Please join us for the culmination of our 2024-2025 Altman Program, "Humanities Futures"
We will be holding a two-day symposium featuring presentations by faculty and students in addition to the following keynote speakers:
SONJA DRIMMER: "Why Can't Machine Vision See the Past? Analog Art History and the Future of the Humanities"
ARMOND TOWNS: "On Black Media Philosophy"
9:00-10:20am Student Fellows Undergraduate Panel
Moderator: Carey Hardin
Anastasija Mladenovska, “Navigating Academic Freedom and Political Interference: Comparative Case Studies on the Challenges Facing Universities in Illiberal Regimes and Beyond”
Sumit Tripathi, “Thinking the Universe: How Philosophy Shapes Physics”
Caitlin Spyra, “Reimagining Eve: Women's Roles in Early Christianity and Modern Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements”
Marlow Zuch, “The Emergence of AI in Education: Perspectives from Preservice Teachers”
Millie West, “Through the Eyes of a Child: Peju Alatise’s Art towards an Imaginative Nigeria”
Nya Hodge, ‘If It's Wrong, It's Just Right: A Study in How Totalitarianism Produces "History"’
10:20-10:30am Coffee Break
10:30-12:05pm Collective Futures
Moderator: Gaile Pohlhaus
Iñaki Pradanos, “Postgrowth Humanities: Undisciplined Thinking on a Finite Planet”
Alexander Nebbergall, “Socialist Hope: Against Despair and Pragmatism”
Mark Dahlquist, “The Humanities, Democracy, and Information Creativity”
Rodney Coates, “Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Attacks”
12:05-1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00pm Keynote Lecture (virtual)
Armond Towns, “On Black Media Philosophy”
2:15-2:30pm Geoffrion Fellows Public Humanities Project
