“Parilia,” an undergraduate research conference in Classics on Friday, April 21, was held in honor of Rome's traditional birthday and in conjunction with “The Athenian Acropolis: Photographs by William James Stillman (Class of 1848), An Exhibition in Memory of Professor Christina Elliott Sorum (1944-2005).”
Sorum Guest Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak opened the conference by giving a workshop on the Stillman photographs for students at 10:15 a.m.
Throughout the day, 12 students from Union, Colgate, Hamilton and Skidmore read papers on topics ranging from ancient Egypt to classical influences on recent films and modern battle strategies.
Szegedy-Maszak is the Classical Studies and Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek at Wesleyan. He worked in Union's archives during summer 2004 and later published his research results.
The conference was sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. Conference events were organized by the Classics Department, in part through an anonymous donor who created the Christina Elliott Sorum Guest Professorship in Classic and the Mandeville Art Gallery.
