2026 College Summer Institute Closing Symposium

Project Abstracts are available in the Symposium Proceedings

COLLEGE SUMMER INSTITUTE CLOSING SYMPOSIUM
SCHEDULE

All events in Room 122 of the Regenstein Library.

Wednesday, August 12th

9:00                  Breakfast and Coffee

9:40                  Welcoming Remarks

Session: Creating New Illness Narratives in VR [Faculty Mentor: Dr. Desiree Foerster]

9:45                  Sophia Zhang

Session: Art and Artifact in the Papers of Charles F. Nims [Faculty Mentors: Dr. Foy Scalf and Allie Scholten]

10:05                Noel Cormack

10:20                Kameryn King

Session: The Afterlives of Skulls [Faculty Mentor: Dr. Iris Clever]

10:35                Lulu DeLuca

10:50 – 11:00 AM [10-minute BREAK]

Session: Virtual Human Rights Library [Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kathleen Cavanaugh]

11:05                Abby Langer

11:20                Maria Poltorykhina

Session: Untidy Objects [Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amber Ginsburg]            

11:35                Kevin Geng

LUNCH – served at 12 PM

Session: The Group Portrait and Sociality in Literature and Art around 1900 [Faculty Mentor: Dr. Margareta Ingrid Christian]

1:05                  Helena Kottman

1:20                  Noah Youkhana

1:35                  Vera Zhang

Session: Voices of Madness [Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Brandel]

1:55                  Ben Levine

2:10                  Jhankaar Purohit

2:25 – 2:35 PM [10-minute BREAK]

Session: The Lunar New Year Film: Mapping a Popular Sinophone Genre [Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cassandra Guan]

2:35                  Felix Zhang

Session: Re-Staging a Japanese American Chicago [Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael K. Bourdaghs]

2:50                  Miya Routh

Session: Narrating Mesoamerican History [Faculty Mentor: Dr. Claudia Brittenham]

3:05                Noah DeMichaelis

3:20-3:25         Thanks

 

 Thursday, August 13th

9:00                  Breakfast and Coffee

9:30                  Welcoming Remarks

Session: Postwar Artists’ Books [Mentor: Dr. Christine Mehring]

9:40                  Sara Baudler

9:55                  Megan Derby

10:10                Scott Gonzales

10:25                Jacqueline Oury

10:40 – 10:50 AM [10-minute BREAK]

Session: InPLACE at Warren Woods [Faculty Mentors: Dr. Emily Bretl and Dr. Jessica Landau]

10:55                Aitana Rosas Lind

11:10                Olin Nafziger

LUNCH – served at 12 PM

Session: The Craft Chronicle [Mentor: Dr. Erica Warren]

1:05                  Paisley Templeton

1:20                  Rae Engrav                       

Session: Boundaries of Benevolence [Faculty Mentors: Dr. Ania Aizman, Dr. Baddr Shakhsheer, Dr. Asim Farooq, Dr. Fan Yang, and Dr. Anton Ford]

1:40                  Fumi Kimura

1:55                  Isaiah Swanson

2:10                  Chase Wilson

2:25 – 2:30       Thanks