BRUCE BENNETT
has poems published in Hummingbird and Knocking on the Silence, the new FootHills Anthology of poems about the Finger Lakes. He is reading his poetry on September 13 at the Seneca Falls Public Library.
CATHERINE BURROUGHS taught two courses at Cornell University this past summer--one on the personal essay and the other on dramatic literature. This latter course was for rising seniors in high school from New York City, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Houston who received scholarships acknowledging their scholastic achievement. In August she presented a paper entitled, "'The Father Fostered at His Daughter's Breast': Fanny Kemble and The Grecian Daughter," at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) in Montreal. Her paper was part of a special session that she organized called "The Erotics of Home: Staging Sexual Fantasy in Romantic Women's Writing." She published the following article, "Teaching Women Playwrights from the British Romantic Period (1780-1840)," in Teaching British Women Writers, 1750-1900, edited by Jeanne Moskal and Shannon Wooden (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. 140-149). In addition, Texas A&M University Press has under review her manuscript, America's First "Peace-Keepers": Letters Between Mother and Son During the Pre-Korean War Conflict (1946-1948).
CANDACE COLLMER was an invited participant at a Gene Ontology (GO) Annotation Workshop held at Stanford University, June 1-4, 2005. The focus of the workshop was to provide hands-on experience at assigning the appropriate information (i.e. the correct GO terms) to specific genes based on published experiments in the literature. Members of the Gene Ontology Consortium and expert annotators from different genome projects (e.g. mouse, Drosophila, yeast) facilitated the workshop.
PILAR GREENWOOD presented a paper at the XXV ALDEEU Conference, which took place in Burgos, Spain, in July 5-9, 2005. Celebrating the linguistic origins of the Spanish language and in collaboration with the "Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua," the conference was a forum for the discussion of linguistic and literary perspectives. Professor Greenwood’s paper, entitled "Más versado en desdichas: Cervantes y la locura de los críticos" ("Acquainted with Controversy: Cervantes and the Critics’ Folly") dealt with the history of literary criticism involving Cervantes’ masterpiece. On April 23, 2005, Professor Greenwood also participated in an international conference organized by the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University in honor of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Don Quixote, Part I. She read a paper contrasting XVIth century and current perceptions of Cervantes as an author.
JEANNE GODDARD began her sabbatical activities in October 2004 with a master class at Hobart and William Smith Colleges entitled, "Space Harmony Applications in Repertory Work." In January 2005 she created movement workshops and full chorus, and lead choreography for the Tri-Cities Opera production of Purcell’s "Dido and Aeneas," with three performances at the Forum Center for the Performing Arts in Binghamton, New York. In March 2005 Professor Goddard performed a concert of repertory work with baritone Steven Stull and pianist George Damp at the First Presbyterian Church, Ithaca, New York. Her review of Janice Ross’s book, Moving Lessons was published in the March issue of the Journal of Dance Education. She also premiered a dance monologue, performed to Ithaca composer Mark Simon’s "Philosopher’s Rag," in a benefit concert for Carol Buckley at the Congregational Church, Ithaca, New York. In May, Professor Goddard showed two solo works, "Sovra balze" and "Lascia ch’io pianga" in the Ithaca Choreographers’ Showcase at the Community School of Music and Arts, Ithaca, New York. She also began consultations with June Finch for the revival of Finch’s children’s musical, "Phoebe and the Pheasant" in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
June saw Professor Goddard teaching her annual six-week series of modern dance and repertory classes at the CRS Barn Studio, Ithaca, New York. She also co-produced two new music-for-dance albums, with pianist William Moulton of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and with John White of the Ithaca College School of Music. The John White Album will be released on September 15. In July, Professor Goddard co-conceived and co-produced (with Steven Stull) "The Handel Project," a spectacular outdoor evening of Handel arias at the CRS Barn Studio in Ithaca. She created choreography and staging for nine dancers, seven singers, and two instrumentalists, one of whom was Assistant Professor of Music Victor Penniman. Set design was by Wells Lecturer in Theatre, Robert DiGiacinto, and Steven Stull. August 2005 took Professor Goddard back to the Cape for rehearsals and performances with June Finch/Danceworks. The production, at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, included Finch’s 2004 work, "Nightwatch," as well as the children’s musical, "Phoebe and the Pheasant," in which Goddard played the leading role. Finally, Professor Goddard conceived and co-produced "Re:Cycling," a multidisciplinary performance event at the CRS Barn Studio, Ithaca, New York. Structured improvisations on the lawn and in the studio involved fourteen feisty, independent dancers, three musicians, and enormous pile of paper and plastic. The production included Goddard’s choreography as well as works by colleagues from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and from Ithaca, one of whom was Wells alumna Margaret Irving ’04.
JOSEPH HOFFMANN co-authored the application that led to the Center for Inquiry’s unanimous acceptance as an NGO by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The Center has been granted "special consultative status" which entitles it to designate official representatives to UN headquarters in New York and UN offices in Geneva and Vienna. He participated in the SUNY/CFI summer honors college at SUNY Buffalo, co-teaching the course, "Sex and the Holy City" with Professor Joyce Salisbury
(University of Wisconsin). Professor Hoffmann taught a "parents' class" at Wells Warm-Up, "Just War and Jihad: Theories of Violent Action in Christianity and Islam." His article "The Violent Bear it Away: The ‘Totalizing Imperative’ as a Source of Religious Violence in Islam" was accepted for publication in Faith and Freedom: the Journal of Liberal Religion (Manchester College, Oxford). Following the July 7 bombings in London, he was invited by the editors to join a consultation of religion scholars commenting on the incident, to be published in January. Professor Hoffmann was commissioned in June to write four articles for the New Interpreters Bible, on "Marcion," "Marcionism," "New Testament Canon," and "Christianity, Early Pagan Opposition to." He wrote the introduction to a new edition of Karl Jaspers' and Rudof Bultmann's Myth and Christianity (NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005).
THEODORE LOSSOWSKI has his multimedia sculptures on exhibit in the String Room Gallery from September 7 through October 6.
TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO’s book, Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa: Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress, was published by United Kingdom, London: Zed Books, July 15, 2005. His article, "International Interventionism, Democracy, and Peace-Building in the Great Lakes of Africa: A Regional Perspective to Challenges," was published in African and Asian Studies, Volume 4, No. 1-2. (Special Issue, 2005). Professor Lumumba-Kasongo participated in the Advanced Placement Program as a reader of Government and Politics, which was held on June 10-19, 2005, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. He renewed his contract for two more years (2005-07) as A Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (CICE), Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan.
The Education Program Team, ETHEL KING-MCKENZIE, SUSAN TALBOT, and SUSAN WANSOR will be making a presentation at the Sociology Conference to be held at Wells College on October 14 and 15, 2005. The working title of their presentation is, "Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century and Beyond: Focus on Diversity and Social Justice."
LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL presented her paper, "Women’s Colleges Since the 1960s: Responses to the Challenges of Coeducation," at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, June 2-5, 2005, at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Her paper was part of a panel, Women's Colleges in a Coed Era, formed on the basis of her forthcoming book, co-edited with Susan Poulson.
MILENE MORFEI attended the annual meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in New Orleans, Louisiana, during January 2005.
VICTORIA MUÑOZ delivered a talk, "Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: When Sex Changes So Can Desire," which presented findings of the Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation study (GISO) at the XVII World Congress of Sexology Montréal, Québec, Canada, in July 2005 as part of the symposium, "Sexual Orientation." Professor Muñoz also presented the paper, "Carmen Miranda, Sylvia Rivera, and Queer Latinidad" at the annual National Women's Studies Association conference, Orlando, Florida, in June 2005.
NIAMH O' LEARY was invited to participate in an Oxford Round Table conference at the University of Oxford, Oxford, England in August. The topic of the conference was "Globalization in the 21st Century." Professor O' Leary was also recognized for the second time by the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network for her contributions to that organization. She is currently Chair of the Network's Community Outreach Committee.
VICTOR PENNIMAN performed bi- and tri-weekly with his new group, Kh’mi, throughout the summer to the present in Syracuse, Auburn and Cortland, New York (go to
