Undergraduate Research Seminar

Forum on Keywords, 2024-2025

Wolf Undergraduate Humanities Forum meetings are open to invited guests only. All sessions are in the Humanities Conference Room, Wiliams 623, unless otherwise noted.

 

Past Seminars

  • September 6, 2:00 pm

    Introductions, report on the project stage, brainstorming discussion about the activities for the year

  • September 19, 12:00 pm

    Q&A with Anna Tsing (Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz)

  • September 27, 2:00 pm

    Discussing Raymond Williams' Keywords; Conversation about humanistic methods and interdisciplinary methodologies

  • October 18, 2:00 pm

    Mid-semester report on projects 

  • October 25, 2:00 pm

    Meeting with Dot Porter (Curator of Digital Humanities, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies)

  • November 8, 2:00 pm

    Visit to Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

  • November 15, 2:00 pm

    Workshopping
    Connor Nakamura, Cloaked Radicalism: Bayard Rustin, Socialism, and Civil Rights 1955-1965

    Eug Xu, ‘Als de drie onderste staalen’: Revealing uncertainty in VOC luxury trade through textile samples and porcelain drawings
    Respondent: Lama El Sharif, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities

  • December 6, 2:00 pm

    Workshopping
    Taryn Flaherty, Oral Histories of Chinatown: Development and Self-Determination

    Respondent: Maryam Athari, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities

    Eleanor Grauke, Freedom’s Architects: Early Club Culture and the Politics of Empowerment among Black Women in Antebellum ‘Free’ Cities

    Respondent: Angelina Eimannsberger, Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

  • January 23, 4:00 pm

    Conway Lounge, Williams 612

    Chat about workshopping/how to start writing 

  • January 24, 2:00 pm

    Workshopping: Daphne Glatter, "Poynts" of Interest: Premodern Keywords in MS Cotton Nero A.x
    Respondent: Emily Steiner, Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English

    Symposium planning (title, panel design, brainstorm faculty moderators) and reviewing presentation basics (citations, slides, formatting, Q/A, etc.)

  • January 31, 2:00 pm

    Workshopping
    Greer Goergen, "The Collective": A Study of Memory, Personhood, and Objects in Soviet Union
    Respondent: Usmon Boron, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities

  • February 7, 2:00 pm

    Workshopping
    Ning Ning (Jenny) Fu, Britain's Informal Empire in China: Opium and the Reconstruction of "the Orient" in Romantic Literature
    Respondent: Ailin Jain, PhD student, Department of English

    Seyoon Chun, "Gyopo" Identity: Contemporary Korean-American Community Building in Christian Churches
    Respondent: Suyoung Kim, PhD student, Department of History 

  • February 21, 2:00 pm

    Workshopping
    Tova Tachau, Decoding the Value Relation Through Scientific Analogy: A Biochemical Reading of Marx's Capital
    Respondent: Siarhei Biareishyk, Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian and East European Studies


    Nishanth Bhargava, Live Without Dead Time: Fetishism and Reification in the European Student Movements of 1968
    Respondent: David Kazanjian, Professor of English

  • February 28, 2:00 pm

    Workshopping
    Katrina Itona, #aesthetic: Online Visual Subcultures and Internet Identity in Aesthetics
    Respondent: Julia Alekseyeva, Assistant Professor of English

     

    Amanda Rodriguez, Border: Unraveling Narratives along the Rio Grande
    Respondent: Juan Suárez Ontaneda, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Bryn Mawr College

  • March 21, 2:00 pm

    Conference prep

  • March 28, 8:30 am

    Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt Library

    Ideas in Motion, Words in Flux: Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference