{"id":19954,"date":"2012-12-10T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=19954"},"modified":"2012-12-10T10:01:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:01:06","slug":"symposium-showcases-work-of-humanities-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/12\/symposium-showcases-work-of-humanities-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium showcases work of Humanities faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19957\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ports.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19957\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19957 \" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ports.jpg\" alt=\"Vent, part of the Plaything Series by Shawn Serfas. Serfas will be one of the presenters at Thursday's Humanities Research Institute fall term symposium. \" width=\"560\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vent, part of the Plaything Series by Shawn Serfas. Serfas will be one of the presenters at Thursday&#39;s Humanities Research Institute fall term symposium. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Humanities Research Institute is providing a portal into all it does with its fall term symposium on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Called From Ports to Portals, the symposium on Dec. 13 is a showcase of research and creative activities by Humanities faculty, with presentations divided between two sessions that include a question and discussion period.<\/p>\n<p>New this year, the symposium will also include a presentation by a graduate student.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fall Term Symposium\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/humanities-research\/humanities-research-institute\" target=\"_blank\">Portable ports in ancient Greece, migrant workers, and digital resources and university libraries are just some of the topics on the symposium bill.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only does the event offer a glimpse of humanities research to the rest of the University community, it provides a venue for presenters to glean feedback and new perspective on their work so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The HRI Symposium is a wonderful intellectual forum in which faculty members and graduate students take the time to listen to one another and to engage their colleagues&#8217; latest transhumanities research, scholarship, and creative productions,&#8221; Humanities Dean Douglas Kneale said. &#8220;It&#8217;s an integral part of the research culture of our Faculty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Humanities Research Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/humanities-research\/humanities-research-institute\" target=\"_blank\">The Humanities Research Institute<\/a> was founded in 2001 to support, encourage and promote research and the creative enterprise of Humanities faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Presenters in the fall term symposium are chosen by a selection committee based on submitted abstracts..<br \/>\nFrom Ports to Portals runs from 9 a.m. to noon in the Charles A. Sankey Chamber. The event is free and open to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Humanities Research Institute is providing a portal into all it does with its fall term symposium on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":19957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[384,716,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19954"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19965,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954\/revisions\/19965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}