First wave feminists (1849-1919) advocated for all manner of political and social reform beyond achieving the vote. Dress reform, which sought to create healthier and simpler clothing, had variations across religious and class lines. Reform was influenced by two sources. The first were opinions regarding female vanity. The second was a copious body of publications […]
B21: Japanese 2.5D Musicals: Another Disney-on-Broadway effort to bring 2-dimensional pictures to life?
2.5D musicals refers to 3-dimensional theatrical adaptations of 2-dimensional animations, comics, and games (ACG) in Japan. 2.5D musical is a part of the 2.5D culture, which, according to Joel Gn, facilitates the dissemination of fictional content from Japanese ACG products (2D) to physical reality (3D) via intermedia communication (2023). Within the broader spectrum of 2.5D […]
B26: Navigating the Challenges of Learning Japanese: A Linguistic Analysis of Learner Difficulties, Pedagogical Solutions, and the Importance of Sociolinguistic Elements
When it comes to Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy, Japanese is no easy task, especially for a native English speaker in a classroom setting. This is because the Japanese language has many unique characteristics that are far different from English, like the complexity of Kanji characters, counter-words, and many others. These unique characteristics in Japanese […]
B27: Italian Americans in Ohio Oral History Project
Madeline Northup discovered her love of storytelling at a young age from her grandfather, an American citizen born in WWII Italy. Every time he would stop a stranger to tell them his life story, she would hang on to his every word. As she got older, she realized that if she did not record his […]
C41: Inquires into Natural History and Colonial Persistence
Many natural history institutions built their collections by taking scientific specimens while on colonial expeditions, and the implementation of human culture or specimens rarely took consent of the parties involved into account. On a study abroad trip to London, England in January of 2024, I examined a few examples of colonial expeditions, racist rhetoric, and […]
C48: Interactions Between Stress and Alcohol in Undergraduate Students at Miami University
College students are frequently described as stressed and more likely to engage in alcohol consumption by themselves, public health officials, the media, and the general public. Stress has been perceived to develop due to workload, negative emotions, adverse life events, and dramatic, intense changes (Kent et al., 2022). The college experience is a time of […]
C60: Somatic Symptoms in Relation to Mental Health in Transitioning College Students
Our group’s general research area is mental health in college students; specifically, what we are focusing on is the presence of somatic (physical) symptoms in transitioning college students with mental health issues or experiences. Our work was conducted via an online survey; students from the LEADS Institute Programs were asked to fill out the form […]
C62: Analysis of Qing Dynasty Representations of Guanyin
Taking as its central object of study a unique painting whose religious subject is expressed in a secular, sensual style, this project aims to explore the idiosyncrasies and intersections of artistic production and religious devotion in late imperial China. Guanyin on a Lotus Leaf (anonymous, 18th century) is the only known meiren hua, or “beautiful […]
BI-04: Teresa Ries & “The Witch”: An Erased Icon of Early Feminist Art
This project examines the life of the forgotten artist of the Vienna Secession, Teresa Ries, and her contributions to the world of art. To conduct this research, three scholars, Anka Lesniak, Julie M. Johnson, and Valerie Habsburg, were the main sources used by the researcher to fill in biographical details of the artist’s life. These […]
BIII-01: Power in the Myths of Medusa and Persephone: Case-Studies in Classical Reception
Classical Reception is the process by which, “individuals and societies continually reappropriate and redefine classical antiquity in an effort to assert (or, at times, to challenge) continuity with a privileged past,” (Broder 505). It encourages classicists to examine the impacts ancient texts have made on those who have interacted with them and reveals the values […]