Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern Studies
Date and Time
Location
The third Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern Studies, featuring:
9:45 am: Opening remarks by Dr. Lauren Kaminsky, Director of Studies for the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, and Dr. Sean Gilsdorf, Administrative Director of the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies;
10:00 am: Luka Pavikjevikj ’27 (History and Government), The Seleucid Ruler Cult: Between City, Empire, and Religion, with response by Joe Currie, Committee on the Study of Religion;
11:00 am: Christopher Hardin ’26 (Physics), Formation of Marriage in the Western Church: From Nicholas I to Alexander III, with response by Ahmed Seif, Department of English;
1:00 pm: Emma Chan ’26 (English), Grendel the Mearc-Stappa: Beowulf’s Built and Broken Borders, with response by Emily Sun, Department of English;
2:00 pm: Alia Al-Wir ’26 (History), The Other Woman: Perceptions of Byzantine Women, with response by Andy Chen, Department of History;
3:00 pm: Liv Oster ’25 (English), “From a Spring without Decay”: How Katherine Philips Read her (Translated) Lucan in Pompeii, with response by Sam Bozoukov, Department of English;
Reception to follow. Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Department of Classics, the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, Harvard Ancient Studies, and Early Modern World at Harvard.