Ideas in Motion, Words in Flux

UNDERGRADUATE HUMANITIES FORUM RESEARCH CONFERENCE

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 28th as the Wolf Humanities Center's 2024–2025 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on "Keywords."

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

9:15am
Breakfast

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9:50am
Opening Remarks
Taryn Flaherty and Tova Tachau, Executive Board and Research Fellows, Undergraduate Humanities Forum

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10:00–11:15am
Global Connections, Toxic Luxuries
, English; Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE); CAS 2025
Britain's Informal Empire in China: Opium and the Reconstruction of "the Orient" in Romantic Literature
, English, Ancient History; CAS 2025
"Poynts" of Interest: Premodern Keywords in MS Cotton Nero A.x
, History; CAS 2025
Modes of Bookkeeping: How Material Samples Illustrate the Limitations of VOC Trading Expertise

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11:30–12:45pm
Remembered Through Language
, History; CAS 2026
"Gyopo" Identity: Contemporary Korean-American Community Building in Christian Churches

, History; CAS 2025
Oral Histories of Chinatown: Development and Self-Determination

, History of Art, History; CAS 2026
Border: Unraveling Narratives along the Rio Grande

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2:00–3:50pm
Representations of Space and Aesthetics

, History of Art, Comparative Literature; CAS 2025
"The Collective": A Study of Memory, Personhood, and Objects in Soviet Union

, Comparative Literature, English; CAS 2026
#aesthetic: Online Visual Subcultures and Internet Identity in Aesthetics
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3:00–4:50pm
Radical Interventions
, History, Comparative Literature; CAS 2027
From the People, to the People: Theories of the Subject after May '68 in France
, History; CAS 2026
Freedom's Architects: Early Club Culture and the Politics of Empowerment among Black Women in Antebellum 'Free' Cities
, History; CAS 2025
Cloaked Radicalism:Bayard Rustin, Socialism, and Civil Rights 1955-1965
, Biochemistry, Comparative Literature, Russian and East European Studies; CAS 2025
Decoding the Value Relation Through Scientific Analogy: A Biochemical Reading of Marx's Capital

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4:50pm
Closing Remarks

, Director, Undergraduate Humanities Forum; Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies; Founder and Director, Program in Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt Library, 3420 Walnut St, Philadelphia, United States