16th Annual Romance Studies Undergraduate Research Symposium

9:30 - 9:55 Pastries/Coffee Buffet

9:55 - 10:00 Opening Remarks: DUS Mattia Begali

10:00-10:45 Panel 1 - Articulating Modern France: Aesthetic Form, National Identity, and Social Inquiry

Moderator: Anne-Gaëlle Saliot

Respondents: Felwine Sarr & Miriam Ould Aroussi

Barbara Marinescu - 19th and 20th century intertwined: Charles Baudelaire's Modern Poetry in Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave Cinema

Catherine Pyne - How Louis Philippe Shaped French National Identity

Karina Lu - The Sociological Interview Form in Godard's Cinema

10:45-11:30 Panel 2 - Investigating Global Inequality: Migration, Public Health, and Community-Based Care

Moderator: Liliana Paredes/Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (confirmed)

Respondents: Joan Clifford (confirmed), Teddy Romeyn (confirmed)

Angelli Garibaldi - Global Inequalities: Ethics, Poverty, and Empires

Ellie Amstrong - Belonging as Resistance: Pilares of Equitable Early Childcare in Buenos Aires

Ally Carey/Kate Seneshen - Investigating Social Determinants of Adolescent Pregnancy in the Cusco Region, Peru

11:30 Break

11:45-12:30 Panel 3 - Reconfiguring Cultural Production: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Capitalism, and Spiritual Aesthetics

Moderator: Saskia Ziolkowski

Respondents: Katryn Evinson (pending), Diego Avila Lopez