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.
2023 FRANKE FUTURE DIRECTIONS FORUM
Friday, May 5, 2023
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: Kelly Wisecup (Interim Director) – Opening Remarks
Session I
9:10am-9:40am: Grace Wu (Art History and Journalism)
Illustrating Indigeneity: Qing Tributary Scrolls and the Critical Reevaluation of Their Depictions of Native
Taiwanese Peoples
First Questioner: Doug Kiel
9:40am-10:15am: Heather Menefee (History; Mellon Cluster Fellow in Native American and Indigenous
Studies)
That We May Live Upon the Earth Again: Debt, Dispossession, and Dakota History, 1829–1889
First Questioner: kihana miraya ross
10:15am-10:30am: BREAK
Session II
10:30am-11:00am: Tanisha Tekriwal (Radio/Television/Film and English/Creative Writing)
Blurring the Sonic Color Line: Brown-Voice(s) Beyond Colonial Imagination
First Questioner: Michelle Huang
11:00am-11:35am: Mauricio Oportus Preller (Comparative Literary Studies/ Spanish and Portuguese)
Juridical Fictions: Literary Representations of the Law in Latin American Modern Fiction (1882–1929)
First Questioner: Doug Kiel
11:35am-12:10pm: Kyle Craig (Anthropology; Middle East and North African Studies)
This City is So Empty: Street Art, Youth, and Urban Futures in Amman, Jordan
First Questioner: Viv Soni
12:10pm-1:00pm: LUNCH SERVED
Session III
1:00pm-1:35pm: Jessica Hough (Art History; Mellon Cluster Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Coding the Collective: Art, Activism, and Technology in the United States, 1970–1999
First Questioner: Danielle Bainbridge
1:35pm-2:05pm: Ella Bartt (Spanish and Portuguese)
The Vanguard Portrait of Isabel Villaseñor: Artistic Femininity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
First Questioner: David Shyovitz
2:05pm-3:00pm: FINAL THOUGHTS AND RECEPTION