BRUCE 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 The interview has been archived on the station’s website.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.

SARA 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.

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.

JOSEPH HOFFMANN 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).

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.

On September 27, VICTOR PENNIMAN 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.

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.

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.
 

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