Join this year's cohort of Fellows at the Society for the Humanities for presentations on work-in-progress on the 2025-26 focal theme of Scale. Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A. Open to the public.

Scale Fellows’ Conference Friday, April 24, 2026

9:00-9:30am Coffee & Light Refreshments

9:30-10:30am Panel 1

9:30am Addicted to Formlessness: Thomas Mann's Medieval Sculpture
Luke Fidler, Society Fellow
Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Southern California

10:00am Building the North American Anarchist Movement Through Continental Convergences (1986-1989)
Spencer Beswick, HSP Postdoctoral Associate
Cornell University

15-minute break

10:45am-11:45am Panel 2

10:45am The Long 1780s from Provincial, Viceregal, and Imperial Perspectives
Ernesto Bassi, Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, History, Cornell University

11:15am Integrated Rural Circuits: A Scalar History of Southeast Asia’s Computational Environments
Shaoling Ma, Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, Asian Studies, Cornell University

11:45-1:15pm Lunch

1:15pm-2:45pm Panel 3

1:15pm A Love Supreme: Toward an Afro-Native Study of Land Acknowledgments
Tiffany Hale, Society Fellow
Assistant Professor, Religion, Barnard College

1:45pm Group Work: How to Practice Queer and Trans Kinship
Teagan Bradway, Society Fellow
Professor, English, SUNY Cortland

2:15pm Poussin’s Blind Orion
Benjamin Anderson, Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, History of Art and Classics, Cornell University

15-minute break

3-4pm Keynote Speaker
Scale's Remainders; or, Television's Impossible Floor Plans
Nick Salvato
Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Liberal Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University

4:30pm: Reception