BRUCE BENNETT read his poems at the "Twentieth Century Literature Conference" at the University of Kentucky on February 25 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a featured writer at SUNY Binghamton on March 9 and 10. He gave a reading of his poetry on March 9 and held a discussion of his work with the Contemporary American Writers class the morning of the 10^th.

CATHERINE BURROUGHS was recently asked by Houghton Mifflin to review the forthcoming Riverside Shakespeare Electronic Concordance.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH has been asked to chair a session at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies on "Female Non-Industrial Workers in the Soviet 1920s and 1930s."

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the Institute for African Development at Cornell University to give a public lecture on "Re-conceptualizing the State as an Agency of Social Progress: The Case of Africa" on February 3. Professors Dan Schultz and Maryanne Felter of Cayuga Community College at Auburn invited him to give a lecture on "Comparative Dimensions of the Implications of Colonialism in Africa with a Particular Reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo" on February 10.

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL attended the 70^th annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Baltimore from March 2-5. On March 2, she presented her paper, "Separatism as an Educational Strategy for the Promotion of Gender Equity," in a session entitled "Education and Diversity." On March 3, she was one of a panel of authors in a session entitled, "Authors Meet Audience: New Books on Gender-Related Themes," where she spoke on her forthcoming book, Separate by Degree: Women Students’ Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges. Professor Miller-Bernal has also begun serving on the Publications Committee of the Eastern Sociological Society.

NIAMH O’LEARY’s article, "Breeding Corn for Adaptation to Two Diverse Intercropping Companions," appeared in the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture. The article was co-authored by Margaret Smith of the Plant Breeding Department at Cornell. Professor O’Leary presented the content of this article to the Wells faculty in last March’s Faculty Club.

ERNEST OLSON presented a paper entitled, "Rooted Traditions and Flowing Talk: Kava in Tonga and Fiji," to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, on January 13. He also presented the following papers during February: "Healing Traditions in the Pacific," for a medical anthropology class at Ithaca College on February 3; "The Positioning of the Pulpit in the Fono: Church and Community in the Tongan Village for the session, "Meetings as a Cross-Cultural Context Among Pacific Islanders," at the annual meeting of the Association of Social Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada, on February 17; "Sugar Cane and Kava: Separate Roots, Entangled Contexts," for the session "Transformatins of Food and Drink," at the annual meeting of the Association of Social Anthropology of Oceania, Vancouver, Canada, on February 18.

Professor Olson is serving as a reviewer and assessor for grant proposals for research in the Pacific Islands, which are submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, Ottawa, Canada. On March 1, he had a radio interview with Anita Purcell for Radio New Zealand International of Wellington, New Zealand. The topic of the interview focused on the nature of kava ceremonies in Pacific Island cultures and was aired on public broadcast throughout the Pacific Islands during the week of March 5-11.