Join this year's cohort of Fellows at the Society for the Humanities for presentations on work-in-progress on the 2023-24 focal theme of Crossing. Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A. Open to the public. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided. Schedule is subject to change.  

More information here: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/news/conference-highlights-humanities-projects-theme-crossing

Friday, October 27, 2023

Coffee and continental breakfast: 9:30am

Panel 1: 10:00am - 11:30am

Ruslan Yusupov (Society Fellow), “Pairing Up: The Militarization of Multiculturalism in the People’s War on Terror in China’s Xinjiang”

Dennis Wegner (Mellon Graduate Fellow), "Marina Tsvetaeva’s Queer Multilingual Poetics” 

Lunch: 11:45am - 1:00pm (lunch provided) 

Panel 2: 1:00pm - 2:30pm 

Emma Campbell (Society Fellow), “Gender and Sexual Embodiment in Medieval Bestiaries”

Kim Haines-Eitzen (Faculty Fellow), “On Fire: Kinesis, Apocalypse, Transformation”

Brief Coffee Break

Panel 3: 2:45pm - 5:00pm

Stephanie López (Mellon Graduate Fellow), "Losing My Relation: Absence of Maternal Care in Latin American Fiction"

Perry Zurn (Society Fellow), “The Advent of Cis: Lessons from the Mainstreaming of a Radical Term"

Cristina Florea (Faculty Fellow), "War and Revolution in the Lands In-Between: Bukovina in World War II" 

Reception: 5:00pm