UCLA/Keck Humanistic Inquiry Undergraduate Research Awards Colloquium

Date/Time
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
All Day

Location
Powell Library Inquiry Lab 3 (Room 330)

Contact Information

You are invited to see the presentations of our UCLA Keck researchers.

Location: Powell Library, Room 330

Wednesday, February 18

Panel 1 9:30-10:30am

• Madness & Modernity: French Visual Culture and Psychiatric Discovery in the Long 18th Century Natalia Castillo
• Superimposition: Examining Layered Meanings of Maya Ruins in Yucatan Pilar Taylor
• Sylvia Plath in Suspension: Misrepresentation and A Life Survived by Death Brinn Wallin

Panel 2 10:40am-12:15pm

• The Green New Ideal: Bridging the Gap between Sustainable Acknowledgement and Practice in the UCLA/Getty Conservation of Cultural Heritage Program Lab Fiona Dunlap
• Between Advocacy and Access: Disability Healthcare in Lebanon Through Parental Eyes Gianna Karkafi
• Intergenerational Bonding for Environmental Sustainability Teshinee (Tinn) Kukamjad
• “Roots Uprooted: Environmental Degradation as a Tool of Occupation in Palestine” Aya Ibrahim

Panel 3 1:15-2:45pm

• Examining the Framing of Street Vendor Rights Campaigns in Los Angeles Jeannette Ciudad-Real
• Under the Hood: How Police Reports Become Crime Data Tahlia Rose Disisto
• Realizing Embeddedness: Institutional Logics During the Militarization of LA in Summer 2025 Katherine Sanchez Mara
• Who Watches Whom? A Cross-National Analysis of Streaming Consumption Defne Tanyildiz
• Democratic Decline: A Comparative Analysis of The United States, Hungary, and Poland Pilar Diaz

Thursday, February 19

Panel 1 9:00-10:30am

• Still in the Casket: Reception and Queer Gendered Bias in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” Shirley Cruz
• Beasts in Circuses: The Weaponization of Animality and Pastoral Aesthetics as Tools of Counterinsurgency in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Mariana De Oliveira Souza
• Wind Burial Christian Lee
• Costumbres and Costumes: Weaving History and Identity from the Decameron to the Quinceañera Alexa Rojas

Panel 2 10:45am-12:15pm

• The Campus Law Enforcement Framework: Examining the Impact of Campus Police, University Administration, and Government on Students Free Speech Namrata Deepak
• Musical Sanctuaries: The Role of Record Shops in the Gateway Cities Krupa Francis
• Black Sun on the Horizon: Oil Extraction Infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico Griffin Kinch
• Organizing Against the Algorithm: Motivations and Strategies Amongst Unionizing Rideshare Drivers in Los Angeles Mason Ng

Panel 3 1:15-2:30pm

• Risk Aversion in Adolescents with Anxiety Agamroop Kaur
• The Forgotten (Re)Construction of a Socialist Capital City in a Borderland Pavan Radhakrishnan
• “Fatally linked with their existence”: William Wirt, the Cherokee Cases, and Federal Indian Law Anton Stover
• Redesigning the AP Capstone Curriculum to Improve Student Access, Engagement, and Promote Critical Civic Action Researcher Identity Development Shreya Sundar

Panel 4 3:00-4:30pm

• Selective Global Justice: Tracing the Colonial Foundations of the ICC Jade Faircloth
• Constructing Legal and Normative Deservedness: Public Charge, Its Effects on Asian Immigrants, and Centering Resistance Fiona Lu
• Manufacturing Testimony in a Climate of Fear: Epistemic Injustice, Institutional Power, and the Collapse of Truth in the Kern County Child Abuse Trials Nicholas Neuweg
• Understanding Trait Breadth Across Time and Situations Tamanna Tikoo
• Heat Without Relief: Policy Gaps in State Prison Protections for People on Heat-Sensitive Medications Andrew Tsai