Humanities Research Institute
Faculty of Humanities
The function of The Humanities Research Institute at Brock University is to encourage the development of research programs and initiatives in the Humanities...
...and to generate greater public awareness of our scholarly expertise, as well as the breadth of our research and creative productivity.
The HRI disburses funds so as to support the development of individual and collaborative research programs...
...and to promote the activities of the Faculty of Humanities through various colloquia, symposia and related public events.
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Divine/Interventions
The December 2011 HRI Symposium
Thursday, Dec. 15th , Sankey Chamber 8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Session I: Chair, Keri Cronin
Linda Steer (VISA), “Photography and the Beat Generation”
Matthew Royal (MUSI), “Musical Composition for Dummies, 17th-Century Style: Kircher's Musarithmica as Method or Theory?”
Renee Lafferty (HIST), “`The Account We Must Render to God': Luck, Prayer, and Providence in the Winning and Losing of the War of 1812"
Felipe Ruan (MLLC) and Andre Basson, “Fashioning a Hyper Pious Colonial Subject: Peruvian Mestizos' Appeal to Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585)”
Session II: Chair, Carmela Colella
Behnaz Mirzai (HIST), “Identity Transformations of African Communities in Iran”
Fanny Dolansky (CLAS), “Forming characters: the ethical imperatives of Roman education”
Leah Knight (ENGL), “Andrew Marvell's Mower, John Gerard's Clown, and Wounded Pride”
Catherine Parayre (MLLC), “After “Diggin' Lite Sweat Crude”: Surfaces”
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