The Gerald Schwartz School of Business will be the site for the Atlantic University Undergraduate History and Classics Conference 2012, being held March 2 to 4. (Richard MacKenzie photo)

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History buffs will want to make plans to attend all or part of the annual Atlantic University Undergraduate History and Classics Conference 2012 coming to St. F.X. March 2 to 4.
This is the sixth year for the conference which was previously held at Mount St. Vincent University.
At the conference, students from across Atlantic Canada share their research and take part in friendly, scholarly debate with their peers.
“We expect between 20 to 30 presenters, all upper-year students, mostly honours students,” organizer Tom Richards, a fourth year honours history student and president of the St. F.X. History Society said.
Richard said the public presentation will be in the form of panels with three students discussing a similar topic and then taking questions from audience members.
“The presentations will be 90 minutes in length with each person on the panel talking for 20 and then taking question for 10 minutes,” Richards said.
He said the presentations will be on a variety of topics ranging from talks on evolution in post-war British identity to the use of animation in media.
“Ethics, political science, art, culture, just a wide mix (of topics) with history still the overriding interest,” Richards said. “We have a good classics component to it this time as well.”
The presentations are scheduled to take place in the Gerald Schwartz School of Business building in rooms 205 and 215. The public is encouraged to attend and conference details can be found on the St. F.X. history department webpage.
Other events planned around the conference include a Celtic ceilidh in Dennis Hall, faculty book launches and a banquet.
Richards talked about how the conference can help students get a feel for academic type of work.
“It’s nice to show and present your work to others,’ he said. “It gives you an idea of what it’s like if you want to further your degree in that field.”