A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Author and semiotician Umberto Eco was the keynote speaker at Semiotica 2015
On May 25, Professors Joseph Romero and Jason Matzke in the Department of Classics, Philosophy and Religion delivered a paper on semiotics and autobiography in the memoir of Harvard philosopher, Stanley Cavell, at Semiotica 2015, an international semiotics conference held in Łódź, Poland.
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, was a panelist for a recent Senate of Virginia 29th District Democratic Primary Debate in Woodbridge. The debate was sponsored by Potomac Local News and involved three local candidates seeking to replace Sen. Chuck Colgan (D) in the pivotal Prince William County district, which stretches from Woodbridge to Manassas Park.
University of Mary Washington Professor of Geography Stephen Hanna will be featured on the With Good Reason public radio program that airs beginning Saturday, June 13.
In the show, “Marking Stories of Slavery,” Hanna discusses his research team’s efforts to determine if Southern plantation museums continue to gloss over the wealth accrued through slave labor in favor of more romanticized depictions of plantation life.
With Good Reason is a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. The show airs weekly in Fredericksburg on Sundays from 1-2 p.m. on Radio IQ 88.3 Digital. To listen from outside of the Fredericksburg area, a complete list of air times and links to corresponding radio stations can be found at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/when-to-listen. Audio files of the full program and its companion news feature will be available online at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2015/06/marking-stories-of-slavery/.
Hanna is a human geographer by training with primary interests in the economic and cultural characteristics of places within the global economy. He has extensive training and work experience in cartography and geographic information systems. In addition to teaching these topics at the University, he regularly prepares maps for publication in academic books and journals.
His research on narratives of slavery and emancipation in Fredericksburg’s heritage tourism landscape has been published in cultural geographies, The Southeastern Geographer, Social and Cultural Geography and as a chapter in Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies, a book he co-edited.
He also co-edited the book Mapping Tourism and has written multiple articles, including publications in Progress in Human Geography, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Historical Geography and Urban Geography.
Hanna is a member of the Association of American Geographers and the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. He holds a doctorate in geography from the University of Kentucky, a master’s degree in geography from the University of Vermont and a bachelor’s degree in geography from Clark University.