Humanities Research Day

Aline Germain-Rutherford will speak about speech visualization and synthesis in language teaching and learning at the Humanities Research Day 2000: Imagings, Imitations, and Identities on Wednesday, December 13 at Catharine Parr Trail College Lecture Hall. She is one of nine Trent faculty members to participate in the eighth annual event highlighting current humanities research.

Other speakers include: Suzanne Bailey on Victorian visual technologies: reading Browning's poems through the lens of nineteenth century periodicals; Louis Groarke on Deceitful Artwork, moral considerations in the appreciation of art; Maged El Komos on the case for imitation in writing instruction; Doug McCalla on Upper Canadians and their guns (1808-61); Jennifer Moore on pottery, trade, and value judgments in Roman archaeology; Victoria de Zwaan on writers Kundera and Rushdie and the power of the past; Ellen Waterman on music and identity in Rainbow Gatherings annual festival of culture and music; Veronica Hollinger on science fiction and the apocalyptic imagination.

The program will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. with 45-minute lectures throughout the day.