BRUCE BENNETT conducted a poetry workshop, sponsored by Friends of the Library, at the Steele Memorial Library, Elmira, New York, on October 6. His chapbook, WERE I TO TELL YOU, with drawings by William Roberts, and broadside of his poem, “Calligraphy,” also with a drawing by Professor Roberts, were published by the Wells College Press on September 19 to commemorate Professor Roberts’ Thirty Year Retrospective. Professor Bennett’s sonnet, “The True Story of Snow White,” was published in The Penguin Book of the Sonnet.
CANDACE COLLMER was selected to attend a two-week summer institute at Dartmouth College in June 2001 on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project. Twenty faculty members from diverse disciplines across the United States and Brazil worked together on a wide range of timely issues. The wealth of resources from the Dartmouth Bioethics Institute is available to Professors Collmer and Purdy as they work together to plan their new course on this topic for spring semester, 2002. Professor Collmer is being featured in Project Kaleidoscope's 2000-2001 Annual Report as a successful alumnae of a PKAL-sponsored, NSF-supported, weeklong Faculty Leadership Institute held in Boca, Colorado, in June 1997.
WALTRAUT DEINERT accompanied a group of Wells students to the Cornell weekend sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Studies Department. The lectures and discussions took place on Sept. 22-23. This year's topic was: Tradition and Transitions: Appropriations of German Thought and Culture.
PILAR GREENWOOD was invited to contribute an article on aspects of Spanish language and culture for the Bulletin of the Annual Fair in the town of Herencia (Ciudad Real), Spain. Her article entitled, “On the Uses of Hyphenated Last Names Among Medieval Frontier Settlers,” (Sobre los apellidos de los herencianos”) was published in the September 2001 issue of the Bulletin.
LAURA MCCLUSKY’s book Here, Our culture Is Hard: Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize, was published by University of Texas Press (and is available at Long library). On October 12, she presented a paper entitled "Indigenous and The Media: Trivializing Sustainable Lifeways" at the Learning Sustainability Conference in Buffalo, New York.
NIAMH O' LEARY represented the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and the Wells College Environmental Studies Program in a panel discussion following a screening of "The Waterkeepers" at the Cornell Center for the Environment's film festival. She also recently coordinated the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network's annual outreach event, "Lakefest".
JENNY YATES is giving a paper entitled, “On the Pulse of Mourning,” at meeting of Jungian analysts from the United States and Canada in Montreal this weekend.
BOOK ARTS CENTER
The special edition of Welford
Taylor’s book, The Woodcut Art of J. J. Lankes (originally published
in 1999 by David Godine) was published in September. Its author,
Welford Taylor, delivered a lecture on J. J. Lankes on September 19 to
celebrate the Wells Press edition. Professor Taylor’s lecture was
entitled, “Wells (Re)Visited.
Jim and Lydie Haenlin
were awarded a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for their
translation of the poems of Senegalese poet Amadou Lamine Sall. Wells
College Press will publish the Haenlins’ translation in a book this coming
spring.
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