The Chen Lin mentors invite you to join them for the third annual Near/Mitra Scholar Salons. Anticipating their soon-to-be published work, this year’s scholars will present to the Harker community at individual 45-minute virtual presentations. We encourage students, faculty, alumni and parents to attend any or all of this year’s salons featuring these remarkable student projects.
Here’s an opportunity to hear about the research our scholars have pursued for nearly a year. After a brief introduction by their mentors, scholars will discuss the genesis of their research questions, their journeys, and the discoveries they made. An opportunity to ask questions will be provided at the end of each salon.
No registration is necessary. Just join the link listed next to each event below.
We hope to see you there!
Lauri Vaughan and Donna Gilbert
Co-Chairs, Near/Mitra Scholar Program
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Mon., March 13
Sabrina Zhu (Near Scholar) | 3:45-4:30 p.m. | JOIN SALON
How did Atlanta Constitution reporter and editor Ralph McGill harness techniques of New Journalism and craft appeals to the paper’s Southern readership, and to what extent did these strategies help promote his liberal stance throughout the Civil Rights Movement? | Mentors: Whitney Huang & Amy Pelman
Alex Lan (Mitra Scholar) | 4:45-5:30 p.m. | JOIN SALON
To what extent has Peru’s “gastronomic revolution” served as a vehicle of cultural exchange, social reunification, and economic resurgence following the 1980-2000 civil war? | Mentors: Chuck Witschorik & Meredith Cranston
Michelle Jin (Mitra Scholar) | 5:45-6:30 p.m. | JOIN SALON
To what extent did Kim Il-Sung’s attempts to “purify” the Korean language, specifically by promoting North Korean munhwae (“cultured language”) and removing foreign vocabulary, reinforce Juche (“self reliance”) ideology? | Mentors: Byron Stevens & Lauri Vaughan
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Tues., March 14
Sarah Fathima Mohammed (Mitra Scholar) | 3:45-4:30 p.m. | JOIN SALON
How does Warsan Shire’s poetry expose the effects of Muslim surveillance in twenty-first century Nairobi, evoking the internalized gaze expressed in Foucault’s panopticon? | Mentors: Nicholas Manjoine & Lauri Vaughan
Isha Moorjani (Mitra Scholar) | 4:45-5:30 p.m. | JOIN SALON
To what extent did indigenous languages in Chilean regions, specifically Mapudungun and Rapa Nui, influence modern Chilean Spanish, and how can Nahuatl’s influence on modern Mexican Spanish be used to further understand Indigenous language contributions in Chile? | Mentors: Isabel Garcia & Lauri Vaughan
Stephen Xia (Near Scholar) | 5:45-6:30 p.m. | JOIN SALON
How did systematic disadvantages against grassroots housing activists shape their defense of the International Hotel in the 1970s, and how did their struggle differ from similar efforts in the broader context of San Francisco redevelopment in the 1960s-80s | Mentors: Chris Gatto, Amy Pelman
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Thurs., March 16
Emmett Chung (Mitra Scholar) | 3:45-4:30 p.m. | JOIN SALON
To what extent did the salience of the issue of immigration accompany the rise and fall of die Republikaner, a nativist, right-wing populist party, in post reunification-era Germany? | Mentors: Matt McCorkle & Meredith Cranston
Rahul Mulputi (Near Scholar) | 4:45-5:30 p.m. | JOIN SALON
To what extent did the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII cause cultural homogenization and revitalization of Japanese music subculture and performance? How can this be understood in the context of musical resistance? | Mentors: Jennifer Sandusky & Meredith Cranston
Austina Xu (Near Scholar) | 5:45-6:30 p.m. | JOIN SALON
To what extent was Allen Ginsberg influenced by the modernist movement? In which of his works can that impact, if any, be seen, and what branches of modernism were at play? | Mentors: Charlie Shuttleworth & Lauri Vaughan
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