Document Type
Press Release
Publication Date
5-14-2012
Abstract
Exceptional student research in the humanities and social sciences on topics as diverse as the history of Waldorf education and women’s changing roles in modern Chinese fiction will be showcased Saturday, May 19 beginning at 9:15 a.m. in Main Hall during Lawrence University’s 15th annual Richard A. Harrison Symposium.
Thirty-four students will deliver presentations during two sessions arranged into panels by topic or field that are moderated by a Lawrence faculty member. Presenters are nominated by faculty and invited to submit abstracts of their research. Students are selected for the symposium based on the abstracts and present their work in the format used for professional meetings of scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Each presentation lasts approximately 20 minutes and is followed by a 10-minute question-and-answer session. Among the topics that will be explored in this year’s symposium are the conditions of education in rural Ecuador, the detrimental effects of the loss of a parent in childhood, the politics of music in Sierra Leone, and the work of the late painter Thomas Kinkade.
The symposium honors former Lawrence Dean of the Faculty Richard A. Harrison, who organized the first program in 1996. Harrison died unexpectedly the following year and the symposium was renamed after him to recognize his vision of highlighting excellent student scholarship.
Recommended Citation
Lawrence University, "Annual Harrison Symposium Showcases Student Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences" (2012). Press Releases. 215.
https://lux.lawrence.edu/pressreleases/215