Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti presented a paper titled “Registering Slavery, Takfīring Enemies, Tasting Death: Şehzade Korkud’s (d. 1513) Contributions to Ottoman Religio-Political Policies.” It was presented at the “(Re)thinking Ottoman Sunnitization, ca. 1450-1700” workshop, held on August 25-26, at Budapest’s Central European University (CEU). The workshop is part of the […]
Senior Associate Registrar Kevin Caffrey releases his latest CD, Downshifter, on Friday, Sept. 1. Consisting of all original music, the main inspiration behind the work is Caffrey’s personal experience with adopting a simpler lifestyle that emphasizes and focuses on meaningful family, social and personal relationships. He’ll be performing at Union Market in Richmond on Sept. […]
Elizabeth Freund Larus, Waple Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, organized and chaired the Roundtable “Security Dynamics in the Asia-Pacific” at the International Studies Association-Hong Kong conference June 15-18, 2017, in Hong Kong. She also presented her research paper, “U.S. Naval Coalition Building and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific,” at the conference.
Maia Magrakvelidze, assistant professor in the Physics Department, co-authored an article with Himadri S. Chakraborty titled “Attosecond time delays in the valence photoionization of xenon and iodine at energies degenerate with core emissions” in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series 875, 022015 (2017), published online on Aug. 18, 2017. (See link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/875/3/022015?pageTitle=IOPscience)
Over the summer, the journal Vinyl published Assistant Professor of English Laura Bylenok’s poem “Homologue: Husband,” which can be found here:http://vinylpoetryandprose.com/2017/06/laura-bylenok/
