BRUCE BENNETT gave a reading of his poetry at the Canastota Public Library on October 22 as part of the library’s "100^th Anniversary Poetry Reading Series."

TERRENCE CHOUINARD represented the Wells Book Arts Center at the recent Guild of Bookworkers Standards in Excellence Meeting held in Denver, Colorado. Also of note, Mr. Chouinard and NANCY GIL produced over 500 posters for the State Theatre of Ithaca promoting last Friday's sold out performance by Gillian Welch.

NICK DAVIS has been elected President of the Board of Directors of 7th Art Corporation, the non-profit organization that manages and oversees Ithaca's two arthouse cinemas, Cinemapolis and Fall Creek Pictures. He will also be an invited speaker at this month's QGrad 2003 Queer Studies Conference at UCLA, presenting a paper entitled "Citizen Haynes, or Theses on a Philosophy of Queer History." The paper is a reading of Todd Haynes' film "Velvet Goldmine" through the lenses of Kierkegaard's philosophy, Benjamin's historicist aesthetics, and the formal influences of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane."

SARA FRENCH was a workshop presenter at the Attending to Early Modern Women Conference at the University of Maryland from November 6-8. The interdisciplinary workshop, entitled, "Commemorative Labors: Women and the Construction of Monuments," was co-chaired by Michelle Dowd of Fordham University and Susan Comilang of George Washington University. Elena Napolitano '02, now in the graduate program in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture and Professor French’s former student, also attended the conference.

EDNIE GARRISON’s article, "Contests for the Meaning of 'Third Wave Feminism': Feminism and Popular Consciousness," has been solicited for publication in Third Wave Feminism: a Critical Exploration, edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie and Rebecca Munford (Palgrave). Her article, "Are We On a Wavelength Yet?: On Feminist Oceanography, Radios and Third Wave Feminism," has been solicited for publication in TheTthird Wave: Questions and Complexities for Feminists in the 21st Century, edited by Jo Reger.

SIOUXSIE GRADY is pleased to announce the following Merit Awards by the Theatre Association of New York State for the Wells production of "Anton in Show Business." The show was adjudicated by Paul Nelson. Formal presentations of these awards will be held at Festival 2003 in November.

Excellence in Direction and Production Concept Execution to Siouxsie Grady, Joe DeForest and Robert N. Bernard; Excellence in Acting to Whitney Sampson for her portrayals of Ralph /Wikewitch / Joe Bob; Meritorious Achievement in Acting to Dana Finegan for her portrayal of Joby. 

PILAR GREENWOOD read a paper at the XXIX Annual Conference of Literaturas Hispánicas, organized by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and celebrated October 16-19, 2003. The theme of this year’s conference was Theater and Fiction. Her paper was entitled "Performativity and Mimesis in ‘La Fiesta del Chivo," a play by Jorge and Veronica Triana. The play centers on the dictatorship of the Dominican strongman Rafael Leónidas Trujillo." Professor Greenwood has been invited to submit this paper for publication in a volume about 20th century dictators seen through the eyes of writers and other artists.

MICHAEL GROTH was invited to participate in a speakers' series on Hudson Valley Life and Culture sponsored by the Museum of the Hudson Highlands in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. His lecture on October 15 focused on the African-American history and culture of the valley. He has also been invited to serve as a reviewer for a manuscript under consideration for publication by SUNY Press."

KENNETH LARSON was presented with a certificate of appreciation by the South Central Regional Library Council at its annual meeting on October 17 in recognition of his two terms of service on the council’s board of trustees. In recent years he has served as chair of the board’s Personnel Committee and secretary of the board. The Council coordinates resource sharing and provides training for its members, which include academic libraries, public and school library systems, hospital libraries, and special libraries in a fourteen county region of south-central New York and the Southern Tier. 

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO has accepted the invitation by the Editor-in-Chief of becoming a Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Quarterly Journal of Administration of the Faculty Administration, the official journal of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria

VICTORIA MUÑOZ received a grant of $5,000 from The Small Change Foundation to support the hiring of a research assistant and interview transcription for the Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Study. She received assistance in obtaining this grant from Michelle Landers.

CRAWFORD THOBURN conducted the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, accompanied by Nancy Gilbertson, in a concert for Parents's Weekend on November 9 in Barler Recital Hall. Mark Foster Music, Inc. has accepted for publication two of his choral works for women's voices: an edition of "Alle-psallite cum-luya" a 13th century English motet and an arrangement of "O Sing To The Babe" (Susanni) a German Carol.

THOMAS VAWTER helped host a conference at Wells College on Cayuga Lake Watershed Monitoring on October 14. The conference was sponsored by the Technical Advisory Committee of the Intermunicipal Organization and by Cornell's Center for the Environment. A dozen or so scientists from our region presented results of environmental monitoring projects they are conducting in the basin.

The Wells Book Arts Center is proud to announce as part of its upcoming symposium this spring that Donald Jackson, Scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, will present the 19th Swartzburg Book Arts Lecture entitled "Walking in the Footsteps of Giants: The Creation Processes of The Saint John's Bible." This presentation will be the first time Donald Jackson has ever given a personal interim account of images, inspirations and processes involved in the creation, with a team of collaborators - artists, scribes, scrutchers, illuminators, and schedulers of the seven volume handwritten and illuminated bible for Saint John's Abbey and University, Minnesota.
 
 

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