Join us as the Wolf Humanities Center's 2017-18 Undergraduate Research Fellows give us their take on Afterlives at the 19th Annual Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference.
9:00-9:30a | Registration and Breakfast
9:30-9:45a | Opening Remarks
Timothy Rommen, Faculty Director, UHF; Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College
Claudia Kassner, UHF Chair
9:45-11:00a | Requiem
Moderator: Josephine Park, Professor of English
- Jeffrey Careyva (English, Philosophy, CAS '18)
Jacques Derrida's Ghostly Archive of Poetry
Amy Stidham (English, CAS '18)
Literary Reincarnation
Colin Lodewick (English, CAS '19) - Loss and Futurity in Elegies of the Anthropocene
11:05a-12:20p | Reform
Moderator: Andrea Goulet, Professor of Romance Languages
- Parker Abt (History, CAS '19)
PAC Men: How the Civil Rights Movement Inadvertently Created Dark Money in Politics
Claudia Kassner (Classical Studies, Ancient History, CAS '18) - ἐλευθέρα εἶμεν καὶ ἀνέφαπτος: Examining the Afterlife of Greek Slavery in the Manumission Inscriptions at Delphi
Adrian Kase (Biological Basis of Behavior, CAS '18) - Conceptions of Death and the Afterlife in Modern American Comedic Films
Seung Hyun Chung (English, CAS '18) - Empathy Machine? The Afterlives of Race, Memory, and Bodyhood in Immersive Virtual Reality
1:45-3:00p | Rebirth
Moderator: Kathy Peiss, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History
- Rive Cadwallader (Health and Societies, Classical Studies CAS '18)
- Medicine in the "Athens of America": Physicians and the Neoclassical Movement in Late Eighteenth Century Philadelphia
Kyra Schulman (French Studies, History, CAS '18) - The Dreyfus Affair in Vichy France: An Afterlife
Rebecca Heilweil (History, Political Science, CAS'18) - The Search for Solidarity Beyond Bloom: Jewish Advocacy in Ireland, 1933-1958
Alisa Feldman (Health and Societies, CAS '18) - Be Fruitful and Medicalize: IVF Risk Communication and the Politics of Assisted Reproduction in Israel
3:00-3:15p | Closing Remarks
Seung Hyun Chung, UHF Executive Board
Kyra Schulman, UHF Executive Board