"Odyssey, Skepticism, Tragedy, Mystery: A Symposium on the Work of Michelle Zerba"

Friday, March 7, 2025

11am-5pm

Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall

Program

11am-11:30am Welcome and introductory remarks

11:30am-12:20pm Odysseys: A Conversation

 Drew Lamonica Arms

 Evan Leonhard

12:20-12:30pm Break; refreshments served

12:30pm-1:20pm Skepticism: A Conversation

 Suzanne Marchand

 Golden G. Richard III

 Inessa Bazayev

1:20pm-1:30pm Break

1:30pm-2:20pm Tragedy & Mystery

 James Stoner

 Joshua Allbright

 Victoria Pfeifer

2:20-2:30pm Break

2:30-3pm Thoughts, reflections, reminiscences 

 Mary Sirridge (Zoom)

Liga Pavlovska

 Alyssa Anders (video)

 Elsa Hahne

 Brad Storin (video)

 Sue Weinstein

 Mattie Worsham Thompson (video)

 Joshua Thompson

3pm Cake-cutting: Jonathan Earle

3pm-4pm Music and mingling

4pm-5pm Reading of The Bacchae

 Chris Barrett

 Drew Lamonica Arms

 Elsa Hahne

 James Stoner

 Suzanne Marchand

 Golden Richard

 Joshua Allbright

 David Nee

 Rhett Barker

 Daniel Goldsmith

 Bella Spano

 Maddie Jackson

 Madalaine Dupree

Special thanks to sponsors the Eric Voegelin Institute, the LSU Department of English, Inessa Bazayev, and Suzanne Marchand. Special thanks to Maddie Jackson for the choral masks.Special thanks to Laura Fernandez for organizational assistance.