Undergraduate Research Seminar
Forum on Heritage, 2022-2023
Wolf Undergraduate Humanities Forum (WUHF) meetings are open to invited guests only.
Past Seminars
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September 2,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Introductions from Undergraduate Humanities Forum Director Julia Verkholantsev, Heritage Topic Director Emily Wilson, and Wolf Humanities Center staff; followed by a discussion of plans and activities for the year
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September 9,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Discussion about fellows' projects
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September 13,
4:30 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Forum on Heritage Welcome Reception
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September 16,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Conversation about the Humanities as a field
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September 30,
2:00 pm
Visit to the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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October 21,
2:00 pm
Visit to Penn Museum
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October 28,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
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November 4,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Mid-semester update on research progress
Workshopping: Sophie Qi, Miss Super Clean: Public Health as Nation Building in Late-Colonial Period Hong Kong
Respondents: Roseline Gray, Pierre Peters -
November 10,
12:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Lunch and conversation with artist Shahzia Sikander, Wolf Humanities Center's 2022–23 Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecturer: Heritage as Poltergeist (Nov 9)
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December 2,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping: Aili Waller, Using Genealogy to Recover Lost Artists: The Case of Mary Josephine Walters
Respondents: Zoë Affron, Ezra Chan -
December 9,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
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January 13,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping:
Roseline Gray, Historical imagination and political power: The role of premodern narratives in contemporary Russian national identity
Respondents: Sophie Qi, Aill Waller
Pierre Peters, BRING IT ON HOME: A Decolonial Analysis of Musical Instruments in the Penn Museum
Respondents: Zoë Affron, Tyler Kliem -
January 20,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping: Wes Matthews, Architecture Of Disillusion: A Qualitative Study of Nihilism Among Black Men in Hip Hop Performance
Respondents: Pierre Peters, Sophie Qi -
January 27,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping: Zoë Affron, Nature as Knowledge: Environmental Representation and the Bloomsbury Group, 1906-1920
Respondents: Ezra Chan, Miriam Shah -
February 10,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping:
Ezra Chan, A Legacy of Loss: An Ethical Exploration of Human Remains in Collections
Respondents: Wes Matthews, Tyler Kliem -
February 17,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping:
Miriam Shah, Inheriting Political Myth: India’s National Identity?
Respondents: Olive Coles, Wes Matthews
Olive Coles, “Our Language is the Language of Suffering”: Interpreting Post-Soviet Vernaculars of Modernity In Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time
Respondents: Vita Raskiveciute, Miriam Shah -
February 24,
1:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping:
Tylier Kliem, A Legacy of Loss: An Ethical Exploration of Human Remains in Collections
Respondents: Roseline Gray, Vita RaskeviciuteVita Raskeviciute, On the Brink of Independence: Public Opinion about What it Means to Be Lithuanian
Respondents: Olive Coles, Aili Waller -
March 24,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Conference Prep
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March 31,
2:00 pm
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; Van Pelt Library
The World We Inherit: Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference
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April 14,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Closing discussion