What kind of analysis can college students in REL accomplish? Tasks at our 2025 Annual Analysis Symposium demonstrated the wide range of analysis out college students conduct. Subjects ranged from anti-semitism, Supreme Court docket jurisprudence, and Napoleonic artwork to analyses of in style tradition corresponding to Barbie, Slenderman, and Blade Runner. Tasks additionally targeted on completely different eras (historic, fashionable, up to date) and areas, together with Korea, Europe, america, and the Center East, amongst others. The character of the tasks had been additionally fairly various, together with conventional shut readings of scriptures and secondary literature, utility of theorists corresponding to Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault to acquainted examples, and archival analysis. A variety of college students additionally employed digital instruments to prepare knowledge right into a database, carry out textual content evaluation of a corpus, and assemble digital visualizations of information.
This yr, our annual Analysis Symposium featured undergraduate and graduate analysis posters and displays. Constructing on the success of final yr’s revision of the symposium, the day featured fifteen college students taking part in three oral presentation panels plus seventeen posters. With some college students taking part in two classes, the symposium featured 17 undergraduate college students and 9 graduate college students. Take a look at the gallery beneath to see scenes from the complete day.
And a particular because of Profs. Vaia Touna and Richard Newton, who organized this yr’s Analysis Symposium.
