2020 College Summer Institute in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Symposium: “The Place of Water: histories, presence, and futures”
Thursday, September 24, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm CDT (Virtual through Zoom)
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Symposium Program
10:00 – 10:15 am: Welcome and congratulatory remarks: Prof. Christopher Wild, Collegiate Master of the Humanities
*10:15 – 11:15 am, Session I: Aquatic Geographies at the Edge
“The Shrinking Aral: A Sea Evaporating into a Forest of Possibilities”
- Kristina Kim, 3rd-year, Public Policy and Creative Writing
“Borderwaters at the Edge of Empire: Privateering, Smuggling, and Imperial Rivalry in the 1730s British Caribbean”
- Norma (Nell) Williamson Shaffer, 4th-year, History, Statistics
"Mapping the Yiddish Aquatic Imaginary"
- Jonah Lubin, 4th-year, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies
“‘History Fades to Fable’: The Many Lives of the Croton Aqueduct”
- Bradley Goldsmith, 4th-year, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine, Computer Science
11:15 – 11:30 am: Break
*11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Session II: Ancient, Primordial, and Monstrous Waters
“Spirit, Flesh, Mind, and Body: Ancient Jewish Ritual Bathing as Described by Justin Martyr and Philo of Alexandria”
- Ruth Schoenfeld, 4th-year, Religious Studies, Classics
“Godzilla’s Irradiated Present: Challenges to Modernity in Atomic Era Monster Science Fiction”
- Esteban Mendoza, 3rd-year, Anthropology, Philosophy
“‘Insane Alien Beings’: The Misrepresentation of Deep-sea Creatures”
- Andrew Farry, 3rd-year, Fundamentals and English
“Liminal Spaces as Destinations: Comparing Icarus’s Sea to Euphorion’s”
- Yueran (Alex) Qi, 4th-year, Creative Writing and English Language & Literature
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch Break
*1:30 – 2:30 pm, Session III: Emotional Waterscapes
“She Saw Me in the Water: Exploring our Paradoxical Relationships with Nature in Three Chapters from a Novel in Progress”
- Orliana Morag, 4th-year, English Language & Literature and History & Creative Writing
“‘Nostalgia is a Shallow Strait’: Water, Memory, and Identity in Yu Kwang-chung’s Poetry”
- Cynthia Huang, 4th-year, Creative Writing and Philosophy, Mathematics
“Representing the Unrepresentable: Invocations of Water Imagery in Debussy’s Piano Repertoire”
- Victor Cui, 4th-year, Music, French
“‘Defeat of Feeling in the Face of Life’: Understanding Peeperkorn’s Encounter with a Waterfall in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain”
- Teis Jayaswal, 4th-year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts and Philosophy
2:30 – 2:45 pm: Break
*2:45 – 3:30 pm, Session IV: Local Waters: Access, Connections, and Relationships
“Water Heroes: Representing and Celebrating Local Perspectives in Hawai’i’s Theatre for Young Audiences”
- Alisa Boland, 4th-year, History, Creative Writing
“Radio Waves: Exploring Place Attachment and Self-perception among Young Water Stewards”
- Ruby Rorty, 3rd-year, Economics and Environmental & Urban Studies
“Aspiring to Anthropocene: Technocrats’ Struggle to Control Water in 19th Century Mexico City”
- Claire Potter, 4th-year, History and English Language & Literature
3:30 – 4:00 pm, Closing Remarks: 2020 CSI Research Mentors - Dr. Sabina Shaikh, Nora Titone, Prof. Stephanie Soileau, Prof. Victoria Saramago, & Laura Colaneri
*Each student research presentation is approx. 10 minutes followed by 3-5 minutes of Q&A
Complete Symposium Proceedings [full text] available here.
