Conferences and Symposia 2004-2005

The following conferences and symposia were sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute at Brock University during the academic year 2004-5.

The Humanities Research Institute's Humanities Research Day Symposium was held on December 16, 2004. This event provided an opportunity to meet Brock's new faculty and staff, as well as to celebrate the accomplishments of Humanities faculty. Following the symposium was the Dean's Annual Humanities Holiday Luncheon. The event was a great success, and provided an opportunity to showcase the accomplishents of various faculty members in the area of humanities research. Below is a list of the presenters, and the topics they spoke on:

• Danielle Parks (Classics) "Excavations at Kourion's Amathus Gate Cemetary
• Angus K. Smith (Classics) "Pots and People of the Late Minoan II-III Periods at Mochlos, Crete"
• Brian Power (Music) "Composers, Clerics and Church Councils: the Transmission of Musical Manuscripts in Europe in the Late Middle Ages
• Christine Daigle (Philosophy) "Nietzsche as Phenomenologist: Preliminary Thoughts"
• Gillian McGillivray (History) "Harvesting Revolution in Mexico: The Los Mochis Sugar Community, 1900-1940"
• Mark Spencer (History) "David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America"
• Angela Mills (English) "Outside Looking In, Inside Looking Out: American Women and Experimental Communities at the Turn of the 20th Century"
• David Fancy (Dramatic Arts) "East meets East: The Gathering of the Gurus at the Shambhala Authentic Leadership Institute"

Dr. Paul Youngquist (Department of English, Pennsylvania State University) , the Humanities Distinguished Lecturer for Winter 2004, came to speak at Brock on March 5, 2004. He spoke on "The Uses of Monstrosity: Liberalism and the Proper Body." Dr. Youngquist is the author of Madness and Blake's Myth (Penn State UP, 1990) and Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism (U of Minnesota P, 2003).

George Bowering, Canada's First (and Only) Poet Laureate came to Brock University on March 25, 2004 to read from his work and speak about his position as Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. This event was sponsored by the Great Books/Liberal Studies Program, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Humanities Research Institute and the Office of the Dean of Humanities.