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Waxing Poetic Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass entertains a Tulane audience with a reading in the Poet Laureate Series, sponsored by the Department of English. Continue Reading |
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Message from the Dean
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News from the Field: ![]() Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the National University of Theatrical and Cinematic Arts. As a Romanian – born, raised, and educated – I maintain close connections with my fellow artists back there, especially the theatre, television and film community. Most of them are now at the very top of their artistic/academic excellence; in a country that has long been known for high theatre standards... Continue Reading Liberal Arts |
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Accolades ![]() SUSANN LUSNIA (Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies) became co-chair of the American Philological Association (APA) - Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Joint Committee on Minority Scholarships. This committee awards scholarships for summer study to minority undergraduates to further their preparation for graduate work in classics or classical archaeology. DAVID SHOEMAKER (Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy & Murphy Institute) has been named the editor of a new series of books for Oxford University Press, entitled Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility. Papers for the volumes will be drawn from presentations at a biennial workshop in New Orleans organized by Shoemaker and sponsored by the Murphy Institute. The first workshop will take place on November 3-5, 2011 at the Intercontinental Hotel. |
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Professional Activities ELIZABETH BOONE (Professor, Art Department) presented the presidential address, Discourse and Authority in Histories Painted, Knotted, and Carved, to the American Society for Ethnohistory, in Ottawa, Ontario, October 2010. She is giving invited lectures at the University of Texas and the Art Institute of Chicago in March.RICHARD VELKLEY delivered a paper for the Institute of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven, Belgium, in December 2010. The paper was titled Self-Possession of Reason and Infinite Longing in Modern Perspective. Velkley is the Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor in the Department of Philosophy. MARK VAIL, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, gave a talk, entitled Between Institutions and Ideas: Economic Crisis and Shifting Policy Strategies in Contemporary Western Europe, at the Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung at the University of Mannheim (Germany) in November 2010. Sociology Professor KEVIN FOX GOTHAM’s article with Richard Campanella, Toward a Research Agenda on Transformative Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Ecosystems, appeared in Critical Planning, Volume 17, 2010. KUKHEE CHOO (Professor of Practice, Communication) was invited to present a paper at the International Conference on Asian Culture Industries held by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society in Bangalore, India. Choo was the only scholar from the U.S. to be invited to attend this conference that took place in December 2010. Additionally, Choo’s article Cool Japan Nation: The Japanese Government's Promotion of Popular Culture in Reading Nationalism through Subculture: Visualizing Identities, was published in November 2010. ADAM MCKEOWN (Assistant Professor, Dept. of English) was invited to give a talk in December 2010 at Newcastle University (UK) entitled, Imagining the Borders in Tudor England: Art, Literature, and the Shape of Community. McKeown’s visit was funded in part by a grant from the Renaissance Society of America and in part from Newcastle University. MICHELLE KOHLER’s (Assistant Professor, Dept. of English) article entitled Dickinson and the Poetics of Revolution will appear in the forthcoming issue of the Emily Dickinson Journal, which is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. KAI-MAN CHANG (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication) was invited to give a talk on Taiwan's Queer and AIDS literature at the International Conference on Taiwan Literature: History and Methodology, held by the University of California, Davis in November 2010. NICK SPITZER (Professor, Dept. of Anthropology) and Senior American Routes Producer Maureen Loughran, joined with Roots of Music founder and Rebirth Brass Band musician Derrick Tabb, presented an examination of the role played by working musicians in Louisiana’s post-Katrina recovery at the Library of Congress in December 2010. The event was widely reported in DC media, and the LoC's press release can be found on their website here. Additionally, American Routes recently produced a program dedicated to Detroit called "Motor City Music-Routes to Recovery for Detroit." The program was carried by all three public stations in Detroit as part of our NEH-funded Routes to Recovery series, with additional support from the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center. Archives of the program can be heard here. Anthropology Associate Professor TRENTON HOLLIDAY delivered the 29th Annual Connell Lecture on January 24 at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. Holliday's presentation was entitled Neandertals and Modern Humans: Reticulation and Evolution and focused on his investigation of the potential for interbreeding and hybridization between different species of hominin (i.e., those animals more closely related to people than to chimpanzees). In 2010, genetic analyses documented such hybridization between Homo neanderthalensis and H. sapiens, and it very likely occurred among other hominin species as well. |
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