Undergraduate Humanities Forum 2007-2008: Origins
The Penn Humanities Forum thanks everyone—our special guests, faculty, students, and wonderful members of the community—for your ideas, enthusiasm and support as we journeyed back to various beginnings in this year on Origins.
Next year, in 2008–2009, we celebrate our Tenth Anniversary! And what better topic to explore than CHANGE, whose every notion—growth, variation, evolution, revolution, entropy, chaos, metamorphosis, and more—ushers in a fresh array of controversies. Come argue, deplore, and celebrate with us!
Papers from 2008
Forgetting the Violence, Remembering a Report: The Paradox of the 1931 Kanpur Riots, Priya Agarwal
Origins of Unity and Communalism in Gujarat, India, Rajiv Bhagat
Suggestions for Shakespeare: Playing Out the Alterations in Nineteenth-Century Promptbooks of Hamlet, Sheira Feuerstein
The Gay Man's Burden: Wilde, Dandyism, and the Labors of Gay Selfhood, Jordan L. Greenwald
The Need for War Letters?, Alice Hickey
Body mass index, socio-economic status, and behavioral practices in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, Jason Nagata
Their Nation Dishonored, the Queen Shamed, and Country Undone: Feuding, Factionalism, and Religion in the Chaseabout Raid, Rachel Omansky
When I count to four…: James Brown, Kraftwerk, and the practice of musical time-keeping before Techno, David Reinecke
The Affair or the State: Intellectuals, the Press, and the Dreyfus Affair, David Rimoch
The Invocation of Clouds in Plato's Apology, Curtis Roche