November 13-14, 2015

Bryn Mawr College welcomes you to the Tenth Biennial Graduate Group Symposium. This student-run Symposium brings brings together an interdisciplinary group of graduate students to present their research related to concepts of the Metropolis.

The biennial Graduate Group Student Symposium is one of the Graduate Group’s significant shared enterprises at Bryn Mawr. Organized entirely by students, these ambitious symposia attract graduate students from all over the United States and from other countries to contribute papers on such interdisciplinary themes as, “Home: Destination and Departure” (2013); “Feed Your Head: Food as Material and Metaphor” (2011); “Thievery: The Anxiety of Influence and Appropriation” (2009); and “To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys Ancient to Modern” (2007).

This year’s symposium is sponsored by the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art, The Class of 1902 Lecture Fund, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Friends of the Library, the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Archaeology, the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies, and the Department of History of Art.