(Activities Announced at Faculty Meetings,
May, 2004 - April, 2005)
 

Professor Emeritus ARTHUR BELLINZONI has signed a contract with Prometheus Books for the publication of his book THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY: Will It Survive in the Third Millennium? He has also written for The Expository Times a review of Stephen G. Wilson's book, LEAVING THE FOLD: Apostates and Defectors in Antiquity.

A special issue of PAINTBRUSH magazine, entitled "The World of Bruce Bennett," and devoted to BRUCE BENNETT’s work, was published in May 2004. The issue features several previously unpublished poems by Professor Bennett, an extended interview, and essays on his poetry by a number of writers, including X. J. Kennedy, Leslie Norris, Stan Sanvel Rubin, Christina Pugh, and Dennis Leavens. Professor Bennett also gave two readings: on April 13 in Rochester at Writers & Books; and on April 17 in New York City at the Ear Inn with other poets published in The Poets Grimm, an anthology of poems based on Grimms’ fairy tales. His poetry manuscript, Web-Watching, won the Bright Hill Press 2004 Annual Chapbook Competition. He had poems published in the magazines Light and Smartish Pace. He also had a poetry pamphlet, Eternal Recurrence and the Big Bang, published by Clandestine Press. On June 28 Professor Bennett participated in a reading of poems from Virginia Elson’s Harrier (FootHills Publishing, 2004) for the Watkins Glen Writers Group, with Michael Czarnecki and the book’s editor Linda Allardt. He was in residence at the Writers Center at Chautauqua from July 25 through the 31^st. While in residence, in addition to teaching a weeklong poetry-writing workshop, Professor Bennett gave a public reading of his poetry on July 25 and delivered a lecture, "Let There Be (Not-So) Light Verse," to the Chautauqua Women’s Club on July 28. Professor Bennett was interviewed for one hour about his poetry by Tom Milligan for Mr. Milligan’s program, "Off The Page," on WSKG Binghamton Public Radio on September 21. The interview has been archived on the station’s website. His chapbook, Grief and Love, was published in late September by FootHills Publishing. Two poems by Professor Bennett were published in the new issue of The Healing Muse, and he read at The Healing Muse Publication Party at SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse on October 13. He had a poem published in the journal 5:AM and two poems published in the anthology Presenting the Turkey: The Fabulous Story of a Flamboyant and Flavorful Bird, edited by Sabine Eiche and published by Central Di in Florence, Italy. Professor Bennett read with poets from The Poets Grimm Anthology at the Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University at New Brunswick on October 24. He participated in a reading/discussion relating to poetry and politics at Canastota Public Library on October 19. Three poems by Professor Bennett were published in the Fall issue of Tar River Poetry. He read with Professor Cynthia Garrett, Sarah Roberts, and Susannah Loiselle as part of the Renate Rewald Literary Series at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora on November 13. Two poems by Professor Bennett were published in the winter issue of Light Magazine. He participated in two readings from The Poets’ Grimm Anthology at Wells College on February 24 and at the Community School for the Arts in Ithaca on February 26. Professor Bennett’s chapbook Web-Watching, which won the 2004 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, was published in early April. He gave two readings featuring Web-Watching: at Wells on April 6 and at Keuka College on April 12. Two other chapbooks by Professor Bennett, Late-Night Music, a collection of limericks, and More Last Words, a collection of comic epitaphs, have been published by Clandestine Press. He has four poems in the Spring 2005 issue of the magazine, "Iambs & Trochees, and four poems in the anthology, Kiss and Part, edited by Gail White and published by Doggerel Daze Press. Professor Bennett’s sonnet, "The True Story of Snow White," has been published in the Longman textbook, Literature As Meaning, edited by Wendy Steiner. His villanelle, "Fellow Creatures," which appears in Web-Watching, has been posted on the Academy of American Poets Poetry Exhibits website.

During her fall 2004 sabbatical leave, CATHERINE BURROUGH'S presented a keynote address in Bertinoro, Italy, at the conference that concluded a two-year project directed by Centro Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici at the University of Bologna. Between 2002 and 2004, seven Italian universities concentrated on the subject of English Romantic Theatre and Drama. Professor Burroughs’ address was titled "The Erotics of Home: Staging Sexual Fantasy in British Women's Drama" and was delivered at the conference called "Il teatro romantico inglese 1760/1830: Testi, teorie e pratiche sceniche" ("British Romantic Theatre and Drama 1760/1830: Text, Theory, and Stage Practice"). This talk will be published in the conference proceedings. 

Professor Burroughs edited a special section of European Romantic Review, which compiled the responses of academics, professional actors, directors, and dramaturgs to the first professional production of Joanna Baillie's Count Basil (1798). This production was staged by the Washington, D.C. based company, Horizons Theatre, at the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University at the annual meeting for the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) in New York City, August 2004. She co-coordinated a one-day conference called "Drama and Theatre History, 1770-1840: The Import of Romantic Drama" at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in September 2004. Professor Burroughs chaired a panel called "Cosmorama" at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder in September 2004. She reviewed New Readings in Theatre History (By Jacky Bratton. Cambridge University Press, 2003) for Theatre Journal and Notorious Muse: The Actress in British Art and Culture 1776-1812. (Ed. Robyn Asleson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003) for European Romantic Review. She served as a reviewer for manuscripts for: European Romantic Review and Lumen (the Journal of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies). Professor Burroughs consulted for the forthcoming The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. She re-printed an article in the new Gale bibliographical database. "'A Reasonable Woman's Desire': The Private Theatrical and Joanna Baillie's The Tryal," which was originally published in Texas Studies in Literature and Language (38. [1996]: 265-84), and has also been re-printed in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Ed. Janet Witalec. 71 [1999]: 55-69), as well as in Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays (Ed. Thomas Crochunis. Routledge, 2004. 187-205).

Professor Burroughs was invited to give a keynote address--"British Women's Drama and the Erotics of Home"--at the annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (April 13-17).

LAURA CAMPBELL toured Switzerland and France as a member of the Central New York Summer Orchestra. They performed four concerts, two in Switzerland and two in France. Professor Campbell recorded a new CD of music written especially for harpist Myra Kovary and herself by Ithaca composer Laurie Conrad. Her community activities included starting and conducting a community band for musicians of all ages in the South Seneca County area. They performed their first concert on September 5 in the town park in Ovid, New York. Earlier in May, Professor Campbell participated in the world premier of an oratorio for choruses and orchestra at the State University College of Oneonta, which was written to commemorate one of the first women doctors in the region. She was responsible for establishing the Bassett Clinic in Cooperstown.

KENNETH CHRISTIANSON participated in a faculty advisor’s meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on April 21, 2004. He gave a presentation during the meeting concerning participation in the New York district’s College Fed Challenge. Professor Christianson organized and gave a presentation for the Earth Day Energy Conference at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Ithaca on April 24, 2004. The title of the presentation was "Exploring Energy Alternatives."

CANDACE COLLMER presented a Faculty Club talk at Wells College on October 22 entitled:  "A Rose by any other name...." ...but How to Find Them All in the Age of Genomics?   (or, Pathogens, Genes, and Bioinformatics). She also presented a seminar to the Department of Plant Pathology at Cornell University on November 2 entitled: "New Gene Ontology (GO) Terms for Annotating Microbe Genes Involved in Pathogenesis/Symbiosis" Professor Collmer, as coordinator of 12 scientists collaborating to develop new terms appropriate for annotating genes involved in pathogenesis in diverse plant pathogens, has had 34 new terms accepted by the Gene Ontology Consortium for inclusion in their ontologies. These are now available for use by scientists working worldwide in genome annotation. She led the effort of the PAMGO group (Plant Associated-Microbe Gene Ontology), together with Michelle Gwinn-Giglio of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), as part of her sabbatical work last academic year, and continues to work on the project.

Two of CAROL CONTIGUGLIA’s works, one featuring day lilies above a timbered wall and the other featuring wild bindweed (morning glories), were accepted into the New York State Wildlife Art Exhibit at the New York State Fair.  They are done in colored pencil, color and tone overlaid multiple times to resemble a painting surface. This is a juried show comprised of paintings and sculpture representing the wild life of the world. 

WALTRAUT DEINERT's and Gesa Falk's research article on Else Menz Fleissner and Otto S. Fleissner was published in December 2003 by De Gruyter in the International Lexikon of German Scholars 1800-1950, 3 volumes and CD-Rom (Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950, 3 Baende und CD-Rom). Else Fleissner was Professor of German at Wells College from 1927-1969 and Emeritus Professor until 1987. Otto Fleissner was Professor of German at Wells from 1926-1958 and Emeritus Professor until 1978. Both were also distinguished scholars with extensive publications. Gesa Falk (a Wells alumna) and Professor Deinert were aided in their research by the staff of the Schiller- Nationalmuseum and the librarians of Wells College.

MARGOT ECKE received a Mellon Foundation Travel Grant and a Puffin Foundation Grant to support a project she is working on in collaboration with Jen Bervin, an artist and writer from Brooklyn. They spent a week at Harvard during the month of January looking at Emily Dickinson's fascicles in hopes of gathering enough information to reproduce a larger facsimile of her poetry. During the spring break, Ms. Ecke presented a lecture on her artwork at the Cleveland Institute of Art, in addition to giving student critiques and several workshops on binding structures and box making. She talked about her work in Ithaca, New York, on Tuesday, April 5, at the Ink Shop.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH’s review of Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar, Midwives of the Revolution: Female Bolsheviks and Women Workers in 1917 (Ohio University Press 1999) has been published in the spring 2004 issue of Canadian American Slavic Studies.

SARA FRENCH has been named a contributor to Reformation, Exploration & Empire, a 10-volume encyclopedia covering 1500 to 1700, and has had articles on "Architecture" and "Catherine de'Medici" accepted for the first two volumes.  She will write seven more articles for the series. Professor French attended the Advanced Studies in England board meeting in Bath, England, June 7-9, 2004 as the Wells representative to its Academic Board. She also presented a talk to Alumnae College on June 11 entitled, "The Arts are Fine at Wells: Curriculum, Collections & Conservation." Professor French presented a paper on October 9, 2004, to the New York State Association of European Historians' Conference entitled "From Hampton Court to Hardwick Hall: The Evolution of Great Hall, State Rooms, and Courtyards in 16th Century England" at St. John Fisher College in Rochester New York. The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women has awarded its 2003 book prize for a collaborative work to Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe, edited by Allison Levy and with a contribution by Professor French.  Professor French also presented a paper at the annual conference of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University on October 23.  Her paper was entitled "Building Gender in(to) the Elizabethan Prodigy House." Professor French has had an article published in the Winter 2005 edition of the Griswold Family Association of America Bulletin, "The Michael Griswold House, Wethersfield, CT: A Brief History, Part I."  It is the first in a series of articles on the architectural and material history of the Michael Griswold House (c. 1690).

DEBORAH GAGNON had a poster accepted for presentation at NECTOP, October 2004: "No student left behind: Frequent quizzing, student performance, and course satisfaction." The paper was presented at the Tenth Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology, Providence, Rhode Island. She co-authored a Technical Report for Cornell University entitled, "An integrated framework for Cornell University Library digital collections: High-level requirements and internal implementation issues." Professor Gagnon’s peer-reviewed journal publication, "Origins of nonword phonological errors in aphasic picture naming, appeared in Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21(2-4), 159-186. (Mar-June Issue). She gave an invited talk, "Managing technologies in the hybrid library," at the Endeavor EndUsers Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Gagnon’s recent public/community service activities include being elected to serve as Vice President of Public Relations, Ithaca Area Toastmasters Club; Term: July 1, 2004-June 30, 2005. In August she taught a Cornell Cooperative Extension Compost Education Program Class, entitled "Is It Done Yet? Harvesting and Uses of Household Compost" at Community Gardens. Professor Gagnon presented a paper entitled, "A Functional Approach to the Cognitive Psychology Curriculum," at the 27th annual meeting of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, in St. Petersburg, Florida, on January 2, 2005.

PROFESSORS GAGNON, HILL, MORFEI, AND MUÑOZ attended a workshop at the University of Buffalo titled, "Polishing the Chain," which was sponsored by the Native American Consortium at SUNY- Fredonia. What we learned included, what is important for the recruitment, retention, and success of Native American college students, the roles of traditional knowledge and culture, and approaches to teaching and learning which support resilience.

DEB GAGNON and NIAMH O' LEARY attended a conference on "Sustainability and the State of New York Campuses" at Ithaca College on February 26. Environmental Studies major Safiya Sabir '07 also attended. The conference included workshops and plenaries designed to equip attendees with the knowledge and skills needed to advocate for and act towards reduced environmental impact by their home institutions.

EDNIE GARRISON’s article, "Contests for the Meaning of 'Third Wave Feminism': Feminism and Popular Consciousness," has been accepted for publication and is in print in "Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration," edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford (Palgrave, 2004). Her article, "Are We On a Wavelength Yet? On Feminist Oceanography, Radios and Third Wave Feminism," has been accepted for publication in "Third Wave Feminism: Collective Action in A New Millennium, edited by Jo Reger (Routledge, forthcoming) and should be out soon. Recently Professor Garrison was invited by guest editor, Michael O'Rourke, to submit an article to the electronic academic journal, Rhizomes, for a special issue on the theories of Deleuze and Guattari and Queer Theory. O'Rourke developed an interest in her work after hearing her presentation at the Women's Studies Network Conference in Dublin. The special issue is slated for the summer of 2005. She presented her paper, "Metaphorical Retunings: Re-Modulating Third Wave Feminist Meaning," at the Feminism Contesting Globalization Conference at the annual meeting of the Women's Studies Association (UK and Ireland), University College Dublin, July 8-10, 2004. Professor Garrison’s article, "Metaphorical Retunings: Remodulating Third Wave Feminist Meaning," was solicited for publication in a special issue of Rhizomes on Deleuze and Guattari and Queer Studies, edited by Michael O’Rourke. The issue will be out in the fall of 2005. Her essay, "Are We On a Wavelength Yet? On Feminist Oceanography, Radios and Third Wave Feminism," is published in Third Wave Feminism: Collective Action in A New Millennium, edited by Jo Reger (Routledge, 2005). Professor Garrison will be giving a presentation at the "GenderQueer/QueerGenders: Conversations Among Artists, Academics, and Activists" conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, February 11-13, 2005. The title of her talk is "Non-Feminine Femme, Or, How Can a Femme Register as Androgynous-Masculine on a Personality Test?" Last fall she presented a paper, "Waving Questions: On Feminist Oceanography, Radio Wavelengths, and Submerged Epistemologies," at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia, November 11-14, 2004.

NANCY GILBERTSON presented a recital of two piano and piano duet music with Kim Gilbertson at Wells College on March 5. The program included music by Polish composer, Witold Lutoslawski, Brian Dykstra who teaches at Wooster College in Ohio, Aaron Copland, Maurice Ravel, and Gabriel Fauré.

SIOUXSIE GRADY will be performing in a comedy as part of the Icarus Theatre Ensemble's "Ilium Theatre Festival" in Ithaca this July. Check www.icarustheatre.com for more information soon.

The Wells’ production of "Stories Told" has been awarded two Roving Adjudicator Merit Awards by Adjudicator Paul Nelson: Excellence in Direction to Siouxsie Grady and Excellence in Ensemble Work and Acting to The Company of "Stories Told." There are three separate categories of Merit Awards as follows: "Outstanding" - To be issued to the whole or part of the whole of a theatrical event or production of a superlative quality rarely witnessed or experienced by the adjudicator. "Excellence" - To be issued to the whole or part of the whole of a theatrical event or production considered by the adjudicator to be of exceptional merit surpassing the norm. "Meritorious Achievement" - To be issued to the whole or part of the whole of a theatrical event or production considered by the adjudicator to be worthy of special recognition. The 2005 TANYS Festival will be November 18, 19, and 20 at Cayuga Community College. Formal presentations of these awards will be held on the 19th, during the TANYS Festival Awards Banquet at Highland Country Club, Auburn. Mr. Nelson commented, "Ms. Grady and her production team were able to weave together an evening of entertainment that was both delightful and truly engaging."

PILAR GREENWOOD’s article "Teatro Chico: Popular Stories for Children’s Performance," which contains her children’s play "Los Tlacuaches y el Coyote," has been accepted for publication by the Journal, CentroMolinos, of Caracas, Venezuela. This work will appear in the Volume II, nº 4 in Fall 2004. On April 24, 2004, Professor Greenwood and a group of five Wells students traveled to Cornell to attend this semester’s production of the Spanish language theater group, Teatrotaller. Produced, directed and enacted by students, most of whom are Latin American or fluent Spanish majors, this year’s play was "Between Villa (Pancho) and a Naked Woman," by the renowned Mexican woman playwright, Sabina Berman. Professor Greenwood presented a paper entitled, "Memoria, Violencia y Teatralidad in "La Fiesta del Chivo," at the III International Conference of the Hispanic Humanities Association, held in Madrid, Spain from July 9-11, 2004. It analyzes the contrasts between Mario Vargas Llosa's novel and the play by the Colombians, Jorge Alí and Verónica Triana by the same title. At this conference Professor Greenwood also chaired the session entitled, "Madrid en el teatro del Siglo de Oro." The conference was co-sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Professor Greenwood’s children’s play, "Los Tlacuaches y el Coyote" (The Prairie Dogs and the Tlacuaches) has been accepted for publication in the Venezuelan journal, Centromolinos, Volume II No 3, November 2004. Her short article entitled, "Teatro Chico: Cuentos multiculturales latinoamericanos, adoptados para el teatro infantile," is also published in the same volume and number of Centromolinos. This information can be accessed electronically by visiting the following website: http//www.infoaragon.net/servicios/ blogs/teatrinviajero/

JILL HILL’s article that she co-authored has been accepted for publication in the journal: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. The title of the article is "A Cultural-Contextual Perspective on the Validity of the MMPI-2 with American Indians." Professor Hill’s paper, "Decolonizing Psychological Assessment: Honoring Indigenous Perspectives and Transforming Scholarship," has been accepted for presentation at the 7th World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE 2005) to be held in Hamilton, New Zealand (Aotearoa) this winter (end of November, beginning of December).

JOSEPH HOFFMANN’s book Julian: Against the Galileans, is published this month and completes a series begun in 1987 on the pagan critiques of Christianity in late antiquity. He has been asked to write the introduction to a new edition of Rudolph Bultmann's "debate" with Karl Jaspers: Myth and Christianity: An Inquiry into the Possibility of Religion Without Myth (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux). Professor Hoffmann chaired the three-day conference of the CSER, "Just War and Jihad: Violence in the Monotheistic Traditions," held at Cornell University, November 5-7, and presented a paper entitled "Positioning the Question of ‘Religious’ Violence." The conference was attended by scholars from universities and colleges across the United States, Canada and the Middle East. http://www.centerforinquiry.net/cser/ He will begin the second year of a three-year term as Chair of CSER in January 2005. The proceedings will be published under the conference title in summer of 2005. On November 10, Professor Hoffmann gave a lecture at the Brooks Museum, SUNY Cortland, entitled "Defining Jerusalem: The Holy City and the Crusader Kingdom" as part of the University’s series on Middle Eastern Culture and Society. On December 2, he addressed the venerable "Thursday Club" at the Aurora Public Library on the subject, "Religious Heroes as Villains." He has also been named to the editorial board of the Journal for Higher Criticism and was appointed in October to the honorary faculty of the Humanist Institute, the leadership training program of the Ethical Culture Society in Manhattan, for Class XII (2002-2005). Professor Hoffmann’s "Jesus, The Defense of Marriage, and Other Intolerable Acts," is the featured article in the April/May 2005 issue of Free Inquiry, in bookstores from April 10. He has been chosen as senior editor by the editorial committee of the Journal for the Scientific Examination of Religion (JSER), a peer-reviewed international quarterly. The journal supersedes the Journal for the Critical Study of Religion (1994-1999).

ETHEL KING-MCKENZIE was invited by The US Affiliate of International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAAACS) to present a paper at the conference to be held in April 2005, at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She will be attending the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Toni Morrison Society to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 14-17, 2005, and the Toni Morrison Summer Workshop to be held from July 9-17 in Kentucky. 

KENT KLITGAARD was invited and accepted the invitation to be come a referee for the Journal, Ecological Economics. Professor Klitgaard was appointed as a Visiting Research Scholar at the New York State College of Environmental Science and Forestry for the Fall 2004 semester. He delivered two papers while on sabbatical leave. "Looking Critically at the Doctrine of Comparative Advantage in the Age of Globalization" was presented at the 57^th Annual Convention of the New York State Economics Association in Ithaca, NY on October 9, 2004; "The Historical Role of Substitution in Theories of Value, Distribution, and Economic Growth" was delivered at the 8^th Biennial Scientific Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics in Montreal, Quebec, on July 13, 2004. Professor Klitgaard presented a paper entitled "Comparative Advantage in the Age of Globalization" at the International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, on February 27.

CYNTHIA J. KOEPP was the outside examiner for an honors senior thesis on the "Historiography of the Enlightenment and French Revolution," that took place at Hobart William Smith Colleges on April 26. She traveled to Paris, France, to deliver a paper at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies that took place from June 16-20. Her talk was entitled "Publishing and Pirating Best-sellers in the 18th century: The Abbé Pluche and His Imitators," and was part of a panel called "Unpacking their Libraries: Marketing Books in France from the Ancient Régime to the Present. Professor Koepp has been invited to give a paper at an international interdisciplinary conference entitled, "Education and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century (1688-1832)," that will take place at Homerton College of Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., September 8-11, 2005.   She will talk about the pedagogy and publishing success of the early French anthropologist Louis-François Jauffret.  Known primarily for his work with deft mute children (notably the Wild Boy of Averyron), Jauffret was also the author of many popular children's books and magazines--several of which were translated and printed by William Godwin and his daughter Mary Godwin (Shelley).  Recently, Professor Koepp learned that she was selected for inclusion in the latest edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers that appeared in October 2004.

LINDA LOHN’s paper, "Lesbian Detective Agency: Toward an Epistemology of Empathy in the Works of Katherine V. Forrest" has been accepted for presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's annual conference in November.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO participated in the Advanced Placement Services as a reader of politics and government held at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, on June 10-17, 2004. In June he also taught a course in the Summer Program at Cornell University (Department of City and Regional Planning). The course number was CRP 395.01/679.01 with a Special Topic: "Japan’s Development Policy Toward Africa." Professor Lumumba-Kasongo co-chaired the International Conference of the 30th Anniversary of the African Association of Political Science on the theme, "Africa’s Responses to the Challenges of Conflict and Governance: A Decade of Expectations." The conference was held on June 30-July 2, in Yaounde, Cameroon. At this conference, he also served as a Discussant on the panel, "Round Table: Mission and History of AAPS: AAPS as Progressive Social Science Organization," and chaired the panel, "Conflicts in the Great Lakes Region of Africa." As a member of the Executive Committee of the AAPS, he attended its Executive Committee meeting held during the conference. In August, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo published an article, "The Saga of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Resistance and Hopes in Reconstructing a Cold War Watchdog and a Peripheral Post-Colonial State in the Great Lakes Region of Africa," in ThisDay, the first National Daily Newspaper in South Africa, which is published in Johannesburg. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo reviewed Margaret C. Lee's book entitled, The Political Economy of Regionalism in Southern Africa, Cape Town, South Africa: University of Capetown Press and Boulder, Co, U.S.A: Lynner Rienner Publishers, 2003; 314 pages, with Appendixes, Indexes, and References; paperback. The extensive review was published in the Journal of African and Asian Studies 3.3-4 (2004). Professor Lumumba-Kasongo, since September 2004, has accepted the invitation to serve as a Member of Scientific Committee of the Revue Camerounaise de Sociologie et Anthropologie published by Presses Universitaires de Yaoundé in Cameroon. Upon the invitation of the Chair of the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo served as a reviewer of the dossier of one faculty member (Department of Politics) for tenure and promotion in January 2005. He was invited to be the keynote speaker of the Central New York Model United Nations (CNYMUN) Conference held on January 7, 2005, in the Shine Student Center at Syracuse University. The topic of the talk he delivered was " Reflections on New and Future African Development Policies and the UN's Role in these Policies." Professor Lumumba-Kasongo’s article, "Rethinking Pan-Africanism in the Search for Social Progress," has been published in Global Dialogue, Volume 6. Number 3-4 (Summer/ Autumn 2004). The journal is published by Centre for World Dialogue in Cyprus.

LAURA J. MCCLUSKY presented a paper at the Union for Democratic Communications conference on April 23, 2004, in St. Louis, Missouri. The paper was titled, "Automobile Advertising vs. Bicycle Rights: The Motorist's Mindset in The War on Sustainability." In February 2004, Professor McClusky presented a paper at the Eastern Sociological Society conference in New York City. The paper was titled: "Why Critical Mass?: Understanding Bicycle Activism." The National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs asked Professor McClusky to write a "program spotlight" article about the Activist Symposium in March 2005 for their newsletter "Concepts and Connections." This newsletter is read by administrators and faculty who are interested in developing programs that encourage student leadership. The article was published in the December issue of the newsletter. The Symposium is getting attention outside of Wells!

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL presented her paper, "Struggling to Survive: Women's Colleges Since the 1960s," at the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco on August 15. It was part of a session entitled, Sociology of Education: Gender and Schooling. Professor Miller-Bernal presided at a session at the New York State Sociological Association at the State University of New York at Oswego on October 8. The session combined two original sessions on technology and the information age, and political sociology. At the same meetings, a Wells student, Amy Truax '07, sponsored by Professor Miller-Bernal, was awarded the undergraduate student prize for the paper she presented, "Prostitution in the United States: Victimless Crime or Oppressive Force of the Patriarchy?" Her book, Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in Formerly Men’s Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, co-edited with Susan L. Poulson (Vanderbilt University Press, 2004) was reviewed in the Teachers College Record, Vol. 107, Number 8, 2005. She attended the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) from March 17-20, 2005, in Washington DC. As Chair of the ESS’s Publications Committee, Professor Miller-Bernal attended the Executive Council meeting, arranged for officers and committee members to meet with potential publishers of the ESS’s journal, Sociological Forum, and chaired one of the two annual meetings of the committee. 

VICTORIA MUÑOZ was an invited speaker at the Conference on Gender, Ethnicity & Sexuality: Daughters of the Motherland Speak, at Stony Brook University on April 14, 2004. She presented her paper entitled, "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Drag Queen Scorned": Sylvia Rivera and Latina Identity." The conference focused on cross-cultural presentations on the ways in which young women adapt and negotiate issues and concerns of gender and sexuality in the United States. In December, Professor Muñoz gave a talk and workshop on Latina identity titled, "Fabulous Resistance: Carmen Miranda, Sylvia Rivera, and Latinidad," for the Latina Alumnae Conference at Mount Holyoke College. Her paper titled, "Fabulous Resistance: Carmen Miranda, Sylvia Rivera, and Queer Latinidad" has been accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the National Women's Studies Association.

NIAMH O' LEARY and THOMAS VAWTER are collaborating scientists on a Smith- Lever grant recently awarded to Linda Wagenet and Nancy Trautman from Cornell University. The title of the grant is "Watershed Education and Professional Practice: Building Collaborations among Students, Teachers, Scientists and Planners".

During her fall 2004 sabbatical leave, NIAMH O' LEARY spent three months as a Visiting Scientist and Professor at Buffalo State College's Great Lakes Center. Research activities at the Great Lakes Center led to the submission of "Seasonal and Event-Scale Patterns of Solute Exports from a Glaciated Forested Watershed" by Inamdar, O' Leary, Mitchell and Riley to the journal Hydrological Processes in December 2004. "Assessing Water Quality Using Two Taxonomic Levels of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Analysis: Implications for Volunteer Monitors" by O' Leary, Vawter, Wagenet and Pfeffer appeared in the December 2004 issue of the Journal of Freshwater Ecology, and "Uncovering Corn Adaptation to Intercrop with Bean by Selecting for System Yield in the Intercrop Environment" by O' Leary and Smith appeared in the fall 2004 issue of the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. In October, Professor O’Leary delivered an invited talk entitled "Food for the Future: Developing Crops for a New, More Sustainable Agriculture" to the Association for Continuing Education at Case Western Reserve University. She attended the American Water Resource Association's summer specialty conference on riparian ecosystems and buffers in Tahoe, California, and also the "New Tools, Techniques and Approaches in Watershed Management" conference sponsored by the Finger Lakes-Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance in Geneva, New York, in November. She has also begun a term as Chair of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network's Community Outreach Committee.

ERNEST OLSON presented the poster "Experiential and Service Learning in Local and Global Contexts: Teaching Anthropology and Engagement in Hawaii and Central New York" at the AAC&U Pedagogies of Engagement Conference held in Chicago. On April 24, Professor Olson presented a paper "The Ethnographer's Focus and the Matrifocal Space in Tongan Community and Congregation" for "Language/Ethnography: A Colloquium in Honor of Professor Susan U. Philips" held at the University of Arizona. 

In May VICTOR PENNIMAN’s dissertation was approved by his committee. On September 27, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, entitled, "La Lyre d'Orfeo: A Practical Manual of Technique and Performance Practice for the Lirone," (pronounced "lee-roh'-nay), thus completing his Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University School of Music, Early Music Institute.

During the 2003-04 academic year, LAURA PURDY published an encyclopedia article,  "Sexism," Stephen G. Post, Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3^rd edition. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. Two other articles were also published:  "Should We Add ‘Xeno’ to ‘Transplantation?’" Politics and the Life Sciences, Vol. 19, no. 2 (September 2, 2004), 247-59; "The Politics of Preventing Premature Death," Public Health Policy and Ethics, ed. Michael Boylan, Kluwer, 2004. Professor Purdy’s article titled "Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral?" originally published in Intervention and Reflection, ed. Ronald Munson, 4th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1995) has been reprinted in Should Parents Be Licensed, ed. Peg Tittle (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 2004). She has also made the following presentations:

 "Politics and Beyond: Medicalization and Women’s Reproductive Decisions," NYSWIP, New York City, October 3, 2003.

 "The Politics of Preventing Premature Death," Program on Ethics & Public Life, Cornell University, October 29, 2003.

 "Women’s Reproductive Autonomy: Medicalization and Beyond," Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, UNC Charlotte, April 1, 2004.

"The Politics of Preventing Premature Death," Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, UNC Charlotte, April 1, 2004.

"Women’s Reproductive Autonomy: Medicalization and Beyond," Peace College, Raleigh, NC, April 5, 2004. She also made two class visits to the senior ethics seminar.

Professor Purdy’s article, "Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral?" is to be reprinted in Portuguese, in an edited collection whose English title is Contemporary Feminist Bioethics. Brasilia: LetrasLivres Publishing, forthcoming 2004. It will also be reprinted in the 6th edition of Mappes and deGrazia, Biomedical Ethics, McGraw Hill, 2005. Professor Purdy, as a Lincoln Visiting Scholar, presented a paper entitled, "The Politics of Preventing Premature Death," at the Lincoln Center for Ethics, Arizona State University on October 4, 2004. She also visited the Bioethics class and presented a lecture and led a discussion on "Loving Future People."

SARAH ROBERTS, MARGOT ECKE and TERRENCE CHOUINARD exhibited work last month at Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery. The exhibit entitled 'Image/Word: The Intersection of Art and Literature' included WCP books & broadsides as well as independent work by each of the Victor Hammer Fellows, including Jocelyn Webb. In addition Margot Ecke and Terrence Chouinard gave gallery talks on September 16. 

SARAH ROBERTS currently has work on exhibit at the Fifth Biennial Book Arts Exhibition at the ES Bird Library, Syracuse University.

Two of WILLIAM ROBERTS; watercolor paintings were part of an invitational exhibit at St. David’s Church in Dewitt, New York. The title of the show was " The 34th Celebration of the Arts, a Visual and Performing Gift to the Community". Professor Roberts exhibited his paintings and drawings at Delavan Gallery in Syracuse during June; The Noble Horse 2004, in New Woodstock, New York, during July; at the Sola' Gallery in Ithaca from September 10 through the 30th. His solo exhibition, entitled " Birds and Horses" included 15 new watercolor, goauche and tempera studies. His publications included the Saratoga Sketchbook in the Syracuse Post Standard, eight entries from July 27 through September 12; and the Saratoga Special, Saratoga Springs, five drawings, in the September 5 and 6 issues. Professor Roberts photographed the Genesee Valley Hunt Cup races for Steeplechase Times and the Chronicle of the Horse on October 9. Professor Roberts attended the Breeders' Cup races in Grand Prairie, Texas, on October 30 for the Syracuse Post Standard. His Breeders' Cup Sketchbook appeared in the Post Standard on Sunday October 30. He is currently exhibiting 13 new paintings at the Delavan Gallery in Syracuse. The exhibit runs from November 4 through the 27th.

JACLYN SCHNURR co-authored a paper that has been accepted for publication in Ecoscience: Tripler, C.E., C.D. Canham, R.S. Inouye and J.L. Schnurr, "Competitive hierarchies of temperate tree species: interactions between resource availability and white-tailed deer." Professor Schnurr submitted a grant titled, "Impacts of Urban Environments on Tree Recruitment and Potential Implications for Forest Community Dynamics," to the National Science Foundation, along with colleagues Margaret Carreiro and Chris Tripler from the University of Louisville.

CAROL SHILEPSKY has been named to the Board of Directors of Digicomp Research. Digicomp is a software development firm established in 1975 in Ithaca, New York. She has consulted with them for the past twenty years on projects that include avionics software for military helicopters, hardware/software for air surveillance systems, expert systems for adaptive radar control, safety analysis for submarine weapons control software, and an analysis of GIS needs for a major electric and gas utility.

CAROL AND ARNOLD SHILEPSKY are among the inventors listed on Patent 6,820,062, Product Information System, which was issued on November 16, 2004, by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The invention uses artificial intelligence to present advertising and product information to grocery shoppers, based on shopper choices and history.

Each January, the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES Talented and Gifted Committee hosts mini-courses for area students in grades 5 to 8. Every student selects two courses, each of which lasts two days. This year THOMAS STIADLE taught four such courses, the maximum possible. He offered two sections of "Where Are All the Aliens" and two sections of "Platonic Solids." Among other things, students built models, generated group oral presentations, learned about exponential growth and the geometry of trees, and calculated simple probabilities. 

JELENA STOJANOVIC attended two conferences in February. The first conference entitled, "Cold War France and America, New Perspectives," was organized by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University, February 3-5. She presented a paper, which is a part of her ongoing research, on a Parisian postwar avant-garde journal  Potlatch. The second was the College Art Association's annual conference in Atlanta, February 16-19. She was a co-chair on a two-session panel entitled "Colonization of Everydayness: Cold War Histories." Professor Stojanovic recently returned from Belgrade (Serbia) where she curated and organized the exhibition entitled, "'The Realism of Petar Dobrovic" for the Museum of Modern Art in Belgrade. The show opened April 2 and will remain open for public viewing for a month. Petar Dobrovic (1890-1942) was a realist painter, very active in Europe (Paris, Budapest, Belgrade) in the thirties. The show examines different aspects of his realist pictorial work and includes more than hundred paintings, drawings, documentary photographs spanning almost thirty years of his very rich and impressive artistic activity.

On March 11, 2005, SUSAN TALBOT spoke at the Southern Cayuga Central School District Staff Development Day. Her topic was "Keeping Your Passion Without Losing Your Faculties." On March 30, she addressed 250 women employed by area correctional facilities at the Elmira Hub Training Day for Women in Criminal Justice. The topic was "Mentoring From the Heart."

On March 28, CRAWFORD THOBURN and members of the Wells Concert Choir traveled to Worcester, Massachusetts, to participate in a combined performance with singers from the Smith and Mt. Holyoke choirs, and the Worcester Tech Men's Glee Club and Orchestra in a performance of Mozart's "Requiem," conducted by John Delorey of Worcester Tech. Also participating in the performance were alumni of all of these institutions, and the occasion was a tribute to Professor Louis Curran of Worcester Tech, long-time conductor of the Glee Club, who is retiring this year. The concert also marked the 30^th anniversary of musical collaborations between Worcester Tech and Wells, and in observance of this, Professor Thoburn was made an honorary member of the Worcester Tech Glee Club. Mark Foster Music, Inc. has accepted for publication Professor Thoburn’s original composition for unaccompanied mixed voices entitled, "The Starry Stranger," a setting of a text by the 17th century English poet Richard Crashaw. He has been informed that his biography is to be included in the 59^th edition of Marquis' "Who's Who In The United States" to be published in 2005. On November 5, Professor Thoburn represented his undergraduate alma mater, Allegheny College, at the installation of Nancy Cantor as the eleventh and first woman Chancellor of Syracuse University. One of his arrangements, a setting for mixed voices of the English carol, "The Holly And The Ivy," published by The Concordia Publishing House, is being performed as part of a graduate conducting recital at the Southwest Missouri State University in November. An article, with picture, about his listing in the 59th edition of "Who's Who In America" appeared in the November issue of "The American Organist," the national journal of the American Guild of Organists. On, December 4, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, under the direction of Professor Thoburn, presented a concert at the Morgan Opera House as a part of the "Christmas In Aurora" celebration. On December 5, the college choral ensembles presented their annual Holiday Concert in Barler Recital Hall. The audience contributed a sizeable amount of canned and dried food, which has been donated to the Cayuga-Seneca Food Pantry. Creator Magazine selected an original choral composition by Professor Thoburn for inclusion in a compilation of "Simply the Best: Honored Anthems" of 1986-2004. The editorial board of the interdenominational church music journal chose a few anthems issued in each year which they believed made a significant and unique contribution to church choral music. According to the journal, these appealing and finely crafted pieces "should grace the folders of every choir." Included in this group was Professor Thoburn's setting for mixed voices of the medieval poem "A Lovely Rose Is All My Song" published by Carl Fischer. His original composition, "A Psalm of Praise," for mixed voices with organ accompaniment, was selected for performance during a reading session by the National Committee on Music in Worship of the American Choral Directors Association at the recent ACDA National Convention in Los Angeles during February 2005. This large-scale work, a setting of poetry by the 17^th century writer Richard Baxter, was commissioned by the Choir of Trinity Episcopal Church of Watertown, New York, and is published by Mark Foster Music, Inc.

MUIN UDDIN was a participant in The Cato Institute's 22^nd Annual Monetary Conference Cosponsored with The Economist, entitled "International Monetary Reform and Capital Freedom", held at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 2004. Professor Uddin was an invited delegate at the International Educators Workshop and Conference organized by the Denmark’s International Study (DIS) Program, held in Denmark and Sweden during November 30 – December 4, 2004. The meetings covered a variety of topics including global business environment and strategy, international politics and foreign policy, immigration and integration, health care in Europe, socioeconomic and cultural affairs, and a host of other contemporary issues. On November 30, Professor Uddin participated in several sessions including "Current Issues in Danish and International Politics" held at the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) in Copenhagen, "Living with the Danes: Practical and Cultural Issues" held at DIS, and "Denmark Today: Danish Political System, Culture and Society, and Foreign Policy" held at the University of Copenhagen. On December 1, he was a participant and discussant for a session, entitled, "Environmental Business Strategy and Sustainable Development" held at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) in University of Lund, Sweden. On December 2 and 3, Professor Uddin participated in sessions and roundtable discussions entitled, "Immigration, Integration and Danish Identity," "The Enlargement of the EU: The Copenhagen Negotiations," "Communicating Across Borders: Intercultural Communication," "Migration and Minorities in Europe," "Health Care in Scandinavia," and "DIS’ Identity: Institutional, Academic, Pedagogical." As director of Wells’ study-abroad program at DIS, Professor Uddin acquired first-hand knowledge and understanding about the academic programs, quality assurance system, and pedagogical aspects of DIS as a result of his weeklong on-site attendance at the conference.

THOMAS VAWTER once again joined the faculty of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University this past summer as a Visiting Professor and taught his course, "Ecology and the Environment."   In addition, he was re-appointed in that department, part time, as a visiting fellow.

The Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy granted CHRISTINA WAHL $750 to attend Capitol Hill Day in Washington in June. She met with staffers of Senators Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton, and Barbara Mikulski, and also the Senior Policy Director of the House Committee on Science, chaired by Representative Sherwood Boehlert. Professor Wahl’s task was to inform the members of the serious imbalance in the President's Council on Bioethics, which currently has no scientists. She also spoke with them about the importance of stem cell research and discussed the consequences of reducing public spending on health care research in favor of increasing reliance on private sector funding. 
 

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