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 March 28th as the Wolf Humanities Center's 2024–2025 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on "Keywords."

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

9:15am
Breakfast

9:50am
Opening Remarks

Taryn Flaherty and Tova Tachau, Executive Board and Research Fellows, Undergraduate Humanities Forum 

10:00–11:15am
Global Connections, Toxic Luxuries
Moderator: John Pollack, Curator of Research Services, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

• Ning Ning (Jenny) Fu, English; Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; CAS 2025
  The Flows of Informal Empire: Reading "The Malay" as a Lascar Sailor in Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater
• Daphne Glatter, English, Ancient History; CAS 2025
  "Poynts" of Interest: Premodern Keywords in MS Cotton Nero A.x
• Eug Xu, History; CAS 2025
  Modes of Bookkeeping: How Material Samples Illustrate the Limitations of VOC Trading Expertise

11:30am–12:45pm
Remembered Through Language
Moderator: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

• Seyoon Chun, History; CAS 2026
  "Gyopo" Identity: Contemporary Korean-American Community Building in Christian Churches 
• Taryn Flaherty, History; CAS 2025
  Oral Histories of Chinatown: Development and Self-Determination
• Amanda Rodriguez, History of Art, Latin American & Latinx Studies; CAS 2026
  Border: Unraveling Narratives along the Rio Grande

2:00–2:50pm
Representations of Space and Aesthetics
Moderator: Julia Alekseyeva, Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania

• Greer Goergen, History of Art, Comparative Literature; CAS 2025
  Collectivism and Ideological Revivals: Soviet Objects, Representations, and Interiors
• Katrina Itona, Comparative Literature, English; CAS 2025
  #aesthetic: Online Visual Subcultures and Internet Identity in Aesthetics

3:00–4:50pm
Radical Interventions
Moderator: Chris A. Chambers, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

• Nishanth Bhargava, History, Comparative Literature; CAS 2027
  From the People, to the People: Theories of the Subject after May '68 in France
• Eleanor Grauke, History; CAS 2025
  Washwomen, Widows, and Ward Leaders: Benevolent Societies as Instruments of Freedom by Black Women in Northern Cities, 1830-1840
• Connor Nakamura, History; CAS 2025
  Cloaked Radicalism: Bayard Rustin and the Socialist Civil Rights Strategy (1955-1965)
• Tova Tachau, Biochemistry, Comparative Literature, Russian and East European Studies; CAS 2025
  Decoding the Value Relation Through Scientific Analogy: A Biochemical Reading of Marx's Capital

4:50pm
Closing Remarks
Julia Verkholantsev, Director, Undergraduate Humanities Forum; Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies