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.
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January 16,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Conference Planning
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January 23,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping
Noa Rubinstein, Truth on Trial: Understanding Post-Conflict Truth & Reconciliation Commissions
Respondent: Benjamin Nathans, Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of HistoryRyan Wolff, U.S. Intervention in the Exceptional 70s: Shifting U.S.-Latin American Relations during the Late Cold War
Respondent: Ericka Beckman, Associate Professor of Romance Languages -
January 30,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping
Thalia Graeff, Rediscovering Histories and Reframing Ideas in Contemporary Artist Books by Women
Respondent: Christine Woody, Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Textual Scholarship Program, Widener UniversityElla Sohn, Branching Voices: Recomposing the Legal Person in Richard Powers' Gain and The Overstory
Respondent: Rahul Mukherjee, Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies; Associate Professor of English -
February 6,
2:00 pm
Workshopping
Max Brody, Crazed, Psychotic, and…Desperate?: Prototypes of “The Sick Woman Theory” in 20th Century Theory and Literature
Respondent: Angelica Clayton, Senior Fellow, History & Sociology of ScienceSaanvi Agarwal, Inventing Truth After Empire: Form, Fragmentation, and Identity in the Works of Anita and Kiran Desai
Respondent: Ellie Webb, Ph.D. Candidate, History; Wolf Humanities Center Doctoral Fellow -
February 11,
2:00 pm
Location TBD
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February 13,
2:00 pm
Excursion
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February 20,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping
Cristina Diaz, The Etymological Method in Alphonsine Chronicle
Respondent: Chris Halsted, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the HumanitiesIzzy Welsh, Kaleidoscopic Memory – Orientation through Disorientation in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and Patti Smith’s M Train
Respondent: Jim English, John Welsh Centennial Professor of English -
February 27,
9:00 am
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; 6th floor, Van Pelt Library
Truth Symposium
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February 27,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping
Kara Butler, Play Fighting: The Role of Childhood in Wartime Propaganda
Respondent: Spencer Small, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the HumanitiesArwen Zhang, Tracking the Truth: The Reality Behind Medieval Travel Narratives
Respondent: Ellie Webb, Ph.D. Candidate, History; Wolf Humanities Center Doctoral Fellow -
March 20,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Conference Lightning Talks
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March 27,
9:00 am
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; 6th floor, Van Pelt Library
Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference
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April 24,
2:00 pm
Excursion to New York
Past Seminars
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September 5,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Introductions; "Truth" Topic Director Julia Verkholantsev and Wolf Humanities Center Director Ayako Kano
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September 9,
4:30 pm
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; 6th floor, Van Pelt Library
Wolf Welcome Reception
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September 12,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Forum: Postgrad
2:00-3:00pm
Sarah Guerin (Graduate Chair and Associate Professor of Art History)
Keisha-Khan Perry (Graduate Chair and Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies)
3:00-4:00pm
Macy Berryman (Rising 3L at Penn Law)
Sophia Rabate (Student talent scout and recent Penn grad)
Michaile Rainey (Director of Nationally Competitive Fellowships, PennCURF) -
September 17,
5:30 pm
Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum
The Persistence of Wretched Subjects (The Edges of Truth keynote)
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September 18,
8:30 am
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; 6th floor, Van Pelt Library
The Edges of Truth: Secrecy, Artifice, and the Limits of Knowledge
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September 19,
2:00 pm
Van Pelt Library/Special Collections visit
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September 26,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Writers Bloc (optional)
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October 3,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Excursion to Eastern State Penitentiary
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October 17,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
People of the Book discussion; creative research
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October 22,
5:30 pm
Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum
Truth and the Novel, author Geraldine Brooks, Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities
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October 23,
12:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Geraldine Brooks meeting with UHF Fellows
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October 31,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Modeling Research Methods
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November 7,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Modeling Research Methods
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November 14,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping
Eric Ryu, James Wilson: The Influence of the Scottish Enlightenment on Early American Legal Education
Respondent: Emma Hart, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair of American HistorySaanvi Agarwal, Inventing Truth After Empire: Form, Fragmentation, and Identity in the Works of Anita and Kiran Desai
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November 19,
5:30 pm
ARCH Auditorium, 3601 Locust Walk
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November 21,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Workshopping
Max Brody, Crazed, Psychotic, and…Desperate?: Prototypes of “The Sick Woman Theory” in 20th Century Theory and Literature
Respondent: Angelica Clayton, Senior Fellow, History & Sociology of ScienceSergio Emilio Carballido Murcio, Accessing Truth Through Mind: A Comparative Study of Ratnakīrti’s Epistemology and Nāgārjuna’s Mādhyamaka
Respondent: Deven Patel, Associate Professor, South Asia Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature -
December 5,
2:00 pm
Excursion to Barnes Foundation