BRUCE BENNETT gave three poetry readings during November. He read at Harvard University on November 12, at a Booksigning for Navigating The Distances in Belmont, Massachusetts, on November 13, and at the Professors Place Restaurant in Watkins Glen on November 17.

Oh behalf of the Book Arts Center, Professor Bennett received a grant from the Kaplan Foundation which will enable the Wells Press to publish Sincerely Yours, Victor Hammer, the collection of Victor Hammer’s letters to Janet Lewis relating to his publication of her 1948 poetry book, The Earth-Bound.

CATHERINE BURROUGHS has recently been asked to read one manuscript and a book proposal on British women playwrights for Theatre Journal and Broadview Press.

CANDACE COLLMER attended the Nobel Conference on October 5-6 at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. This conference, officially linked to the Nobel Foundation, Sweden, and held every year at Gustavus Adolphus College, links an audience of several thousand with the world’s foremost scholars and researchers in debate centered on contemporary issues related to the sciences. This year’s thought-provoking focus was "Genetics in the New Millennium." Professor Collmer also was a participant in a workshop entitled "Genomics: How Do We Teach in the Middle of a Revolution?" held December 11 in Washington, D.C. This was a special workshop sponsored by the Education Committee as part of the American Society for Cell Biology’s 39^th Annual Meeting.

PILAR GREENWOOD coordinated a panel and presented a paper entitled "Theoretical and Pedagogical Multicultural Issues in the Foreign Language Classroom" at the "Gaudy Night Conference: Celebrating Women’s Colleges" at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, November 12-13. The title of the panel was "Multiculturalism Education in the Context of Small Women’s Colleges" and was entirely composed of Wells College faculty; participants were Breny Mendoza , Victoria Muñoz, and Susan Sandman. Professor Mendoza’s paper was entitled "What is at Stake in Multiculturalism;" Professor Muñoz’s paper was entitled "The Strangest Things Happen: How I Learned to Tolerate and Then Accept Heterosexuality;" and Professor Sandman’s title was "Diversity in Music History Courses;" The panelists have accepted an invitation to present it again at the Wells Collegiate and Diversity Day Conference to be held in March 2000. Leslie Miller-Bernal also presented a paper entitled "Variations Among Women’s Colleges: Degrees of Separatism."

MICHAEL GROTH delivered a lecture entitled "From Slavery to Freedom in the Hudson River Valley" at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, on October 28. The lecture was part of the college’s lecture series, "The People and History of the Hudson River Valley." He delivered a second lecture at the Dutchess County Historical Society on October 30. Professor Groth has also been invited to contribute to a volume on African-American life and history in New York State, and a second volume on the Revolution in New York.

ELLEN HALL chaired a session at the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officers Institute in Williamsburg, Virginia. The conference entitled "Academic Leadership Today: Creating Connections to Nurture Change" was held November 6-9.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the Organizing Committee of the 31^st Annual Conference of the African Heritage Studies Association to give a talk at its plenary session. The topic he Seminar on November 16. presented was "Political Conflicts and Pan-African Issues in the 21^st Century." The conference was held on October 14-17 at the Clarion Hotel in Ithaca. He was also invited by the chairman of the Ph.D/MA Program in Political Science, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, to give public lectures on "The Agricultural Policy in Tanzania as the Foundation of Julius Nyerere’s African Socialism: What Should be Learned at the End of Cold War Era." Another lecture was on "The Political Legacy of Julius Nyerere," on December 10 in New York City.

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL has been asked to serve as an editorial consultant for the journal Sex Roles by reviewing a manuscript submitted for publication.

THOMAS STIADLE spoke on "Generalized Waldhausen K-Theory and Homology with Stratified Coefficients" at the weekly Cornell Topology Seminar on November 16.

JENNY YATES spoke at the Ithaca Jung Society on December 12 on her new book, Encountering Jung on Death and Immortality. The New Alexandrian Bookstore sponsored a booksigning.

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