Join this year's cohort of Fellows at the Society for the Humanities for presentations on work-in-progress on the 2024-25 focal theme of Silence. Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A. Open to the public. Schedule is subject to change.  

Read more about our presenters this fall, here: ‘Silence’ theme of Society for the Humanities Fall presentations.

Friday, October 25

Coffee & light refreshments: 9:30am

Panel 1: 10:00-11:30am

“Narrating the Lives of Afro-Amerasians in the Philippines”

Angelica Allen, Society Fellow

“Silent Transduction”

Brian Sengdala, Mellon Graduate Fellow

 “Blushing, Speech and Silence in Late Ancient Philosophical Dialogues”

Dawn LaValle Norman, Society Fellow

Coffee Break: 11:30am-12:00pm
 

KEYNOTE: 12:00-1:30pm

“The Afterlives of Indeterminacy”

Ben Piekut, Professor of Music
 

Lunch: 1:30-2:30pm
 

Panel 2: 3:00-4:30pm
“The Silent Majority:  Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Closet Dramas”

Sara Warner, Faculty Fellow

Silent Protagonists: Feminist Video Game Poetry in Japan"

Andrew Campana, Faculty Fellow

 “The Limits of Curative Violence: Oralism and the Black Deaf American Experience”

Bianca Waked, Mellon Graduate Fellow

Dinner to follow final presentation.

Please contact adwhitehouse@cornell.edu for accommodations.