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            Office of the Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs
 

It is my pleasure to present the April 2008 edition of the Faculty Newsletter. The newsletter reports on publications and such extramural accomplishments as papers presented at scholarly conferences, lectures given at other colleges, off-campus performances and exhibitions, election to office in a professional organization, and receipt of external grants.   This edition reports on activities since September 2007.  Thanks to all of you who submitted information.

Rena Fraden
Dean of the Faculty and
Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dean of Faculty’s Office
April 2008 Faculty Newsletter


Publications:

 

Jeffrey Bayliss.  “Minority Success, Assimilation, and Identity in Prewar Japan: Pak Chungǔm and the Korean Middle Class.”  Journal of Japanese Studies 34, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 33-68.

 

J. Harry Blaise, Jessica L. Koranda, Urey Chow ’09, Kaitlin E. Haines ’09, Emily C. Dorward ’06.  “Neonatal Isolation Stress Alters Bidirectional Long Term Synaptic Plasticity in Amygdalo-Hippocampal Synapses in Freely Behaving Adult Rats.” Brain Research 1193 (2008): 25-33.

 

Jean Cadogan.  “Notes on a Drawing by Pesellino.” Burlington Magazine 149 (November 2007): 767-71.

 

Xiangming Chen.  “The Urban Laboratory.”  In The Endless City, edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic, 118-125.  London: Phaidon Press, 2008.

 

Xiangming Chen.  “China’s New Revolution.”  In The Endless City, edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic, 126-133.  London: Phaidon Press, 2008.

 

Xiangming Chen and Jiaming Sun.  “Untangling a Global-Local Nexus: Sorting Out Residential Sorting in Shanghai.”  Environment and Planning A 39 no. 10 (2007): 2324-2345.

 

Xiangming Chen.  “Economic Globalizing, Regional Embedding, and State Scaling: A Comparative Analysis of the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta in China.”  In The Regional and Local Shaping of World Society, edited by Mark Herkenrath, 79-110.  Hamburg and London: LIT Verlag, Munster, 2007.

 

Jack A. Dougherty. “Bridging the Gap between Urban, Suburban, and Educational History.”  In Rethinking the History of American Education, edited by William J. Reese and John Rury, 245-259.  New York: Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2007.

 

Andrea Dyrness.  “Research for Change Versus Research as Change:  Lessons from a Mujerista Participatory Research Team.”  Anthropology & Education Quarterly 39, no. 1 (March 2008): 23-44.

 

DeNoia, L., Heidi J. C. Ellis, and McKim, J.  “Work in Progress – Issues Involved in Analyzing Student Activity in the Introductory Sequence of Computing Courses.”  The 2007 Frontiers in Education Conference, F2J-1-F2J-2.  Milwaukee, October 2007.

 

Ellison Banks Findly. Plant Lives:  Borderline Beings in Indian Traditions. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 2007.

 

Ellison Banks Findly.  “Nur Jahan.”  In Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Volume 3, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, 374.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

Rena Fraden. “Suzan-Lori Parks’ Hester Plays: In the Blood and Fucking A.”  The Massachusetts Review 48, no. 3 (2007): 434-454.

 

Eric A. Galm and John K. Galm.  “Percussion Instruments of Brazil.”  In Encyclopedia of Percussion, 2nd ed., edited by John Beck, 153-160.  New York:  Routledge, 2007.

 

Stephanie Gilmore, ed. Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

 

Stephanie Gilmore and Elizabeth Kaminski.  “Apart and A Part: Lesbian and Straight Feminists Negotiate Identity in a Second-Wave Organization.”  Journal of the History of Sexuality 16, no. 1 (January 2007): 95-113.

 

Jonathan R. Gourley, Byrne, T., Chan, Y-C., Wu, F., Rau, R-J.  “Fault Geometries Illuminated from Seismicity in Central Taiwan, Implications for Crustal Scale Structural Boundaries in the Central Range.”  Tectonophysics 455 (2007): 168-185.

 

Cheryl L. Greenberg.  “The History of Communities Is the History of the Nation.”  In Communities and Connections, edited by Ari Helo, 8-18.  University of Helsinki Press, 2007.

 

Christopher Hager.  “Living Large and Seeing the Country.”  Review of Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America, Anne Baker.  Reviews in American History 35, no. 4 (December 2007): 497-503.

 

G. Conlogue, R. Beckett, Y. Bailey, J. Posh, David E. Henderson, G. Double, and T. King.  “Paleoimaging: The Use of Radiography, Magnetic Resonance, and Endoscopy to Examine Mummified Remains.”  Journal of Radiology Nursing 27, no. 1 (March 2008):  5-13.

 

James J.  Hughes.  “Vital Signs (Pondering the Future of Death over a Mojito).”  New Scientist (October 13, 2007): 44-45.

 

James J.  Hughes.  Technocitizenship, Innovation and the Biopolitics of Medical Devices.” Medical Device Daily (September 26, 2007).

 

James J.  Hughes.  “The Struggle for a Smarter World.” Futures (August 8, 2007): 942-954.

 

Dianne Hunter. “Book Review: Juliet Mitchell, The Obsolescent Oedipus Complex, and the Decline of Patriarchy.”  Review of Psychoanalysis and Feminism, Juliet Mitchell.  Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences 1, no. 1 (2008): 24-30.

 

Samuel D. Kassow.  Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies).  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

 

Kathleen Kete, ed.  A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire (1800-1920).  Oxford: Berg, 2007.

 

Ariela Keysar.  “Is Religion on the Rise or on the Decline?” Canadian American Research Series 4, no. 1 (Fall 2007):  2-5.

 

Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin.  “Religion in a Free Market.”  Contemplate: The International Journal of Cultural Jewish Thought no. 4 (2007): 48-52.

 

Jessica L. Koranda, Susan A. Masino, J. Harry Blaise. “Bidirectional Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus of the Awake Freely Behaving Mouse.”  Journal of Neuroscience Methods 167 (2008):  160-166.

 

Barry A. Kosmin. “How wide is the social distance between Jews and Evangelicals.”  In Uneasy Allies?  Evangelical and Jewish Relations, edited by Alan Mittleman, Byron Johnson, and Nancy Isserman, 39-48.  Lanham:  Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

 

Barry A. Kosmin.  “Public Opinion and Support for the Separation of Church and State in the U.S. and Europe.”  Canadian American Research series 4 no. 1 (Fall 2007): 10-13.

 

Anne Lambright.  Creating the Hybrid Intellectual: Subject, Space, and the Feminine in the Narrative of José María Arguedas.  Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007.

 

Louis P. Masur.  The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph that Shocked America. New York:  Bloomsbury Press, 2008.

 

Kevin J. McMahon.  “Presidents, Political Regimes, and Contentious Supreme Court Nominations: A Historical Institutional Model.”  Law & Social Inquiry 32, no. 4 (Fall 2007):  919-54.

 

Susan D. Pennybacker. “Mass Observation Redux.” History Workshop Journal 64 (2007): 411-419.

 

M. Silvina Persino.  “El Teatro en Buenos Aires en el Invierno Austral del 2007 o Cómo Contarlo Todo en 2.000 Palabras.”  Latin American Theater Review 41, no. 1 (Fall 2007): 169-75.

 

M. Silvina Persino.  Reflexiones sobre una intervención urbana: El proyecto Filoctetes.”  E-misferica (Hemispheric Institute on Performance and Politics) 4, no.2 (November 2007).

 

Livio Pestilli, ed.  “Napoli è tutto il mondo.”  Proceedings of the Neapolitan Art and Culture from Humanism to the Enlightenment, International Conference, June 19-21, 2003.  Pisa-Roma, Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, 2008.

 

M. Buckley, A. Walker, S. Y. W. Ho, Y. Yang, C. Smith, P. Ashton, J. T. Oates, E. Cappellini, H. Koon, K. Penkman, B. Elsworth, D. Ashford, C. Solazzo, P. Andrews, J. Strahler, B. Shapiro, P. Ostrom, H. Gandhi, W. Miller, B. Raney, M. I. Zylber, M. T. P. Gilbert, Richard V. Prigodich, M. Ryan, K. F. Rijsdijk, A. Janoo, and M. J. Collins.  “Comment on ‘Protein Sequences from Mastodon and Tyrannosaurus Rex Revealed by Mass Spectrometry.’” Science 319, no. 5859 (January 4, 2008): 33c.

 

Miguel D. Ramirez.  “What Explains Latin America's Poor Investment Performance During the 1980-2001 Period?: A Panel Unit Root Analysis.”  International Review of Applied Economics 22, no. 1 (January 2008): 1-15.

 

Miguel D. Ramirez.  “A Panel Unit Root and Panel Cointegration Test of the Complementarity Hypothesis in the Mexican Case.”  Atlantic Economic Journal 35, no. 3 (September 2007):  343-356.

 

Miguel D. Ramirez.  “Boom-Bust Cycles and Financial Liberalization.”  Eastern Economic Journal 33, no. 4 (Fall 2007):  569-572.

 

Gary Reger.  “Hellenistic Greece and Western Asia Minor.”  In Cambridge Economic History of the Greco Roman World, edited by Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, and Richard Saller, 460-483.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

 

Gary Reger.  “Traders and Travelers in the Black and Aegean Seas.”  In The Black Sea in Antiquity. Regional and Interregional Economic Exchanges, edited by Vincent Gabrielsen and John Lund, 273-286.  Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2007.

 

Gary Reger and Hugh Elton, ed.  Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. Bordeaux: Ausonius Editions, 2007.

 

Clare M. Rossini.  “Giordano Bruno is Dismissed by Elizabeth, Queen of England.” Parnassus:  Poetry in Review 30, nos. 1 and 2 (March 2008): 148-149.

 

Clare M. Rossini, “Ultrasound” and “The Prince of Nix.” Caduceus 5 (Fall 2007):  36-38.

 

Craig W. Schneider and M.J. Wynne.  “A Synoptic Review of the Classification of Red Algal Genera a Half Century after Kylin’s “Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen.” Botanica Marina 50 (2007): 197-249.

 

Michael B. Schub.  Review of Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and Lexicon I, Lutz Edzard and Jan Retso.  Journal of Arabic Linguistics 47 (2007), 83-90.

 

Mark Setterfield.  “Stability in Economics.”  In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William A. Darity Jr., 76-77.  Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Mark Setterfield.  “Macrofoundations.”  In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William A. Darity Jr., 545-547.  Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Mark Setterfield.  “Unemployable.”  In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William A. Darity Jr., 496-497.  Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Mark Setterfield.  “Unemployment.”  In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William A. Darity Jr., 497-499.  Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Mark Setterfield and Louis-Philippe Rochon.  “Interest Rates, Income Distribution and Monetary Policy Dominance: Post-Keynesians and the ‘Fair Rate’ of Interest,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 30, no. 1 (2007): 13-42.

 

Gail H. Woldu.  “Nadia Boulanger, Gabriel Fauré et le Conservatoire: Visions d’une Esthétique Musicale au Début des Années 1900.” In Nadia Boulanger et Lili Boulanger: Témoignages et Études, edited by Alexandra Laederich, 265-272.  Paris: Editions Symétrie, 2007.

 

Erik Vogt and Eva Waniek, ed. and trans. Derrida und Adorno: Zur Aktualitaet von Dekonstruktion und Frankfurter Schule.  Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2008. 

 

Erik Vogt and Eva Waniek, “Auschwitz-Politik.”  In Derrida und Adorno: Zur Aktualitaet von Dekonstruktion und Frankfurter Schule, edited by Erik Vogt and Eva Waniek, 37-69.  Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2008. 

 

Flynn, Thomas R.  Existenzialismus.  Translated by Erik Vogt.  Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2008.

 

Erik Vogt.  “Ethik des einzelnen Allgemeinen.” In Humane Existenz: Reflexionen zur Ethik in einer pluralistischen Gesellschaft, edited by Klaus Dethloff, Charlotte Natmessnig, Robert Staubmann, Anja Weinberg, 55–70.  Munich: Parerga, 2007.

 

Erik Vogt. “Schmittian Traces in Zizek’s Political Theology (and some derridian specters),” Diacritics 36, (2007): 14–29.

 

Conference Papers/Presentations:

Zayde G. Antrim, “Watan before Wataniyya: Loyalty to Land in Ayyubid and Mamluk Syria,”

Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, November 17-20, 2007.

 

Carol J. Any, “Celebrating the Soviet Pushkin:  The USSR Writers’ Union in 1937,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, November 2007.

 

Jeffrey Bayliss, “Minority Identity Politics and Interrelations in 1920s Japan: Korean Organizations and the Suiheisha,” Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, February 5, 2008.

 

Barbara M. Benedict, “Representations of Curiosities: Early-Modern Responses to Transgressions of Nature and Culture,” Lusus Naturae: Transformations of an Ancient Topos in Science and Art, Berlin, April 10-12, 2008.

 

Barbara M. Benedict, “Jane Austen,” Fordham University in London, February 15, 2008.

 

Barbara M. Benedict, “Urban Meaning-Making: the Early Museum and Empirical Identity,” University of Roehampton, London, February 13, 2008.

 

Barbara M. Benedict, “Urban Meaning-Making: the Early Museum and Empirical Identity,” Restoration to Reform Seminar, University of Cambridge, February 11, 2008.

 

Barbara M. Benedict, “The Mad Scientist,” Lafayette College, PA, October 12, 2007.

 

Moisés Castillo, “Staging American Indians in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama,” Department of American Studies and The Humanities Institute at SUNY, Buffalo, February 28, 2008.

 

Janet Chang, “Ethnic variations in self-enhancement and self-criticism: Balancing different emphases on the self,” Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, March 2008.

 

Jack A. Dougherty, “Conflicting Questions: Why Historians and Policymakers Miscommunicate on Urban Education,” Clio at the Table: A Conference on the Uses of History to Inform and Improve Education Policy, Brown University, 2007.

 

Judy Dworin, “Connecticut: High Profile Artists in Residence,” Arts in Criminal Justice Conference, Philadelphia, October 2007.

 

Lucy Ferriss, “Crisis in the Classroom: The Creative Writing Teacher's Role as Therapist and Whistle-Blower,” Associated Writing Programs Conference, January 2008.

 

Lucy Ferriss, “Research in the Memoir,” Nonfiction NOW Conference, Iowa City, November 2007.

 

Luis A. Figueroa, “Repensando la historia contemporánea de Cayey: acercamientos teóricos y metodológicos, y futuras líneas de investigación,” Cayey: Miradas históricas, perspectivas contemporáneas, Instituto de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey, November 14, 2007.

 

Luis A. Figueroa, “Representations of Hispanics in American Film, 1910-1961,” Hispanic Heritage Month, Connecticut Department of Children and Families, October 9, 2007.

 

Luis A. Figueroa, “Tropical Flânerie in an Off-White City: The FDR Boulevard and Colonial Modernity in San Juan, Puerto Rico,” Distinguished Latin American History Lecture and Residency, University of Texas at Austin, February 19 to 22, 2007, and University of California, Santa Barbara, History Department, Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy, April 4, 2007.

 

Luis A. Figueroa, “Puerto Ricans in Hartford,” Where We Live, WNPR 90.5 FM, Connecticut Public Radio, January 2, 2007.

 

Ellison Banks Findly, “Buddhist Art,” Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Barre, Massachusetts, January 26 - 27, 2008.

 

Eric A. Galm, “Constructing Community Through Music in Rio de Janeiro,” Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop:  Hip Hop and Social Change, Marywood University, Scranton, PA, March 7, 2008.

 

Eric A. Galm, “Música em Debate VI,” Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2007.

 

Eric A. Galm, “Good Neighbors in Motion:  Musical Transformation in Disney’s The Three Caballeros,” Society for Ethnomusicology International Meeting, Columbus, OH, October 25-28, 2007.

 

Eric A. Galm, “Cuban Timba:  International Influences Creating National Resistance,” Pre-Concert Lecture/Demonstration for Grammy-Nominated Tiempo Libre, Wesleyan University, September 29, 2007.

 

Christopher Hager, “Germania, The Jungle, and the Cultural History of No Man’s Land,” Global Chicago panel, Modern Language Association Convention, December 2007.

 

James J. Hughes, “Ethics of Neurotechnologies,” Seminar on Future Neurotechnology,

for middle and high school students, teachers and parents in Connecticut Future Problem Solvers, Marlborough Elementary School, Marlborough, Connecticut January 9, 2008.

 

James J. Hughes, “Neuroprosthetics,” Connecticut Future Problem Solvers, Manchester Middle School, Connecticut, November 9, 2007.

 

James J. Hughes, “Science and Society: The Future of our Species – Evolution, Disease and Sustainable Development,” European Molecular Biology Meetings, Heidelburg, Germany, November 2-3, 2007.

 

James J. Hughes, “Human Enhancement,” debate with French nanotechnologist François Berger at La Fondation Pour L’Innovation Politique, Paris, October 24, 2007.

 

James J. Hughes, “The Future of Criminal Justice,” Connecticut Future Problem Solvers, Windsor Middle School, Connecticut, October 15, 2007.

 

James J. Hughes, “Neuroethics,” Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, October 12, 2007.

 

James J. Hughes, “The Emerging Biopolitics,” The Stem Cell Summit (Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Genetics Policy Institute, and Burrill Life Sciences Media Group), Boston, October 2-3, 2007.

 

James J. Hughes, “Inspiring Science Literacy,” Connecticut Association of Biology Teachers, Manchester, September 14, 2007.

 

James J. Hughes, “Artificial Intelligence and Singularitarianism,” Singularity Summit II, San Francisco, September 08, 2007.

 

Karen L. Humphreys, presented/introduced the film “Brodeuses [Sequins],” Women in Film Festival, Saint Joseph’s College, Hartford, October 29, 2007.

 

Karen L. Humphreys, “Wayward Women of the Publishing Industry in the Work of Barbey d’Aurevilly,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Southern Alabama,  Mobile, October 18-20, 2007.

 

Dianne Hunter, “The Dead Mother Complex,” Plath 75th Year Symposium, Oxford University, October 2007.

 

Jean-Marc Kehrès, “Writing Home about it: Letters and Tales from Travelers and other Explorers,” Annual Meeting of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Galloway, NJ, November 8-11, 2007.

 

Ariela Keysar, “Believing without belonging – and belonging without believing – in contemporary American religion,” International Conference on Religions des Ameriques: du milieu du XX siecle a nos jours, Toulouse, France, November 19-21, 2007.

 

Ariela Keysar, B. Beit-Hallahmi and Barry A. Kosmin, “The secularization of the American Sunday: Evidence from time-use data,” Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Tampa, FL, November 2-4, 2007. 

 

Ariela Keysar, B. Beit-Hallahmi and Barry A. Kosmin,  “Measuring religious commitment and secularization through time-use data,” Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture, Tampa, Florida, November 2-4, 2007.

 

Connie L. Hernandez ’10, Daisy M. Ramos ’10, Jessica L. Koranda, Joseph D. Bronzino, J. Harry Blaise. “Theta-burst and paired-pulse analysis of the dentate gyrus-CA3 synapse in freely moving rats.” Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 3-7, 2007.

 

Jessica L. Koranda, Robert A. Hill ’07, Natalie X. Phouyaphone ’06, J. Harry Blaise, Susan A. Masino. “Stimulation frequency-dependent transition from LTD to LTP in freely behaving mice.” Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 3-7, 2007.

 

Barry A. Kosmin, “Secularism Session,” Annual Conference of Society of the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Tampa, Florida, November 2, 2007.

 

Barry A. Kosmin, “Political Secularism in the West: the trend towards convergence in public opinion across the European Union and the United States,” Turkish Association for the History of Religions, Conference on Secularism and Religious Resurgence in Prospect and Retrospect, Ankara, Turkey, October 22-23, 2007.

 

Barry A. Kosmin, “Secularism Today,” ATA-TV, Ankara, Turkey, October 23, 2007.

 

Barry A. Kosmin, “Public Opinion and Support for the Separation of Church and State in the U.S. and Europe,” Accommodating Religious Diversity in Canada and the United States,

Canadian American Research Symposium, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, September 10, 2007.

 

Katherine Lahti, “The Dream of a Crime and the Crime of a Dream: The Fantastic in Crime and Punishment,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Convention, New Orleans, November 17, 2007.

 

Paul Lauter, “Multiculturalism and Immigration Shock,” St. Joseph’s College, March 12, 2008.

 

Paul Lauter, “Teaching Lydia Sigourney,” Modern Language Association Convention, New York, December, 2007. 

 

Paul Lauter, “Professing Literature: Twenty Years Later,” Modern Language Association Convention, New York, December, 2007. 

 

Nathan Margalit, “2 Portraits - Lucian Freud and Frank Auerback,” lecture and gallery talk, Yale Center for British Art, October 30, 2007.

Louis P. Masur, “The Image that Shocked America: A Discussion of the Cultural Politics of Race & Photography,” Rutgers University, February 15, 2008.

 

Kevin J. McMahon, “Forty-Three Seconds that Shaped the Court: Nixon’s Southerner and Accidental Ideologue,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 20-22, 2008.

 

Susan D. Pennybacker, “Between Ideals and Reality: Labor as a Non-state Actor in International Relations,” European Social Science History Association Biennial Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2008.

 

Susan D. Pennybacker, “Anti-fascism and Anti-imperialism: Tensions and Interconnections,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2008.

 

Susan D. Pennybacker, “Anglobalization: Recent Defenders and Critics of Empire,” North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2007.

 

Susan D. Pennybacker, “Imperialism and ‘Transnational’ Histories: Sources and Recent Approaches (for Graduate Students),” Carnegie Mellon University History Department, November 2007.

 

Susan D. Pennybacker, “From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain,” Working-Class History Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, November 2007.

 

Livio Pestilli, “Allegory and National Pride in Paolo de Matteis’ Allegory of Divine Wisdom and the Liberal Arts,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2-5, 2008.

 

Livio Pestilli, “Allegory: Theoretical and Practical Approaches,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2-5, 2008.

 

Vijay Prashad, “You Remind Me Of Everything that Followed: Love and Claustrophobia in Immigrant Lives,” American Studies, Fordham University, March 27, 2008.

 

Vijay Prashad, “The Third World As Project, the Global South as Struggle,” Graduate Student and Faculty Seminar, Fordham University, March 27, 2008.

 

Vijay Prashad, “The Third World Project and Its Aftermath,” India-Canada Association Lecture 2007/2008, Munk Center for International Studies, University of Toronto, February 28, 2008.

 

Vijay Prashad, “Conversation with Sandip Roy,” SAAN: South Asian Awareness Network Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 26, 2008.

 

Vijay Prashad, “On Commitment: Considerations on Political Activism on a Shocked Planet,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration Weekend, Middlebury College, January 21, 2008.

 

Vijay Prashad, “The Value and Future of Diversity in the 21st Century,” Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity, Yale University, November 27, 2007.

 

Vijay Prashad, “The Darker Nations,” Watkinson School, Hartford, November 13, 2007 and Working Group on Marxism and Cultural Theory, Yale University, October 16, 2007.

 

Vijay Prashad, “Academics and Activism: Contradictions and Connections,” Cultural Center, Hampshire College, November 5, 2007.

 

Vijay Prashad, “Keynote Address,” Culture Shock Festival, Quebec Public Interest Research Group, McGill University, Montreal, October 9, 2007.

 

Vijay Prashad, “Marxists and the thorns of Nationalism,” Working Group on Marxist and Cultural Theory, Yale University, October 2, 2007.

 

Vijay Prashad, “A World Without Race, A Campus of My Dreams,” Culture-Fest Weekend, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, September 26, 2007.

 

Hanna Ghaleb, ’07 and Sarah A. Raskin. “Aging and prospective memory,” Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, April 12-15, 2008.

 

Sarah A. Raskin, “Rehabilitation of prospective memory using structured verbal mediation,” International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Kona, Hawaii, February 6-9, 2008.

 

Gary Reger, “Formation of Taste and Fashion. Perfumes and Imitations in the Hellenistic and Early Imperial World,” Imitations – Regional Traditions – Economic Impacts, University of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 30-December 2, 2007.

 

Gary Reger, “Reconfiguring the Political Geography of Karia,” Die hellenistische Polis als Lebensform. Zentralisationsprozesse in der hellenistischen Poliswelt, the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich, Germany, October 25, 2007.

 

Clare M. Rossini, “The Writer as Revisionary,” Vermont College MFA Program Residency, January 2008.

 

Seth L. Sanders, co-chaired “Israel’s Political Landscape,” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Diego, November 2007.

 

Seth L. Sanders, “Writing and Early Iron Age Israel: Before National Scripts, Beyond Nations and States,” Tell Zayit Abecedary Panel, Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Diego, November 2007.

 

Seth L. Sanders, “Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible,Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2007.

 

Mark Setterfield, “Post Keynesian interest rate rules and macroeconomic performance: a comparative evaluation,” Post-Keynesian Economic Policies, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, November-December 2007.

 

Mark Setterfield, “Macroeconomics without the LM curve: an alternative view,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 2007.

 

Mark Setterfield, “Is inflation targeting inimical to employment?” Third Biennial Canada/US Eastern Border Post Keynesian Workshop, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, September 2007.

 

Scott R. Smedley, “Hair-borne Chemical Defenses in Insects:  When a Bad Hair Day Can Prove Fatal,” Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts, September 17, 2007.

 

Scott H. Tang, “On Unstable Common Ground:  Political Exchanges Among African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Chinese Americans in Postwar San Francisco,” 2007 Western History Association Conference, Oklahoma City, October 2007.

 

Erik Vogt, “Psychoanalysis and Genocide,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, November 2007.

 

Thomas J. Wood (with Alexander Cooley an