REALC Undergraduate Student Research Symposium

Students hailing from a number of departments across Emory College came together to present their work in our eleventh-annual REALC Undergraduate Student Research Symposium! As in previous years, students were invited to submit abstracts outlining their research on the languages, cultures, societies, or politics of Russian and Eastern Europe, or Central and East Asia. This year's program was as follows:

Session I: Art and Visual Culture

Alyssa Jang "Out of Her Hands and Without Strings: Nina Simonovich-Efimova’s Avant-Garde Puppets and their Impact on Soviet Children"

Zoe Price "Productive Play: Handmade Toys and the Formation of the Soviet Child"

Amiee Zhao "China's Lying Flat Movement: Political Potential of Art Consumed in Distraction”

Lilith Ragsdale “Blood in the Water: Violent Women in Japanese Cinema”

Session II: Narrative and Memory

Alexandra Minovici "Sînge și Spaimă: The 1989 Revolution and the Politics of Violence in Socialist and Post-Socialist Romania"

Rachel Kroger - "Stories That Can't be Told: Hibakusha and Denshosha in Hiroshima"

Carol Wininger "Western Men on Confucius: Dissolving Intellectual Imperialism Through Comparative Philosophy"

Session III: Identity and Cultural Heritage

Chelsea Chen "The Korean American Church: Fostering Belonging, Identity, and Cultural Preservation"

Juni Park "Korea’s Growth Paradox: The Dichotomy between Economic Success and Deterioration of Women’s Health"

Zoe Stephens " Constructing Self with the Japanese Noise Experimental Genre "