Saturday, December 4, 2021 The Symposium is an inter-college event where Res College students openly discuss the topics explored within each college’s respective theme.
Every student will give either a Presentation or a Poster, either as a group or as an individual project. Every student will also be an audience member for their peers.
At Registration, you will receive a name tag with your schedule on it. The Symposium is organized into two, concurrent, sessions: Session I: 1:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. & Session II: 3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Schedule overview is as follows:
12:30pm: Student and Moderator Registration, Holmes Hall Lobby 1pm: Opening Speaker, Shirah Moffatt-Darko ’18, Social Justice College, Trout Auditorium 1:40 - 3pm: Poster Session in Holmes Hall Lobby & Formal Presentations in Holmes Hall Classrooms 3:10pm - 4:30pm: Poster Session in Holmes Hall Lobby & Formal Presentations in Holmes Hall Classrooms 4:40 - 5pm: Plenary Party in Holmes Hall Lobby
La Perdida is a graphic novel based on the main character Carla, who is stuck between finding who she truly is and becoming who she thinks she needs to be. She moves to Mexico City to try and discover her Mexican heritage but finds herself trying to fit in and leaving her "American" side behind. She loses the friends and passions she has in order to live the "Mexican" lifestyle. Later in the graphic novel we find that she was just accepting the bad events in her life because she began to believe the Mexican stereotypes of the violent nature while living in Mexico City. She discovers that she could have been herself and done the things that brought her happiness in any place. She did not need a title or a category to define who she really is. In this series of close readings we will discuss the theme of identity and how that correlates with culture and belonging.
