BRUCE BENNETT had four poems published in IAMBS & TROCHEES and two poems in LIGHT. On April 8, he read his poetry at the Guernsey Memorial Library in Norwich, New York. 

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH chaired the session on Russian History at the March 27, 2004, meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies held at Columbia University in New York City.

SARA FRENCH was invited by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Visual Culture Forum at Binghamton University to give a lecture entitled "Micro-Managing Female Space: Bess of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall" on March 24, 2004.

NANCY GILBERTSON presented a recital with Laura Campbell on April 10, 2004, at Wells College. The program included music for flute and piano by composers John Rutter and Francis Poulenc. Ms. Gilbertson played several dances in Bulgarian rhythm and "From the Diary of a Fly" by Bela Bartok from Mikrokosmos Book VI. Ms. Campbell played "Three Chants" by the late Ithaca composer, Ann Silsbee, on bass flute, alto flute and regular flute.

JEANNE GODDARD performed a new work, to a suite of short Stravinsky pieces, at the Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College School of Music, on Sunday, April 4. Ms. Goddard performed at the invitation of the Ariadne String Quartet, who accompanied her on stage.

SIOUXSIE GRADY has been asked by the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University to create and direct a theatre piece based on the current exhibit "Girl Culture." "Girl Culture" is a provocative photography exhibit by Lauren Greenwood that explores, in Greenwood's words, "the element of performance and exhibitionism that seems to define the contemporary experience of being a girl." The piece will be performed as part of the event "Girls Night In" at the museum on May 1.

Invited by the graduate program of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at St. Johns University (Jamaica Queens, New York), PILAR GREENWOOD delivered a lecture on March 22, 2004. The title of her lecture was "Violencia como Identidad Performativa en ‘La Fiesta del Chivo’"(Violence as Performative Identity in "The Feast of the Goat"). Her book review of the novel "Entre dos luces: modelo de un destino antillano" (Twilight: Model for a Caribbean Destiny) by the Cuban novelist and playwright Julio Matas), has been published in the Vol. II, n. 4, March, 2004, of the journal, Linden Lane Magazine. This journal is dedicated to Cuban literature in exile and is directed by Belkis Cuza Malé, widow of its founder, the Cuban writer Heberto Padilla.

R. JOSEPH HOFFMANN will lead the panel in Early Christianity and present a paper entitled, "On Whose Intercession?" The Testimony of Blood in Second Century Theology" at the Eastern International Meeting of the American Academy of Religion at Cornell, April 30, 2004. The theme of this year's conference is Religion and Violence.

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO published an article entitle, "Re-definitions of Territoriality, National Identity, and Global Democratic Values in the Post-Cold War Era,"· in Identity and Space, edited by Andrea E. Frohne and published by Binghamton University Envisioning (2004). He was invited by the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), a research center of the South African Government, to participate in the conference on "10 Years After Apartheid/10 Years of Freedom," which took place in Pretoria, South Africa, on March 24-26, 2004. He chaired the panel on "Pan-African Perspectives on South African Transition." 

On March 27, 2004, LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL presented a paper with Susan Pevar at the Organization of American Historians' annual meeting in Boston, MA. The paper, "Adjusting to Change: Historically Black Lincoln University (PA) After the Brown Decision," was part of a session entitled, "University Admissions Policies and the Supreme Court: From Desegregation to Affirmative Action to the End of Racial Preferences." On April 22, 2004, she will serve as the outside examiner for an honors student's thesis in Women's Studies at Hobart and William Smith. Professor Miller-Bernal's co-edited book, Going Coed: Women Students' Experiences in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, is due to be published in May by Vanderbilt University Press. It is a "featured title" whose description can be read at www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress/miller-bernal.html.

NIAMH O' LEARY and TOM VAWTER have had a paper accepted for publication by the Journal of Freshwater Ecology. "Assessing Water Quality Using Two Taxonomic Levels of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Analysis: Implications for Volunteer Monitors" is co-authored with Linda Wagenet and Max Pfeffer of Cornell University.

ERNEST OLSON served as faculty sponsor and discussant for the session "Young Anthropologists in the Field: Skill Building and Professional Development at Home and Abroad" at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association held at Dartmouth College March 26-28, 2004. The session consisted of students and faculty from both Wells College and Ithaca College and included the presentations of Miranda Junge ’04, "Labor and Loss: Latin American Migrant Farmworkers in the United States;" Emilie Smith `04, "Grassroots Development of Sustainable Agriculture: Why NGOs Should Lead the Charge in Senegal;" and Meghan McCune `03, "Community Collaboration in Researching the Cayuga Land Claim: A Model for Participatory Research in Anthropology."

DAVID REIS and Professor Emeritus Arthur Bellinzoni were invited to Oxford University to participate in "The New Testament and Apostolic Fathers" conference.  The conference marked the centenary of the publication of the influential work The New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers.  Professor Reis' paper was entitled "Following in Paul's Footsteps: Mimesis and Power in Ignatius of Antioch," and Professor Bellinzoni's paper was entitled "The Gospel of Luke in the Apostolic Fathers." Professor Reis' paper "Following in Paul's Footsteps: Mimesis and Power in Ignatius of Antioch" and Professor Bellinzoni's paper "Luke in the Apostolic Fathers" will likely appear in the centennial celebration volume The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers to be published in 2005 by Oxford University Press.

WILLIAM ROBERTS served as a judge for the Saltonstall Foundation for Grants in the Arts during March 2004. An exhibition of his paintings and drawings has been scheduled at the Delavan Gallery in Syracuse during November 2004. This exhibit features his recent series of abstract-shaped paintings.

CHRISTINA WAHL will be presenting two research papers at the annual Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology meetings in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from April 25-29. The presentations are: Wahl, C., T. Li, H.C. Howland (2004) Effects of light and melatonin on chick corneas grown in culture. Association for Research in Vision and Opththalmology. Abstract 4293; and Li, T., C. Wahl, and H.C. Howland (2004) Age dependent ocular changes of chicks under constant light, and recovery from them, in normal illumination. Abstract 4291. This year, there are 5,610 presentations of original research at this international forum for work in vision science. Over 16,000 people attend the conference, which is the largest vision research meeting in the world.
 

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