Sleep and Dreams

Undergraduate Humanities Forum
Research Conference 2005

Friday, March 25th
3619 Locust Walk
8:45a – 5:00p

8:45 | Registration and Breakfast

9:15 – 10:15 | Keynote Address
Peter Struck
Assistant Professor, Classical Studies, Penn
Dreams: Between Us and the Gods in the
Ancient Greek and Roman World

10:30 – 12:00 | Session I
Kenny Pearce, Are Dreams Real?
Cristina Alberto, Non-Erotic Erotica: Dream and Fantasy in Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut
Jenny Suen, A Dream of the Red Chamber: How Hong Kong Remembers the Excesses of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch and Art Reception
Julie Brown, Dreaming Models of Inspiration
Joshua Duyan, The Play of Photography in Evoking the Dream-like
Sidi Gomes, Drawing with Light, An Exploration of the Flexibility of the Negative

1:30 – 3:30 | Session II
Clara Chow, Myth and Mysticism: Novalis' Dream of Love Everlasting
Jane Silfen, Stigmata: Actualization of a Dream
Dana Katz, Jacob's Dream in Norman Sicily
Ruth McAdams, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake: The Syntax of Sleep

4:00 – 5:00 | Session III
Molly Cahill, Ethics and Sociological Consequences of Modafinil
Tiffany Behringer, Gathering Dreams: Analyzing the Shield of Charles Black Horse

 

 

 

Undergraduate Research Fellows

 

The Penn Humanities Forum gratefully acknowledges the support of the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.