Undergraduate Research Seminar
Forum on Revolution, 2023-2024
Wolf Undergraduate Humanities Forum meetings are open to invited guests only.
Past Seminars
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September 1,
2:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Welcome and Introductions
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September 8,
2:00 pm
"Revolution" topic director Huda Fakhreddine (Associate Professor of Arabic Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and Wolf Humanities Center director Jamal J. Elias (Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Religious Studies)
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September 12,
4:30 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Welcome Reception for Wolf Humanities Center's Research Fellows
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September 15,
2:00 pm
Discussion about fellows' research; UHF co-chairs Charlie Xie & Hertha Torre Gallego present their summer research and share resources
- September 22, 3:30 pm
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September 29,
2:00 pm
Visiting the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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October 6,
1:00 pm
Eyes on the Prize screening and discussion
Note location change: Meyerson Conference Room (223 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library) -
October 20,
2:00 pm
Faculty Discussion: Revolution in the Humanities and Archival Research
Siarhei Biareishyk, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Adam Mohr, Senior Lecturer, Critical Writing Program -
October 27,
8:45 am
Visit to MOMA and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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November 11,
9:30 am
Volunteer workday with VietLead at Resilient Roots Farm
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November 17,
2:00 pm
Mid-semester research update; discussing expectations for workshopping
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November 29,
5:30 pm
From Revolution to Catastrophe: In the Trap of Empire
Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities -
November 30,
12:00 pm
Humanities Conference Room, Williams 623
Q&A with Keti Chukhrov
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December 1,
2:00 pm
Workshopping
- Liv McClary, "A Bootleg Trade": Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Criminality in Birth Control Advertising, 1920-1940
- Charlie Xie, Grappling Culture: How the Black Panther Party Addressed Colonial and Urban Anxieties through Martial Arts
Respondent: Dr. Timothy Malone, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center
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December 8,
2:00 pm
Workshopping:
- Hertha Torre, "A Bootleg Trade": Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Criminality in Birth Control Advertising, 1920-1940
- Dhivya Arasappan, Grappling Culture: How the Black Panther Party Addressed Colonial and Urban Anxieties through Martial Arts
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January 26,
2:00 pm
Workshopping:
- Sergio Carballido, La Santa Muerte: a revolution to Mexico’s popular religiosity and its national identity
- Jiayi Li, Translating the Marxist Teleology into Rural China: The Conceptualization of the ‘Feudal Relation of Land’ and the Agrarian Revolution under the United Front, 1924-1927
Respondent: Dr. Alessandra Amin, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center
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February 2,
2:00 pm
Workshopping:
- Tova Tachau, Embryos of Possibility in Malevich and Khlebnikov: Russian Futurist Revolutions Beyond Time, Space, and Language, 1913-1917
Respondent: Dr. José Carlos Díaz Zanelli, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center
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February 9,
2:00 pm
Workshopping:
- Davie Zhou, Revolutionary Subjectivity
- Jean Paik, Free(dom) Zones: Collectivizing the Body in the Literature of Korean Women Factory Workers
Respondent: Josué Chávez, Associate Research Scholar, Wolf Humanities Center
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February 16,
2:00 pm
Workshopping:
- Liam Phillips, In Search of a New Russian Readership: Communal Experience and Literary Form in Mikhail Kuzmin’s Wings
- Alex Yim, Kubo: Korean Flâneurs as Anti-Colonial Artistic and Political Emblems
Respondent: Dr. Alex Kreger, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center
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February 23,
2:00 pm
Conference Panel 1 Practice Session
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February 23,
9:45 am
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; 6th floor, Van Pelt Library
Wolf Humanities Center Symposium: Time and Revolution
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March 15,
2:00 pm
- Workshopping: Victoria Avansov, Victory Over the Sun: Reimagining Russian Suprematist Works Through Visual and Linguistic Reconstruction
- Conference Panel 2 Practice Session
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March 22,
2:00 pm
Conference Panel 3 Practice Session
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April 5,
2:00 pm
Conference Panel 4 Practice Session
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April 6,
10:00 am
Field trip to Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
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April 12,
9:00 am
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; Van Pelt Library
Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference