An all-day conference featuring outstanding undergraduate student research, student panel discussions, and oral presentations of student papers with graduate student and faculty respondents. This event will also celebrate the launch of the brand new Humanities Scholars program housed at the Society for the Humanities, with more details forthcoming. Free & open to the public.

Program:

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Panel 1 - Guerlac Room
Sarah Meidl (History), The Archbishop and the Antichrist: Apocalyptic Kingship in the Writings of Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, 996-1023 

Sasha Chanko (Asian Studies), Erased Shadows of Japanese Imperialism: A Review of Zen Nationalism and the Transmission of Zen to the United States 

Julia Herrmann (Government), Multilevel Europe’s Political Opportunity Structures: EU Accession and LGBT Activism in Central and Eastern Europe

Panel 2 - Room 110
Toby Dresdner (English), Between Truth and Truth: A Reparative Reading of Srugim

Ryan Stommel (Art History), An Etruscan Cinerary Urn from the Johnson Museum

Griffin Smith-Nichols (College Scholars), The Heliand: Shaping the Saxon Vision of Christ 

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Panel 1 - Guerlac Room
Benjamin Montano (Government), Utopia, Modernity and the State: Contextualizing the Construction of Mexico’s Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco-Tlatelolco 

Chandler Palmer (English), Colonizing History and Experience: Why Science Fiction and Fantasy do it best and why it has to end?  

RJ Davis (History), Invisible Wine: Underground Wine Trade in Spanish Colonial Argentina   

Panel 2 - Room 110
Andrew Older (English), The Mists of Milton: Reading Paradise Lost as a Work of Mediality

Kylie Long (Philosophy), St Augustine’s Moral Psychology: On Free Will & The Language of Consent 

Raymond Bally (English), Grandmother’s Glass Eye: Negative Capability in the Precision, Speculation, and Specular of Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry

LUNCH

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Panel 1 - Guerlac Room
Matthew Gamboa-Lutz (English), Toni Morrison’s Later Novels: A Conceptualization of Spacetime and Narrative Undecidability

Marcellin Ma (History), Navigating the Vichy Waters 

Panel 2 - Room 110
Alex Hutchins (Asian Studies), Nuclearizing Nationhood: Narrative Paradigms and the Development of Nuclear Power in Japan 

Meredith Chagares (History), Anatomy of a Cover-Up: How and Why the United States Covered Up Japanese World War II Biological Warfare Experiments 

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Panel 1 - Guerlac Room
Chris Arce (Government), Understanding State-Level Dynamics within Re-Entry Policies across the United States 

Jamie Methven (FGSS), Analyzing Practices of Feminist and Queer Ethnography

Lorenzo Benitez (Philosophy), The Necessity to Personal Identity of ‘Owning’ One’s Memories

Panel 2 - Room 110
Moushmi Patil (History), The Woman’s Body in Protest: Sati as Political Protest and Female Empowerment in 19th Century India

Vanessa Navarro Rodriguez (Government), Exploring Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Through Power Differentials 

Sylvia Onorato (English), “Christ! What Are Patterns For?” The Polyphonic Prose of Amy Lowell

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel 1 - Guerlac Room
Eric Sanchez (Comprative Literature), On the Prosody of Nabokov’s Pale Fire

Francesca LaPasta (Classics), Journey to the Underworld: a Phenomenological Approach to Virgil’s Aeneid Book Six

Joshua Sadinsky (Music), Sonic Meditations: The Aural Poetics of Music and Field Recorded Sound 

Panel 2 - Room 110
Jeffrey Sondike (Comparative Literature), Impossible Totalities in Satantango 

Rebecca Frank (History), The Afterlives of Karl Höcker: Private Photographs and the Reproduction of the Past

Brandon Mok (Comparative Literature), The death of difference: Ekphrasis, materiality, and haptic aesthetics in Victor Segalen’s Paintings

RECEPTION