Franke Future Directions Forum
A showcase for the humanities research done during their fellowship year, the Future Directions Forum is where each Franke Fellow—graduate and undergraduate—presents their project and receives interdisciplinary feedback from the Kaplan Institute community.
2024 FRANKE FUTURE DIRECTIONS FORUM
Friday, May 3, 20234
8:45 am to 3:00 pm
Kaplan Humanities Institute—Kresge Hall #2350
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SCHEDULE
8:45-9:00am: COFFEE AND LIGHT BREAKFAST
9:00-9:10am: Jessica Winegar (Director) – Opening Remarks
Session I
9:10am-9:40am: Bobby Yalam (Comparative Literary Studies Program and Department of Economics)
Writing Tangier in the Era of the Nation-State: Mohamed Mgharbi, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Postcolonial
Bureaucracy
First Questioner: katrina quisumbing king
9:40am-10:15am: Arianna Ray (Department of Art History)
Paper Skin: Printing Blackness and Materializing Race in the Early Modern Dutch Atlantic
First Questioner: Brannon Ingram
10:15am-10:30am: COFFEE BREAK
Session II
10:30am-11:05am: Jinxue Chen (Department of Political Science; Classics Cluster; Critical Theory
Cluster)
Journey Between East and West: Chinese Intellectuals in the World,1880-1940
First Questioner: Bruce Carruthers
11:05am-11:40am: Madeleine Le Cesne (Department of Performance Studies)
This Mess We’re In: Minor Matter and the Intimacies of Black Ecologies in Lower Louisiana
First Questioner: Corey Barnes
11:40am-12:10pm: Elizabeth Vazquez (Departments of History and Anthropology)
Up Against the White Background: Stories of Non-White Museum Professionals
First Questioner: Nicole Spigner
12:10pm-1:00pm: LUNCH SERVED
Session III
1:00pm-1:35pm: Greg Manuel (Department of Performance Studies)
Styles of Attention for a Flammable Place
First Questioner: Kalyan Nadiminti
1:35pm-2:05pm: April Li (Departments of English and Journalism; Asian American Studies Program)
Circling the Square: Memory’s Nonpresence in Diasporic Tiananmen Fiction
First Questioner: Megan Hyska
2:05pm-3:00pm: FINAL THOUGHTS AND RECEPTION