Divided City Summer Graduate Fellows Presentations

The Center for the Humanities, in partnership with the College and Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, invites you to listen to a series of PechaKucha-style presentations on the research of Divided City Summer Graduate Fellows.

PechaKucha is a simple presentation format where 20 images are shown each for 20 seconds, keeping presentations concise and fast paced. Graduate students in the humanities, humanistic social sciences, architecture and urban design will present their research on urban segregation broadly conceived. The 2023 Divided City Summer Graduate Fellows are supported by WashU's Office of the Provost. Find details on their projects below. We hope you will join us - all are welcome!  

 

  • ‘Gbenga Adeoba, Comparative Literature, “Poetry for the People”: Taxi Poetry Project, Placemaking, and the Lyric Form
  • Rajnesh Chakrapani, Comparative Literature International Writers Track, Periphery as the New Center: Translation Workshops in Ferentari, Bucharest 
  • Kevin Corrigan, Sam Fox; Landscape Architecture, Shifting Sands: Depositing Possibilities Amidst a Coal Plant Decommissioning  
  • Zihan Feng, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Narrating the Audiophile Soundscape in Post-socialist Beijing: An Acoustic Reinforcement and/or Interrogation of Urban Segregation 
  • Sarah María Medina, Comparative Literature, International Writers track, Feminine Experimental City Networks: Paris, Mexico City, and New York (1910s to the 1940s) 
  • Lee M. Morrison, History, “The Men of Santo Stefano: Witnessing and Local Identity around a Thirteenth-Century Urban Monastery” / “The Women of the Gate: Neighborhood Development in Late Medieval Genoa”  
  • Michael Lamont Scarboro, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and The Brown School, “Funeral home, church, church, liquor store”: Supportive Housing as a Reparative Typology for Black St. Louisans  
  • Sylvia Sukop, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Performing Black Memory in St. Louis: An Oral History of Public Historian and Community Elder Angela da Silva  
  • Francisco (Paco) Tijerina, Romance Languages and Literatures, Urban Extractivism: An Ecofeminist Reading of Monterrey (2000-2023) 
  • Karla Aguilar Velásquez, Romance Languages and Literatures, Artistic Landmarks: Remembrance through Interaction in Counterpublic 2023