Three HCR Scholars Present Research in Taipei
8 April 2024
Craig Harvey, Arwen Thysse (陳藹文), and Josie Hendrickson
Two professors and a graduate student from the Department of History, Classics, and Religion - together representing all three disciplines within the department - recently presented their research at a major international conference in Taipei, Taiwan.
The conference, "Spaces of Familiarity, Spaces of Difference in the Mediterranean," held March 18-19, was hosted by the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan's national research institute. Over seventy researchers from North and South America, North Africa, Europe, Australia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia gathered in Taipei for this landmark event, the first Mediterranean Studies conference of this size to be held in East Asia.
Craig Harvey, Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology, presented a paper titled, "Applying the Familiar to the Different: Local Influences on the Heating Systems of Roman-style Baths in the Northeastern Mediterranean."
Josie Hendrickson, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, presented "Taqiyya (Precautionary Dissimulation) in the Islamic West." As a Visiting Scholar this term at Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology, Hendrickson also served as a co-organizer for the conference.
Arwen Thysse (陳藹文), a doctoral candidate in History, presented "Spontaneous Blackness and Hellish Skins: A Comparative Reading of the Tale of Geirmundr Heljarskinn and Rachel Schine's Study of 'Abd al-Wahhab from the Sirat al-amirah dhat al-himmah."
The participation of all three scholars was supported by generous research grants from the Taiwan Studies Program at the University of Alberta.