Celebrate the conclusion of the 2024 College Summer Institute (CSI) in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences by attending our closing research symposium on Thursday, August 15, 2024. The symposium features research presentations from the participating CSI Scholars, who engaged in faculty-mentored undergraduate research and creative scholarship throughout the summer.
The CSI symposium is open to the campus community and the general public.
2024 COLLEGE SUMMER INSTITUTE CLOSING SYMPOSIUM
SCHEDULE
Full abstracts are available in the Online Proceedings.
All events in Room 122 of the Social Science Research Building, unless otherwise noted
8:30 AM: Morning Refreshments (Social Science Research Building Lobby)
9:00 AM: Event Welcome
9:05 AM: Session 1: Worlds, Old and New
Jiayue Wang, "Investigating Settlement Patterns in Southeast Anatolia from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age" (Research Mentor: James Osborne, Associate Professor of Anatolian Archeology)
Benny Wild, "The Poet as “Wise Master-Builder”: George Herbert and the Tropes of Medieval Memory" (Research Mentor: Timothy Harrison, Associate Professor of English)
Zuri Cofer, "Navigating the Policy Landscape: The Influence of Cumulative Impact Assessments on Environmental Justice in Chicago" (Research Mentor: Mary Beth Pudup, Instructional Professor and Director of Community Studies, Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU))
Katheryne Dwyer, "The State, Surveillance, and Geopolitical Power: Where and How the U.S. Built Intelligence Infrastructure in the Cold War Period" (Research Mentor: Austin Carson, Associate Professor of Political Science; Director, Committee on International Relations)
10:15 AM: Session 2: Art-Historical Inquiries
Arnie Campa, "Weft: Critical Making as an Art Historical Practice" (Research Mentor: Bridget Madden, Associate Director, Visual Resources Center)
David Hall, "The Experimental Image: How Participatory Is New Media, Really?" (Research Mentor: Berit Ness, Associate Director and Curator of Academic Engagement, Smart Museum and Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry)
Keshav Malik Kapoor, "Smart to the Core" (Research Mentor: Berit Ness, Associate Director and Curator of Academic Engagement, Smart Museum and Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry)
10:55 AM Session 3: Postwar Forms: Munich ’72
Prefatory Remarks by CSI Mentor Christine Mehring
Avivit Ashman, "Monumental Light: Dan Flavin at the Munich Olympics" (Research Mentors: Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and Visual Arts; Sean Keller, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture)
Anna Bonnem, "Novel Computational Modeling of the Roof at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich" (Research Mentors: Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and Visual Arts; Sean Keller, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture)
Erika Yan, "The Presence of Site in Carl Andre’s Sculpture" (Research Mentors: Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and Visual Arts; Sean Keller, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture)
12:00 PM: Lunch (Social Sciences Tea Room, 2nd Floor)
1:00 PM Session 4: Landscapes of Artificial Intelligence
Prefatory Remarks by CSI Mentor Andre Uhl
Eli Naftulin, "Jung, Jungians, and Post-Jungians on the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious" (Research Mentor: Andre Uhl, Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge)
Leo Kupperman, "Imaginary Intelligence: Comparing AI in Transhumanism and Posthumanism" (Research Mentor: Andre Uhl, Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge)
Avah Harris, "The Aesthetics of Artificial Intelligence: A Historical Discourse Analysis on Media Portrayals of AI from the 1950s to the Present Day" (Research Mentor: Andre Uhl, Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge)
Sage Martinez, "Affective Mapping of Artificial Intelligence Discourse" (Research Mentor: Andre Uhl, Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor, Institute for the Formation of Knowledge)
2:10 PM Session 5: Reading Rage! Exploring Lesewut, Materiality, and Meaning in the Library’s Taschenbuch Collection
Prefatory Remarks by CSI Mentor Elizabeth Frengel
Arjan Batth, "The Statics of Motion: Engaging with Landscape in Alpenrosen’s Reiseschilderungen" (Research Mentors: Elizabeth Frengel, Curator of Rare Books, The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library; Catriona MacLeod, Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and the College; Christopher J. Wild, Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and the College)
Tommy Hughson, "Reading Rage" (Research Mentors: Elizabeth Frengel, Curator of Rare Books, The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library; Catriona MacLeod, Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and the College; Christopher J. Wild, Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and the College)
Aria Petrella, "Feminine Patriotism: National Identity Formation in the Cornelia Taschenbuch Series" (Research Mentors: Elizabeth Frengel, Curator of Rare Books, The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library; Catriona MacLeod, Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and the College; Christopher J. Wild, Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and the College)
3:00 PM Session 6: The Rhetoric of Free Speech Controversies on US Campuses: Rhetors, Audiences and Genres
Prefatory Remarks by the Presenters
Rohan Cooppan-Boyd (Research Mentor: Ekaterina Lukianova, Senior Instructional Professor and Associate Director, Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse)
Josh Kindler, "Rhetoric of Campus Free Speech: 2024 Encampment Protests" (Research Mentor: Ekaterina Lukianova, Senior Instructional Professor and Associate Director, Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse)
3:35 PM Session 7: Oak Woods Cemetery: A South Side Historical Archive
Prefatory Remarks by CSI Mentor Na'ama Rokem
Cleo Delogu, "Making History (and Money) in Chicago’s Oak Woods Cemetery" (Research Mentor: Na'ama Rokem, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and Comparative Literature, Center for Jewish Studies, NELC, and Comparative Literature)
Anthony Procaccio, "To Die a Chicagoan: Tracing the Influences of Cemetery Development in Chicagoland" (Research Mentor: Na'ama Rokem, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and Comparative Literature, Center for Jewish Studies, NELC, and Comparative Literature)
Andy Cheng, "Life after Death: Oak Woods Cemetery as a Bridge between the Living and the Dead" (Research Mentor: Na'ama Rokem, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and Comparative Literature, Center for Jewish Studies, NELC, and Comparative Literature)
Elias Widawsky, "Reviving a Cemetery: Re-imagining the Oak Woods Cemetery as a Recreational Green Space" (Research Mentor: Na'ama Rokem, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and Comparative Literature, Center for Jewish Studies, NELC, and Comparative Literature)
Isaiah Terry, "Speaker For the Dead: The Importance of Graveyards as a Site of Ritual Abjection" (Research Mentor: Na'ama Rokem, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and Comparative Literature, Center for Jewish Studies, NELC, and Comparative Literature)
4:50 PM Closing Remarks
We encourage you to attend for the entire symposium, or you are welcome to drop in throughout the day.
A sincere thank you to the 2024 CSI Faculty and Research Mentors for guiding the undergraduate researchers with their projects.
The College Summer Institute in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is a collaborative initiative supported by the Humanities and Social Sciences Collegiate Divisions, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, and The College Center for Research and Fellowships.