Conferences and Symposia 2006-2007

The following conferences and symposia were sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute at Brock University during the academic year 2006-7.

  • The Humanities Research Institute’s Spring Symposium was held on April 25, 2008. faculty and staff welcomed new and innovative research ideas while celebrating the many accomplishment of the Humanities Faculty.

  • Martin Danahay, English. Wikis in the Classroom: High Tech Bells and Whistles

  • Duncan MacDonald, Visual Arts. Sounds Relation to the Visible, and in a Broader Spectrum, to the Commodification of the Corporeal Sensorium

  • Angus K. Smith, Classics. Excavations at a Mycenaean Cemetery at Ayia Soira, near Ancient Nemea, Greece

  • Justine Cotton & Laurie Morrison, Brock Library. “The Library: Your Partner in Research”

  • Matthew Royal, Music. The Rhythmics of Francisco de Salinas: A 16th Century Synthesis of Music, Poetry and Dance

  • Ann F. Howey, English. Sweet is True Love?: Tennyson and Popular Music

  • Jean B. Ntakirutimana, MLLC. Ecolinguistics and Language Acquisition

  • Olatunji Ojo, History, Women, Religion and National Identity in Pre-Colonial Africa: The Yoruba Example

  • The Humanities Research Institute's Humanities Research Day Symposium was held on December 13, 2007. 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 accomplishments of various faculty members in the area of humanities research. Below is a list of the presenters, and the topics they spoke on:

  • Natalie Alvarez, Classics. Performance as Pathology: Factitious Disorders and the Limits of Medical Diagnosis

  • Dianne Dutton, Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. “Legal and Literary Testimony: perjury or hear say?”

  • Linda Steer, Visual Arts. “Found, Borrowed and Stolen: The Use of Photographs in French Surrealist Reviews, 1924 – 1939

  • Sherryl Vint, “Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal

  • Fanny Dolansky, Classics. “The Matronalia of Ancient Rome: Women’s Rites or Family Festival”

  • Lynn Arner, English, Language and Literature. Rememberance of Things to Come: Gower, Chaucer, Literacy and 1381”

  • Tami Friedman, History. “Private Industry and the Public Interest: Capital Migration and Race Relations in the Mississippi Delta, 1950 – 1970

Greenscapes: The Garden in the City, >Greenscapes was held at Brock University (St. Catharines, ON) in October 2007. This is an academic and community explored social, cultural, and historical aspects of gardens in human societies. Garden space is increasingly recognized not only for its horticultural interest, but as an expression of ecological and environmental awareness, a venue for social interaction, and a vehicle for communicating and disseminating cultural information. This is an exciting and emerging field of study that attracts scholars from all disciplines, in addition to a wide range of professional landscape architects, urban planners, and artists. The general theme of the conference will be “The Garden in the City”, a subject both timely and evocative. As a living space, the garden is often considered to be the antithesis of the urban, built area, yet increasingly cities seek to incorporate garden space into their infrastructure as part of their urban identity. The conference will explore the ramifications of this development, while examining ways in which urban garden space in contemporary and historical environments acts a focus for social aspirations and anxieties.

Two Days of Canada: Visions and Visionaries,Now in its 21st year, the Two Days of Canada Conference at Brock University offers a unique, multidisciplinary, and dynamic forum for the exploration of Canadian culture, society, history, and politics. This year’s conference, “Visions and Visionaries,” seeks to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, to explore issues related to religion in Canada, in both the past and present. Papers may be related to any denomination, faith, or creed, and might include (but are not limited to) such topics as:

Alternative religions/religious practices, Religion and Literature, Denominational politics, Religion and science/p>

Economics of organized religion, Religion and social policy Fundamentalism and government, Religious violence Religion and Education, Religious rt/iconography Religion and film/media. Secularization/sacralisation Religion and health



Brock University Department of Classics and the Niagara Peninsula Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America
Public Lectures

"Digging with Mussolini"
Professor Stephen L. Dyson, Department of Classics, University of Buffalo, SUNY

"Mummies, Magic, and Medicine: An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Funerary Beliefs and Practices"
Professor Lanny Bell, Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Brown University

"From Iron Age to Roman in Britain: A Regional Study of Romanization"
Professor Martin Millett, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge University, UK

Department of Applied Linguistics
Brock University
DALS Speaker Series
To promote professional sharing of the latest developments in Applied Linguistics, seminars,
talks and workshops are organized by DALS each semester by outside experts in the field.
Invitations to attend are extended to all Brock faculty and those in the outside community.

Schedule 2007

September

  • Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong, Macquarie University, Australia
  • Topic: Expression of identity in atypical discourse: The case of aphasia
  • When: Wednesday September 26th noon-1pm
  • Where: WH 204

October

  • Speaker: Dr. John Bitchener, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • Topic: Written corrective feedback: A 10-month investigation into its effectiveness
  • When: Tuesday October 2nd 11am-noon
  • Where: TH 257

November

  • Speaker: Dr. Marc Pell, McGill University
  • Topic: Effects of Parkinson’s Disease on language and nonverbal processing
  • When: Friday November 16th 11am-noon
  • Where: AS 217

  • Speaker: Dr. Diane Larsen-Freeman, University of Michigan
  • Topic: Language moves
  • When: Wednesday November 21st noon-1pm
  • Where: AS 217

Conferences and Symposia 2004-2005

Conferences and Symposia 2003-2004

Conferences and Symposia 2002-2003

Conferences and Symposia 2001-2002