Category: College of Arts and Sciences

A one-day symposium will be held at UMW on fundamentalism and women’s rights in Islam.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Great Hall 9:00-5:00

PANELISTS
Farzaneh Davari – Women’s rights activist on Gender Perspective of Transition to Democracy
Yvonne Haddady – Professor of History at Georgetown University
Sheerin Hunter – Director of the Reformist Islam Project at Georgetown University
Mark Perry – Director of the Washington, D.C., London, and Beirut-based Conflicts Forum on Democracy
Sharifeh Zuhur – Scholar of Middle Eastern History, Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Strategic Studies

Sponsored by the following departments: Campus Academic Resource Committee, Geography, James Farmer Multicultural Center, Leidecker Center for Asian Studies, The Office of Student Life, Political Science and International Affairs, Sociology and Anthropology, and Women’s and Gender Studies

Questions? contact safsous@mail.umw.edu

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Jason W. Davidson’s article “Ignoring Allies in Afghanistan,” was published in the Feb. 15 issue of The Diplomat. The article discusses U.S. policy  and strategy in Afghanistan.

Stephen J. Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is co-author of a chapter entitled, “How Television Covers the Presidential Nomination Process,” in The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2012, an edited volume published by Rowman & Littlefield.

On Friday, Feb. 10, Farnsworth will be the featured guest on TBD-8’s news program, “NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt.” The interview, set to air at 10 a.m., will focus on Virginia’s current legislative session.

Mindy Erchull, associate professor of psychology, was one of 40 faculty members who attended the Institute for Academic Feminist Psychologists in San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 26 and 27.

The Institute was sponsored by the Society for the Psychology of Women, Division 35 of the American Psychological Association.

While attending the Institute, she presented a poster entitled “Own and Others’ Desire for Marriage and Children: A Comparison of Feminist and Non-Feminist Women.” Miriam Liss, associate professor of psychology, and Lauren Hartwell ’11 served as co-authors of the poster.

Eric Gable, professor of anthropology, will present a lecture at Bucknell University on Wednesday, March 21 as part of the university’s spring lecture series, “Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: An American Origin Story, Interdisciplinarily Considered.”

Gable’s lecture, “What Heritage Does and Does Not Do to Identity: The Case of Hemings and Jefferson,” will use material from his fieldwork in Indonesia, West Africa and Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson.