Events
Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alex Moore
Humanities 1, Room 202Alex Moore "Captive Natures: Grotesque desire in the performative sculptures of Amber Hawk Swanson" In this paper I examine two projects by the artist Amber Hawk Swanson, Tilikum, 2011 and Lolita, 2013. Through a process of radical identification with the captive Orca whales Tilikum and Lolita, Hawk Swanson explores the ethics of aquatic theme park performances. I argue […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: James Beneda
Humanities 1, Room 202James Beneda "The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience" I take up an issue that most of us cannot help but see as a problem of individual psychology and restate it in terms of institutional politics and political ideologies. Starting from cognitive sociology and recent clinical research that reframes post-traumatic […]
Friday Forum: Lara Galas “Languaging the Landscape: A Translational Analysis of the Geopolitical in Nineteenth Century American Literature”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature Lara […]
Friday Forum: Antoinette Wilson “Who Do You Think You Are: The Role of Racial Typicality on In-group Belonging and Stereotyping among African American Youth”
Humanities 1, Room 202Antoinette Wilson is a PhD candidate in Developmental Psychology. Her work investigates ways in which in-group members judge and validate racial authenticity (e.g., accusations of “acting White” and bias based on skin tone). Central to her research is exploring adolescents’ perceptions of “Who fits in?”, “Who is typical of our group”, and “Who is ‘really’ […]
Friday Forum: Maya Iverson “Re-reading the Black Civil Rights Documentary ‘Sit-In'”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature Maya […]
Friday Forum: Samuael Topiary “The Anti-Representational Mode”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature Samuael […]
Friday Forum: Trey Highton “Surfing the Third Wave: Women’s Professional Surfing & the Ethics of Instagram”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature Trey […]
Friday Forum: AK Morais “Blundering Empire: The Smithsonian African Expedition of 1919-1920”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature AK […]
Friday Forum: Matthew Edwards "TBA"
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature Matthew […]
UCHRI Funding Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202UCHRI's Assistant Director Kelly Brown will provide an overview of UCHRI's funding opportunities for the 2016-17 year, with special attention to the four new calls for funding (digital humanities grant, supplemental graduate student funding grant, graduate dissertation support grant, and the junior faculty manuscript review grant). Kelly will be available to meet individually with faculty […]