2021 College Summer Institute in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Symposium: “Moblie Lives”
A virtual celebratory closing event featuring undergraduate research and creative inquiry from University of Chicago and University of Sussex students.
Thursday, September 23, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm CDT (Virtual through Zoom)
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Thank you to all of the student presenters!
Symposium Program
9:00 – 9:15 am: Welcome and congratulatory remarks: Prof. Christopher Wild, Collegiate Master of the Humanities & Prof. Richard Neer, Director of the Franke Institute
*9:15 – 10:30 am, Session I: Representing Migration in Literature, Photography, and Film, moderated by Prof. Josephine McDonagh
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Ella Alemayehu-Lambert, University of Sussex: "Migrants at Sea: The Ethics of Hospitality, Sea-Rescue, and the Sublime" |
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Joanna (Jo) Darowska, University of Sussex: "Philosophic Geographies: Orientalizations of the Eastern European Migrant in 'East Wind,' 'Amy Foster,' and The Road Home" |
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Natalie Nitsch, University of Chicago: "A Life in Pieces: The Anthologization of The Book of Margery Kempe" |
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Yuxin Zhang, University of Chicago: "On the Multiplicity of Language: Responses to Ocean Vuong" |
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Nandini Kejariwal, University of Chicago: "What an American Education Makes of the Indian Man: Perspectives from Bollywood and Parallel Cinema" |
10:30 - 10:45 am: Break
*10:45 – 12:00 pm, Session II: Gender, Sexuality, and Migration, moderated by Prof. Ghenwa Hayek
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Scarlett Zhao Akeley, University of Chicago: "The L-Word(s): Label-Making Among the Queer Chinese American Diaspora" |
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Esme Hood, University of Sussex: "Gendering World-Systems: How Migrant Women Reframe Theories of Capital" |
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Holly Byrne, University of Sussex: "Queer Credibility: Nine Lives, Adam, and the Destabilised Sense of Self of Queer Asylum Seekers in the UK" |
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Gaia Guatri, University of Sussex: "Mobile Workers: Migrant Women and Transwomen Sex Workers in Italy" |
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Murphy DePompei, University of Chicago: "Abortion Seekers as Economic Migrants in the Southern United States" |
12:00 - 12:45 pm: Mid-Event Break
*12:45 – 1:45 pm, Session III: The Local and Global Politics of Migration, moderated by Prof. Demetra Kasimis
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Margaret (Maggie) Macpherson, University of Chicago: "'How a Community Like Ours Thrives': Placemaking and Conflict in Rogers Park" |
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Warren Liow: University of Chicago: "Ayo Gorkhali: Nuancing Gurkha Positionalities in Great Britain and Singapore" |
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Jonathan (Jon) WuWong, University of Chicago: "Language Use in Boston's Chinatown: An Introductory Study on Language and Voting Access" |
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Noah Tesfaye, University of Chicago: "Theorizing Black Decolonization in the United States: The Revolutionary Vision of the Republic of New Afrika" |
1:45 - 2:00 pm: Break
*2:00 – 2:45 pm Session IV: New Approaches to Home, Environment, and Belonging, moderated by Matthew Johnson
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Joël Cottrell, University of Sussex: "Searching for the Same Sun: Tibetan Trees in an English Garden" |
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Mary Mouton, University of Chicago: "Notions of Home in AIDS Commemoration, from the Quilt to Instagram" |
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Chloe Brettmann, University of Chicago: "An Environmental History of Dispossession and Return Migration in Dinétah, ca. 1850-1868" |
2:45 - 3:00 pm, Closing Remarks: 2021 CSI Research Mentors - Profs. Ghenwa Hayek, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures; Josephine McDonagh, English Language and Literatures; Demetra Kasimis, Political Science; & Graduate Student Mentor Matthew Johnson, Germanic Studies
*Each student research presentation is approx. 10 minutes followed by 3-5 minutes of Q&A
Complete Symposium Proceedings [full text] available HERE
