Society for the Humanities Spring Workshop: AUTHORITY

The Spring Workshop will feature short, thesis-driven presentations (10-15 minutes) by Society for the Humanities Fellows to generate discussion around significant questions, examples, and problems related to our central theme for the year, AUTHORITY. Consciously designed as a discussion-driven seminar format, the workshop will take place in the A.D. White House Guerlac Room. 

10:00 – 10:15:  Coffee and welcome

10:15 – 12:30:  Panel I

• Alexander Livingston, Faculty Fellow; Government, Cornell
  Violence and Nonviolence in Civil Disobedience

• Damián Fernández, Society Fellow, History, Northern Illinois University
  History, Legitimacy, and Rebellion in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo

• Dehanza Rogers, Faculty Fellow; PMA, Cornell
  #BlackGirlhood: A Short Film about the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
   

12:30 – 1:30:  Lunch

1:30 – 3:00:  Panel II

• Jennifer Carlson, Sustainability Fellow; Energy Humanities, CENHS, Rice University
  Deranged Democracy? Climate Ordinariness and its Provocations for Citizenship

• Klaus Yamamoto-Hammering, Society Fellow; Anthropology
  Purgatory Rituals: from Barbarism to Online Hate Speech

3:00 – 3:30:  Coffee Break

3:30 – 5:00:  Panel III

• Asli Menevse, Mellon Graduate Fellow; History of Art, Cornell
  The Pedestal of Authority: A Monument and its Critics (Paris, 1871)

• A.R. Edlebi, Mellon Graduate Fellow; English, Cornell
  Epilogue to the History of Capitalism

5:00 – 6:00:  Reception, free and open to the public