Final Talks and Panels Schedule 2025

Mount David Summit 2025 Schedule

The 2025 Mount David Summit will be held in-person. Our programming is covered over three sessions throughout the day.

Summit SessionTimeJump to Schedule
Session 11:45 – 3 PMJump to Session 1
Session 23:15 – 4: 30 PMJump to Session 2
Session 34:45 – 6 PMJump to Session 3

Complete Schedule

The complete schedule below allows for searching of names and keywords as well as filtering Summit session.

Session Session Time Location Student Name/Moderator Session Title Advisor
1Tristan Koepke, DanceEmbodied Dialogues: Perspectives on Collaboration and Choreographic Practice
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill 116Elizabeth Nahigian ’26Embodied Dialogues: Perspectives on Collaboration and Choreographic PracticeTristan Koepke, Dance
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill 116Jane Drumm ’25Embodied Dialogues: Perspectives on Collaboration and Choreographic PracticeTristan Koepke, Dance
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill 116Lola Buczkowski ’25Embodied Dialogues: Perspectives on Collaboration and Choreographic PracticeTristan Koepke, Dance
1Christine B McDowell, TheaterProduction as Pedagogy: Directing, Design and Management in the Theater
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill 162Emma Seitz ’25Production as Pedagogy: Directing, Design and Management in the TheaterKati Vecsey, Theater
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill 162Kerrigan Anuszewski ’25Production as Pedagogy: Directing, Design and Management in the TheaterChristine B McDowell, Theater
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill 162Sophie Hafter ’25Production as Pedagogy: Directing, Design and Management in the TheaterChristine B McDowell, Theater
1Stephanie Kelley Romano, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen StudiesFilm, Art, and Documentary Rhetoric
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill 257Matt Hamilton ’25Film, Art, and Documentary RhetoricStephanie Kelley Romano, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill 257Kyle Woodworth ’25Film, Art, and Documentary RhetoricStephanie Kelley Romano, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill 257Emma Sablan ’25Film, Art, and Documentary RhetoricStephanie Kelley Romano, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
1Todd Kahan, PsychologyResearch in Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G10Olivia Joaquin ’25Situations of Habituation: Examining Habitual versus Goal-Directed Behaviors Under de Wit’s Slips of Action TaskTodd Kahan, Psychology
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G10Lydia Frew ’25The Hidden Curriculum in Dance: Investigating the Relationship between Perceived Social Psychological Climate and Dancers’ Body ImageSusan Langdon, Psychology
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G10Sierra Aponte Clarke ’25Conditions Warranting and Restricting Care: Analyzing Crisis Pregnancy CentersRebecca Herzig, Gender and Sexuality Studies
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G10Lena LaPierre ’26The Naked Truth: Art Scandals, the Russian Mass Media, and the Hairy Legs of Leo TolstoyCaroline Shaw, History
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G10Ilyas Bashir ’25转难为易 “Turning Difficulties Into Ease”Nathan Faries, Asian Studies
1Seulgie Lim, PoliticsGender, Power, and Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Meghan Peters ’28Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Muey Li ’28Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Mark Steinnagel Taylor ’28Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Charlotte Bernhard ’28Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Grace Yonchak ’26Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Bella Daly ’27Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Jack Markert ’27Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Hannah Kothari ’26Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Raven Zhang ’28Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Dara Salka ’28Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Mari Nolasco Alcantara ’28Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Tia Billimoria ’27Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Leia Gallego-Calle ’25Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Cate Sauri ’28Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Naina Kondragunta ’28Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Sophie McDevitt ’27Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G21Annie Roach ’27Gender, Power, and PoliticsSeulgie Lim, Politics
1Katie Adkison, EnglishCrafting Power and Desiring Wit: Feminist Readings of Shakespear
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G50Eva Hynes ’25“Now go we in content to liberty, and not to banishment”: Queer Utopia in Shakespeare’s As You Like ItKatie Adkison, English
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G50Mary Beth Tune ’25Art, Craft, Witchcraft: Colonial Obsession and the Racialized Female Body in The TempestKatie Adkison, English
1Jess Anthony, EnglishThe Creative Writing Thesis Readings
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G52Talia Skaistis ’25The Creative Writing Thesis ReadingsJess Anthony, English
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G52Liya Simon ’25The Creative Writing Thesis ReadingsJess Anthony, English
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G52Julianne Massa ’25The Creative Writing Thesis ReadingsJess Anthony, English
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G52Ava Lyon ’25The Creative Writing Thesis ReadingsJess Anthony, English
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G52Kaitlin Kavanagh ’25The Creative Writing Thesis ReadingsJess Anthony, English
1Stephanie Pridgeon, Hispanic StudiesHispanic Studies Panel
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G54Ben Auerbach ’25“Las Locas”: A Case Study of Sexuality as a Means of Resistance and Self-expressionClaudia Aburto Guzmán, Hispanic Studies
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G54Max Good ’25Portafolio de Maxwell Good: Una reflexión de los Estudios Hispánicos en Bates CollegeStephanie Pridgeon, Hispanic Studies
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G54Ella Beiser ’25Tacones Rebeldes: Resistencia Queer y la Desestabilización de la Dictadura en las Producciones Artísticas de LemebelClaudia Aburto Guzmán, Hispanic Studies
1Darby Ray and Morgan Kinney, Harward Center for Community PartnershipsResearch and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary Explorations
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G65Amanda Zerbib ’25Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary ExplorationsDarby Ray and Morgan Kinney., Harward Center for Community Partnerships
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G65Inez Johnson ’25Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary ExplorationsDarby Ray and Morgan Kinney., Harward Center for Community Partnerships
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G65Christian Cabello ’25Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary ExplorationsDarby Ray and Morgan Kinney., Harward Center for Community Partnerships
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G65Maggie Kornfeind ’25Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary ExplorationsDarby Ray and Morgan Kinney., Harward Center for Community Partnerships
11:45 PM – 3:00 PMPettengill G65Heidi Nydam ’25Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary ExplorationsDarby Ray and Morgan Kinney., Harward Center for Community Partnerships
2Steve Engle, PoliticsPolitics Department Honors Thesis Panel
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 116Sarah Senator ’25Politics Department Honors Thesis PanelSteve Engle, Politics
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 116Maple Buescher ’25Politics Department Honors Thesis PanelSteve Engle, Politics
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 116Izzy Beck ’25Politics Department Honors Thesis PanelSteve Engle, Politics
2Jason Castro, NeuroscienceResearch in Neuroscience and Psychology
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 162Tommo White ’25Predicting Odor-evoked Brain Activity Maps from Molecular FeaturesJason Castro, Neuroscience
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 162Joey Ireland ’25Memory Intrusions and the BreathJustin Hulbert, Neuroscience
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 162Luca Costea ’25Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Disorders like NF1: Reflections for Future ResearchMollie Woodworth, Neuroscience
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 162Lion He ’25The Impact of Social Distance and Temporal Distance on Thinking About a Good LifeMichael Sargent, Psychology
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 162Rosie McKerley ’25The Impact of Social Distance and Temporal Distance on Thinking About a Good LifeKathy Mathis, Psychology
2Mark Tizzoni, Classical and Medieval StudiesGlobal Premodern and Early Modern Studies at Bates
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 257Bora Lugunda ’25In Search of Witches: Kongolese Cosmology and the Opperation of PowerMark Tizzoni, Classical and Medieval Studies
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 257Rosalie Brown ’27Forging Meaning: Recreating Ancient Greek Metalwork in a Modern Blacksmith ShopLisa Maurizio, Classical and Medieval Studies
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 257George Miller ’25Athanasian Asceticism: Late Antique Egyptian Christian Identity in Ascetic LiteratureMark Tizzoni, Classical and Medieval Studies
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill 257Gongshi Huang ’25Royal Guards, The Mixi Sword, and Political Identities:
Mongols as Co-Founders of the Ming Dynasty		Mark Tizzoni, Classical and Medieval Studies
2Dale Chapman, MusicContemporary Approaches to Music Studies
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G10Stella Gould ’25The Present Sound of the Past: The Soul Revival and Resurgence of Vinyl in the 21st CenturyDale Chapman, Music
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G10Efe Sert ’25From Liberation to Commodification: The Shifting Ethos of Club MusicDale Chapman, Music
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G10Ava Clancy ’25Songs of Resistance: The Intersection of Labor, Music, and Culture in Appalachian Coal Mining CommunitiesDale Chapman, Music
2Carolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art and Visual CulturePart I: Artist Talks by AVC Studio Art Thesis Students
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G21Erin McCarthy ’25Artist Talks by AVC Studio Art Thesis StudentsCarolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G21Avery Lehman ’25Artist Talks by AVC Studio Art Thesis StudentsCarolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G21Miryam Keller ’25Artist Talks by AVC Studio Art Thesis StudentsCarolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G21Lizi Barrow ’25Artist Talks by AVC Studio Art Thesis StudentsCarolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
2Cheryl Stephenson, RussianEuropean Studies
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G50Charles Renvyle ’25The Use of Natalism by European Right-Wing Populists across Italy, France, and PolandFrancesco Duina, Sociology
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G50Lily Ritch ’25Czech New Wave Film: The Critique of Authority through Cinematic StyleCheryl Stephenson, Russian
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G50Matthew Kijowski ’25Playing for Independence: The Role of Soccer in Nation-Building among Unrecognized European StatesFrancesco Duina, Sociology
2Mike Rocque, SociologySociology Thesis Panel
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G52Julia Oliver ’25Sociology Thesis PanelMike Rocque, Sociology
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G52Risa Horiuchi ’25Sociology Thesis PanelMike Rocque, Sociology
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G52Jenna Thomas ’25Sociology Thesis PanelMike Rocque, Sociology
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G52Jaewoo Kim ’25Sociology Thesis PanelFrancesco Duina, Sociology
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G52Sophia Cattalani ’25Sociology Thesis PanelHeidi Taylor, Sociology
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G52Charlotte Gisborne ’25Sociology Thesis PanelMike Rocque, Sociology
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G52Adam Joseph ’25Sociology Thesis PanelMike Rocque, Sociology
2Liana Brent, Classical and Medieval StudiesStudent Research on Roman Slavery
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G54Julia Neumann ’25Student Research on Roman SlaveryLiana Brent, Classical and Medieval Studies
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G54Elias Jones ’27Student Research on Roman SlaveryLiana Brent, Classical and Medieval Studies
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G54Phoebe Zhou ’26Student Research on Roman SlaveryLiana Brent, Classical and Medieval Studies
2Stephanie Kelley-Romano,Rhetoric, Film, and Screen StudiesThe Rhetoric of Politics in Popular Culture
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G65Kevin O’Connor ’25The Rhetoric of Politics in Popular CultureStephanie Kelley-Romano,Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G65Summer Barnett ’25The Rhetoric of Politics in Popular CultureStephanie Kelley-Romano,Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G65Sophie Wheeler ’25The Rhetoric of Politics in Popular CultureStephanie Kelley-Romano,Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
23:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G65Garrett Glasgow ’25The Rhetoric of Politics in Popular CultureStephanie Kelley-Romano,Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3Mara Tieken, EducationStudent Teaching Presentations
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 116Lucy Edmunds ’25Teaching 8th Grade Social Studies at Lewiston Middle SchoolMara Tieken, Education
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 116Declan Sheehan ’25Experiences with Student Teaching: US History and Debate at Lewiston High SchoolMara Tieken, Education
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 116Madyson Gonzalez ’25How the Maine Teaching Standards are Reflected in My 7th-Grade Social Studies ClassroomMara Tieken, Education
3Megan Boomer, Art and Visual CultureResearch in Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 162Ella Hannaford ’26Crafting Faith and Identity: The Pink Qur’an as Islamic ArtMegan Boomer, Art and Visual Culture
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 162Clara Kennedy ’25Not Just a Woman Artist: Ethel Schwabacher and her Re-painting of Abstract ExpressionismErin Nolan, Art and Visual Culture
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 162Jade Pinto ’25Amaterasu: The Embodiment of the Spiritual and SensualJustine Wiesinger, Japanese
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 162Wes DeOreo ’25Cultural Agency in Occupied Germany and its Impact on German Autonomy from 1945 to 1950Jakub Kazecki, German
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 162Nakelm Nicholson ’25Queer Mystics’ way of the African DiasporaBaltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies
3Mark Tizzoni, HistoryGood Farmer, Good Shepherd, and Good Neighbor: Environmental Histories at Bates
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 257Maria McEvoy ’25Sheep, Blood, and Empire: The Pastoral Politics of Racial Purity in Early Modern SpainMark Tizzoni, Classical and Medieval Studies
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 257Gongshi Huang ’25Royal Guards, The Mixi Sword, and Political Identities:
Mongols as Co-Founders of the Ming Dynasty		Mark Tizzoni, Classical and Medieval Studies
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 257Willa Wang ’25Praying for the Rain: Local Power and Belief in the Jinzhong Basin in the Late QingWesley Chaney, History
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill 257Aneeza Ahmad ’25To Be a ‘Good Farmer’: Wabanaki, White, and Somali Bantu Perspectives on Farming in MaineWesley Chaney, History
3Anelise, Shrout, Digital & Computational StudiesBodies, Memory, and State Control
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G10Keira January ’25Bodies, Memory, and State ControlAnelise, Shrout, Digital & Computational Studies
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G10Maura Ferrigno ’25Bodies, Memory, and State ControlAnelise, Shrout, Digital & Computational Studies
3Carolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art and Visual CulturePart II: Artist Talks by AVC Studio Art Thesis Students
33:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G21Danny Zuniga Zarat ’25Artist Talks by AVC Studio Art Thesis StudentsCarolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
33:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G21Lila Schaefer ’25Artist Talks by AVC Studio Art Thesis StudentsCarolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
33:15 PM – 4:30 PMPettengill G21Alex Provasnik ’25Artist Talks by AVC Studio Art Thesis StudentsCarolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
3Lucy Britt, PoliticsResearch in Politics
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G50Lily Miller ’25Plunging into the “Mommysphere”: The Inadvertent ‘Birth’ of Anti-Abortion Rhetoric in the Radical Discussion of Bodily Autonomy in Mommy BlogsLucy Britt, Politics
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettegnill G50Gabriela Ruberto ’25A Deeper Dive into the Realities of Campus Sexual Assault Adjudication: Assessing the Conflicts of Title IX, Due Process Rights, and Trauma-Informed PracticeSteve Engel, Politics
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G50Rashad King ’25Caribbean Republicanism & Neocolonial Tourism: Expanding Republicanism to Confront Postcolonial Economic DependencyLisa Gilson, Politics
3Ryan Cole, PhysicsResearch in STEM
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G52Peter Weil ’26Characterization of Widely-Tunable-Random-Access DBR Laser for Gas Spectroscopy and Greenhouse Gas SensingRyan Cole, Physics
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G52Lucy Hensley ’25New Insights into Chemical Cues and Prey Naivety: Herbivory of Littorina obtusata in the Presence of the Invasive European Green Crab (Carcinas maenas)Kat Anderson, Biology
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G52Kaidi Stec ’25A Comparative Genomic Synthesis of the SNARE and Endocytosis KEGG Pathways in Homo sapiens and Ephydatia muelleriApril Horton, Biology
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G52Adriana Pastor Almiron ’25Rethinking Mathematics, Computing, and Data for EquityCarrie Diaz Eaton, Digital & Computational Studies
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G52Hopper Clark ’25Patterns Among Ulam WordsSenia Sheydvasser, Mathematics
3Joe Hall, HistoryReconsidering Bates’s History
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G65Sarah Lieber ’26Reconsidering Bates’s HistoryJoe Hall, History
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G65Whitney Miller ’26Reconsidering Bates’s HistoryJoe Hall, History
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G65Jonah Yaffe ’26Reconsidering Bates’s HistoryJoe Hall, History
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G65Kaeleigh Leone ’26Reconsidering Bates’s HistoryJoe Hall, History
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G65Eloise Wyatt ’26Reconsidering Bates’s HistoryJoe Hall, History
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G65Zachary Rosenthal ’26Reconsidering Bates’s HistoryJoe Hall, History
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G65Rosina Makwabe ’26Reconsidering Bates’s HistoryJoe Hall, History
34:45 PM – 6:00 PMPettengill G65Megan Billings ’26Reconsidering Bates’s HistoryJoe Hall, History