conferences

URCA CONFERENCE (UCSB)

2023

Understanding Ourselves Through Storytelling

Sofia Mosqueda: “Of Earth and Sky”

Daian Martinez: “In the Middle”

Maya Salem: “Broken Hourglass: Myth-making in Civil War”

Reed Gaynor: “Pura Vida”

The Ideologies of Identity

Robbin Balagtas:  “The Rhetoric of Belonging at UCSB”

Minyi Jiang: “The Influence of Chinese Maoism in Iran”

Phoebe Pineda: “The Embattled Feminine Gaze: A Study in Reylo Discourse”

Elaina Smolin: “Behind the Shades: A Close Look at the Blurred Lines Between Joan Didion’s Fiction and Nonfiction”

2022

Luis Garcia (2022): Gaucho Survival Guide to Covid-19

Aurora Paget (2022): Lost in Translation: A look into Multilingualism’s Effect on Personality and Identity

Charlie Prindle (2022): The Eidolons

Luc Le (2022): The Kids Aren’t Alright: Depictions of Teenage Depression and Anxiety in Popular Fiction

Kaitlyn Soto (2022): Unsafe Passage: A Generational Story of Vietnamese “Boat People”

Kat Yuen (2022): The Ace-B-Cs: An Open Syllabus on Asexualities

CCCC (Undergraduate Research Poster Session)

Elaina Smolin (2023): The Limits of Creative Nonfiction: An Investigation of Genre Constraints in Collegiate Writing Classes

Leila Katibah (2023): Hyperreality in a Globalized and Digital World

Robbin May Balagtas (2023): The Rhetoric of Belonging at UCSB

Sydney Fry (2023): Minority Languages and the Survival of Cultural Identity

Kaitlyn Soto (2022): Unsafe Passage: A Generational Story of Vietnamese “Boat People”

Amelia Rodriguez (2021): “Becoming the Woe-Bringer: The Monstrousness of Heroism in Headley’s Beowulf and The Mere Wife”

Vivian Waldman-Randall (2021): Her Nature: Exploring Modes of Nature Writing through the Female Perspective

JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

Kiyan Atrian (2022): A “Chosen” Ministry: Drag Performance and Queer Religious Trauma

Aurora Paget (2022): “Lost in Translation: A look into Multilingualism’s Effect on Personality and Identity”

Connor (Zishi) Ding (2022): “Scar Siblings”

Julia Barrera (2022): “Breaking Binaries: a Zine on Gender Non-Conforming Experience”

Kaitlyn Soto (2022): “Unsafe Passage: A Generational Story of Vietnamese ‘Boat People'”

Kat Yuen (2022): “‘DO YOU LIKE SEX?’: Exploring Queer Theory with the Personal as Asexual Creative”

Marie-Fleur Borac (2022): “The Orthoverse Unpack”

Sarah Hamm (2022): “Preventing and Healing Domestic Abuse: A Policy Investigation of Meditation in Public”

2021

Amelia Rodriguez (2021): Screeving Queens: Polari, Performance, and Concealment

Katherine Swartz (2021): “Twenty Years Too Many: The Evolution of Practices and Purposes in the War in Afghanistan”

Lukas Aeschlimann (2021): “Larry-Made: The Life and Death of Larry Aeschlimann, and the Lessons Found Therein”

Nickita Gupta (2021): “Stories Untold: Immigrant Perspectives of the American Dream”

Rebecca Bogdanovic (2021): “The Lady Who Came With Me: An Investigation into the Americanized Rhetoric of Immigration”

Samantha Abajian (2021): “Curling Back to Your Roots: Profiles of Curly Hair Journeys”

Vivian Walman-Randall (2021): “An Ocean Apart: A Novel about Women on the Sea”

2020

Melody Roth (2020): Mixed Emotions: “An Introspective Study on Modern Mixed-Race Liminality”

Hannah Mok (2020): “The Cupertino Bubble: Technological, Ethnic, and Societal Influences on Student Attitudes Toward Education”

URCA Digital Colloquium (UCSB)

2022

Grace Wilken (2022): Days and Nights: An Anti Manic Pixie Dream Girl Film

Kenny Moody (2022): The Sound of Queerness In Tap Dance

Connor (Zishi) Ding (2022): Scar Siblings

Sarah Hamm (2022): Meditation in Public Schools for Preventing and Healing Domestic Abuse

Charlie Prindle (2022): The Grimm Manor

2020

Jack Holbrook (2020): Screenplay Adaptation: Richard Brautigan’s A Confederate General from Big Sur

Hannah Mok (2020): The Cupertino Bubble: Technological, Ethnic, and Societal Influences on Student Attitudes Toward Education

Melody Roth (2020): Mixed Emotions: An Introspective Study on Modern Mixed-Race Liminality