Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings
September 2, 2025
Emma Gephart
Once central to countercultural spirituality and mystical exploration, psychedelics have been rebranded in Silicon Valley as tools for optimization, productivity, and cognitive control. This study examines how tech elites and aspirants are reconfiguring psychedelic practice under the influence of TESCREAL—an ideological bundle of Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism,...
Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings
August 28, 2025
Kelby Paquette-Anderson
This research explores the convergence of ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ modalities in visual and material processes to reimagine the ‘bionic’ body as a site of syncretic and transformative potential. Rooted in Roy Ascott’s theory of syncretism—finding unity between unlike things—and Legacy Russell’s glitch theory, the thesis creation positions non-binary and queer identities as active agents of disruption,...
Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings
February 20, 2018
Pallavi Gupta, Jahnavi Mundluru, Arth Patel et al.
Long-term meditation practice is increasingly recognized for its health benefits. Heartfulness meditation represents a quickly growing set of practices that is largely unstudied. Heartfulness is unique in that it is a meditation practice that focuses on the Heart. It helps individuals to connect to themselves and find inner peace. In order to deepen ones’ meditation, the element of Yogic Energy...
Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings
February 20, 2018
Pallavi Gupta, Anirudh Kumar, Jahnavi Mundluru et al.
Long-term meditation practice is increasingly recognized for its health benefits. Heartfulness meditation represents a quickly growing set of practices that is largely unstudied. Heartfulness is unique in that it is a meditation practice that focuses on the Heart. It helps individuals to connect to themselves and find inner peace. In order to deepen ones’ meditation, the element of Yogic Energy...
Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings
February 5, 2016
Emilija Babich
In the seventeenth century, the supremacy of the Catholic Church was being threatened both by science and by the growth of Protestantism. Rome, as the only remaining centre for Catholicism, needed to reassert its authority and reclaim those who had lost their faith. As a result, religious artistic production of the seventeenth century took on a spectacular and theatrical character that sought...