2024-2025
Wolf Humanities Center on Keywords

Undergraduate Research Seminars

  • September 6, 2024

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

  • September 19, 2024

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

  • September 27, 2024

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

  • October 18, 2024

    Mid-semester report on projects 

  • October 25, 2024

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

  • November 8, 2024

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

  • November 15, 2024

    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, 2024

    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, 2025
    Conway Lounge, Williams 612

    Chat about workshopping/how to start writing 

  • January 24, 2025

    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, 2025

    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 21, 2025

    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

  • March 28, 2025
    Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt Library

    Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference