Each year the Wolf Humanities Center's Undergraduate Humanities Forum brings together undergraduate students from across the humanities and beyond to explore a common theme. Join us on April 12th as the Wolf Humanities Center's 2023–2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on "Revolution."

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

9:00–9:30am
Breakfast

9:30–9:45am
Opening Remarks
Hertha Torre Gallego and Zhangyang (Charlie) Xie, Executive Board and Research Fellows, Undergraduate Humanities Forum

9:45–11:30am
Revolutionary Thoughts
Moderator: Dagmawi Woubshet, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

• Jiayi Li, Intellectual History, Economics; CAS 2025
  Translating the Marxist Teleology into Rural China: The Conceptualization of the ‘Feudal Relation of Land’ and the Agrarian Revolution under the United Front, 1924-1927
• Jean Paik, English; CAS 2024
  Embodied Resistance: Collectivizing the Body in the Literatures of Korean Women Factory Workers
• Yijian (Davie) Zhou, Philosophy, Psychology; CAS 2024
  The Genealogy of Colonial Racism in the Works of Frantz Fanon
• Alex Yim, English; CAS 2025
  Kubo Walks: Character, Global Modernism, and the Literary World-System

1:00–2:45pm
Revolutionary Bodies
Moderator: Ramah McKay, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

• Dhivya Arasappan, Health & Societies, Biology; CAS 2024
  A Climate-Health Revolution: Examining Novel Framings of Climate Change as a Health Crisis
• Sergio Emilio Carballido, Religious Studies, Mathematical Economics; CAS 2026
  La Santa Muerte: A Revolution to Mexico’s Popular Religiosity and its National Identity
• Hertha Torre Gallego, Health and Societies, Hispanic Studies; CAS 2024
  A Partial Revolution: Engaging with Realities of Abortion Reform in Argentina
• Zhangyang (Charlie) Xie, Africana Studies; Science, Technology, and Society; CAS 2024
  Grappling Culture: How the Black Panther Party Addressed Colonial and Urban Anxieties through Martial Arts

2:45–3:00pm
Break

3:00–4:30pm
Revolutionary Dimensions
Moderator: Kevin M.F. Platt, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania

• Victoria Avanesov, Comparative Literature, Philosophy; CAS 2026
  Victory Over the Sun: Reimagining Russian Suprematist Works Through Hermeneutics 
• Liam Phillips, Comparative Literature, Russian and East European Studies; CAS 2024
  Form and Figure in the Russian Avant-Garde: From Mikhail Kuzmin's Stroinost' to Filmic Montage
• Tova Tachau, Biochemistry, Comparative Literature, Russian and East European Studies; CAS 2025
  The Futurist Dynamism of Dimensionality: Embryos of Artistic Possibility in Malevich and Khlebnikov

4:30pm
Closing Remarks 
Josephine Park, Director, Undergraduate Humanities Forum; School of Arts and Sciences President's Distinguished Professor of English; University of Pennsylvania