2002-2003
May 2003
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Coauthored
a paper at the April 2003 meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists
meeting with three Sweet Briar students: Rachael Chilton '04, Christina
Tannahill '04, Andrea Stassi '04, Linda Fink: The effect of logging on the occurrence of an invasive
exotic grass, Microstegium vimineum.
The research was conducted in General Ecology in Fall 2002, on Paul Mountain
on campus. Chilton and Tannahill
attended the ASB meeting, and Chilton presented the talk.
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Paper
to be Presented: Globalized Korean Art: Korean Painting in an IT World, 2003
Korean Studies Conference, Institute of International Studies, University of
South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., May 23-25, 2003
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Seminar
to be Presented: " Buddhism in Korea", Japan Society Buddhism in East
Asia Seminar, Japan Society, New York, N.Y. May 3, 2003
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Paper
Presented: U.S. Foreign Policy on North Korea, International Studies Program.
Central Virginia Community College, Lynchburg, VA, April 23, 2003
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Paper
presented: The Myths and Models of Korean Christianity's Indigenization: The
Encounter of Christianity and Korean Ethno-Nationalist Discourse, 2003
Conference of the Luce Foundation on Korean Christianity Program, UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA, April 25-26, 2003
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Seminar
Presented: " Buddhism In China", Japan Society Buddhism in East Asia
Seminar, Japan Society, New York, N.Y. April 12, 2003
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Seminar
Presented: "Korean History and Heritage", North Carolina Teacher's
Association: Teaching Asia Program, University of North Carolina, Wilmington,
N.C., December 7, 2002
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Panel
Respondent: The Korean Transformation of Christianity and the Christian
Transformation of Korea, Korean Religions Group, 2002 Annual Conference of the
American Academy of Religion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 23-26, 2002
*
Paper
Presented: Confucian Theorists on Utopian Society, The Search for a Perfect
Society: Korea and World History in the New York Schools Program, The Korea
Society, New York, N.Y., November 1, 2002
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Published
Article: "Scholarly Women before Confucianization: The Case of Hwang
Chin-I (1506-1544)", co-authored with Mark Peterson, in Pathways into
Korean Language and Culture: Essays in Honor of Young-Key Kim Renaud, Seoul: Pagijong Press, 2002
*
Profile
of artist Joe Pendleton will be published as the lead story in Spring 2003
issue of Folk Art Messenger.
*
Selected
as a grant reviewer for Institute of Museum Services, 2003 Learning
Opportunities Grant Awards
*
Named
to the board of the Northern Virginia Art Education Association
*
Have accepted the offer
of editor for the journal Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. I currently serve as a reviewing
editor.
April
2003
* "Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in its Social and Legal Context, 1880s-1930s" by John Shurts. Reviewed by Stephen Bragaw, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 13 No. 4 (April, 2003) (forthcoming).
* Perry & Bragaw, "Teaching and Learning for Civic Engagement: The Sweet Briar College Experience." Focus on Law Studies: Teaching About Law in the Liberal Arts 18:11-13 (Fall 2002).
* Bragaw & Perry, "Bush v. Gore and the Rehnquist Court's Vision of the Equality Principle and Judicial Supremacy." Presentation to the Clark University Law & Society Program Conference on Bush v. Gore, Worcester, MA, March 14, 2003.
* "The Rehnquist Court and Federalism." Panel Chair and Organizer, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 5, 2003.
* "The Rehnquist Court, Subnational Governments, and the Constitutional Politics of Sovereign Immunity." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 5, 2003.
* "Big Brother in the Panopticon: The American Tradition of Privacy in Law." Presentation at the Virginia Tech Choices and Challenges Forum "Big Brother Technologies", Blacksburg, VA., March 27, 2003.
* Attended the Center for Civic Education's National Scholars Conference on Research in Civics and Legal Education, Pasedena, CA, January 30-February 2, 2003.
* "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution" State Finals Debate Tournament Judge, February 11, 2003.
* "Is the Supreme Court Really Supreme?" James Madison Foundation Center for the Study of the Constitution/SBC Center for Civic Renewal Teacher Institute, March 22, 2003.
* "The Rivalry that Shaped America" Presentations made to the SBC Alumnae Association Chapters in Richmond (February 11, 2003) and Chicago (April 3).
Radio:
* WVTF "Evening Edition" 1 hour call-in show, March 25, 2003, on invasion of privacy
* WNRN "Sunday Conversation" 1 hour call-in shows, Nov 3 & Dec 15, 2002 on the election and current events.
* WLNI "Morning Line" interviews 11/4, 11/6, 12/16/02 on state and national politics.
* Gave an invited lecture at Tulane University in March: "Transnational Personhood and Technologies of the State: Being Herero in Liberal Democratic Botswana."
* Reviewed a book manuscript for a major university press.
* Published "Passports and Persons: The Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges in Southern Africa." as a chapter in Clifton Crais, ed., The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination, pp. 151-181. Social History of Africa series, Heinemann, 2003.
*
Syntheses of New,
Water-Soluble N-Donor Ligands, Corresponding Zn(II), Cu(II), and Ni(II)
Complexes, and the Investigation of Their Activities Towards, Hydrolyzing
Substrates. Hong-Chang Liang, The Petroleum Research Fund of the
American Chemical Society Grant # 39798-G3,
2003
*
Synthesis and Characterization
of a Series of Dicopper Compounds for Use as Electrocatalysts in the Redction
of Carbon Dioxide. Emma W. Goldman, The Jeffress Memorial Trust
Research Grant 2003.
* chaired the panel, "Music in the 21st Century: What Next?" at the annual meeting of the Conductors Guild in New York
* presented a lecture, "Aesthetics and Perception in Music," at the 2003 Denver College for a Day and at the Vero Beach Museum of Art
* conducted the District XIII Virginia Women's Choir in Charlottesville
* had a composition, "Queensbury Rules," performed by Nick Ross at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the College Music Society, at which he also chaired a panel discussion "What Can You do with a Degree in Music Outside of Performing and Teaching?"
February
2003
Kay
Brimijoin:
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Co-authored an article which
appeared in February 2003: "Using Data to Differentiate Instruction".
Kay Brimijoin, Ede Marquissee, and Carol Ann Tomlinson. Educational
Leadership 60, 5: February, 2003: 70-73.
*
Presented a paper, "New
Dimensions in Building Expertise in Mentoring and Differentiation," at the
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education in
New Orleans, LA: January 26, 2003. This paper has been accepted for publication
in the ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education - Document Number
pending.
*
Keynote Speaker:
Mini-Conference on Gifted Education for Korean Teachers, January 20-21, 2003:
Sweet Briar College.
*
Presented "Curriculum,
Instruction, and Assessment for Gifted Learners" to 150 elementary and
secondary teachers in Waunakee, WI, February 6-7, 2003.
*
Follow-up Workshop:
"Differentiating Instruction and Assessment" - Rockfish Elementary
School, Nelson County, VA: December 18, 2002.
*
Coaching teachers in
Differentiating Curriculum and Instruction: Reed Elementary School, St. Louis,
MO: December 12-13, 2002.
*
Her article "La irona o
el arte de la interpretacin" has been accepted for inclusion in the
Conference Proceedings for the Tenth Annual International Conference on
Hispanic Literature sponsored by the Luis Goytisolo Foundation in El Puerto de
Santa Mara, Spain (November, 2002). The monograph will be published this
summer.
* Reviewed the text Bioinorganic Chemistry: A Short Course by Rosette M. Roat-Malone for "CHOICE Reviews". The review will appear in magazine form in approximately 3 months. If more information is needed about CHOICE go to... www.ala.org/acrl/choice
* Reviewed the paper "The Role Of The Metal Atom In Metalloporphyrins" by Clifford Sanders and Gary G. Hoffman for the Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research.
Deborah Durham
* Co-authored an article which appeared in December: 2002 "Funerals and the Public Space of Mutuality in Botswana." Deborah Durham and Fred Klaits. Journal of Southern African Studies 28, 4 December 2002): 777-795.
* Served as a screener for the SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowships again this year.
* Was organist for Families Weekend church service at SBC - October 20.
* Was organist for the 100th Anniversary Fund service at SBC - October 27.
* Sang as baritone soloist for the Faure REQUIEM at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Lynchburg - November 3.
* Was organist for the SBC Christmas Vesper service - December 5.
* Conducted CANTATE and was bass soloist at the Christmas concert with the Lynchburg Youth Symphony Orchestra - December 7.
* Sang as bass soloist in Bach's Cantata #104 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynchburg - December 8.
* Conducted the CANTICUM NOVUM choir the Christmas concert at Chatham Hall - December 8.
* Conducted the CANTICUM NOVUM choir and was soloist with the CANTATE Christmas Concert in Lynchburg - December 15.
* Sang the role of Balthazar in Menotti's AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS in three performance for the Lynchburg Community Concerts Association – December 19 -21.
* Conducted CANTATE at the Christmas concert with the First Presbyterian Church Choir in Lynchburg - December 22.
Was reappointed to the advisory panel for the Virginia Commission for the Arts touring program.
Kay Brimijoin
* Received a grant award from the Virginia Department of Education for a proposal entitled "New Links in Building Expertise: Preparing and Supporting Highly Qualified Teachers" written with Dr. Jim Alouf, Ms. Kim Chandler, Dr. Mary Ann Mayhew, and Dr. Peggy Schimmoeller (Joint project – Sweet Briar College, Randolph-Macon Womans College, and Amherst County Public Schools). A one-year award of $40,770 (the second years award depending on state budget).
* "Gifted Education: From Conceptions to Curriculum", Keynote address to Mini-conference for Korean Teachers (Jollanamdo), Lynchburg, VA, November 12-13, 2002 (Second address in a series)
* Presented a Workshop, "Linking Concepts, SOLs, and Differentiation", Amherst County Public Schools, Amherst, VA, November 7, 2002
* "Differentiating Professional Development: Blueprints for Instruction, Modeling, and Coaching", Virginia Association for the Gifted Conference, October 29, 2002
* Presented "Learning in Depth: Summarizing and Note-taking" at Conway Elementary School, St. Louis, MO, October 24-25, 2002.
* Presented "Putting the Pieces of Differentiation Together: Assessment, Curriculum, and Instruction" at Rockfish and Tye River Elementary Schools, Nelson County, VA, October 17, 2002
* Facilitator, Curriculum Planning Workshop, Amherst County Public Schools Differentiation Study Group, October 8, 2002
* Presented "Putting the Pieces of Differentiation to Work: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment" for Shelburne Middle School faculty, Staunton, VA, October 4, 2002
Pamela DeWeese
* Was an invited guest speaker at the Tenth Annual International Symposium on Contemporary Hispanic Narrative, November 12-15 in El Puerto de Santa Mara, Spain. Her presentation was entitled "La irona o el arte de la interpretacin."
* Served as discussant for 5 papers on the state, civil society, NGOs and the public sphere, at a small conference on "New Directions in Anthropology" outside New Orleans, Nov 24-26.
* Presented (as of the time of the Faculty Meeting, at least) a paper "From "Hot Singers"to Deep Song: Song, Choirs and Community for Herero of Botswana" in a session on choirs and community at the African Studies Association annual meetings December 5-8 in Washington DC.
* Presentation (2002, November). "What preservice teachers need to know about the gifted." National Association for Gifted Children Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
* Consulting (2002, September 28-30). "Differentiating instruction for gifted learners in the elementary school.: Anchorage School District, Anchorage, AK.
* Publication (2002, October). The great expectations of going to graduate school: A Dickensonian approach. National Association for Gifted Children Graduate Student Newsletter. NAGC: Washington, D. C.
* Dissertation Progress: Defended proposal for dissertation, November 13, 2002.
* "Hubert's Vengeance" was performed at William Patterson College (10 Oct)
* "Come In Speaking Silence of a Dream" was performed at Belmont Abbey College (12 Nov)
* Has been included in the 2003 Who's Who in America
* Was invited to present the keynote speech at the Bicentennial celebration of Victor Hugo's birth that was held in Charlottesville, Virginia, under the sponsorship of L'Alliance Franaise on November 16, 2002. His paper was entitled "Victor Hugo, sa vie, son oeuvre."
Lincoln Brower
* Published in 2002 -Quantitative changes in forest quality in a principal overwintering area of the monarch butterfly in Mexico: 1971 to 1999 entitled Conservation Biology 16:346-359.
* On October 21, 2002, lectured at Lynchburg College on catastrophic mortality of the monarch butterfly in Mexico, January 2002.
*
Received contract for
co-authored monograph, On Levinas
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth) (to appear in 2004)
*
Completed manuscript for
Continental Ethics Reader (New
York: Routledge) (to appear in April 2004)
*
Book review of Paola
Cavalieri, The Animal Question in International
Studies in Philosophy, accepted and
forthcoming, 2004.
*
Received invitation to
present symposium paper at the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals,
March 2003
*
Received invitation to
present paper at the annual Collegium Phaenomenologicum meeting in Perugia, Italy (July 14-August 1st,
2003)
*
Attended annual Society
for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Meeting, October 10-12
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Attended annual
International Association for Environmental Philosophy Meeting, Chicago,
October 13
*
Honors Colloquium
Presentation, "Deconstruction is Not Vegetarianism: Derrida and Animal Ethics,"
October 23
*
Designed Philosophy
Department website (http://www.philosophy.sbc.edu/)
Christian Carr
*
In October, participated
in a Conservation Forum on Care of the Historic Site at the Williamsburg
Institute.
*
Attended a scholars-only
opening lecture for the Kreuzer collection of Art Nouveau exhibition at the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, as well as the annual meeting of the
Southeastern Association of Museums.
Robin Davies
*
Presented a research
poster entitled "Screening Novel Metal Complexes for Potential Anti-Cancer
Activity" at the Centennial Celebration of Iota Sigma Pi National Honor
Society for Women in Chemistry on June 15, 2002 at the University of
California, Berkeley.
*
Served as the Lanthanum
chapter delegate to the Twenty-seventh National Triennial Convention of Iota
Sigma Pi, June 12-14, 2002, at Berkeley.
Grant Denn
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Gave a talk at the Green
Bank station of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory called 'Radio Emission
from M100.'
*
Gave a talk at the
Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies on
"Introducing Spectrophotometry in Grades 6-12 Using a College-based
Spectrophotometer Loan Program". October 2002
*
In November, will be
giving a talk at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical
Society on "SCIENCE EDUCATION: THE NEXT GENERATION. A PROFESSIONALLY-RELEVANT CHEMISTRY
COURSE AND SCIENCE SEQUENCE FOR FUTURE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS"
*
In November, Robin
Davies and Jill will be giving two presentations at the Virginia Association of
Science Teachers meeting. One on
"Light, Color, and Energy Activities for Grades 6-12" and the other
on "Investigations for the Elementary Grades".
*
Has been asked to review
a manuscript for Enslow publishers on the chemistry of water.
*
Via their
SCHEV-Eisenhower grant, we have hosted 37 local elementary and middle school
teachers this fall semester who have come to SBC to participate in science and
math teacher training workshops.
Profs. L Fink, B. Kirkwood, L. Brower, R. Davies, H. Yochum, D. Orvos,
and Jill have conducted three Saturday workshops this fall on "Monarchs,
Math, and More", "CSI: Crime Scene Investigations for Grades
3-6", and "Eco-Explorers".
* Our web pages on "The Chemistry of Water", part of Chris Witcombe's "H2O - the mystery, art, and science of water" website, has just been selected by the National Association of Science Teachers for incorporation into SciLinks, an interactive web database correlated to linked science textbooks.
*
Was a participant in a
panel discussion on the role of adjunct faculty in collegiate music programs,
and a member of the Regional Presidents' Council meeting at the National
Meeting of the College Music Society in Kansas City.
*
Attended the fall Board
of Directors meeting of the Conductors Guild in Chicago.
*
Attended the premiere of
"Crossroads Down," a composition that he wrote to commemorate the
bicentennial of his hometown, Westfield, NY
*
Attended the premiere of
his "Leviathan's Wrath," a concerto for tuba and symphonic band, which was performed by Dennis AsKew and the
United States Navy Band at the 2002 International Tuba and Euphonium
Conference.
*
Received a sixth annual
ASCAP Standard Panel Award for Composition
*
Was selected for
inclusion in "Contemporary Authors."
*
Received a commission
for "Riding the Winds of December," a work for children's choir and
band that will be part of the centennial celebration of the first flight in
Kitty Hawk next December.
*
Gave paper entitled
"Multiple Memoirs: Women's
Writing and American Spiritualism," at the Society for Christianity and
Literature, St. Francis College, New York, Oct. 2002
*
Will give paper,
"Time and Again: Postponing
the Apocalypse in Mormon Scripture," at Center for Millennial Studies,
Boston, Boston University, Nov. 2002
*
Will have an article
"From Electricity to Ectoplasm:
Hysteria and American Spiritualism,"
in ARIES:
Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, 3:1 (Jan. 2003)
*
Organized and managed
the 8th Annual AATG-Goethe
Institut Immersion Weekend at Sweet Briar on October 11-13.
*
Attended a FLAVA
executive Council business meeting in Richmond in September.
*
Participated in the
AATG-FLAVA Conference in Richmond on October 24-26. He attended a meeting of the executive committee of FLAVA on
Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, served on a panel discussing
opportunities for German teachers to participate in programs of study in
Germany and Austria, and presided over the fall business meeting of the
Virginia Chapter of AATG. At this
meeting he was reelected to the position of President of the Virginia Chapter
of AATG.
*
Will attend the annual
meeting of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Salt
Lake City this November. While
there he will participate in the annual business meeting of the Chapter
Presidents Council and will co-host a reception for the 75th Anniversary of Delta Phi Alpha, the German Honor
Society. He is currently serving as Second Vice President of this organization.
Alix Ingber
*
Delivered a paper,
"The Recursive Quijote" at the symposium "A Celebration of
Brooklyn Hispanism: Hispanic
Literature from Don Quijote to Today" on October 17 at the Cervantes
Institute in New York. The symposium was sponsored by Brooklyn College, The
Office of Academic Affairs of the City University of New York, The Cervantes
Institute and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Sarah Meacham
*
Will be
presenting a paper at the American Historical Association annual conference in
January (in Chicago) on issues of power in the eighteenth-century
Chesapeake.
*
Has had an
article accepted to be published by the *Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography* titled "Coming Over and Going Back: Gender, Technology, and
Cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760."
Angelo
Metzidakis
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