Undergraduate Humanities Forum

Eighth Annual Research Conference with papers presented by the 2006–2007 Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Undergraduate Research Fellows

Travel (download program PDF here)

March 29–30, 2007

March 29, 2007, 5:00 - 6:30 p
17 Logan Hall
Conference Keynote Address
Robert Irwin, Historian and Broadcaster
Sinbad the Traveling Salesman: His Ancestry and Progeny

Lecture free and open to the public.

March 30, 2007, 9:00a – 5:30p
Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk

9:00: Welcome
Catriona MacLeod, Director, Undergraduate Humanities Forum
Associate Professor of German

9:15–10:30a | Poetic Travel
Sharon Cantor, College '08
Sheira Feuerstein, College '08
Andrew Meyer, College '07

10:45-12:00p | Modernisms
Giselle Aris, College '07
Gerard Leone, College '07
Ellen Mossman, College '07

12:30–1:45p | Tourism
Michael Ellis, College '07
Di Hu, College '07
Sabina Pendse, College '07
Leonard Tso, College '09

1:50–2:45p | Explorations
Megan Curtiss, College '07
Andrea Felber Seligman, College '07

3:00–4:15p | Immigration
Rachel Han, College '08
Kojo Minta, College '09
Cheryl Yang, College '08

4:20–5:35p | Religion
Sarah Breger, College '07
Sara Gorman, College '07
Justin Tackett, College '07

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