This event provides the opportunity for CES thesis research grantees to present their research and preliminary findings and receive constructive feedback during their writing process from faculty, scholars and fellow students.
For the Harvard community, this event is an opportunity to learn from new research and findings on diverse social science topics related to Europe. Moreover, for students considering writing a thesis and applying for a CES senior thesis grant, this conference helps to illustrate what to expect in preparing and writing a thesis as well as the benefits from this rigorous but rewarding process.
For a full agenda and list of speakers, see below. This event is open to the public!
Conference Agenda
1:30pm – 2:50pm – Panel 1: At the Intersection of Science and Identity
Chair: Michael Tworek, Research Associate, History Department, and CES Thesis Workshop Organizer, Harvard University
Commentator: Taru Haapala, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Autonomous University of Madrid; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
Senior Presenters (10 minutes each):
Russell Reed, "Savage Guerrilla, Sacred Ape: Defining Human and State in Central African Mountain Gorilla Conservation"
Rebecca Thau, "Algerian, Jewish, and (Maybe) French Theory: The Intellectual Reverberations of Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous’ Mixité"
May Wang, "Irrational Chromatics: Structure and Form of Color in Hardy, Flaubert, and Herschel"
Benjamin Roy, “φιλο/ξενο/φοβος : Cretan Identity in Literature After the Wars of the 1940's”
Comments, Discussion & Q&A
2:-50pm – 3:05pm – Coffee Break
3:05pm – 4:30pm – Law & Social Policy
Chair: Hannah Callaway, Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and CES Thesis Workshop Organizer, Harvard University
Commentator: Anna Malandrino, Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
Senior Presenters (10 minutes each):
Lily Jacobs, “Frankfurt School Critical Theory: A Contemporary Colonial Conversation”
Matthew Keating, "From Lesvos to Leipzig: Comparative Legal Frameworks & Obstacles for LGBT Asylum Seekers in the EU”
Selena Zhao, "Mass vs. Elite-level Sectarianism in Consociational Northern Ireland"
Vanessa Ruales Navas, “The UK’s Nutritional Labelling System: The Role of the Public Health Sector”
Comments, Discussion & Q&A
