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