(Activities Announced at Faculty
Meetings,
May, 2003 - April, 2004)
Cornell University has named LEGRACE
BENSON as one of two Cornell Civic Fellows for this academic year.
The special project supported for this fellowship is a joint effort of
the local currency, Ithaca HOURS, and Cooperative Extension of Tompkins
County seeking to enhance job opportunities and expenditure choices for
low-income families. Economists and public policy experts on the faculty
may be interested to learn more about the program from Professor Benson.
BRUCE BENNETT
served on the Panel of Judges for 2003-04 Saltonstall Residencies. He also
had four poems published in the Spring 2003 issue of Iambs & Trochees.
In June, Professor Bennett had three poems published in the anthology The
Poets’ Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, eds.
Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson (Story Line Press 2003). One
of those poems, "The Skeptical Prince," was featured on The Poets’ Grimm
website. Another, "The True Story of Snow White," was featured on the Verse
Daily website, June 24, 2003. His book of political fables and satire,
Funny
Signals, was reviewed by Richard Wakefield in the August 2003 issue
of Light. The New York State Council on the Arts awarded the Visiting
Writers Series a five-year grant, beginning during the current year. Professor
Bennett and Vice President and Treasure Diane Hutchinson worked together
on this grant for the College.
Professor Bennett also had three poems
published in The Formalist. He gave two poetry readings: one at
the Geneva Summer Arts Festival at Geneva Free Library on August 7 and
the other for the Watkins Glen Writers Group at the J.W. Brace Bookstore
in Watkins Glen on August 25. His poem, "The True Story of Snow White,"
was published in the textbook/anthology Literature: The Human Experience,
Shorter 8th Edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003). He also had
two poems in the just published edition of The Healing Muse, an
issue which also includes essays by Victor Hammer Fellow Sarah Roberts
and recent graduate Nicole Moro. A revised edition of Professor Bennett’s
1994 Wells Press chapbook, "Her poetry manuscript is currently circulating,"
was published by Clandestine Press. Professor Bennett gave a reading of
his poetry at the Canastota Public Library on October 22 as part of the
library’s "100th Anniversary Poetry Reading Series." His poem,
"Sick Cats," was published in the Fall 2003, 25th Anniversary
issue of Tar River Poetry. Professor Bennett’s book, The Deserted
Campus, a collection of poems with accompanying drawings by David Grossvogel,
was published by Clandestine Press. He had three poems published in the
magazine, Reflections, and a poem published in the Pudding House
Publications anthology, Urgent Care for the World. Professor Bennett
had four poems published in IAMBS & TROCHEES and two poems in
LIGHT.
On April 8, he read his poetry at the Guernsey Memorial Library in Norwich,
New York.
The "IEEE Circuits and Systems Society"
has accepted MOHAMED BINGABR’s manuscript,
"Recovery of Corrupted DCT Coded Images Based on Reference Information,"
for publication as a Transactions Paper. He presented a paper entitled,
"An Image Quality Measure for Image Communication," at the 2003 IEEE International
Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference in New York City,
October 5-8.
During summer 2003, CATHERINE BURROUGHS
led discussions in Washington, D.C., and New York City following performances
of the world premiere of Joanna Baillie's 1798 tragic play, Count Basil,
staged by Horizons Theatre--the oldest company in the United States devoted
to producing plays by women. She also chaired a special session on the
drama and theatre of Joanna Baillie at the annual meeting of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) in New York City.
In July, Professor Burroughs’s article on a 1780 play by Sophia Lee was
reprinted in a special issue of European Romantic Review subtitled
"Romantic Drama: Origins, Permutations, and Legacies." Professor Burrough’s
1996 article on Joanna Baillie, which was reprinted in 1999, has just been
reprinted again in the first-ever collection of critical essays on Baillie--from
Routledge. The bibliographical information is as follows: "'A Reasonable
Woman's Desire': The Private Theatrical and Joanna Baillie's The Tryal"
in Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays. Ed. Thomas
Crochunis. Routledge, 2004. 187-205. Recently, Professor Burroughs served
as one of the advisors of the new production by Cornell’s Interactive Theatre
Ensemble (CITE)--"Absit Invidia (No Offense Intended)"-- which designs
short plays based on real-case scenarios for viewing by employees in corporate
and other workplace environments. Professor Burroughs has been invited
to serve as a section editor for the website, "British Women Playwrights
Around 1800" (BWP1800site). The co-founders of the site wrote: "After taking
stock of the past history and current needs of the BWP1800 site, we've
decided that the time is ripe to invite colleagues with an interest in
the site to play roles in guiding portions of its ongoing development.
…We're looking for someone who would generate ideas for development of
scholarly content in consultation with us, coordinate communication with
those invited to contribute, and manage appropriate processes of peer review
and text preparation."
LAURA CAMPBELL
performed with the "Society for New Music" at the Everson Museum in Syracuse
on November 9. Women composers, Libby Larsen and Barbara White, wrote both
the works that she performed. On November 23 Ms. Campbell participated
in the premier of a musical theater production of the children's story
"My Father's Dragon" in Ithaca. It was produced by the organization, "Music's
Recreation," which is based in Ithaca. It has as its goal to provide classical
musical experiences to young audiences.
TERRENCE CHOUINARD
represented the Wells Book Arts Center at the recent Guild of Bookworkers
Standards in Excellence Meeting held in Denver, Colorado, in November.
Also of note, Mr. Chouinard and NANCY GIL
produced over 500 posters for the State Theatre of Ithaca promoting the
sold out performance by Gillian Welch.
CANDACE COLLMER
has been awarded a Research Opportunity Award (ROA) from the National Science
Foundation to support her work during summer 2003 in the laboratory of
Jack Werren at the University of Rochester. Dr. Werren is a world-renowned
expert on the small parasitoid wasps that Professors Collmer and A. Thomas
Vawter have been studying with Wells biology students for the past two
years. The first results of that research were presented publicly by Wells
students at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research in March
2003.
Binder-in-Residence DONIA CONN
had an article on the Springback Account Book Binding (co-authored
with Peter Verheyen, former Binder-in-Residence) published in the most
recent issue of The New Bookbinder, Journal of Designer Bookbinders, UK.
She will be teaching a workshop on this topic in Austin, Texas in May.
NICK DAVIS
has been elected President of the Board of Directors of 7th Art Corporation,
the non-profit organization that manages and oversees Ithaca's two arthouse
cinemas, Cinemapolis and Fall Creek Pictures. He was an invited speaker
at QGrad 2003 Queer Studies Conference at UCLA, presenting a paper entitled
"Citizen Haynes, or Theses on a Philosophy of Queer History." The paper
is a reading of Todd Haynes' film "Velvet Goldmine" through the lenses
of Kierkegaard's philosophy, Benjamin's historicist aesthetics, and the
formal influences of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane."
WALTRAUT DEINERT
organized the participation of several Wells students at the Deutscher
Akademische Austauschdienst - German Academic Exchange Service Conference
(DAAD) at Cornell on the weekend of Sept. 20-21; she accompanied the students.
The topic this year was: "Flower Power? The German Green Party Turns Twenty:
Revisiting Environmental Politics in the 21st Century." The German Studies
Department at Cornell co-sponsored the conference.
BEATRICE FARNSWORTH
participated in an Executive Board meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies at Columbia University on January
17, 2004. She chaired the session on Russian History at the March 27, 2004,
meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies held at Columbia University in New York City.
ERIKA FEIGENBAUM
successfully defended her dissertation in January. Professor Feigenbaum
has published an article entitled, "Making the Philosopher Cry," in Off
Our Backs feminist journal. The essay appeared in the January-February
2004 issue. Professor Feigenbaum's essay "Some of my Best Friends are Straight"
was also selected for a reading at the June 2004 National Women's Studies
Association conference.
In September, SARA FRENCH
was consulted by the BBC in their preliminary research for a program in
the Britain's Best Buildings series on Hardwick Hall. Their producer contacted
her as a result of her dissertation, "Women, Space & Power: The Building
and Use of Hardwick Hall in Elizabethan England" and her recently published
article, "A Widow Building: Bess of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall." Professor
French was a workshop presenter at the "Attending to Early Modern Women
Conference" at the University of Maryland from November 6-8. The interdisciplinary
workshop, entitled, "Commemorative Labors: Women and the Construction of
Monuments," was co-chaired by Michelle Dowd of Fordham University and Susan
Comilang of George Washington University. Elena Napolitano '02, now in
the graduate program in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture
and Professor French’s former student, also attended the conference. Professor
French was notified in February that she was named to Marquis's Who's
Who Among American Women for 2004. She was invited by the Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Visual Culture Forum at Binghamton
University to give a lecture entitled "Micro-Managing Female Space: Bess
of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall" on March 24, 2004.
CYNTHIA GARRETT’s
essay "Sexual Consent and the Art of Love in the Early Modern English Lyric"
was published in the Winter 2004 issue of Studies in English Literature.
EDNIE GARRISON’sarticle,
"Contests for the Meaning of 'Third Wave Feminism': Feminism and Popular
Consciousness," has been solicited for publication in Third Wave Feminism:
a Critical Exploration, edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie and Rebecca
Munford (Palgrave). Her article, "Are We On a Wavelength Yet?: On Feminist
Oceanography, Radios and Third Wave Feminism," has been solicited for publication
in The Third Wave: Questions and Complexities for Feminists in the 21st
Century, edited by Jo Reger.
NANCY GILBERTSON
presented a solo piano recital at Wells College on February 28, 2004. The
program, "A Little Something for Everyone," showcased an array of styles,
including jazz influenced piano rags by College of Wooster composer, Brian
Dykstra; preludes based on Gregorian chant melodies by Ottorino Respighi;
novelettes by Francis Poulenc; some early Spanish dances by Enrique Granados;
and "Danzas Argentinas" by Alberto Ginastera. She presented a recital with
Laura Campbell on April 10, 2004, at Wells College. The program included
music for flute and piano by composers John Rutter and Francis Poulenc.
Ms. Gilbertson played several dances in Bulgarian rhythm and "From the
Diary of a Fly" by Bela Bartok from Mikrokosmos Book VI. Ms. Campbell played
"Three Chants" by the late Ithaca composer, Ann Silsbee, on bass flute,
alto flute and regular flute.
JEANNE GODDARD
choreographed the Tri-Cities Opera production of Verdi's "Rigoletto," which
ran for three nights at the Forum Theatre in Binghamton last May. On campus,
Professor Goddard co-hosted, with Performing Arts and Women's Studies faculty,
Leeny Sack's presentation of "The Survivor and the Translator" in observance
of Holocaust Remembrance Day. She co-produced, choreographed and performed
in "Opera Cowpokes ALIVE: The Best of Opera Cowpokes," with August performances
in Ithaca and Syracuse. She also produced and created a new work for the
CRS Barn Studio Choreographers' Showcase in July. Professor Goddard was
selected as one of three recipients of the Distinguished Alumna Award for
the Zodiaque Dance Company of Buffalo, and was commissioned to set a piece
for the gala celebration on November 15, 2003. She provided choreography
for the Tri-Cities Opera production of Offenbach's "Contes d'Hoffman",
opening in October at the Forum Center for the Performing Arts in Binghamton.
Professor Goddard spent the last week of January at Houghton College where
she taught a movement workshop for voice students and provided choreography
for their opera scenes program, directed by Steven Stull and Shirley Close.
Professor Goddard performed a new work, to a suite of short Stravinsky
pieces, at the Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College School of Music,
on Sunday, April 4. Ms. Goddard performed at the invitation of the Ariadne
String Quartet, who accompanied her on stage.
SIOUXSIE GRADY
was pleased to announce the following Merit Awards by the Theatre Association
of New York State for the Wells production of "Anton in Show Business."
The show was adjudicated by Paul Nelson. Formal presentations of these
awards were held at Festival 2003 in November. Excellence in Direction
and Production Concept Execution to Siouxsie Grady, Joe DeForest and
Robert N. Bernard; Excellence in Acting to Whitney Sampson for
her portrayals of Ralph/Wikewitch/Joe Bob; Meritorious Achievement in Acting
to Dana Finegan for her portrayal of Joby. Professor Grady has been
asked to serve as judge for the Hangar Theatre's LAB Company New Play Festival
Playwriting Competition. The Dance and Theatre faculty recently produced
a series of workshops in Arts Pedagogy. Guest artists Lesley Tillotson,
Jeanne Goddard, and Professor Grady spoke on subjects ranging from age
appropriate theatre and dance activities to classroom dynamics to the art
of play.
PILAR GREENWOOD’s
article "Significado/Significando: poetas hispanas contemporáneas"
("Meaning/Signifying: Four Current Hispanic Poets") was published in June
2003, in the volume Andalucia y las Américas: Crisol de Mestizajes,
of the Serie Collectae, Granada Linguistica of the University of
Granada. In June 8-12, she attended the symposium entitled "Jaén,
Crossroads and Cultural Encounters" held at the XXIII Assembly of ALDEEU
(Spanish Professionals in the USA). On July 10, Professor Greenwood chaired
the session entitled, Literatura contemporánea, dedicated to contemporary
literature in Spanish speaking countries. Professor Greenwood read a paper
at the XXIX Annual Conference of Literaturas Hispánicas, organized
by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and celebrated October 16-19,
2003. The theme of this year’s conference was Theater and Fiction. Her
paper was entitled "Performativity and Mimesis in ‘La Fiesta del Chivo,"
a play by Jorge and Veronica Triana. The play centers on the dictatorship
of the Dominican strongman Rafael Leónidas Trujillo." Professor
Greenwood was invited to submit this paper for publication in a volume
about 20th century dictators seen through the eyes of writers and other
artists. Invited by the graduate program of the Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures at St. Johns University (Jamaica Queens, New York), Professor
Greenwood delivered a lecture on March 22, 2004. The title of her lecture
was "Violencia como Identidad Performativa en ‘La Fiesta del Chivo’"(Violence
as Performative Identity in "The Feast of the Goat"). Her book review of
the novel "Entre dos luces: modelo de un destino antillano" (Twilight:
Model for a Caribbean Destiny) by the Cuban novelist and playwright Julio
Matas), has been published in the Vol. II, n. 4, March, 2004, of the journal,
Linden Lane Magazine. This journal is dedicated to Cuban literature
in exile and is directed by Belkis Cuza Malé, widow of its founder,
the Cuban writer Heberto Padilla.
MICHAEL GROTH
was invited to participate in a summer institute on Hudson Valley history
and culture sponsored by the National Heritage Area Education Program and
the U.S. Park Service at Marist College in Poughkeepsie. He delivered a
presentation on African-American history and culture of the region on July
14 to several dozen primary and secondary school educators, archivists,
museum professionals, public historians, park rangers, and environmentalists."
Professor Groth was invited to participate in a speakers' series on Hudson
Valley Life and Culture sponsored by the Museum of the Hudson Highlands
in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. His lecture on October 15 focused on the
African-American history and culture of the valley. He has also been invited
to serve as a reviewer for a manuscript under consideration for publication
by SUNY Press." Professor Groth attended a meeting of the program committee
for the Conference on New York State History held in Binghamton on January
29. He and others members of the committee are planning this year's conference
scheduled for early June at Skidmore College."
LYDIE AND JIM HAENLIN
were invited by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Orleans
(France) to present their translation of Lamine Sall's poetry books. The
poet was present and the book, published by the Wells College Press, was
available for sale. The event took place on March 18, 2004. Students enrolled
in our program in Paris attended the event as well.
SCOTT HEINEKAMP
attended the American Association of Physics Teachers Conference, "Introductory
Calculus-Based Physics Teaching," in Arlington, Virginia, from October
31 through November 2, 2003. He has also been appointed to a five-year
position as Adjunct Professor at Cornell University in the Department of
Applied and Engineering Physics, effective November 1, 2003.
In August, JOSEPH HOFFMANN
was appointed director of the Council for Critical Studies in Religion
(CI@ SUNYBuffalo) and editor of the Journal for Critical Studies in
Religion. He presented a paper entitled, "Marcion the Hypsistarian:
On the Syrian Origins of Marcion's Philosophy," at the XIV International
Congress on Patristic Studies at the University of Oxford, August 14-18.
His paper will be published in Studia Patristica, 2004-05. In March
Professor Hoffmann gave the keynote address, ""Love Incarnate: Classical,
Christian and Gnostic Models of a Platonic Myth," for the plenary session
of the South Africa Academy of Religion at the University of Natal, Pietermartizberg,
South Africa. The following two books have been catalogued for release
in spring 2004: "Julian: Against the Galileans," Prometheus Books and "Faith
and Foeticide: Abortion and the Right to Life in Early Christianity, Peter
Lang/Oxford-Vienna. In addition, Professor Hoffmann is currently working
on the "Genealogy of Morals Project at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Specifically he is working with Task Group VIII on the transformation of
the idea of virtue in 12th century theology, with special reference
to Islamic-Christian interchange. Professor Hoffmann was invited to participate,
along with Dr Charles Maxfield and Marie Catherine Agen, on the panel,
"Engaging Philosophy: Perspectives on Peace " at the First Congregation
Church in Ithaca on November 7. His presentation was entitled, "The 'Interfaith
Movement': Quantifying the Gains." On November 11, Professor Hoffmann presented
a lecture entitled, "Religious Pluralism in the Middle East? Prospects
as Problems," at the 15th Annual Interfaith Center Memorial Lecture at
SUNY Cortland. On November 21, he presented a public lecture entitled,
"Defining Jerusalem: Culture Wars in the Third and Twenty-First Century"
at SUNY Amherst’s Center for Inquiry Institute.
Professor Hoffmann signed a contract
in January with Trinity Press for One True Gospel: Marcion's Theology,
Canon and Church (a revised edition of a 1984 study). On February 6,
he taped two half-hour segments for Humanist Perspective, a nationally
syndicated public access TV program on the role of the public understanding
of religion in the United States in the global religious environment. (Aired
over Rochester -- RCTV, Cable Channel 15 -- Sundays, 11:00 a.m., and Wednesdays,
8:00 p.m.) Professor Hoffmann’s review of the Passion of the Christ
(The Gospel according to Mel) for the Institute for Humanist Studies is
online at http://humaniststudies.org/enews/passion.html.
He was a guest on Equal Time (a live radio program for the New York City
metro area) to discuss the film on March 7. Professor Hoffmann will lead
the panel in Early Christianity and present a paper entitled, "On Whose
Intercession?" The Testimony of Blood in Second Century Theology" at the
Eastern International Meeting of the American Academy of Religion at Cornell,
April 30, 2004. The theme of this year's conference is Religion and Violence.
KENT KLITGAARD
delivered a paper entitled, "Substitution and Sustainability: Towards a
Microfoundations of Ecological Economics," at the Annual Meetings of the
New York State Economics Association in New York City on October 10.
CYNTHIA J. KOEPP
traveled to Salzburg, Austria, to present an invited paper on her recent
research entitled "Advocating for Artisans: the Abbé Pluche and
his Spectacle de la nature" at a conference on "Perceptions of Labour
in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe," organized by the University
of Salzburg and the Free University of Brussels, on May 23-25, 2003. Her
review essay of four new books on French economic history, entitled "Learning
to Calculate," has just been published in the journal, Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1, Fall 2003. The books reviewed included Carol Blum,
Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, Power in Eighteenth-Century
France; Yves Citton, Portrait de l'économiste en physiocrate:
critique littéraire de l'économie politique; Gerard Klotz,
ed.,
Politique et économie au temps des Lumières;
Gilbert Faccarello, ed., Studies in the History of French Political
Economy: from Bodin to Walras. Professor Koepp presented a paper entitled
"Pedagogy and Experiential Learning in the Abbé Pluche's Spectacle
de la nature" at the 31stt Annual Meeting of the Western
Society for French History that took place from October 30-November 2 at
Newport Beach, California.
The South Central Regional Library
Council presented KENNETH LARSON with
a certificate of appreciation at its annual meeting on October 17 in recognition
of his two terms of service on the council’s board of trustees. In recent
years he has served as chair of the board’s Personnel Committee and secretary
of the board. The Council coordinates resource sharing and provides training
for its members, which include academic libraries, public and school library
systems, hospital libraries, and special libraries in a fourteen county
region of south-central New York and the Southern Tier.
LINDA LOHN
delivered her paper "Hard Boiled or Over Easy: Viewing the Body, Transcending
the Self in Male-Dominated and Lesbian Detective Novels" at the annual
meeting of the New York College English Association in New York City in
April.
The Faculty Art Show in the String
Room Gallery during October included wooden and aluminum sculptures and
pottery by THEODORE LOSSOWSKI; paintings
by WILLIAM ROBERTS; photographs by REBECCA MELLO EAGAN; decorated
pottery by AVA CILIBERTI; and ceramic sculptures by JEFF KELL
and GERARD FERRARI.
TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO
was invited by the organizing committee to be the keynote speaker at the
International Conference on Identity and Space, which was held in May 2003
at Binghamton University. The title of his talk was "Re-definitions of
Territoriality, National Identity, and Global Democratic Values in the
Post-Cold War Era." On June 10-17, 2003, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo participated
in the Advanced Placement Services as a reader in Government and Politics
at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. He attended and
participated in the 13th Biennial Congress of the African Association of
Political Science and the 19th International Political Science World Congress,
held in Durban, South Africa between June 24 and July 5, 2003. The paper
he presented at the African Association of Political Science Biennial Congress
was "Reflections on Principles and Values of Liberal Democracy and International
Debt Issues: Can they singularly or together engender New Developmental
Paradigms in Africa?" He also chaired four panels in both congresses. Professor
Lumumba-Kasongo was delegated by the Executive Committee of the African
Association of Political Science to have a direct and live interview with
the South African Broadcasting Company (SABC) on July 3, 2003 in its regular
news time on "Why are we having the congresses in Durban, South Africa?"
Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was elected
Vice President of the African Association of Political Science at the Continental
level, representing the Central African Region (10 countries) and member
of its Executive Committee. From July to early August 2003, he was at Hiroshima
University, Hiroshima, Japan, where he has an appointment as a Visiting
Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of International Cooperation
in Education. His contract at the Center is for two years (from May 1,
2003 to March 31, 2005) renewable. This is the first time that the center
has appointed a non-Japanese to this position. Professor Lumumba-Kasongohas
accepted the invitation by the Editor-in-Chief of becoming a member of
the International Editorial Advisory Board of the quarterly Journal
of Administration of the Faculty Administration, the official journal
of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. As one of the Vice-Presidents
of the African Association of Political Science and a member of its Executive
Committee, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo attended its Annual Executive Committee
meeting held in Yaounde, Cameroon (Central Africa), between November 10
and12. He had an article entitled, "What is the New Partnership for Africa's
Development (NEPAD)?: A General Reflection on Its Objectives and Claims,"
published in the Journal of Comparative Education and International
Relations in Africa/Revue d'Education Comparée et des Relations
Internationales en Africa (JEDIRAF) Volume 5, Number 1-2 (December
2003): pp. 1-14. In the same edition, he had an extensive book review essay
on Guy Martin’s World Politics: A Pan African Perspective, Trenton
and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2002 published, pp. 153-162. Professor
Lumumba-Kasongo published an article entitle, "Re-definitions of Territoriality,
National Identity, and Global Democratic Values in the Post-Cold War Era,"·
in Identity and Space, edited by Andrea E. Frohne and published
by Binghamton University Envisioning (2004). He was invited by the Africa
Institute of South Africa (AISA), a research center of the South African
Government, to participate in the conference on "10 Years After Apartheid/10
Years of Freedom," which took place in Pretoria, South Africa, on March
24-26, 2004. He chaired the panel on "Pan-African Perspectives on South
African Transition." Professor Lumumba-Kasongo published an article entitled,
"Re-definitions of Territoriality, National Identity, and Global Democratic
Values in the Post-Cold War Era,"· in Identity and Space,
edited by Andrea E. Frohne and published by Binghamton University Envisioning
(2004). He was invited by the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA),
a research center of the South African Government, to participate in the
conference on "10 Years After Apartheid/10 Years of Freedom," which took
place in Pretoria, South Africa, on March 24-26, 2004. He chaired the panel
on "Pan-African Perspectives on South African Transition."
LAURA MCCLUSKY's
book, Here, Our Culture Is Hard: Stories of Domestic Violence from A
Mayan Community in Belize, was reviewed in the August issue of "American
Ethnologist." She was invited to participate in the first national Engineers
Without Frontiers Conference at Cornell University where she conducted
a workshop entitled, "Belize Basics: Culture and Development in the Central
American Nation with A Caribbean Beat." In addition, Professor McClusky
was invited to participate in the SUNY Buffalo's Institute for Research
and Education on Women and Gender's second annual Gender Matters Conference.
Her paper was entitled, "Jaguars, Rum Punch and Maya Angelou: I Got Everything
I Needed Off The Internet." She also presented a paper entitled, "Critical
Mass: The Meanings of ‘Bicycle Culture's’ Anarchist Uprising," at the New
York State Sociological Association meetings at Siena College on October
18-19. Professor McClusky’s book, Here, Our Culture Is Hard, was
reviewed in the December issue of American Anthropologist, the journal
of the American Anthropological Association. The Journal of Latin American
Studies and Anthropos also recently published reviews.
HEATHER MEYER
co-authored a chapter
entitled, "Bullying and Peer Victimization in Schools," for the textbook,
Intervention with Children & Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
(P.A. Meares and M.W. Fraser (Eds.) Boston: Allyn & Bacon). Professor
Meyer coauthored a paper, entitled, "Teachers’ reasoning about school fights,
contexts and gender: An expanded Cognitive Developmental Domain approach,"
(H.A., Astor, R.A., & Behre, W.J. 2004) published this month in Aggressive
and Violent Behavior, 9, pp. 45-74. She also has had two papers accepted
for publication: "School safety interventions: Best practices and programs,"
in Children and Schools (Astor, R.A., Meyer, H.A., Benbenishty,
R., Marachi, R., & Rosemond, M.); and "Relationship violence prevention
education in schools: What's working, what's getting in the way, and what
are some future directions" (Meyer, H.A. & Stein, N. in press) in
The American Journal of Health Education.
During her sabbatical year, LESLIE
MILLER-BERNAL presented a paper at the Eastern
Sociological Society meeting in Philadelphia on March 1, 2003, entitled,
"Stratification in Higher Education: Women’s Colleges and Historically
Black Colleges Compared." She gave a talk in January to faculty and graduate
students at Newnham College, Cambridge University entitled, "The Shifting
Views of American Feminists on Women’s Colleges." Her paper, "Conservative
Intent, Liberating Outcomes: The History of Coordinate Colleges for Women,"
was published as a chapter in Gender in Policy and Practice, edited
by Amanda Datnow and Lea Hubbard, RoutledgeFarmer Press, 2002. Her review
of Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: A History, by Peter
J. Knapp with Anne H. Knapp, was published in the History of Education
Quarterly, vol. 42, Fall 2002. She also presented a paper with Susan
Gunn Pevar entitled, "Slowly Only at First: Women Enter Historically Black
Lincoln University," at the History of Education Society meetings, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, in November 2002. Another review of her book, Separate
by Degree, appeared in the Journal of Higher Education, Vol.
73, May/June 2002.
Professor Miller-Bernal’s book, co-edited
with Susan Poulson, Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in Formerly Men’s
Colleges and Universities, is due to be published by Vanderbilt University
Press in Spring 2004. In August, she led an informal discussion roundtable,
"Sociological Imagination Applied: Understanding Higher Education in the
Latter Half of the 20th Century," at the annual meeting of the
American Sociological Association in Atlanta. Professor Miller-Bernal presented
a paper with Susan Pevar at the Organization of American Historians' annual
meeting in Boston, MA. The paper, "Adjusting to Change: Historically Black
Lincoln University (PA) After the Brown Decision," was part of a session
entitled, "University Admissions Policies and the Supreme Court: From Desegregation
to Affirmative Action to the End of Racial Preferences." On April 22, 2004,
she will serve as the outside examiner for an honors student's thesis in
Women's Studies at Hobart and William Smith. Professor Miller-Bernal's
co-edited book, Going Coed: Women Students' Experiences in Formerly
Men's Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, is due to be published
in May by Vanderbilt University Press. It is a "featured title" whose description
can be read at www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress/miller-bernal.html.
Professor Miller-Bernal, with her co-editor
Dr. Susan Poulson of the University of Scranton, has been awarded a second
book contract by Vanderbilt University Press for their History of Education
series. The book is provisionally entitled, The Coeducation Challenge:
Women's Colleges Since the 1960s. She attended the New York State Sociological
Association meetings at Siena College, October 24-25. Professor Miller-Bernal
was given a plaque, honoring her with the Distinguished Service Award,
at the Association's Awards Luncheon. She also gave a talk entitled, "Reflections
of an Insider/Outsider on British Culture." Her book, Separate by Degree,
was reviewed in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History
of Education (Vol. 38, #2-3, 2002). Professor Miller-Bernal was a co-organizer
of three sessions on the sociology of higher education for the Eastern
Sociological Society’s annual meeting in New York City on February 21,
2004. The three sessions were: Academic Careers and the Changing Political
Economy of Higher Education, Historical and Comparative Issues in Higher
Education, and Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Higher Education.
Professor Miller-Bernal also served as presider for the last two of these
sessions and presented her own paper, "Changing Forms of Discrimination
Against Women Academics at Cambridge University, 1869-2003," in the session
on Historical and Comparative Issues. In March, Professor Miller-Bernal
presented a paper with Susan Pevar at the Organization of American Historians'
annual meeting in Boston, MA. The paper, "Adjusting to Change: Historically
Black Lincoln University (PA) After the Brown Decision," was part of a
session entitled, "University Admissions Policies and the Supreme Court:
From Desegregation to Affirmative Action to the End of Racial Preferences."
On April 22, 2004, she will serve as the outside examiner for an honors
student's thesis in Women's Studies at Hobart and William Smith. Professor
Miller-Bernal's co-edited book, Going Coed: Women Students' Experiences
in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, is due to be
published in May by Vanderbilt University Press. It is a "featured title"
whose description can be read at www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress/miller-bernal.html.
MILENE MORFEI
was an invited delegate at the Oxford Round Table at St. Anthony's College
in Oxford University in August 2003. This session of the Round Table was
devoted to the topic of human and civil rights with particular reference
to women's rights and issues of gender discrimination in both the public
and private sectors. People to People Ambassador Programs, through the
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, invited Professor
Morfei to participate in its January program in South Africa. The delegation
participated in an exchange of research and information with colleagues
and professionals in South Africa, addressing social issues and social
change. Professor Morfei’s manuscript, "Agentic and Communal Generative
Behavior in Four Areas of Adult Life: Implications for Psychological Well-Being,"
appeared in the January edition of the Journal of Adult Development.
VICTORIA MUÑOZ
was awarded a $500 grant by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of
Sexuality to support the transcription of interviews for her study on transgender
identities and sexual orientations. Professor Muñoz received a grant
of $5,000 from The Small Change Foundation to support the hiring of a research
assistant and interview transcription for the Gender Identity and Sexual
Orientation Study. She received assistance in obtaining this grant from
Michelle Landers. Professor Muñoz was an invited speaker at Syracuse
University for the "Transgender Teach In" where she and Stephanie Cyganovich
discussed the GISO Study. In collaboration with Tiffany Silliman, Will
Liberi, Alice Lo, Lily Cavanaugh, Professors Burroughs and Garrison, and
Dean Morales, Muñoz planned and implemented a residency with Bear
Bergman to raise awareness and educate about transgender issues on campus.
In April NIAMH O' LEARY
participated in the "Science on Seneca" program, a limnology workshop for
educators aboard Hobart-William Smith Colleges' educational and research
vessel the
HWS William Scandling. Since summer 2002 she has been
active on a sub-committee of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Intermunicipal Organization
whose goal is to make a similar vessel available for educators on Cayuga
Lake. In April 2003 The Haendal was launched with Wells students
aboard as the first to experience this "floating classroom" on Cayuga Lake.
She also coordinated two days of environmental education and outreach activities
in celebration of National Drinking Water Week. The event was held in Ithaca
in May 2003 and was co-sponsored by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and
the Tompkins County Health Department. Professors O’Leary and Vawter have
had a paper accepted for publication by the Journal of Freshwater Ecology.
"Assessing Water Quality Using Two Taxonomic Levels of Benthic Macroinvertebrate
Analysis: Implications for Volunteer Monitors" is co-authored with Linda
Wagenet and Max Pfeffer of Cornell University.
ERNEST OLSON
presented a paper entitled, "The Hawaiian 'awa Bar: Cultural Renewal or
Religious Sacrilege?" for the session "Entitled Identity" at the Northeastern
Anthropological Annual Meeting held in April of 2003 at the University
of Vermont. Professor Olson also served as chair for this session and was
a discussant for another session "Beyond the Classroom: The Importance
of Undergraduate Field Study, a session of presentations from students
of Wells College and Ithaca College. Professor Olson was a member of a
panel presentation of "Public Anthropology and the SHARE Project: Bridging
Native and Non-Native Cultures in Local Communities." The panel and subsequent
graduate workshop, were sponsored and hosted on October 21 and 22 by the
Anthropology Department, McMaster University. This fall, Professor Olson
completed an encyclopedic entry,
Religion in Tonga, for the Worldmark
Encyclopedia of Religious Practices,
The Gale Group. He was
invited to participate in the session, "Conceptions of Social Relationships
in Pacific Societies," for the annul meeting of the Association for Social
Anthropology of Oceania held February 25-28 in Salem, Massachusetts. Professor
Olson’s paper "Discipline for the Body in the Flow of Time: The Tongan
Kava Party" has been accepted for publication in Time, Self, and Society:
The Cross-Cultural Embodiment of Time in Illness and Health, an edited
volume to be published by the University of Arizona Press. Professor Olson
served as faculty sponsor and discussant for the session "Young Anthropologists
in the Field: Skill Building and Professional Development at Home and Abroad"
at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association held
at Dartmouth College March 26-28, 2004. The session consisted of students
and faculty from both Wells College and Ithaca College and included the
presentations of Miranda Junge ’04, "Labor and Loss: Latin American Migrant
Farmworkers in the United States;" Emilie Smith `04, "Grassroots Development
of Sustainable Agriculture: Why NGOs Should Lead the Charge in Senegal;"
and Meghan McCune `03, "Community Collaboration in Researching the Cayuga
Land Claim: A Model for Participatory Research in Anthropology."
LAURA PURDY’s
article, "Why Children Shouldn't Have Equal Rights," (originally published
in 1994) was reprinted in Children's Rights, edited by Michael D.
Freeman, and published in November 2003 (for the series Library of Essays
on Rights).
DAVID REIS
and Professor Emeritus Arthur Bellinzoni were invited to Oxford University
to participate in "The New Testament and Apostolic Fathers" conference.
The conference marked the centenary of the publication of the influential
work The New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers. Professor
Reis' paper was entitled "Following in Paul's Footsteps: Mimesis and
Power in Ignatius of Antioch," and Professor Bellinzoni's paper was entitled
"The Gospel of Luke in the Apostolic Fathers." Professor Reis' paper "Following
in Paul's Footsteps: Mimesis and Power in Ignatius of Antioch" and
Professor Bellinzoni's paper "Luke in the Apostolic Fathers" will likely
appear in the centennial celebration volume The New Testament and the
Apostolic Fathers to be published in 2005 by Oxford University Press.
SARAH ROBERTS'
book-length poetry manuscript Blue Ground was announced in June
2003 as a finalist for publication in this year's National Poetry Series.
Her essay "The Talisman," which explores the intersection of vision and
blindness, appeared in The Healing Muse. Ms. Roberts' letterpress
work was included in a group exhibit at Union College in Schenectady, New
York, that celebrated the work of contemporary women printers.
WILLIAM ROBERTS’
drawings entitled "Saratoga Sketchbook" appeared in the Syracuse Post Standard
every Sunday from July 27 through September 7. He exhibited paintings,
drawings, photographs and prints at the Saratoga Arms Hotel for his 23rd
annual exhibition in Saratoga Springs, New York. In addition, Professor
Roberts’ sketches were featured in the Saratoga Special during August 2003.
He participated as an awards judge for the "2003 Made In New York Juried
Exhibition" at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. His new
paintings were included in the October Faculty Art Exhibition in the String
Room Gallery. Professor Roberts covered the Breeder’s Cup Championship
Races at Santa Anita, Arcadia, California, on October 25 for the Syracuse
Post Standard. During January Professor Roberts participated as a judge
in the New York State Scholastic Art Competition. The competition was held
at Onondaga Community College. His oil painting "Sublime," 6' by 5', which
is owned by the Saratoga Arms Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York, was
featured in the February 2004 issue of "Victorian Homes." Professor Roberts
served as a judge for the Saltonstall Foundation for Grants in the Arts
during March 2004. An exhibition of his paintings and drawings has been
scheduled at the Delavan Gallery in Syracuse during November 2004. This
exhibit features his recent series of abstract-shaped paintings.
CAROL SHILEPSKY
spent the 2002-03 year working on client-side and server-side web programming.
Among the sites she designed and implemented are http//www.allisonladd.com
for ceramicist Allison Ladd and http//www.addlestone.org for her granddaughter's
preschool. She and Professor Sandy Shilepsky redesigned the Wells premed
site, adding a database for student registration and advisor notes. She
also completed a monograph, "Minimal HTML," for use in classes and possible
publication.
ARNOLD SHILEPSKY
spent his sabbatical year learning about web construction, mathematics,
and the health professions. He created websites for several of his courses
and, with Carol Shilepsky, improved and added database functionality to
the pre-health professions web site. He attended the joint meetings of
the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America
and the biennial meeting of the National Association of Advisors for the
Health Professions. He learned about the search engine Google and spoak
about it in the October Faculty Club.
On March 24, THOMAS STIADLE
spoke on "In Defense of (Good) Lectures" at the Faculty Center for
Teaching and Learning, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North
Carolina. On April 12, he took MPS seniors Gwendolyn Bryson and Karen McKeen
to the Tenth Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference,
held this year at Union College in Schenectady. Karen presented "Using
Edge Information to Correct Corrupted Images," based on her MPS Senior
Project. Professor Stiadle spoke on "Malthus Meets Geometry," which connects
interesting phenomena in geometry and population growth. They all attended
a variety of talks by undergraduates and faculty. On April 22, Professor
Stiadle presented "p-adics, Place Value, and Arithmetic" to the Mathematics
Seminar at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.
CRAWFORD THOBURN
conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers in the annual Spring
Concert on May 7, 2003, in Barler Hall, accompanied by pianist Nancy Gilbertson.
On May 31, he participated in a panel discussion on the subject, "Music
in the Small Liberal Arts College," during the reunion weekend at his alma
mater, Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. During the afternoon,
the reunion choir, composed of 160+ singers representing college classes
from 1937 to the present, performed his original choral composition, a
setting of Christina Rossetti’s "In the Bleak Midwinter" in their reunion
concert. Professor Thoburn conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber
Singers, accompanied by Nancy Gilbertson, in a concert for Parents's Weekend
on November 9 in Barler Recital Hall. Mark Foster Music, Inc. has accepted
for publication two of his choral works for women's voices: an edition
of "Alle-psallite cum-luya" a 13th century English motet and an arrangement
of "O Sing To The Babe" (Susanni) a German Carol. Under the direction of
Professor Thoburn, The Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers performed
at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora on December 6, as a part of the "Christmas
in Aurora" celebration. On December 7, they presented their annual Holiday
Concert, accompanied by Nancy Gilbertson. A sizable collection of food,
donated by members of the audience, was delivered to the Cayuga County
Food Pantry. Two of his arrangements for accompanied mixed voices, "The
Adoration of the Wise Men," a French carol published by Carl Fischer, Inc.
and "My Dancing Day," an English tune published by Coronet Press, have
been recorded by the professional chamber choir, Madrigalia from Rochester,
conducted by Roger Wilhelm. These selections are included in the group's
latest CD entitled "Madrigalia Live For Christmas" which is now available
at Border's and other upstate record stores. Several of Professor
Thoburn’s published choral compositions and arrangements have been selected
for performance in various graduate-conducting recitals around the country.
Most recently he has learned that his setting for unaccompanied mixed voices
of the African-American spiritual "Steal Away to Jesus," published by Tetra-Continuo
Music, will be performed in a graduate-conducting recital in March at the
Louisiana State University School of Music in Baton Rouge.
MUIN UDDIN
was a member of a Ph.D. Dissertation Advising and Examining Committee in
Economics at Syracuse University during 2002-03. The dissertation was successfully
defended on April 11, 2003. Professor Uddin was invited by the German Academic
Exchange Service to be a member of a team of North American academicians
and scholars who participated in a series of conferences on a Special Information
Program, entitled "Europe Today: Bi- and Multilateral Patterns in an Enlarged
European Union," held in Europe during June 2003. The meetings covered
issues of political, socioeconomic, and cultural reality in Europe with
special attention on globalization, demographic challenges, human resource
development, immigration, and a host of other contemporary issues concerning
EU. From June 15-17, 2003, at the University of Bonn, he participated in
several sessions on "New Constitution for a Larger EU," "The EU-American
Diplomatic Relationship," and "The Future of Education and Training in
Europe." He was also a discussant for a session on "Politics and Economics
in an Enlarged EU: Challenges and Opportunities." From June 18-19, at the
European Parliament in Brussels, he was a participant and discussant for
sessions on "Current Issues in European Politics," "Europe’s Common Defense
Policy and NATO," "The European Research Area and the Bologna Process and
the Socrates-Erasmus Programme," "The Institutional Reform for European
Parliament," and "Economic and Social Integration of the New Member States."
From June 20-22 at the German Parliament
and Foreign Ministry in Berlin and in the City of Potsdam, Professor Uddin
moderated a session on "Mobility and Integration of Corporations and Work
Force in Europe from an Economics Point of View," and participated in sessions
and roundtable discussions on a host of other topics. From June 22-23 at
the European University Viadrina and at the City Hall in Frankfurt/Oder,
he chaired a session on "Immigration and Demographic Problems in Europe,"
and participated in sessions and roundtable discussions on Border Security
and Immigration" and "Building a New European Identity." From June 23-24
at Adam Mickiewicz University and at the City Hall in Poznan, Poland, he
was a participant and discussant in sessions and roundtable discussions
on "The Impact of EU Enlargement on the Polish Economy," "Polish Immigration
and EU," and "Poland’s Role as a New Member State of the European Union."
From June 25-27 at Freie Universitat, at the Federal Office Building and
at Jolly Hotel Vivaldi in Berlin, he moderated a session, led a roundtable
discussion, and participated in several sessions on "Transatlantic Academic
Relations in the Context of EU Enlargement," "German Foreign Policy and
the Future of World Order," "Current Issues of German-American Cooperation,"
and "Germany’s Role in the European Union: The Media Point of View."
A. THOMAS VAWTER
led a cruise and workshop
on elements of limnology for Tiohero Tours of Ithaca on August 30, 2003.
Tiohero Tours operates the MV Haendel, the vessel that also serves as the
Floating Classroom on Cayuga Lake. Professor Vawter helped host a conference
at Wells College on Cayuga Lake Watershed Monitoring on October 14. The
conference was sponsored by the Technical Advisory Committee of the Intermunicipal
Organization and by Cornell's Center for the Environment. A dozen or so
scientists from our region presented results of environmental monitoring
projects they are conducting in the basin.
CHRISTINA WAHL
attended the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology from May 3-10, 2003. This international meeting had over
7,000 attendees and 5,100 presentations. She presented one poster, "Growth
of the scleral venous sinus system in chicks exposed to constant light,"
(Wahl, C.M, T. Li, and H.C. Howland (2003), Association for Research in
Vision and Ophthalmology. Abstract 1978) and was co-author on two others:
"The effects of alternately covering the eyes, or the pineal gland and
eyes of chicks raised under constant light," (T. Li, C. Wahl, and H.C.
Howland (2003), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Abstract
1977); and "Comparison of effects of varying diurnal light periods on the
growth of the chick eye," (H.C. Howland, T. Li, and C. Wahl. (2003), Association
for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Abstract 1976). Professor Wahl
is collaborating on a recently funded USDA grant submitted by J.E. Fortune,
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine,
on the topic of small follicle activation in mammalian ovaries. Professor
Wahl will be presenting two research papers at the annual Association for
Research in Vision and Opthalmology meetings in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
from April 25-29. The presentations are: Wahl, C., T. Li, H.C. Howland
(2004) Effects of light and melatonin on chick corneas grown in culture.
Association for Research in Vision and Opththalmology. Abstract 4293; and
Li, T., C. Wahl, and H.C. Howland (2004) Age dependent ocular changes of
chicks under constant light, and recovery from them, in normal illumination.
Abstract 4291. This year, there are 5,610 presentations of original research
at this international forum for work in vision science. Over 16,000 people
attend the conference, which is the largest vision research meeting in
the world.
BARBARA WEJNERT
was recently nominated by her former students from her Gender & Society
classat Cornell to receive a special recognition for the Advancement of
Women Locally and Internationally (awarded on March 9, at A.D. White House).
International Accomplishments:
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Kyrgyzstan, Senegal and Mali: collection
of data on effect of democratization on women’s well-being.
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Invited presentation at SASE, 15th Annual
Meeting on Socio-Economics LEST, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26 - 28,
2003
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Paper presentation: VII International
Women’s Policy Research Conference at the Institute for Women’s Policy
Research, June 2003, in Washington, D.C
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Research Grant: Soros Open Society (with
Alma Djumabajeva) Summer 2003
Selected Presentations since summer
2003:
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An Interactive Model of World Democratization:
A Multilevel Analysis. Invited Presentation at the Society for the Advancement
of Socio-Economics, 15th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics LEST (Laboratoire
d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail) Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26
- 28, 2003
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Health Status of Women in Democratizing
Post-Communist Countries: Ukraine, Poland and Kyrgyzstan. VII International
Women’s Policy Research Conference at the Institute for Women’s Policy
Research in June 2003, in Washington, D.C. (with Andrea Parrot)
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An Interactive Model of World and Regional
Democratization: A Multilevel Analysis. Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 16-19, 2003
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Presider and Discussant of a session on
Diffusion and Institutionalization and Social Movements. Annual Meeting
of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 16-19, 2003
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Presentation: Wells College, Social Science
Colloquium: "Muslim Women at the Time of Global Development and Democratization"
(October 2003)
Wells College, Social Science Colloquium:
"Politics of Arts and Arts of Politics" (May 2003)
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University of Toronto: Faculty of Social
Science Colloquium: "Relative Predictive Power of socioeconomic and diffusion
variables in world and regional democratization: 1800-1999, November 2003
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University of Texas, Faculty of Behavior
Science Colloquium: "The Effect of World Democratization on the
Well-being of Women: Multilevel Regression Models," January 2004
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Cornell University, Sociology Colloquium:
"Will Democratization of Iraq Democratize the Middle East? Socioeconomic
vs. Diffusion Predictors of Democratization," Feb. 2004
Publications since summer 2003 - journal
articles - included only refereed journals
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Wejnert, B. (2003) Effects of Growth of
Democracy and Transition to Market-Based Economies on Women’s Well-Being.
Journal
of Consumer Policy, 26: 465-493.
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Wachowiak A., Wejnert B. (2003) Wspomnienia
poswiecone pamieci wybitnego Familiologa, Profesora Zbigniewa Tyszki (Marriage
and the Family) (in Polish), No. 4(8): 38-45.
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Wejnert, Spring 2004. Democratization
and the Transition to a Market-Based Economy and Women’s Health in The
Post-Communist Countries: Poland, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan in: World
Health Organization, 2004. The Globalization, Gender & Health.
Research Monograph (publication in Spring 2004)
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Wejnert, B., Djumabaeva A. Spring 2004.
From Patriarchy to Egalitarianism? Parental Roles in Democratizing Poland
and Kyrgyzstan. Marriage and Family Review
In press forthcoming summer 2004:
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Wejnert, B. (Dictionary of Modern American
Philosophers, forthcoming 2004). Entry on Jacob Bronowski.
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Wejnert, B. (American Sociological
Review) Socioeconomic and Diffusion Predictors of World and Regional
Democratization: 1800 -- 1999.
Upcoming
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May 2004 - traveling with series of lectures
to Kyrgyzstan, followed by a lecture at Warsaw University, in Warsaw, Poland.
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June 2004 – Presenting a talk at the Society
of Advancement of Socio-Economics, Washington DC, International Congress.
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August 2004 - Presenting at the American
Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco.
JERI VARGO
and ELSIE TORRES attended the conference,
"Assessment: Measuring Services and Resources in Academic Libraries," on
October 3 in Syracuse.
The Wells Book Arts Center is
proud to announce as part of its upcoming symposium this spring that Donald
Jackson, Scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, will present the 19th
Swartzburg Book Arts Lecture entitled "Walking in the Footsteps of Giants:
The Creation Processes of The Saint John's Bible." This presentation will
be the first time Donald Jackson has ever given a personal interim account
of images, inspirations and processes involved in the creation, with a
team of collaborators - artists, scribes, scrutchers, illuminators, and
schedulers of the seven volume handwritten and illuminated bible for Saint
John's Abbey and University, Minnesota.
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