Ctrl+ Society

Why should you care about scholarship in the age of AI? How does academia, scholarship and doctoral training make visible the connection between larger systems and an individual? In Ctrl + Society two doctoral students get together every week to discuss how their classes, research, training and theory apply to the real world. Meet your hosts: Anshita Singh is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in Community Psychology at the University of Virginia. Her research sits at the intersection of education, community psychology, and social-cognitive development. She examines how educational, social, and community experiences shape emerging adults’ cognitive development, particularly how they interpret inequity and decide to take purposeful action. Suchitra Harnahalli is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in German and Visual Studies at Penn State University. Her research explores spectatorship, theatricality, and revolutionary discourse in performance studies, and contemporary media. She is particularly interested in looking at how disruption functions as both an aesthetic and political strategy in performance.