Final Talks and Panels Schedule 2026

Mount David Summit 2026 Schedule

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

Summit Session	Time	Jump to Schedule
Session 1	1:45 – 3 PM	Jump to Session 1
Session 2	3:15 – 4: 30 PM	Jump to Session 2
Session 3	4:45 – 6 PM	Jump to Session 3

Complete Schedule

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Session	Session Time	Location	Student Name/Moderator	Title	Advisor
			Heidi Taylor, Sociology	Contemporary Social Issues: Sociological Perspectives
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Lucy Green ’26	Contemporary Social Issues: Sociological Perspectives	Heidi Taylor, Sociology
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Kylie Musante ’26	Contemporary Social Issues: Sociological Perspectives	Heidi Taylor, Sociology
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Molly Allison ’26	Contemporary Social Issues: Sociological Perspectives	Heidi Taylor, Sociology
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Nathaniel Zuckerberg ’26	Contemporary Social Issues: Sociological Perspectives	Heidi Taylor, Sociology
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Kate Rentzepis ’26	Contemporary Social Issues: Sociological Perspectives	Heidi Taylor, Sociology
			Stephen Engel, Politics	What’s Law Got To Do With It? Politics Senior Theses that Explore Law and Legal Questions
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill 116	Matthew Peeler ’26	What’s Law Got To Do With It? Politics Senior Theses that Explore Law and Legal Questions	Stephen Engel, Politics
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill 116	Reese Hillman ’26	What’s Law Got To Do With It? Politics Senior Theses that Explore Law and Legal Questions	Stephen Engel, Politics
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill 116	Sammy Freeman ’26	What’s Law Got To Do With It? Politics Senior Theses that Explore Law and Legal Questions	Stephen Engel, Politics
			Erik Bernardino, History	Research in Latin American and Latinx Studies I
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G65	Fatima Rojas Nunez ’26	Research in Latin American and Latinx Studies I	Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G65	Marin Ackermann ’26	Research in Latin American and Latinx Studies I	Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G65	Leslie Jimenez ’26	Research in Latin American and Latinx Studies I	Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G65	Lucy Batres Rodriguez ’26	Research in Latin American and Latinx Studies I	Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies
			Mark Tizzoni, Classical and Medieval Studies	The Roman Empire, Interdisciplinary Approaches
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill 162	Zoe Schaedle ’26	The Roman Empire, Interdisciplinary Approaches	Mark Tizzoni, Classical and Medieval Studies
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill 162	Tosca Neumann ’26	The Roman Empire, Interdisciplinary Approaches	Mark Tizzoni, Classical and Medieval Studies
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill 162	Evan Boxer-Cook ’26	The Equinoctial Hour in Antiquity: Which Hour is Ours?	Mark Tizzoni, Classical and Medieval Studies
			TBD	Research in English and Psychology
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G10	Katie Fahey ’26	Literature, Politics, and Place: Exploring the Political Life of Latin American Fiction through the Works of Roberto Bolaño	Susan Stark, Philosophy
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G10	Audrey Cole ’26	Literature, Politics, and Place: Exploring the Political Life of Latin American Fiction through the Works of Roberto Bolaño	Susan Stark, Philosophy
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill G10	Grace Yonchak ’26	Financially Contingent Self-Worth as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Social Class and Well-Being	Helen Boucher, Psychology
			Stephanie Kelley-Romano, Rhetoric, Fillm and Screen Studies	Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Thesis Extravaganza
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill 257	Connor Gerraughty ’26	“In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!”Synoptic Surveillance and Contemporary Viewer-Audience Relationships in The Truman Show	Stephanie Kelley-Romano, Rhetoric, Fillm and Screen Studies
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill 257	Samantha Manogue ’26	Samantha Learns a Lesson: Neoliberal Feminism and the Individualist Narratives of American Girl Dolls	Stephanie Kelley-Romano, Rhetoric, Fillm and Screen Studies
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill 257	Ava Elghanayan ’26	Pinkwashed Progress: Queer Representation and Corporate Strategy in Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia	Stephanie Kelley-Romano, Rhetoric, Fillm and Screen Studies
1	1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Pettengill 257	Alexis Gonzalez ’26	Representation and Exploitation: The Tension Between Dignity and Commodification in Willie Chavarría and Carlos Jaramillo’s Heart of the Valley	Stephanie Kelley-Romano, Rhetoric, Fillm and Screen Studies
			Raluca Cernahoschi, German	Investigating Geographies and Life Worlds: German Theses at Bates
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G10	Blessing Ajayi ’26	From One Reality to Another: An Analysis of Four Short Films from the GDR	Raluca Cernahoschi, German
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G10	Shenandoah Waugh ’26	Reconstructed Spaces: Memory Discourse Through Ostalgie in Post-Reunification German Cinema	Jakub Kazecki, German
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G10	Luciana Zaiet ’26	From the Ruhr to Santa Catarina: A 20th Century Genealogical Case Study of Germans in Brazil	Raluca Cernahoschi, German
			Tim Dugan, Theatre	THEA 299: Process & Production-Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ EVERYBODY
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G21	Marcel Nagy ’28	THEA 299: Process & Production-Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ EVERYBODY	Tim Dugan, Theatre
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G21	Sarah McOsker ’28	THEA 299: Process & Production-Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ EVERYBODY	Tim Dugan, Theatre
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G21	Ruby Marden ’27	THEA 299: Process & Production-Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ EVERYBODY	Tim Dugan, Theatre
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G21	Nicole Rossilli ’27	THEA 299: Process & Production-Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ EVERYBODY	Tim Dugan, Theatre
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G21	Elaine Wang ’27	THEA 299: Process & Production-Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ EVERYBODY	Tim Dugan, Theatre
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G21	Mo Al-jabry ’28	THEA 299: Process & Production-Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ EVERYBODY	Tim Dugan, Theatre
			Darby Ray and Morgan Kinney., Harward Center for Community Partnerships	Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary Explorations
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G52	Hope Stafford ’26	Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary Explorations	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G52	Katie Heumann ’26	Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary Explorations	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G52	Paige Bilich ’26	Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary Explorations	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G52	Leah Belber ’26	Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary Explorations	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G52	Catalina Passino ’26	Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary Explorations	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G52	Ariya Tayal ’26	Research and the Public Good: Multidisciplinary Explorations	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
			Caroline Shaw, History	Empire, State Power, and Resistance in 20th Century History
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 116	Sam Skinner ’26	Empire, State Power, and Resistance in 20th Century History	Frances Bell, History
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 116	Eloise Wyatt ’26	Empire, State Power, and Resistance in 20th Century History	Frances Bell, History
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 116	Isabel Fronzaglia ’26	Empire, State Power, and Resistance in 20th Century History	Frances Bell, History
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 116	Whitney Miller ’26	Empire, State Power, and Resistance in 20th Century History	Frances Bell, History
			Rafael de Mello, Politics	Research in Latin American and Latinx Studies Student II
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G65	Elizabeth Holcombe ’26	Research in Latin American and Latinx Studies Student II	Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G65	Elizabeth Gallegos Rodriguez ’26	Research in Latin American and Latinx Studies Student II	Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G65	Ty Stearns ’26	Research in Latin American and Latinx Studies Student II	Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G65	Aaron Martinez ’26	Research in Latin American and Latinx Studies Student II	Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies
			Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture	Part I: 2026 Studio Art Thesis Presentations
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 257	Ella Hannaford ’26	Part I: 2026 Studio Art Thesis Presentations	Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 257	Maia Schifman ’26	Part I: 2026 Studio Art Thesis Presentations	Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 257	Bissan Kablawi ’26	Part I: 2026 Studio Art Thesis Presentations	Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 257	Aratrika Ghosh ’26	Part I: 2026 Studio Art Thesis Presentations	Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
			TBD	Research in STEM
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 162	Gemma DeCarolis ’26	Post-Hurricane vegetation Coverage Impacts on Sea Turtle Nesting Behavior	Andrew Mountcastle, Biology
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 162	James Hillers ’26	Agent-Based Modeling of Sponge and Algae Endosymbioses	April Horton, Biology
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 162	Sarah Tyebkhan ’26	Odor ‘Faces’? A Latent Space for Olfactory Maps	Jason Castro, Neuroscience
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 162	Verina Chatata ’26	What the Smell!?: Predicting Glomerular Topography from Glomeruli Tuning	Jason Castro, Neuroscience
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill 162	Yifan Gu ’26	Reweighting Approach to Sign Problems in Quantum Heisenberg Spin Systems	Casey Berger, Physics
			TBD	Research in Econnomics, Hispanic Studies, and Politics
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G50	Drew Nyhus ’26	Reinforcement Learning for Optimized Portfolio Allocation	Xinhao Wang, Economics
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G50	Megan Billings ’26	A Tea Party at the Prado: Reintroducing Isabella de Farnesio Through Children’s Literature	David George, Hispanic Studies
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G50	John Hull ’26	Partisanship on Foreign Policy During the Trump Era: Examining Donald Trump’s Polarizing Impact on American Attitudes Toward the War in Ukraine	John Baughman, Politics
2	3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Pettengill G50	Poppy Marsh ’26	Across the Border: National Identity and Refugee Accommodation in Greece and Kenya	Senem Aslan, Politics
			Karen Melvin, History	Race, Power, and Belonging in American History
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G65	Jonah Yaffe ’26	Race, Power, and Belonging in American History	Frances Bell, History
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G65	Tristan Seavey ’26	Race, Power, and Belonging in American History	Frances Bell, History
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G65	Sarah Lieber ’26	Race, Power, and Belonging in American History	Frances Bell, History
			Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Eli Greenwald ’26	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Kira Yanagi ’27	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Nate Shore ’27	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Maverick Selementi ’26	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Isabella Sandoz ’26	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Aoi Ozone ’26	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Claire Orfield ’26	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Sam Mallon ’26	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Noah Katz ’27	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Shelter Gimbel-Sherr ’27	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Siena Bird ’26	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Aidan Bergeron ’27	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G52	Parker Benningfield ’26	Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: The 2026 Bates Film Festival	Jonathan Cavallero, Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
			Ryan Cole, Physics	Research in Physics
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G21	Zhaoyi Liu ’26	Precision Spectroscopy of 13CH4 near 1645 nm	Ryan Cole, Physics
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G21	Sean Gilliam ’26	Diffusion-Based Signal Reconstruction for Silicon Photomultiplier Detectors	Wesley Gillis, Physics
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G21	Sakina Saidi ’26	Complex Langevin Approach to the Sign Problem in the 2D Heisenberg Model	Casey Berger, Physics
			Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies	Research in Hispanic Studies, Russian, and Sociology
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill 116	Ellie Millard ’26	Hispanic Studies Portfolio Overview	Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill 116	Lena LaPierre ’26	“‘The Children’s Republic’: Bulgarian Soft Power, Cultural Politics, and the 1979 Banner of Peace Assembly”	Cheryl Stephenson, Russian
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill 116	Adam Matos ’26	Not a Lot of Fish in the Puddle: How Family Relational Modeling and Campus Culture Shape Romantic Relationships at Bates College	Emily Kane, Sociology
			Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture	Part II: 2026 Studio Art Thesis Presentations
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill 257	Jeremy Felton ’26	Part II: 2026 Studio Art Thesis Presentations	Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill 257	Simon Klompus ’26	Part II: 2026 Studio Art Thesis Presentations	Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill 257	Grace Thomas ’26	Part II: 2026 Studio Art Thesis Presentations	Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill 257	Audrey Esteves ’26	Part II: 2026 Studio Art Thesis Presentations	Carolina González Valencia, Art and Visual Culture
			Nathan Faries, Asian Studies	Research in Asian Studies
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G10	Franco Miele ’26	Faith in Silence: Medium, Persecution, and God’s Representation	Keiko Konoeda, Japanese
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G10	Emmon Blackburn ’26	Botany and Tradition: China’s Ongoing Relationship with the Plant Sciences	Zhenzhen Lu, Chinese
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G10	Alex Takeyh ’26	Thinking About Extinction in Wu Ming-Yi’s the Clouds are 2000 Meters Up	Zhenzhen Lu, Chinese
3	4:45 PM – 6:00 PM	Pettengill G10	Kate Schulze ’26	From Silk Roads to City Streets: Chinese Migration and the Making of a Multicultural City-State	Nathan Faries, Asian Studies