All students and faculty are invited to attend this year's Common Seminar, on instructor Ruth Mostern's theme of A Sense of Place in an Epoch of Loss. Students will deliver short papers based on their semester-long research projects. These papers will be commented upon by each of the Three Distinguished Lecturers (click here to learn about their lectures).
10 APRIL, 139-CL 6:00-8:30 PM Session I
Making Space at the End of the World
•Casey Talay (Social and Comparative Analysis in Education), “The Problem with Study Abroad: Defining Value in an Epoch of Loss.”
•Daniel Beresheim (Communication), “Unspeakable Names: Memorial Rhetoric at Lubyanka Square.”
•Sarah Constant (Communication), “Sustainable Architecture at the Intersection of Controversy and Hope.”
•Miranda Bartira Sousa (Music) , “Carioca Funk: The Soundtrack of the End of the World in Brazil.”
Discussant: Stephanie Kane
17 APRIL, 358-CL 6:00-8:30 PM Session II
Storytelling in a Time of Loss
•Jonathan Devine (Film and Media Studies/French and Italian), “#FakeWeather: Documenting Climate Change in Before the Flood.”
•Woody Steinken (Music): “The Fate of the Earth at the End of Wagner’s Ring.”
•Deborah J. Danuser (Communication), “Far(go) and Away: Coping with Isolation, Otherness and the Sense of Loss after Moving to the Big City from Rural Family Farms.”
Discussant: Kim De Wolff
18 APRIL, 116-CL 3:00-5:00 PM Session III
Cosmologies for Making and Unmaking Worlds
•Emma Ben Hadj (Film and Media Studies/French and Italian), “The (Im)Possibility of Adaptation in Alex Garland’s Annihilation.”
•Lynette Moran (Sociology), “Local Social Topology: Native Mounds and Coke Manufacturing.”
•Weijia Shen (History), “Understanding the Ainu Ethnic Cohabitation Zone: Ethno-tourism, Space, and Identity.”
Discussant: James Rock
