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The Little Angel: Little Sister
No full textMaterials: Digital Painting
Dimensions: 3 x 2 feet
Project Advisor: Tony Conrad
Year of Graduation: 2022https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2022/1032/thumbnail.jp
Charting Autistic Voices
No full textCharting Autistic Voices began as a quest in my university library. I wanted to know when and where autism originated as a diagnosis, and how it came to name other people and myself as autistic.
I came away with questions, the main one: how do autistic voices write back; reclaim autism and embody it? And how is this at odds with our silence when autism is named in a clinical sense?
What I found is that we inhabit a space in texts that is expansive, visual, and rich, especially when we write out of silence and gesture; when we push back from the margins.
I looked for ways to understand how autistic voices inhabit text, gravitating toward poetry, where silence and gesture wield power through imagery and polyvocality. I looked for where silence and movement were at odds with normative spaces.
I wrote from a space as an autistic voice of color, and sought to find other spaces in texts those other autistic voices of color inhabited. I examined the intersections of marginalized identities, including race, queerness, and disability, to parse the expansiveness of autism and reclaiming autism from the rest.
I found the first autistic voices in Leo Kanner’s original article introducing autism into psychiatry in the 1940s, and put these voices in conversation with the wider, contemporary space of disability poetics; the figurings of racialized autistic bodies occupying history (Avonte Oquendo, Thomas Wiggins, Kamala and Amala) in contemporary poetry and journalistic texts; other autistic poets writing from an autobiographical perspective; poet-parents gazing at autism from a distance; and my own.
Charting Autistic Voices imagines an autism poetics pushing back against erasure to reclaim and inhabit the body, silence, loss, and remap the seeming un-placeability of autistic voices in texts.
I explore silence as a form of communication, language employed by and around autistic speakers often rooted in imagery to chart new, alternate landscapes not confined to the periphery. I illuminate space where autistic voices exist and interact with and disrupt a normative space formed by the medicalized discourse encasing autism as a diagnostic label and intersecting oppressions inherent to neocolonial landscapes
The Bee Library: Exhibition View
No full textProject Advisors: Meghan Sullivan and Benjamin D. Rinehart
Year of Graduation: 2022https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2022/1067/thumbnail.jp
Interference: Exhibition View
No full textProject Advisors: Tony Conrad, Meghan Sullivan
Year of Graduation: 2022https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2022/1064/thumbnail.jp
Evaluating the Biogeochemical Effects of Enhanced Rock Weathering at Lawrence University
Get PDFOn geologic timescales, the weathering of silicate rocks is among the most powerful negative feedbacks controlling atmospheric CO2. However, this process is too slow to meaningfully impact our current climate crisis. Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) is one of the most promising carbon capture strategies to remove anthropogenic carbon from the atmosphere. Models suggest that by crushing silicate rocks such as basalt to increase surface area, the process of rock weathering can be accelerated to sequester enough carbon to be significant on human timescales. At Lawrence University, ERW is being investigated to (1) field test the efficacy of the geochemical models that predict promising results for ERW, and to (2) test how the model responds to different soil and climatic conditions. Chemical analyses were conducted to determine the mineralogical changes in the soil with response to the basalt. ICP, SEM-EDS, qXRD, and pH were measured to find the relative concentrations of magnesium and titanium within the sample, secondary mineral growth, temporal mineralogical changes, and the concentration of H+ ions respectively. My work at Lawrence will contribute to improving the biogeochemical models of ERW and provide a framework for the feasibility of ERW as a long-term carbon storage mechanism in the Midwest
Plato’s Republic: There and Back Again
No full textThis lecture on Plato’s Republic was recorded in September 2022. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the Freshman Studies program. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to liberal learning, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Chloe Armstrong, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lawrence. Professor Armstrong is an expert on the history of philosophy, including both ancient and early modern philosophy. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and her recent scholarship has explored Leibniz’s influence on the thinking of twentieth-century American philosopher David Lewis