1st Annual CNY Humanities Corridor Undergraduate Conference in Critical Theory

Time: May 7, 2019, 1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Location: 304 Tolley Humanities Building

Students enrolled in Syracuse University Professor Gregg Lambert’s PHI 422: Critique of European Humanism and Cornell University Professor Paul Fleming’s COMPL 4995 Critical Thinking and Literary Methods will come together for an afternoon of sharing their original research. Undergraduate students will present papers and graduate students from each campus will serve as respondents and discussion leaders. All students and faculty are welcome to attend any part of the program. Light refreshments will be available throughout the day.

Click to download the program flier. Contact Aimee Germain for more information.

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Schedule:

1-3pm Cornell University Undergraduate Student Presentations

• Sarah Lorgan-Khanyile: "Singing in a Disremembered Voice: Derrida and the Experience of Lyric”
• Elizabeth Schmucker: “Moretti's Theory of Literary Evolution applied to Heimatliteratur”
• Jeffrey Sondike: "Narration and Description in a Voice from the Periphery: Georg Lukacs and Heather Love”

Syracuse University Graduate Student Respondents

• Michael Camele, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, VPA MA
• Nicolas Croce, Social Sciences PhD
• William “Chip” Osborne, Philosophy PhD

Break 3:00-3:30

3:30-5:30pm Syracuse University Undergraduate Student Presentations

• Alyssa Jacobson, Philosophy, “Chat-ce que c’est? Derrida as Grammatical Animal”
• Joseph Lino, Political Science/Philosophy, “Thought and Writing in Letter on Humanism”
• Leo Duke, Political Science, “The Atoms Caught Fire”—Albert Camus and the Crisis of European Humanism”

Cornell University Graduate Student Respondents

• Soren Larsen, German Studies, PhD
• Juan-Jacques Aupiais, German Studies, PhD
• Sophia Leonard, German Studies, PhD

Gregg Lambert and Paul Fleming, CNY Humanities Corridor, from Syracuse University and Cornell University, respectively