<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2019/antigone.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>11/18/2019</pubDate><title>Students’ Research Connects Ancient Sophocles Play with Conflict in Syria</title><description>As part of a project for their first-year writing course, students were challenged to examine the conflict inAntigone, a Greek play written more than 2,000 years ago, and the impact of the current turmoil in Syria.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing &amp; Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>November 18, 2019</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2019/antigone-documentary.jpg" alt="Image of documentary screening"/></image><image-caption>Students, faculty, and staff attended the recent screening of "We Are Not Princesses" in New Haven.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2019</tag></tags></item>