Graduate Student
Why So Serious? How Mental Illness Became Laughable
Oct. 10, 2024—Sarah Hagaman, 2024-25 RPW Center Graduate Student Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of Emerging Technologies in Human Context: Past, Present, and Future Can you laugh at jokes about mental illness—even a joke about suicide? Breakout standup comedian Taylor Tomlinson thinks so. Yet nervous audience laughter—the equivalent of a collective tee-hee or a...
September 16, 4-6 PM
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How did Nashville’s Youth (Re)Imagine the Future of Global Mall with Technology?
Sep. 6, 2024—Hannah Ziegler, 2024-25 RPW Center Graduate Student Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of Emerging Technologies in Human Context: Past, Present, and Future As part of my ongoing work with the Teens (Re-)Storying the Creek with STEM (T-ReCS) project, I have been interested in exploring ways to capitalize on the pedagogical affordances of...
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Emerging Technologies and the Human Experience
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Excellence in Podcasting Competition Deadline April 19, 12pm
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My Journey as a Literary Scholar: From Theory to Archives
Oct. 23, 2023—André Ramos-Chacón is a Mending and Transforming Fellow from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. For five years, as an undergraduate student of literature in Peru, I was formed to understand, appropriate, and apply theory for my study of books. Though, arguably, I was being formed at the margins of the academic establishment —in a...
Ethics of Memory: Remembering the May 18th People’s Uprising in South Korea
Oct. 5, 2023—Seulbin Lee, 2023-24 RPW Center Themed Graduate Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of “The Place of Memory.” The Martyrs of Gwanju During the 2023 national commemoration ceremony of the May 18th People’s Uprising in 1980, held in the city of Gwangju, a small group of activists who had traveled from Seoul raised...
Bad Faith
Sep. 20, 2023—Tan Fireall, 2023-24 RPW Center Themed Graduate Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of “The Place of Memory.” As we are born, we emerge through a kind of rupture. There is blood, tissue, and sometimes wailing from the pain and perhaps the existential quandary of being born to die. I wonder if this...