A special issue of PAINTBRUSH magazine, entitled "The World of Bruce Bennett," and devoted to BRUCE BENNETT’s work, was published this week. The issue features several previously unpublished poems by Professor Bennett, an extended interview, and essays on his poetry by a number of writers, including X. J. Kennedy, Leslie Norris, Stan Sanvel Rubin,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.

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."

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.

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. 

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.

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.

KENT KLITGAARD was invited and accepted the invitation to be come a referee for the Journal, Ecological Economics. 

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.

LAURA J. MCCLUSKY presented a paper at the Union for Democratic Communications conference on April 23 in St. Louis, Missouri. The paper was titled, "Automobile Advertising vs. Bicycle Rights: The Motorist's Mindset in The War on Sustainability." In February, 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."

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.

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".

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. 

VICTOR PENNIMAN’s dissertation has been approved by his committee. His defense date will be set for early fall 2004.

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".

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.
 

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