ARTHUR BELLINZONI spoke on "The Early Christian Community: From Diversity to Unity to Orthodoxy" at the First Friday Forum in Houston, Texas, on May 7 under the sponsorship of the Rothko Chapel, the Maryknoll Education Center, Pax Christi-Houston, and Christ the King Lutheran Church.
WALTRAUT DEINERT hosted the Central New York American Association of Teachers of German on the Wells campus on Saturday, April 17, 1999. A workshop on "Foreign Language Learning with the Total Body Response Method" was given by the consultant for the Goethe Institute in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. German instructors from upstate New York high schools and colleges participated.
NAN DIBELLO visited Doshisha Women's College during March on behalf of Wells College. She met with the director, faculty, and staff of the International Center, as well as the Doshisha student who will be attending Wells during the 1999-2000 academic year.
MICHAEL GROTH delivered a paper entitled, "DeRomanticizing African-American Life in the Early Republic: The Struggle to Build a Free African-American Community in Dutchess County, New York, 1790-1820," at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Toronto during late April. The paper was part of a panel he organized entitled, "New Perspective on Antebellum African-American Communities."
CYNTHIA KOEPP chaired a session at a three-day colloquium entitled, "Corporations et Corporatisme dans la societé française, 18e-20e siècle," sponsored by the French Studies Program at Cornell University and the University of Lilli-III in Ithaca on April 28. On March 18, she participated in a panel entitled, "Labor and Its Representations in France, 1750-1930," at the Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. On August 5, 1998, Professor Koepp presented a lecture on "Interdisciplinary Readings of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," at the New Vision Summer Conference at Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, New York. One goal of this conference was to develop an interdisciplinary curriculum for New York State high school students planning careers in biology and health sciences.
TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the Organizers of the New York State Annual Conference, held on the campus of the New York State University at Oswego on April 17, 1999, to chair the panel on "War and Politics in Africa." He also presented a paper on "Conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa." On May 6-8, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo participated in the 53rd Annual Conference of the New York State Political Science Association as Chair and Discussant of two panels: (1) "Social Movements and Organizations;" and (2) "Supranationalism in Post-Cold War Europe." The conference was held on the campus of St. John's University, Jamaica, New York.
LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL reviewed a forthcoming publication, A Closer Look at Women's Colleges, at the request of Irene Harwarth of the National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning of the United States Department of Education. She also gave an invited talk in the "brown-bag" series of the Women's Studies Program at Cornell University on April 19 entitled, "Making Coeducation Equal Education: What Can We Learn from Women's Colleges?"
VICTORIA MUÑOZ has had her manuscript, "Jumping El Charco and Other Acrobatics of Puerto Ricannes," accepted for publication in the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. JCT publishes original refereed articles related to the study of curriculum that challenge disciplinary, genre, and textual boundaries.
NIAMH O'LEARY worked with Judy Pipher from the University of Rochester to organize and host the first annual open forum of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network held at Wells College on May 1. Approximately 100 people from around the region attended. Presentations on watershed-related issues were given by Professors Tom Vawter and Kent Klitgaard and members of the USGS and Cayuga County Soil and Water Conservation Service. The presentations were followed by an open panel discussion. The Cayuga Lake Watershed Network is a community-based organization that advocates for a healthy and sustainable Cayuga Lake Watershed.
CAROL SHILEPSKY served as faculty advisor for the Mathematical Contest in Modeling sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications, February 5-8, 1999. Wells' team, consisting of Thy Bui, Jennifer Ellsworth, and Siu Lan Zhang, received honorable mention for the paper, "You Don't Really Want to Get Out of a Burning Building, Do You? A Linear Optimization Model of Maximum Room Capacity."
BIRD STASZ and Charles Temple of Hobart and William Smith Colleges gave a day-long presentation entitled, "Approaching Multicultural Education through Oral History, Children's Books and Writing Workshops," for the Open Society Institute-Institute for Educational Policy Budapest. The conference entitled, "Mulitcultural Education: Policy, Planning and Sharing," was held in Dobogoko, Hungary. Participants represented 15 countries and 30 OSI foundations. The purpose of the conference was to explore ways to implement recent policy that targets education of minority pupils, especially Roma, as a priority for all foundations in the region.
CHRISTOPHER STURR attended the Mid-South Philosophy Conference at the University of Memphis, in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 5 and 6. He presented a paper entitled, "Social Externalism and the Theory of Ideology." He also commented on a paper presented by Charles Lowney of Boston University entitled, "A Social Call for Metaphysical Philosophy."
The Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, conducted by CRAWFORD THOBURN, presented a concert at the Church of the Assumption in Syracuse, assisted by organist Glenn Armstrong, on May 2. Featured on the program were works by Byrd, Bach, Händel, and the Misa Brevis, op.61 by Benjamin Britten. Student soloists were singers Laura Ferrel, Kristina Rosney, Mary Elizabeth Smith, and Michelle Trickey, and cellist Susan Kenderdine. On May 6, the choral ensembles presented their final concert of the semester in Barler Recital Hall, accompanied by pianist Nancy Gilbertson. In addition to most of the works programmed in Syracuse, the Chamber Singers sang several German and English Renaissance partsongs, and the Choir performed three Hungarian folksongs by Mattyas Seiber and Halsey Steven's setting of Psalm 98.
Simon and Schuster has requested permission to reprint one of the chapters from JENNY YATES' book on The Near-Death Experience. She will be speaking to the Jung Society in Syracuse on May 20 and to the Cleveland, Ohio, Jung Society on May 21.
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