Four University of Mary Washington faculty authors will speak at the 17th annual Virginia Festival of the Book, to be held March 16 through 20 in Charlottesville. Professors Claudia Emerson, Jeffrey McClurken, Debra Schleef and Steve Watkins will participate in readings and panel discussions.
Marjorie Och, Professor of Art History, chaired the session “Technology and Collaboration in the Art History Classroom” at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in New York City in February; the session was sponsored by the CAA-affiliated society Art Historians Interested in Pedagogy and Technology.
A member of President Obama’s Select Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnership, Dr. Melissa Rogers, will present a lecture March 16 titled “Continuity and Change: Faith-Based Partnerships under Presidents Bush and Obama.” The presentation will be in the Woodard Campus Center, Red Room, and begins at 4 p.m. Rogers is director of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs, and is the former director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. http://divinity.wfu.edu/rogers.html
The Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies is delighted to announce the speaker lineup for this year’s Faculty Academy. Michael Wesch, assistant professor of anthropology at Kansas State University, will be delivering the conference keynote address, “From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: New Learning Environments for New Media Environments, on May 11 at 9:00 a.m.
In addition Amanda French, THATCamp Coordinator for the Center for History and New Media, and Tom Woodward, Director of Instructional Technology for Henrico County Public Schools, will be this year’s guest presenters. Each of them will be delivering a plenary presentation and leading a workshop during the two-day conference.
Faculty Academy is an annual event that has been held at UMW for the last 15 years. This year’s conference will be on May 11 and 12 at the Stafford Campus in the North Building. All faculty and staff at the University are invited to attend — registration is free but required!
Details about the conference, information about the speakers, and an online registration and proposal form are available at http://www.facultyacademy.org!
Colin Rafferty, assistant professor of English, will serve as moderator for the University of Mary Washington’s Fredericksburg Forum on Thursday, March 17. The program, which features best-selling novelist Scott Turow, will be held at 8 p.m. in George Washington Hall, Dodd Auditorium. Tickets are still available.