#  Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern Studies 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 25, 2025** 

 09:45AM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Barker Center, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138**  



 

 



 

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.

[More information](https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/undergraduate-research-symposium-premodern-studies?occ_id=0)



 

 



 

 

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