Rachel Ceciro - Can Ecotheatre Interpret Climate Change Heritage?
Rachel Ceciro is a fourth-year student, "an aspiring alum”, at New College of Florida. Recently, her work has focused on relief: relief from natural disaster, relief through resiliency, relief by work within a community. Her methods, learned through the practices of performance and archaeology, strive to be immediate and visceral; to make an experience tangibly full and real to help the healing of those who have lived it, and to assist the understanding of those who have not. Rachel’s presentation examines ecological theater as a method of heritage interpretation, using a performance she wrote and directed titled “WAKE: Living With/In Disaster”. Taking recorded memories and oral histories of past hurricanes, the performance aimed to accurately and respectfully repre-sent the past and highlight the social and racial injustices faced in the after-math of disaster.
Rachel was the winner of the 2018 Time Sifters Cornelia Futor Memorial award for best submitted student papers.
Rebekah Nault - The Hobbit (homo floresiensis)
Rebekah Nault is a mom, a junior at USF, and a custom picture framer by trade. Rebekah has always been passionate about Anthropology. When her son became old enough to ask her why she hadn’t finished school, she took that as her cue to start again. Her paper is on the discovery of the “Hobbit, Homo Floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores.” She will discuss the history of the site, the team who found H. floresiensis, and what they recovered. But that’s just the start of the story. Rebekah brings insight and humor into the ensuing conflict, the different origin theories of the Hobbit, and what science has concluded.
Rebekah finished second place in the 2018 Time Sifters Cornelia Futor Memorial competition for submitted student papers.