Colloquium Celebrates Interdisciplinary Research
Dr. Bob Rice, professor emeritus of history, served as a spirited moderator. Rice explained the faculty’s goals for the colloquium: educational richness grown by student-faculty combined research, the taking up of texts with Christian hopefulness, interdisciplinary study leading to deeper understanding, and a faithful religious response to the world. Laughter and refreshments were added benefits.
Their research challenged students to see the same work through three different lenses as they presented:
- “Arthur and Socrates in Faerieland,” by Professor Reppmann
- “Guyon, Knight of Temperance; or, Sir Not Appearing in This Poem,” by Professor Jones
- “Calvinists Who Might Best Be: Edmund Spenser and a Reformed Habit of Being,” by Professor Starkenburg
“The colloquium was the sort of rich, interdisciplinary collaboration that I think could happen only at a place like Trinity,” said Dr. Jones said. “I was pleased to be part of a scholarly conversation involving faculty and students from three different disciplines—not to mention staff members who attended and participants from the Honors Program.”
The event was funded through a collaborative initiative grant from the professional development committee, which hopes the event fostered deeper understanding through inter-disciplinary studies.