April 24, 2026

James Farmer Hall, Room 204

8:45 a.m.    Art History URES 197 American Prints Exhibition Introduction

9:00 a.m.     Kelsey Kirby
Creator and Contributor: Life and Legacy of Wendy J. Shadwell ‘63

9:15 a.m.     Sarah Rudd
Society, Scholarship, and Sisterhood: Mary Washington, 1959-1963

9:30 a.m.     Caty Taylor
Wendy J. Shadwell ’63 Through the Voices of Others: Research through Oral History Interviews

9:45 a.m.     Avery Sprouse
Wendy J. Shadwell ’63 and American Historical Prints in American Collections 

10:00 a.m.  Art History Individual Study Introduction (and 5 min. break)

10:15 a.m.    Kelsey Kirby
The Religious and Political Viewpoints of Tudor Court Artists During the Reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I

10:30 a.m.    Nico Indovina
Cannibal Ghouls of Japan: The Representation of Cannibalism in Contemporary Japanese Manga.

10:45 a.m. BREAK

11:00 a.m.  Religious Studies Introduction

11:15 a.m.    Carolyn Jenkins
Christian Missionaries’ Activities with Native Americans and Enslaved Africans

11:30 a.m.    Anissa Molnar
The Age of Confessionalization and the Effects of Modern Catholicism and Shi’ite Sects

11:45 a.m.    Gifty Anhwere
The Impact of Practicing Mindfulness on Depression Treatment Outcomes: Techniques, Experiences, and Recovery

12:00 Noon   Haylee Saddler
The Legacy of Early Christian Women in Contemporary Christianity

12:15 – 1:00         LUNCH BREAK

1:00 p.m.    Anthropology Introduction

1:15 p.m.     Makayla Bowman
An Alignment of Absences: The Medicalization of Death and its         Implications on Archaeological Methodology

1:30 p.m.     Madison Worth
Everyday Kinship Work: Emotional Labor and   

Boundary‑Setting in Online Family Narratives

1:45 p.m.     Liliana Eib
What Cannot Be Scaled: Memory, Family, and Vietnamese Community in Arlington’s Little Saigon and Eden Center

2:00 p.m.     Omega Fitch
I Know My Name: Liminality, Pilgrimage and The Reclamation of Identity Among Bantu peoples.

2:15 p.m.     Will Jarrett
One Man Through Two Lenses: An Ethnographic Interpretation of Jean Rouch’s Films

2:30 p.m.    BREAK

2:45 p.m.    Classical Studies Introduction

3:00 p.m.     Attilio Piazza
Spatial Characteristics of the Neolithic Shulaveri-Shomu Culture of the Southern Caucasus

3:15 p.m.     Jackson Ackermann
Political Organization of the Pre-Roman Venetii

3:30 p.m.     Ava Ward
Euripides’ Herakles: A Translation and Commentary

3:45 p.m.     Abigail Ognek
The Library War: Competition and Espionage between the Library of Alexandria and the Library of Pergamon  

4:00 p.m.    BREAK

4:15 p.m.     Brendan Bell
The Afterlife in Ancient Roman and Ancient Egyptian Beliefs and Practices

4:30 p.m.     Ally Dawahare
Ancient Roman Hairstyles: a Digital Gallery and Timeline

4:45 p.m.     Elizabeth Moore
Ancient Martyrdom Narratives and the Catholic Mass

5:00 p.m.     Vesper Padgett
The Mythographic Genealogy of Cupid

5:15 p.m.     Aaron Moreno
Interactive digital course in Greek and Latin pronunciation