to similar identity demographics, write about similar content, and/or have similar messaging regarding the notion …

Lindenwood Wind Ensemble & St. Charles County Symphony (April 28, 2025), Lindenwood University

Student Music Performance Programs

Lindenwood Wind Ensemble & St. Charles County Symphony (April 28, 2025), Lindenwood University.

The Utah Statesman, April 28, 2025, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Rider (2025-04-28), Rebeca Salinas

The Rider Archives

Vol. 10, No. 27

Changing The World, One Play At A Time, Michelle Miller-Day, Noreen Raja-Halpern

Communication Faculty Books and Book Chapters

Throughout history, the performing arts have been used as an accessible tool for communication, raising awareness about social issues and affecting positive change. Social justice theatre encompassing documentary theatre, verbatim theatre, and social justice ethnodrama is designed to raise critical consciousness, build community, interrupt, and alter oppressive systemic social patterns, and motivate individuals to promote social change. This chapter addresses how social justice influenced the development of a two-act crime victim advocacy play titled Call this Number and critically analyzes social justice theatre through the lens of narrative engagement theory. This chapter advances understanding of how to develop social justice …

The Icarian Dilemma: The Battle Of Faith Versus Identity Addressed With Scenic Design, Allistar G. Barrett

Senior Honors Theses

American Christians and the LGBTQ+ community have long been in a cultural war with one another. However, queer Christians – individuals who are both LGBTQ+ and Christian – have rarely found solace in either community, instead being shunned and ostracized for their beliefs and identities. Using the transformative art of theatre to address cultural divides, a theatrical scenic design was developed for Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare’s R & J, a retelling of the traditional Romeo and Juliet script through the lives of four Catholic school girls. This design uses the Greek mythology of Icarus, Catholic culture, the original Romeo and Juliet, …

Edra 56: Bibliography, Tamara Karr

Bibliographies

EDRA 56: Designing Communities for Climate Action and Resilience

Ksu Percussion Ensemble

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

John Lawless, Director

From Center Stage To Starting Wage: Structuring Salary Transparency Legislation To Benefit The Performing Arts Industry, Emma Taylor

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

At The Outset: An Exploration Of Jazz And The Music Video, Riley Kramer

Honors Projects

This project centers around the creation of an original jazz composition and music video for the purpose of filling the gap in visual media used to promote jazz music. The history of music in film is briefly explored, as well as the history of jazz in film and music videos. Jazz is found to have been intertwined with film from the first widely available sound films, but the connection has since dwindled, with only a few modern jazz compositions having widely available music videos.

An original jazz tune, “At the Outset,” was created for this project. The details of the …

Teaching Statistics To Engineering Students – An Australian Experience Of Using Educational Technologies, Shahjahan Khan, Department Of Mathematics And Statistics, College Of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, Mohammad Mrk Khadem, Sujan Piya

Sultan Qaboos University Journal For Science

Engineers require scientific methods whereby models are developed to explain real phenomena. Model building, data collection, data analysis, and data interpretation form the very core of any sound engineering practice. Therefore statistical methodologies are vital components in engineering curricula and engineers should have the ability to think statistically when dealing with data. They should learn how to design and conduct well-planned experiments to improve the efficiency of the process and the quality of products, and must learn to deal with data, and interpret results produced as a part of their data analysis skills. Statistical methods are vital in engineering practices …

Antisemitism In Medieval Drama: The Villainization Of Judaism In The Croxton ‘Play Of The Sacrament’ And The York Corpus Christi Play, Amber Leech

English and Creative Writing Honors Papers

In early Middle England, Jews faced an onslaught of antisemitic violence as they were falsely accused of blood libels and the murdering of young children. This culminated in their expulsion from England in 1290, but although they had no legal standing in the country, antisemitism ran rampant in their absence. In this project, I will examine instances of antisemitism in medieval culture, specifically through its drama. The Croxton ‘Play of the Sacrament’ and The York Corpus Christi Play are two plays that display the antisemitism that permeated England throughout the Middle Ages by perpetuating stereotypes that Jews are violent and …

Spring Concert: April 27, 2025, Andrew Bruhn

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

April 27, 2025

Sunday Afternoon

6:00 p.m.

Spring Concert: April 27, 2025, Mark Grizzard, Tim Fredstrom, Andrew Bruhn

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

April 27, 2025

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

Gospel Choir

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Oral Moses, Director

Consuming The Tropics In The 'Age Of The Insect': Imperial Imaginaries Of Frontier Ecologies In Spectacular Expositions, Adria Capozzoli

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

By surveying representations of 'exotic' landscapes and 'monstrous' other-than-human creatures of the tropics featured in exhibits of the fin de siecle and early interwar period, including visual displays and descriptive language at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893) and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco (1915), this project examines tropical frontiers as conceived in the geographical imaginaries of the United States to explore how metropolitan audiences related to those environments encountered at the imperial periphery. Between 1890 and 1920, were the infamously exaggerated characterizations of nineteenth-century spectacle tempered by the advent of twentieth-century cultural and scientific discourses, …

In Process: The Mind Of A Dancer As Seen Through The Eyes Of Ai, William D. Kasheta

Academic Festival

Being one of the most changing forms of art, dance is a construct that grows with the body overtime. This process is one that is personal to every dancer, and one that I wanted to translate for myself. Through the eyes of AI, I was able to create abstract images that represent three stages of my personal process. Notice how each dancer in all three categories looks exactly the same in size, stature, and body type. The eyes of AI prove quite clearly that there is one type of dancer. Therefore, that translates to one process. It is important to …

The Shorthorn: February 24, 1959

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: June 30, 1958

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: June 2, 1958

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: June 16, 1958

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: April 30, 1958

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: May 6, 1958

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: April 15, 1958

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: April 22, 1958

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: February 17, 1958

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: November 19, 1957

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.

The Shorthorn: November 4, 1957

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1950s

No abstract provided.