2018 College Summer Institute Closing Symposium
2018 College Summer Institute in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Symposium: “The City as Archive: Chicago in the American Century”
Thursday, September 27, 9:00 – 3:00 pm
Neubauer Collegium, 1st Floor Presentation Room
Complete Symposium Proceedings [full text] available here.
Symposium Program
9:00 – 9:25 am: Morning refreshments, Neubauer Lobby
9:25 – 9:30 am: Welcome and congratulatory remarks, Prof. Christopher Wild, Collegiate Master of the Humanities
9:30 – 10:15 am, Session I: Visits to the Underground City: Vice, Sex Work, and Social Reform
"If Christ came to Chicago: Tourists, Crusaders, and Voyeurs in the White City"
- Breck Radulovic, 4th-year, Religious Studies
“Making Ends Meet: Women’s Waged Labor and Sex Work in Chicago at the Turn of the 20th Century”
- Ella Hester, 4th-year, History, Creative Writing
“Betty, Ruby, and Mabel: Sex Work and Perceptions of Respectability in 1930s Social Research”
- Madeline de Figueiredo, 4th-year, History
10:15 – 10:25 am: Break
10:25 – 11:10 am, Session II: Seeking the Invisible: Discovery, Loss, and Transience
“Revisiting Breakthroughs in Science: Jean-Pierre Flourens and the Discovery of the Vestibular System”
- Tyler Chan, 4th-year, Neuroscience
“My Dear Girl: The Lost Story of Albert Hafner and Elizabeth Chandler, 1891-1899”
- Danielle Schmidt, 4th-year, Public Policy
“Transient Lives Along the Main Stem: Hobohemia and Chicago's Near North Side in the Early 20th Century”
- Adam David, 4th-year, Sociology
11:10 – 11:20 am: Break
11:20 – 12:05, Session III: Myth, Music, and Memory: A Century of Russian Immigrant Life in Chicago
“Chicago's Russian Colony: Myth, Paradox, and Pilgrimage”
- Zoe Kaiser, 4th-year, Russian and Eastern European Studies
“Chicago-born, freestyle: Mapping the Musical Landscape of The Adventures of Augie March”
- Emily Lovett, 4th-year, Music, English Language and Literature
“Migration Memories: Recollections of Soviet Jewish Refugees, Thirty Years Later”
- Dasha Beniash, 4th-year, Global Studies; Russian & Eastern European Studies
12:05 – 1:05 pm: Lunch Break
1:05 – 1:50 pm, Session IV: Traces of Cultural Exchange: Modernist Poetry, Documentary Photography, and Net Art
“China and Chicago: Traversing Cultures Through Verse”
- May Huang, 4th-year, English, Comparative Literature
“Harold Allen's "Egypt": Orientalism, Kitsch, or Americana?”
- Katherine Kamel, 4th-year, Fundamentals, Issues & Texts
“Campeones de la WWW: playfullness and the net.artistas”
- Zach Sherman, 4th-year, Latin American Studies
1:50 – 2:00 pm: Break
2:00 – 2:45 pm, Session V: Re-Organizing the City: Political Activism, Civil Liberties, and Social Networks
“A Failure to Intervene?: The Organization of Arab Students and the Formation of Policy in the Illinois ACLU, 1957”
- Gabriel Davis, 4th-year, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
“Testing the World: Information Flow in Chicago’s AIDS Activism”
- Kaeli Subberwal, 4th-year, Political Science
“Asians & Friends Chicago: Navigating Interracial Intimacy in a Gay Friendship Network”
- Khoa Phan, 4th-year, Sociology, English Language and Literature
2:45 – 3:00 pm, Closing Remarks: 2018 CSI Research Mentors - Prof. Debbie Nelson, Prof. James Sparrow, Nora Titone
3:00 – 4:30 pm: Closing Reception, Neubauer Lobby
