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 25th as the Wolf Humanities Center's 2021–2022 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on Migrant Subjects Across & Within as part of this year's Forum on Migration.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

9:00am
Breakfast and Registration

9:30am
Opening Remarks

David Spafford, Director, Undergraduate Humanities Forum; Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

9:40-10:50am
Migrants in Resistance
Moderator: Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center

• Nicolas Fonseca, Comparative Literature, Latin American Studies; CAS, 2022
  Tercer Cine, Otra Vez: Subversive Pedagogy and Nomadism in Latin American Film
• Brendan Lui, Political Science; CAS, 2022
  Called In, Kept Out: Explaining Variation in Construction Trade Union Behavior Towards Migrant Workers in the Advanced Industrial Democracies
• Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo, Philosophy, History; CAS 2022
  The Great Migration: Igbo Movement, Indigeneity, and Identity 

11:00am-12:10pm
(Im)position: Self-Determination, Criminalization, Morality
Moderator: Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History

• Katherine Busch, Moral and Political Philosophy; CAS 2023
  An Exploration of the Ethical Foundations of Citizenship
• Claire Nguyễn, History, minors in Asian American Studies and English; CAS 2022
  (Dis)placed: A Story of the War on Southeast Asian Refugee Youth in Philadelphia from 1975–2000
• Samuel Strickberger, History, minors in Survey Research and Data Analytics; CAS 2022
  The Jewish Orthodox Race-Based Slavery Debates, 1848–1861

12:10–1:15pm
Lunch

1:15–2:00pm
Remembrance and Erasure
Moderator: Ishani Dasgupta, PhD Candidate, South Asia Studies and Anthropology; Research Associate, Wolf Humanities Center

• Caitlyn Marentette, South Asia Studies; CAS 2022
  How Masses Mobilize: The Bangla/Urdu Divide in Pakistan, 1947–1971
• Christopher Schiller, Comparative Literature; Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; minor in French and Francophone Studies; CAS 2022
  The Vagabond Novelist: Roberto Bolaño's Migrant-Artists and the Global Novel

2:00pm
Closing Remarks

Caitlyn Marentette, Chair and Research Fellow, Undergraduate Humanities Forum