BRUCE BENNETT had poems published in The Healing Muse, the online journal, Enskyment, and in Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (5th edition, McGraw-Hill). He gave poetry readings at Bright Hill Center in Treadwell, New York, (with Mary Crow) on September 22 and at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn on September 29. Professor Bennett also read his poems at The Healing Muse publication party at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse on October 5.
MEGHAN CALLAHAN was an invited speaker on September 15 in the Fall 2005 lecture series at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of Binghamton University (SUNY). She gave a paper entitled "'Suor Domenica's Convent': An Example of Female Architectural Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Florence."
DEBORAH GAGNON attended the 6th Annual Conference on Case Study Teaching in Science sponsored by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at the University at Buffalo, October 7-8.
MICHAEL GROTH attended the Conference on New York State History held at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. Professor Groth worked with other members of the conference's program committee to plan the June meeting. He reviewed a manuscript being considered for publication by a major university press and composed an essay entitled "Black Loyalists and African-American Allegiance in the Mid-Hudson Valley," to be published in Joseph Tiedemann and Eugene Fingerhut, eds., The Other Loyalists (SUNY Press, forthcoming)."
JOSEPH HOFFMANN did a feature radio interview October 13 with Buffalo NPR station WFBO on the political future of religious right and President Bush's Supreme Court nominees. He has been commissioned to write an introduction to Maurice Goguel's Jesus of Nazareth: Myth or History, reprint edition. Professor Hoffmann has been invited to the membership of the Highlands Institute of American Religious and Philosophical Thought, a research group dedicated to exploring the American liberal religious tradition with special reference to the work of the "Chicago School" and naturalism in American theology and philosophy.
CYNTHIA J. KOEPP presented an invited lecture entitled "Dialogues and Dramas for Children: The Enlightened Pedagogy of Louis-François Jauffret," at an international conference on Education and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century (1688-1832) that took place from September 8 through the 11th at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. At the same conference she also chaired a panel that looked at science, religion and women's education in the late eighteenth century.
NIAMH O' LEARY and THOMAS VAWTER were invited to make a presentation at the 38th Annual Conference of the New York State Outdoor Education Association, which took place in Ithaca October 6-9. They presented a field and laboratory exercise on calculation of Net Primary Productivity. This exercise was developed at Wells College.
ERNIE OLSON presented a paper entitled, "Kerr Dam, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the Challenges of Repossession" on the panel "The Language of Dispossession: Indigenous Struggles over Discourse, Land, and Resources" at the New York State Sociological Association Annual Conference held at Wells College October 14 and 15, 2005. Recent Wells graduates Meghan McCune `03 and Ariel Merkel `05 also gave presentations on the panel. Professor Olson has had his presentation "Congregational Circles and Colonial Displacement: Meaning and Place in Tongan Churches of the Diaspora" accepted for the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities to be held in Honolulu, January 11-14, 2006.
LAURA PURDY presented a talk entitled, "The Politics of Preventing Premature Death," at the Biomedical Ethics Unit of the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, on September 30, 2005. Her book review: "Marriage isn't for Everyone," Marriage on Trial: The Case against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting, by Glenn T. Stanton and Dr. Bill Maier, appeared in Free Inquiry, Oct./Nov. 2005, pp. 63-64. Professor Purdy has been elected to the Advisory Board of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics for the term 2005-2007. She has also been elected Senior Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion of the Center for Inquiry, Buffalo, New York.
