NU student vying for Regional 3MT championship today

Tune in today to cheer on Nipissing University master of arts in History student Emily Paul, as she competes in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) regional finals at the University of Waterloo.Paul earned top spot in Nipissing’s 3MT competition on the strength of her presentation, As for the Fighting, Men Will See to That.
The competition begins at 10 a.m. on April 12.You can watch it live, right here.
At Waterloo, Paul will compete against champions from other Ontario Universities for the title of Regional Champion and the $1,000 prize. Judges for the Regional competition include Rob Baker, guitarist for the Tragically Hip; Melissa Durrell, president of Durrell Communications; Doug Fregin, co-founder of Research in Motion; Craig Norris, host for CBC Radio One Kitchener-Waterloo; and Valerie Walker, VP Innovation and Skills for the Business Council of Canada.
Video recordings of winning regional presentations will be profiled on theCanadian Association for Graduate Studies website from May 12 until May 26, 2017. In early June, the national judges’ panel will announce national winner and a runner up from those video presentations. Voting for the People’s Choice winner is open to the public and based on the number of likes/votes a particular video has received on the 3MT page.
Watch Paul’s local 3MT presentation video, here.Emily Paul, As for the Fighting, Men Will See to That
What role does violence play in shaping gender constructions in ancient Greece? To pursue this question, I will examine instances of male and female violence across a selection of literary genres from Greek antiquity. My analysis will look at the way violence is portrayed in literary texts; how it is given parameters, how it is normalized, even valourized, how it is condemned, how do these factors change depending on the perpetrator’s gender? I have thus far concluded that definitions of masculinity and femininity in extant Greek texts are fundamentally based on the masculine association, and feminine disassociation, with violence.