UBC CNERS Graduate Student Conference 2011
Program of events
Friday, April 29, 2011
5:00PM: Keynote Address by Dr. A. Trevor Hodge, Professor Emeritus, Carleton University
Green College Coach House
Dinner to follow at a local restaurant (details TBA)
Saturday, April 30, 2011
8:30AM: Breakfast, Green College Piano Lounge
All paper presentations will be held in Green College’s Coach House.
9:30 AM: Panel 1
Nathalie LaCoste, PhD, Center for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
"Sacred Waters: A Study of the Nile Flood through Myth and Cult Practices in Roman Egypt"
Kevin Solez, PhD, Classics, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
"Water, Gore, and Washing in the Hymns of Callimachus"
Tyson Sukava, PhD, Classics, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
"Aqua principium est? Vitruvius’ Pragmatic Elementalism"
10:45AM : Coffee Break, Green College Piano Lounge
11:15AM: Panel 2
Nicole Myshak, MA, Theology and Religious Studies, Atlantic School of Theology
"Drawing Water: Natural and Sacramental Marriage According to Biblical Water Metaphors"
Clement Tong, PhD, Religious Studies, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
"The Voyage and the Deliverance – Paul’s Finest Hour in Acts 27-28"
12:30 PM: Lunch, Green College Billiard Room
1:30PM: Panel 3
Mark Locicero, MA, Classical Archaeology, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
"Archaic Hydraulic Systems in Athens: Inspiration, Motives, and Methods"
Anette Schomberg, MA, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
"From Archimedes to al-Jazari: the water-clock as an example of the transmission of technological knowledge"
Rebecca Klug, PhD, Department of Classical Archaeology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
"Were there Water Amphorae?"
James Artz, PhD, Mediterranean Archaeology, Department of Classics, The State University of New York at Buffalo
"Technological Change and Water Supply in Roman Greece"
