Crafting Revolutions

Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference

Each year the Wolf Humanities Center’s Undergraduate Humanities Forum brings together undergraduate students from across the humanities and beyond to explore a common theme. Join us on April 12th as the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2023–2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on “Revolution.”

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

9:00–9:30am
Breakfast

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9:30–9:45am
Opening Remarks
Hertha Torre Gallego and Zhangyang (Charlie) Xie, Executive Board and Research Fellows, Undergraduate Humanities Forum

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9:45–11:30am
Revolutionary Thoughts
Moderator: Dagmawi Woubshet, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

Jiayi Li, Intellectual History, Economics; CAS 2025
Translating the Marxist Teleology into Rural China: The Conceptualization of the ‘Feudal Relation of Land’ and the Agrarian Revolution under the United Front, 1924-1927

Jean Paik, English; CAS 2024
Free(dom) Zones: Collectivizing the Body in the Literature of Korean Women Factory Workers

Yijian (Davie) Zhou, Philosophy and Psychology; CAS 2024
Revolutionary Subjectivity

Alex Yim, English; CAS 2025
Kubo: Korean Flâneurs as Anti-Colonial Artistic and Political Emblems

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1:00–2:45pm
Revolutionary Bodies
Moderator: Ramah McKay, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Dhivya Arasappan, Health & Societies, Biology; CAS 2024
A Climate-Health Revolution: Examining Novel Framings of Climate Change as a Health Crisis

Sergio Emilio Carballido Murcio, Religious Studies and Mathematical Economics; CAS 2026
La Santa Muerte: A Revolution to Mexico’s Popular Religiosity and its National Identity

Hertha Torre Gallego, Health and Societies, Hispanic Studies; CAS 2024
A Partial Revolution: Engaging with Realities of Abortion Reform in Argentina

Zhangyang (Charlie) Xie, Africana Studies; Science, Technology, and Society; CAS 2024
Grappling Culture: How the Black Panther Party Addressed Colonial and Urban Anxieties through Martial Arts

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2:45–3:00pm
Break

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3:00–4:30pm
Revolutionary Dimensions
Moderator: Kevin M.F. Platt, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Victoria Avanesov, Comparative Literature, History of Art; CAS 2026Victory Over the Sun: Reimagining Russian Suprematist Works Through Visual and Linguistic Reconstruction

Liam Phillips,Comparative Literature, Russian and East European Studies; CAS 2024
In Search of a New Russian Readership: Communal Experience and Literary Form in Mikhail Kuzmin’s Wings

Tova Tachau, Biochemistry, Comparative Literature; CAS 2025
Embryos of Possibility in Malevich and Khlebnikov: Russian Futurist Revolutions Beyond Time, Space, and Language, 1913–1917

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4:30pm
Closing Remarks
Josephine Park, Director, Undergraduate Humanities Forum; School of Arts and Sciences President’s Distinguished Professor of English; University of Pennsylvania