2025-2026 Humanities Labs

“Spectacle and Silence: Ethics of Memory in the Digital Age”

Depicting Suffering: Dignity and the Ethics of Atrocity Images

Ariana Hu — Pages 2-12

How Do We Move On?: Social Media’s Role in the Rise and Fall of the #BLM Movement

Danah Plair — Pages 13-18

Building Community Archives for Future Justice

Daniel Peñaloza — Pages 19-23

How has american malpreservation of history served as a mechanism for global oppression?

Nandini Patro — Pages 25-28

Essay: Why do some ordinary people feel attracted to violence, gore, the suffering of others and any other materials that are usually disturbing even when they are perhaps not morally corrupt or perverted?

David Chai — Pages 29-31

Marina Hagedorn and Ellie Halaby— Pages 32-40

Artificial Comfort in the Digital Age

Daniela Cadena — Pages 41-45

Time, Power, and Memory

Felix Kuang— 46-47

Escaping the Dying Internet

Jason Bao — 48-64