UNL graduate students reflect on trip to Newberry

On January 28-30, 2016, three UNL graduate students presented papers at the Newberry Library's Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Reflections on the Newberry

Courtney Herber

This last weekend I had the honor and opportunity to attend and present at the Newberry Library’s Annual Graduate Student Conference.  It was wonderful to be surrounded by my peers and to become part of the community of young scholars.

I didn’t get to go to all the panels I wanted to attend (who does?) but the ones I did get to sit in on were fantastic.  They were filled with fascinating research and thought-provoking questions.  I particularly enjoyed the one on LGBT research in medieval/renaissance literature/musical performances.  Listening to the papers made me really think about my own research, and to think about incorporating more theoretical frameworks into my analysis.  How each of the presenters managed to do the theory and to have it flow seamlessly into the history was skillful and that is something I hope to work on this semester with an article I’m writing for a research seminar.

I also got wonderful questions about my own research that made me think about how I wrote the paper, how I presented the work and where I am going from there.  I also got a great book suggestion that will stretch me out of my temporal comfort zone (but still sticking with my subject, consorts!) that I immediately ordered from Amazon and will devour when it arrives.  I really want to look at the foreignness of Henrietta Maria and how that played a part in her reception in England (which I did to some extent, but I think looking at it more would yield more insights) and I’ll incorporate a bit of that into my article, where I am looking at Anna of Denmark’s masquing career as well.

Aaron Pattee

Aaron Pattee is pursuing a Master of Arts in Anthropology and a certificate in Digital Humanities at University of Nebraska–Lincoln.  He received a Bachelor of Science in German and Pre-med studies with minors in Biochemistry and History of the Humanities in Medicine (HMED) in 2012 at UNL. He spent the previous eight months in Germany assembling 3D models of a medieval castle (Burg Hohenecken) using both laserscan and photogrammetric methods, with funding from the UNL Department of Anthropology.  While in Germany, he worked with the Universities of Heidelberg and Stuttgart to build the digital models of the castle. The models provide the digital component to his thesis, which explores the function and regional significance of the castle in order to contribute to its historical preservation. His research interests include the German High Middle Ages, Ancient Civilizations, and the Early Middle Ages of Western Europe.