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Never Left The Dreaming: A Study Of Decolonization And Enchantment, Javin R. Lee-Lobel

Senior Projects Spring 2024

There is a belief in contemporary left politics that we must re-enchant the world because it has been disenchanted by coloniality: the meanings and sacredness which uphold community and sustain harmony with the earth have been drained through the ‘Western’ project of colonization, modernization, and capitalism. The problem with this belief is that we cannot re-enchant what we understand to be inherently disenchanted.

Via the ontological turn in anthropology, an understanding of the world emerges that is not disenchanted, but inherently imbued with meanings. Enchantment is not applied upon or removed from nonhuman bodies by human minds but is woven …

Balancing Modernist Structures With Destructuring: A Philosophical Exploration Of Art, Jiachen Liang

Senior Projects Spring 2024

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

Twentieth Century Reforms In Traditional Chinese Music, Jinou Dong

Senior Projects Spring 2024

This historical research project explores the transformation of Chinese national music in the twentieth century and the reforms in traditional Chinese music, including its education and performance from 1911 to the present under different political and social backgrounds. It focuses on the impact of different ideologies of music reform, the fusion of Western music with Chinese national music in terms of compositional techniques, musical forms, and Western music theories, as well as the path of Chinese music reform. This inquiry takes as its primary example the Pipa, a traditional four string plucking instrument that has been played for thousands years …

Abandonada, Luiz Emanuel De Castro Moura

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Divisions of Arts of Bard College

Tender Inoculations, Eli Nicolaus Bickford

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Tender Inoculations is an inquiry into the way that radical tenderness is a methodology for decolonization

The Immigrant Nannies Of New York City: An Examination Of The Friendships Between Nannies And Mother-Employers, Esmeralda Paula

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This ethnography focuses on the emotions of the women of color who elaborated on their experiences working for wealthy, white families in ethnographic interviews. This project is interested in the connections formed between nannies and mother-employers with the goal of better understanding the positionalities of female domestic workers of color. Immigrant populations are frequently depicted by news outlets as overworked, underpaid, and poor. When interacting with nannies, I realized that these women did not consider themselves impoverished despite working in a role that is identifiable with servanthood. The labor that nannies perform calls back to a long tradition of women …

Je Me Souviens: Visualizing Language In Québec’S Quiet Revolution, Vita Bowman Sherin-Jones

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

The Open Boat, Nanda Jean Vashti Fogle

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Plantain Stain, Loreli Mojica

Senior Projects Spring 2018

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

"All This For A Film You Haven't Seen": Reflections On Much Loved, Sarah A. Weinstein

Senior Projects Spring 2016

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

"It's Getting Gangsa Up In Here": Balinese Gamelan In The Western Academy, Ruadhan Davis Ward

Senior Projects Spring 2016

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

"I" Am History: The Individual As A Historian, Samyukta Srinath Dore

Senior Projects Fall 2015

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

Walls Have Ears But They Also Speak –A Comparative Study Of Two Playgrounds, Anna Hirson-Sagalyn

Senior Projects Spring 2015

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

The Bangwa Queen: Interpretations, Constructions, And Appropriations Of Meaning Of The Esteemed Ancestress Figure From The Cameroon Grassfields, Julia Lynn Defabo

Senior Projects Spring 2014

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

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

Suffering For Salvation: Nikolai Klyuev's Poetics Of Brotherhood And Deliverance, Michael Victor Gluck

Senior Projects Spring 2013

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

The Family Dialogue: Language Acculturation And Its Impact On Perceived Family Conflict Among Asian Americans, Qi Xu

Senior Projects Spring 2011

The present study examines the acculturation gap and the acculturation dimension of language between 1^st - 2^nd generation Asian Americans (Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Malaysian) adolescents and their first generation immigrant parents and its predicted relationship to the likelihood of perceived family conflict. Survey data was collected from 34 Asian American college students using the Suinn-Lew Asian Self Identity Acculturation Scale (SL-ASIA) and the Asian American Family Conflicts Scale (AAFCS). It was predicted that the larger the gap between the levels of acculturation and language acculturation of the parent and child, the greater the likelihood of experienced family conflict. …