Gary Richards, associate professor and chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, was a participant at the 27th Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival in New Orleans. He was the facilitator of the Breakfast Book Club, one of the Festival’s special events. This year, the focus was on the short stories of Southern writer Eudora Welty.
Elizabeth Larus, professor of political science and international affairs, presented a paper, “Technological Change and China’s Naval Modernization: Security Implications for Taiwan,” at an international conference on Cross-Strait Relations in an Era of Technological Change on Tuesday, March 5. The conference was organized by St. Antony’s College, Oxford University (UK).
Jim Groom delivered the keynote presentation at Ohio State University’s fourth annual educational technology conference, innovateOSU, titled “Domain of One’s Own: Open Educational Experiences.” The presentation shared the work that has been happening at UMW over the past eight years, chronicling the fruits of DTLT‘s experimentations with commodity web hosting which led to innovative projects such as UMW Blogs, Digital Storytelling (ds106), and most recently Domain of One’s Own. You can see the slides for this presentation here. To see an archived video of the live presentation click here.
The 23rd Annual Multicultural Fair will be held on Saturday, April 13 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Multicultural Fair is one of the largest, most anticipated events hosted at the University of Mary Washington. The Multicultural Fair will feature over 30 performances, 50 multicultural vendors, food representing various cuisines, and kid-friendly activities.
For additional information about the Multicultural Fair go to to the James Farmer Multicultural Center’s website at http://students.umw.edu/multicultural/fair. If you are interested in serving as a volunteer, please attend a volunteer meeting on Wednesday, April 10 at 4:00 p.m. in the Red Room of Woodard Campus Center, or stop by the Multicultural Center (Lee 211) to sign-up.
