This year’s HRI symposium boasts a strong contingent of Classicists. Don’t miss papers by Carrie Murray and Adam Rappold in Session II beginning at 10:30 AM on Thursday, December 14th in Sankey Chamber!

Humanities Research Institute’s Fall Term Symposium
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Dr. Charles A. Sankey Chamber

“Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.” – Hippocrates

Opening remarks
Michael Carter, Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Humanities

Session I: 9:00 a.m.
Chair: Alex Christie (Digital Humanities)
James Allard (English Language and Literature), “The Hunterian Orations and the ‘Institution’ of Medicine”
Alex Gagne (MA, History), “‘Parenthood Must be Forbidden to the Dipsomaniac’: Shifting Conceptions of Alcohol in Late Victorian Britain and America”
Callie Long (PhD student, Interdisciplinary Humanities), “Wor(l)ds of Hurt”

Coffee/tea break
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Session II: 10:30 a.m.
Chair: Keri Cronin (Visual Arts)
Adam Rappold (Classics), “For the Wheel’s Still in Spin: The Evolution of the Skira Festival in Classical Athens”
Carrie Murray (Classics), “The Elephant in the Tomb: Reading Etrusco-Roman Symbols in the Capena Plate”
Ann Howey (English Language and Literature), “Out of the Tower: Lady of Shalott Images on the Web”

Closing remarks
Carol Merriam, Dean, Faculty of Humanities