Inaugural "Emerging Scholars" Named at Franklin & Marshall College
Four Fellows to Lecture at College March 6-7
LANCASTER, Pa. – The Center for Liberal Arts and Society (CLAS) at Franklin & Marshall College has announced its inaugural class of fellows for the Center's first Symposium for Emerging Scholars March 6-7. The symposium will focus on the theme of "Resonance."
The fellows are:
Timothy D. Arner, Assistant Professor of English, Grinnell College
Devon Powers, Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication, Drexel University
Melissa Stein, Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Sonja Trent-Brown, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Hope College
The four fellows were chosen based on their research, which embodies the ideals of liberal arts scholarship and the values of liberal learning, including inter- and trans-disciplinary practice, critical thinking, and broad relevance to fundamental human questions.
The symposium theme of resonance was chosen because resonance is a term that has emerged as central to new interpretive models of science, humanities and the social sciences. The symposium aims to engage the concept of resonance as it applies to texts, ideas, events, and objects that are transformed, enhanced, and enlarged as they travel and reverberate through space, matter, and time.
The two-day symposium will feature a keynote address by Michael Billig, professor of anthropology at Franklin & Marshall. Billig's talk will take place on Friday, March 6, at 5:30 p.m., in the Bonchek Lecture Hall, Barshinger Life Sciences & Philosophy Building, and will be preceded by opening remarks given by John Churchill, the secretary of Phi Beta Kappa national honor society. Phi Beta Kappa is a co-sponsor of the symposium.
On Saturday, March 7, each fellow will present a public talk in the Bonchek Lecture Hall. The day's program is as follows:
9 a.m. Sonja A. Trent Brown – "Voice Quality: Resonance Characteristics in Speaker Identification"
10:30 a.m. Timothy Armer – "'Through-out the world my belle shal be ronge': Resonance and Dissonance in England’s Troy Stories"
1 p.m. Melissa Stein – "'Nature is the author of such restrictions': Science, Medicine, and Segregation, 1877-1915"
2:30 p.m. Devon Powers – "What Is Hype? Circulating Popular Music from Beatlemania to the Blogosphere"
Meet the 2009 Emerging Scholars
Read the Scholars' Abstracts
FOR MORE INFORMATION: MARCY DUBROFF (717) 291-3837
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