Deeper dive presentation session + roundtable discussion
Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium
April 19, 2024
Bauer Hall
In spring 2024, the Center for the Humanities is partnering with the Office of Undergraduate Research to convene a special session of the semester’s undergraduate research symposium. The session will assemble students to give 8-minute “deeper dive” talks on their writing and research, keyed to this year’s theme, People + Place. (More details below.) Students in the session will each present their work and the remaining time will be used for a roundtable discussion. (A roundtable is a conversation, guided by a moderator, that explores a specific topic and facilitates ideas amongst a panel of informed speakers.)
This opportunity is perfect for students who have an existing paper or research project within the broader theme and who seek feedback and other generative conversation from a smaller audience of their peers and faculty in the humanities. We are very interested in cultivating a diverse panel of participants according to topic, scope and method, and we especially invite those in earlier years to apply.
Those whose work is accepted for the session will meet once with humanities center staff prior to the symposium to workshop their presentations.
To apply, please fill out the registration form on the website for the Office of Undergraduate Research and select the option for the Center for the Humanities special session of 8-minute “deeper dive” talks. In the field that requests your presentation abstract, please submit a proposal that answers to the call for presentations (below). Note: In the event that we receive more proposals than we have room for in the session, those who are not selected for the session will be able to placed in another "deeper dive" session.
Call for presentations
This year’s humanities theme for the Undergraduate Research Symposium is People + Place. We invite undergraduates with research and writing across all humanities and social sciences disciplines to give 8-minute talks on a topic that examines any relationships between individuals, communities and the environments they inhabit, whether those environments are ecological, social, cultural, political and so forth.
Some questions your work might respond to are:
- How do people and communities adapt and evolve in response to their environments?
- What cultural and artistic forms serve as documentation or evidence these efforts?
- How do people find belonging or express dissent, through writing, art, social organization and political solidarity?
- What are the histories upon which they draw in order to forge their futures?
If you have questions about whether your work or idea fits within the theme, or need help navigating the application process, please reach out to Meredith Kelling, Assistant Director of Student Research and Engagement (mlkelling@wustl.edu).