BRUCE BENNETT’s chapbook Web-Watching, which won the 2003 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, was published in early April. He gave two readings featuring Web-Watching: at Wells on April 6 and at Keuka College on April 12. Two other chapbooks by Professor Bennett, Late-Night Music, a collection of limericks, and More Last Words, a collection of comic epitaphs, have been published by Clandestine Press. He has four poems in the Spring 2005 issue of the magazine, "Iambs & Trochees, and four poems in the anthology, Kiss and Part, edited by Gail White and published by Doggerel Daze Press. Professor Bennett’s sonnet, "The True Story of Snow White," has been published in the Longman textbook, Literature As Meaning, edited by Wendy Steiner. His villanelle, "Fellow Creatures," which appears in Web-Watching, has been posted on the Academy of American Poets Poetry Exhibits website.
CATHERINE BURROUGHS was invited to give a keynote address--"British Women's Drama and the Erotics of Home"--at the annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (April 13-17).
CANDACE COLLMER, as coordinator of 12 scientists collaborating to develop new terms appropriate for annotating genes involved in pathogenesis in diverse plant pathogens, has had 34 new terms accepted by the Gene Ontology Consortium for inclusion in their ontologies. These are now available for use by scientists working worldwide in genome annotation. She led the effort of the PAMGO group (Plant Associated-Microbe Gene Ontology), together with Michelle Gwinn-Giglio of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), as part of her sabbatical work last academic year, and continues to work on the project.
During the spring break, MARGOT ECKE presented a lecture on her artwork at the Cleveland Institute of Art, in addition to giving student critiques and several workshops on binding structures and box making. She talked about her work in Ithaca, New York, on Tuesday, April 5, at the Ink Shop.
JILL HILL’s paper, "Decolonizing Psychological Assessment: Honoring Indigenous Perspectives and Transforming Scholarship," has been accepted for presentation at the 7th World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE 2005) to be held in Hamilton, New Zealand (Aotearoa) this winter (end of November, beginning of December).
JOSPEH HOFFMANN has been chosen as senior editor by the editorial committee of the Journal for the Scientific Examination of Religion (JSER), a peer-reviewed international quarterly. The journal supersedes the Journal for the Critical Study of Religion (1994-1999).
The Wells’ production of "Stories Told" has been awarded two Roving Adjudicator Merit Awards by Adjudicator Paul Nelson: Excellence in Direction to SIOUXSIE GRADY and Excellence in Ensemble Work and Acting to The Company of "Stories Told." There are three separate categories of Merit Awards as follows: "Outstanding" - To be issued to the whole or part of the whole of a theatrical event or production of a superlative quality rarely witnessed or experienced by the adjudicator. "Excellence" - To be issued to the whole or part of the whole of a theatrical event or production considered by the adjudicator to be of exceptional merit surpassing the norm. "Meritorious Achievement" - To be issued to the whole or part of the whole of a theatrical event or production considered by the adjudicator to be worthy of special recognition. The 2005 TANYS Festival will be November 18, 19, and 20 at Cayuga Community College. Formal presentations of these awards will be held on the 19th, during the TANYS Festival Awards Banquet at Highland Country Club, Auburn. Mr. Nelson commented, "Ms. Grady and her production team were able to weave together an evening of entertainment that was both delightful and truly engaging."
TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO’s article, "Rethinking Pan-Africanism in the Search for Social Progress," has been published in Global Dialogue, Volume 6. Number 3-4 (Summer/ Autumn 2004). The journal is published by Centre for World Dialogue in Cyprus.
LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL’s book, Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in Formerly Men’s Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, co-edited with Susan L. Poulson (Vanderbilt University Press, 2004) was reviewed in the Teachers College Record, Vol. 107, Number 8, 2005. She attended the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) from March 17-20, 2005, in Washington DC. As Chair of the ESS’s Publications Committee, Professor Miller-Bernal attended the Executive Council meeting, arranged for officers and committee members to meet with potential publishers of the ESS’s journal, Sociological Forum, and chaired one of the two annual meetings of the committee.
ETHEL KING-MCKENZIE will be attending the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Toni Morrison Society to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 14-17, 2005, and the Toni Morrison Summer Workshop to be held from July 9-17 in Kentucky.
LAURA PURDY’s article, "Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral?" is to be reprinted in Portuguese, in an edited collection whose English title is Contemporary Feminist Bioethics. Brasilia: LetrasLivres Publishing, forthcoming 2004. It will also be reprinted in the 6th edition of Mappes and deGrazia, Biomedical Ethics, McGraw Hill, 2005. Professor Purdy, as a Lincoln Visiting Scholar, presented a paper entitled, "The Politics of Preventing Premature Death," at the Lincoln Center for Ethics, Arizona State University on October 4, 2004. She also visited the Bioethics class and presented a lecture and led a discussion on "Loving Future People."
SARAH ROBERTS currently has work on exhibit at the Fifth Biennial Book Arts Exhibition at the ES Bird Library, Syracuse University.
JELENA STOJANOVIC recently returned from Belgrade (Serbia) where she curated and organized the exhibition entitled "'The Realism of Petar Dobrovic" for the Museum of Modern Art in Belgrade. The show opened April 2 and will remain open for public viewing for a month. Petar Dobrovic (1890-1942) was a realist painter, very active in Europe (Paris, Budapest, Belgrade) in the thirties. The show examines different aspects of his realist pictorial work and includes more than hundred paintings, drawings, documentary photographs spanning almost thirty years of his very rich and impressive artistic activity.
On March 11, SUSAN TALBOT spoke at the Southern Cayuga Central School District Staff Development Day. Her topic was "Keeping Your Passion Without Losing Your Faculties." On March 30, she addressed 250 women employed by area correctional facilities at the Elmira Hub Training Day for Women in Criminal Justice. The topic was "Mentoring From the Heart."
CRAWFORD THOBURN’s original composition, "A Psalm of Praise," for mixed voices with organ accompaniment, was selected for performance during a reading session by the National Committee on Music in Worship of the American Choral Directors Association at the recent ACDA National Convention in Los Angeles during February 2005. This large-scale work, a setting of poetry by the 17th century writer Richard Baxter, was commissioned by the Choir of Trinity Episcopal Church of Watertown, New York, and is published by Mark Foster Music, Inc.
