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October 25, 2019

Melissa Coleman – Biology

Professor Coleman gave the Masakazu Konishi Endowed Lectureship entitled “Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Duet Singing in a Neotropical Wren,” in the Neural Systems and Behavior Course at the Marine […]

David Cubek – Music

Professor Cubek gave the following performances: Conducted the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestras Philharmonic at the Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, CA; Led the Simón Bolívar Symphony and dictated advanced score analysis workshops […]

Meiver De la Cruz – Dance

Professor De la Cruz was a keynote speaker at the closing plenary, “The State of the Field,” at the Dance Studies Association Annual Conference, at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. […]

Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert – Biology

Professor Edwalds-Gilbert presented the following: An invited talk “Regulation of gene expression by mRNA translation in response to stress” at the Symbioza Research Conference in Warsaw, Poland, and at the […]

Marino Forlino – Italian

Professor Forlino authored “Estratti di vita lucana,” a collection of poetry and prose published in Basilicata-Terra Terra, a photography book by Vincenzo Frangione. ISBN 979-12-200-5123-1. July 2019. His short story “Respirando” […]

Cindy Forster – History

Professor Forster was invited to organize speakers for a conference co-hosted by the Vice-Ministry of Decolonization and the Law School of the National University in Bolivia. She participated at the […]

Ken Gonzales-Day – Art

Professor Gonzales-Day work was featured in the following exhibits: “Black, Brown and Beige” at Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 17 through Sept. 27, 2019; https://kengonzalesday.com/black-brown-and-beige/ “Frieze New York” […]

Anne Harley – Music

Professor Harley completed a one-month residency at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in China as a guest teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework which is a type of voicework for actor training programs. […]

Amy Hough-Dugdale – Italian

Professor Hough-Dugdale’s published paper “Periphaural Vision: Sound and the Rhizomatic Reconfiguration of Image in Fellini’s La voce della luna” won the California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies (CICIS) Prize.

Hao Huang – Music

Professor Huang received an invitation to participate in The Migration Conference 2019 in Bari, Italy, from the Director of Regent’s Centre for Transnational Studies, London, UK. He performed the following: […]

Kasper Kovitz – Art

Professor Kovitz’s work was featured in the solo exhibition “Where is everyone? Labo(u)r – Leisure – Freedom,” at xero, kline & coma, London, U.K., May – June 2019.

Nancy Macko – Art

Professor Macko’s exhibition “The Fragile Bee” was featured in a new exhibit at the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT, June through September 2019.

Mary MacNaughton – Art History

Professor MacNaughton oversaw the ongoing conservation treatment of two major campus art projects: 1) the cleaning of the Shakespeare Relief sculptures and 2) the architectural frame for the Ramos Martinez […]

Sumita Pahwa – Politics

Professor Pahwa contributed an essay on teaching Middle East survey courses after the Arab uprisings (invited contribution) for the Middle East Studies pedagogy initiative at Jadaliyya, with the roundtable published […]

Katie Purvis-Roberts – Chemistry and Environmental Science

Professor Purvis-Roberts received an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Grant (August 2019-January 2020) “APEC Workshop on University Collaboration to Support Data Gathering and Analysis in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy” in […]

Nathalie Rachlin – French

Professor Rachlin gave a talk entitled “Filming Nuit Debout: The Art of Revolt in Paris est une fête: un film en 18 vagues (2017) by Sylvain George and L’Assemblée (2018) by […]

Michael Spezio – Psychology

Professor Spezio was awarded a $190,000 grant from the Self, Virtue, and Public Life Project which focused on understanding moral action and leadership among members of humanitarian and democratizing justice […]

Kevin Vennemann – German

Professor Vennemann’s German translation of Franco Berardi’s seminal study “The Soul at Work. From Alienation to Autonomy” was published by Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, Germany. His essay “’Now, you think you’re […]

Rivka Weinberg – Philosophy

Professor Weinberg published the following articles: “A Conflict of Interests,” invited forum, “Philosophers on Abortion,” Daily Nous Philosophy blog, June 2019; A review of Chris Kaposy, “Choosing Down Syndrome” (MIT, […]

October 24, 2019

Carlin Wing – Media Studies

Professor Wing reviewed two new books on women and sport: Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel’s Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America and Gemma Clarke’s Soccerwomen: The […]