Symposium
2021 Virtual Humanities Research Symposium
Friday, April 16, 10:00am–12:00pm
For more information about each talk, please read the presentation abstracts here.
Schedule
10:00am: Welcome, Ann Huff Stevens, Dean, College of Liberal Arts
10:05am: Introduction, Pauline Turner Strong, Director, Humanities Institute
10:10am: Presenter Lightning Talks
10:30am: Breakout Group Sessions
Group 1
10:30am: Janine Barchas, Department of English
The Lost Books of Jane Austen
10:50am: J.K. Barret, Department of English
Pandora's Clock
11:10am: Deborah Beck, Department of Classics
Telling a good story in ancient Greek epic poetry
11:30am: Vladislav Beronja, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Archival Margins: How Writers and Artists Remember History in the Former Yugoslavia
Group 2
10:30am: Courtney Handman, Department of Anthropology
Languages at the Limits of the Human: Colonial and Technological Re-inventions of Speech
10:50am: Jonathan Kaplan, Department of Middle Eastern Studies
The Biblical Jubilee and Ancient Utopian Visions of Liberty in Early Judaism and Christianity
11:10am: Julia Mickenberg, Department of American Studies and Center for Women's and Gender Studies
Significant Evidence and Evidence of Significance in Eve Merriam’s Archive
Group 3
10:30am: Joan H. Neuberger, Departments of History and Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Montage at a New Stage: Eisenstein’s Immersion in Nature, Art, and the World
10:50am: Cory A. Reed, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Empathy and the Indigenous Other in Early Modern Spanish Performance
11:10pm: Sônia Roncador, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
The Color of Servitude: White Criadas and the Servant Crisis in Brazil
12:00pm: End of Symposium