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Please sign up here if you would like lunch during the January Mini-Symposium. More information about the symposia is below.

The Mini-Symposia Series builds on the extraordinary enthusiasm for the Faculty and Staff Research Symposium, offering a new rhythm of exchange across the academic year. Instead of one full day, we gather four times– in the fall and spring—for half-day symposia that revisit and reimagine presentations from the full Symposium. This new format allows more opportunities to engage with colleagues’ research, creative projects, and collaborations in a focused and accessible way. Next fall, the full one-day Symposium returns, as the formats will alternate in two-year cycles. 

Each Symposium features one or two morning panels and one or two afternoon panels, with time for community connection. The January session will have this timeline:

10:00 a.m. – Coffee and light snacks at the Faculty Hub

10:30–11:45 a.m. – Morning Session (1-2 concurrent panels)

11:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. – Lunch at the Faculty Hub

12:15–1:30 p.m. – Afternoon Session (1-2 concurrent panels)

1:30 p.m. – Conclusion

Please feel free to come for all or part of the day–no need to register; if you would like to join in the lunch, sign up above. The 2025-2026 academic year will feature the Mini-Symposia on Friday, September 26, 2025; Friday, November 7, 2025; Friday, January 30, 2026; and Friday, February 20, 2026. 

The schedule for Friday, January 30, 2026, is as follows:

Morning Session: 10:30 - 11:45 a.m., Faculty Hub

Panel 1: Framing the Arts: Sacred Bodies, Sonic Spells, Curated Canons, and Re-Centered Voices (Hub 320)

Chair: Paul Brohan, Modlin Center for the Arts

Anthony Russell, Arts & Sciences; English, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

Body, Art, and the Sacred: From Michelangelo’s Last Judgment to Serrano’s Piss Christ

Jessie Fillerup, Arts & Sciences; Music

Ravel’s Magical Harp Clichés

Sara Pappas, Arts & Sciences; Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

Organizing Nineteenth-Century French Art in Today’s Museum

Jennifer Cavenaugh, Arts & Sciences; Dean’s Office

“Say, Boss! You Seem Rare Frightened”: Sharon Pollock’s Assault on the Ripper Myth in Saucy Jack

Afternoon Sessions: 12:15 – 1:30 p.m., Faculty Hub

Panel 1: Networks of Influence: Spies, Sovereigns, and the Art of Diplomacy (Hub 325)

Chair: Allison Tait, School of Law    

Elena Calvillo, Arts & Sciences, Art & Art History

Reconstructing Giulio Clovio’s Journey to France

Kristin Bezio, Jepson School of Leadership

End of an Era: The Change in Spycraft from the Tudors to the Early Stuarts

Sydney Watts, Arts & Sciences, History

Unlikely Agents under Britain’s Expanded Spy Network during the Revolutionary Wars

Panel 2: Models, Molecules, and Metrics: Mapping Influence Across Systems (Hub 320)

Chair: Maia Linask, Robins School of Business, Economics

Christopher Shugrue, Arts & Sciences, Chemistry

Tools for Selectively Modifying Peptides

Jean L. B. Creamer, Office of the Registrar

Biggest Factor for a Healthy Life? It’s the Food

Aslan Lotfi, Robins School of Business, Analytics & Operations

Modeling the Influence of Multichannel Digital Advertising: A Fractional Calculus-Based 

Approach

Bo Yun Park, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, Sociology

Big Data in a Small World: How Data Analytics is (Re)Shaping Presidential Elections