Congratulations to WGS students Sophie Albanis, McKenna O’Dougherty and Daisy Ahlstone on their acceptance to the 2016 Undergraduate Research Symposium!

The Symposium will take place Friday, May 20, 2016 in the Global Scholars Hall, with primary activities and presentations beginning at 3:15 pm. A brief schedule:

• 3:15 – 5:00 pm: Concurrent Session 1 oral presentations
• 5:15 – 5:30 pm: Remarks from Provost Scott Coltrane & Vice Provost of Undergraduate Studies Lisa Freinkel
• 5:30 – 7:30 pm: Poster and creative work presentations
• 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm: Concurrent Session 2 oral presentations

Sophie, McKenna and Daisy will give oral presentations with the following titles:

Sophie Albanis: “The Chieftain’s Weary Daughter”: The Feminist Legacy and Mainstream Appropriation of Sarah Winnemucca
McKenna O’Dougherty: Poetry as a Portal and the Spaces Left Blank by Modern Settler-Colonial Education: A Native Feminist Reading of Joy Harjo’s “Perhaps the World Ends Here”
Daisy Ahlstone: The Great Tip-stery: An Exploration of Alice Sheldon’s Gender Play in the James Tiptree, Jr. Papers (1960’s- 1970’s)

Please join us in congratulating Sophie, McKenna and Daisy and supporting WGS research and research at large by visiting our students and students from diverse disciplines at the Symposium.

The full program booklet for the symposium can be found here.