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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: Sarah Jacoby

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