Dr. Jennifer Gerrish has been invited to present her paper, “Sallust’s Spartacus and Historiography Under the Triumvirs,” at a conference this coming spring in Lublin, Poland on “Spartacus: History and Tradition.” — Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr. S.-K. whose article, “Drinking with the Dead? Glass from Roman and Christian Burial Areas at Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia),” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Glass Studies.
Summary: Excavations by the Leptiminus Archaeological Project at the East Cemetery in Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia) revealed a substantial quantity of late Roman and Byzantine glass fragments. Some of these vessel fragments, found in tombs, may represent grave gifts or symbolize elements of funerary ritual. Most of the vessels, found in nonburial contexts that formed during the cemetery’s periods of use (late second–late sixth centuries), suggest that glass vessels probably played an important role in commemorative activities at the cemetery. The presence of possible glass drinking sets in an area used for Christian burials suggests that rituals involving drinking or pouring libations may have regularly taken place nearby. These rituals probably followed longstanding traditions associated with commemorating the deceased in Roman society, highlighting the role of glass vessels in creating continuities between Roman and Christian practice.
Professor Susan Divine has accepted an invitation on behalf of the Spanish Program and the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of South Carolina-Columbia, to give a talk related on her current research as part of USC’s Spanish Speakers Series on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016.
Along with Dr. Caroline Dunn of Clemson University, Professor Emily S. Beck has co-founded the South Carolina Medievalists Group, an informal body of professional scholars of all disciplines – faculty and students alike – based in South Carolina. The group meeting provides the opportunity for medievalists and premodernists to connect with other researchers throughout our state and engage in informal conversations about current academic approaches and the state of medieval research and teaching in South Carolina. We welcome professionals in any area or discipline relating to medieval or premodern studies, as well as those engaged in interdisciplinary and pedagogical approaches.
The current group includes researchers in a broad range of academic disciplines. For more information, or to join the email list send a message to: scmedievalists@gmail.com.
The inaugural group meeting will be held in Clemson, SC on September 24, 2016.
Professor Antonio Pérez-Núñez’s study “Perceived Learning Value of Grammar Feedback and Error Revision in Second Language Writing” has been accepted for publication in MIFLC Review, the journal of the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference.
Professor Sarah Owens’ co-authored study “The First Nunnery in Manila: The Role of Hernando de los Ríos Coronel” has been published in the summer 2016 issue of The Catholic Historical Review.
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women has selected Professor Sarah Owens’ article “Crossing Mexico (1620-1621): Franciscan Nuns and Their Journey to the Philippines” for the award for best article in women and gender in 2015.
Professor Elizabeth Martínez-Gibson’s article “Language Contact: A Study of the Spanish
in Two Spanish-Language Presses in Charleston, South Carolina” has been published in the latest 2016 issue of the Journal of Language Contact.
Drs. Mark Del Mastro, Susan Divine, Mike Gómez and Carl Wise participated in the 69th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference on April 14-16, 2016 at the University of Kentucky with their following research presentations:
“Partialism and Sexuality in Carmen Laforet’s Nada” (Del Mastro)
“Spanish Space and Time in Ministerio del Tiempo” (Divine)
“Literature under the Microscope: Taking a Closer Look at Ramón y Cajal’s Fictions” (Gómez)
“Madrid Imagined: Spain’s Urban Spaces in the works of two Early Modern Mexican Playwrights” (Wise)
In addition to these presentations, Drs. Divine and Wise were featured panelists in the roundtable discussion “Digital Spain: Theory and Praxis Roundtable,” and Dr. Del Mastro organized and conducted the 14th Annual Sigma Delta Pi Informative Session.