{"id":2899,"date":"2026-01-29T21:13:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/?page_id=2899"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:10:40","slug":"annual-undergraduate-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/annual-undergraduate-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Undergraduate Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--featured-block \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--featured-block\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-image-container\">\n    <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Where Students Share Their Research\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"1250\">The Comparative Literature Annual Undergraduate Symposium is an ongoing series dedicated to highlighting the range and ambition of undergraduate work in comparative literature and related fields. Organized by an undergraduate committee with guidance from faculty, the symposium offers a supportive, rigorous venue for students to share research and creative-critical projects that cross languages, forms, and disciplines\u2014literature, film, visual art, performance, translation, and media studies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1252\" data-end=\"1746\">Each edition is built around a theme that invites experimentation and sharp argument: students present, respond to one another\u2019s work, and engage in conversation with a keynote guest whose scholarship and practice model what comparative inquiry can do in the world. The symposium is open to all USC undergraduates and aims to make undergraduate research more public, legible, and consequential\u2014an annual moment to gather, think together, and publish or develop work toward future opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n          <\/div>\n\n          <div class=\"image-container\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Untitled-17-e1774581141442-768x768.png\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Untitled-17-e1774581141442-1280x1280.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Untitled-17-e1774581141442-768x768.png 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"A group of people sit looking ahead.\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n  <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--spacer \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--spacer\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--video-with-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--video-with-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          2026 Undergraduate Symposium \n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>If you missed the 2026 Undergraduate Symposium, or want to relive the highlights, here is a videorecap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n     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class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"The Body Writes Back: Performance and Praxis\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>2025-2026<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    THE BODY WRITES BACK\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p class=\"p1\">With <em>The Body Writes Back: Performance and Praxis<\/em>, we approach the body not merely as a biological or representational form, but as a site where histories, languages, and affects are inscribed and contested. The symposium itself functions as a performative site, translating theory into action and refining critical thought through practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/2024-conf-500x700.jpeg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/2024-conf-900x1260.jpeg 900w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/2024-conf-500x700.jpeg 500w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"On the Horizon Speculative Ecologies for the Future\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>2024-2025<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    ON THE HORIZON\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p class=\"p1\">With <em>On the Horizon: Speculative Ecologies for the Future<\/em> we identify ecologies not simply as the \u201cnatural order\u201d but more broadly as entanglements of people, space, affect, and power that create the conditions for social life. The conference is both an ecology of intellectual exchange and a speculative call towards a future in the making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Department-of-Comparative-Literature-Inaugural-Undergraduate-Symposium_20231126_153137_0000-500x700.png\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Department-of-Comparative-Literature-Inaugural-Undergraduate-Symposium_20231126_153137_0000-900x1260.png 900w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/colt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Department-of-Comparative-Literature-Inaugural-Undergraduate-Symposium_20231126_153137_0000-500x700.png 500w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Department of Comparative Literature Inaugural Undergraduate Symposium\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>2024-2024<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    TRANSCEND\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":989,"featured_media":2901,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2899","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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