2022-2023
Wolf Humanities Center on Heritage

Undergraduate Research Seminars

  • September 2, 2022
    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

  • September 9, 2022
    Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623

    Discussion about fellows' projects

  • September 13, 2022
    Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623

    Forum on Heritage Welcome Reception

  • September 16, 2022
    Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623

    Conversation about the Humanities as a field

  • September 30, 2022

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

  • October 21, 2022

    Visit to Penn Museum

  • October 28, 2022
    Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
  • November 4, 2022—November 5, 2022
    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, 2022—November 14, 2022
    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)

  • December 2, 2022
    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, 2022
    Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
  • January 13, 2023
    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, 2023
    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, 2023
    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, 2023
    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, 2023
    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, 2023
    Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623

    Workshopping:
    Tylier Kliem, A Legacy of Loss: An Ethical Exploration of Human Remains in Collections
    Respondents: Roseline Gray, Vita Raskeviciute

    Vita Raskeviciute, On the Brink of Independence: Public Opinion about What it Means to Be Lithuanian
    Respondents: Olive Coles, Aili Waller

  • March 24, 2023
    Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623

    Conference Prep

  • March 31, 2023
    Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; Van Pelt Library

    The World We Inherit: Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference

  • April 14, 2023
    Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623

    Closing discussion