A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Eric Lorentzen
Eric Lorentzen, Associate Professor of English, recently presented a paper, “Oliver Twist’s Recovery: Wordsworthian ‘Abundant Recompense’ or Freudian ‘Primal Scene?'” at the annual Victorians Institute conference in Greenville, South Carolina.
Op-ed columns by Stephen J. Farnsworth, professor of political science, and Stephen P. Hanna, professor of geography, appeared recently in The Washington Post and The Richmond Times-Dispatch respectively. The columns, “This one map shows the Republicans’ problem in Virginia” and “Virginia’s Changing Dynamics,” provided a post-mortem of the Virginia elections.
Marie E. McAllister, Professor of English, delivered a paper titled “Were Gentlemen Poxed Abroad? English Grand Tourists and the Rhetoric of Disease” as part of Encounters with Difference: A Conference on Travel Writing and Gender, held at Freie Universität Berlin.
Elizabeth Freund Larus, Waple Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and UMW alumnae Shirley Naa-kowaa Martey-Hargis published their article “U.S. President Obama’s China Policy: a Critical Assessment,” in the November 2017 issue of TEKA (Polish Commission of Political Science and International Affairs).
Hall Cheshire presented a poster on selecting a content collaboration service at ED
UCAUSE, one of the largest higher education technology conferences. The presentation focused on key criteria universities should consider when selecting a cloud content collaboration service. Cheshire was joined by Sean O’Brien ’09 from Internet2 and Lou Kelly from Arizona State University.
On 13-23 October, Prof. Nabil Al-Tikriti served as a volunteer guide with the MSF/Doctors Without Borders USA Forced From Home exhibit in Portland, OR. This interactive exhibit is traveling to six Western cities this fall: Boulder, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Portland, Oakland, Santa Monica (Nov. 10-21), and traveled to six Eastern cities last fall: New York, Queens, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, and Pittsburgh.
In this exhibit, participants engage with the issue of the 65 million displaced persons worldwide, including 40 million refugees. Complete with a 360 degree video dome and six information stations, participants decide which items they might bring with them should they be displaced from their homes.
In the course of this exhibit, Prof. Al-Tikriti spoke briefly on the KATU News at Four show (at 2:25 here): https://cision.criticalmention.com/bits/wordplay/#/uuid=13dc5a25-c1a9-4047-8972-40142b333db0&channelId=8149&minTime=20171018230000&maxTime=20171019000000&token=7e34ac0d-c71f-4799-97e9-475cb307f8aa&keyword=&slim=1
For more information on the exhibit as it travels around the country, see: http://www.forcedfromhome.com/.
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a White House Fellows lecture titled “The Identity Crises of the Democratic and Republican Parties” in Washington. The lecture was at the annual leadership meeting of current and former White House Fellows, a highly selective group of mid-career professionals selected to the White House and other federal government agencies.
Professor of English Chris Foss delivered a talk titled “The Gospel According to Oscar: Progressive Politics and Social Critique in Wilde’s ‘The Young King’” on Oct. 12 in New York City.
Foss was one of three speakers of the night for an event organized by Felicia Ruff of Wagner College as the first of a series of events being sponsored by The LGBT Center of New York and The Church of the Village in conjunction with The Oscar Wilde Temple, a new public art installation by renowned artists David McDermott and Peter McGough. The installation is running from Sept. 12 through Dec. 2 in New York, after which it moves to London in 2018.
In his talk, Foss argued that the Gospel according to Oscar as embodied in his fairy tales (and in “The Young King” in particular) reveals Wilde to be a writer whose deep and abiding concern with social justice should inspire activist as well as aestheticist admiration and devotion.
Tevya Zukor, director of UMW’s Talley Center for Counseling Services, has authored a book chapter in the recently published “The College Counselor’s Guide to Group Psychotherapy.” The chapter is titled “Trainee Development in Group Psychotherapy,” published by Routledge.
The Talley Center is committed to advancing mental health for college students and is considered a leader among university counseling centers in part because of its group therapy program.
Angie White, Digital Resources Librarian, co-led a workshop at the Digital Library Federation Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 23. The workshop centered on digital library pedagogy, where participants left with a lesson plan regarding teaching with digital collections or building digital collections as a class project. Following the workshop, Angie and her colleagues led a working breakfast where participants could ask questions and discuss teaching with digital sources.