Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Memorial Library, recently presented two papers:
- “‘To Give Myself to be Carried Immediately into Hell’: Weather, Witchcraft, and Two Late Seventeenth-Century Contracts between a Magician and a Student,” at the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies held May 11 to 13 in Kalamazoo, Mich., and
- “’What Are You Doing Here?’: Notes on the Trans-European Textual Transmission of a Magical Operation for Invisibility” at the York University Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Magic and Witchcraft Conference held June 22 and 23.
Also, Harms and Sanne de Laat, an independent scholar, had their article, “‘It’s a Kind of Magic’: Juggling Privacy and Prosecution for Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Magical Practitioners,” published in the Spring 2023 issue of Know: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge.
And, Harms was awarded the Friend of SUNY Librarians’ Association Award at the annual SUNYLA conference held June 14 to 16 at SUNY Maritime. According to the organization, “The award is given to individuals or organizations that actively contribute to furthering the goals of SUNYLA and of SUNY libraries.”
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his book Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form published on Aug.19 by Duke University Press. He co-edited the book with Elizabeth Freeman from University of California, Davis and it appears in Duke’s Theory Q series, which is devoted to critical sexuality studies. The Lambda Literary Foundation listed Queer Kinship on its “August’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature” list.
Szilvia Kadas and Benjamin Wilson
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, Benjamin Wilson, Economics Department, and Dowd Gallery are hosting a student-created graphic design exhibition titled “Care, Crisis, Climate, and Debt.” The student show is open to the public in Old Main Colloquium through Friday, Dec. 13.
Tim Delaune
Tim Delaune, Political Science Department and pre-law adviser, had his article published in the Autumn 2016 edition of The Green Bag. “An Immodest Proposal” is recommending a rotating chief justiceship on the US Supreme Court and was part of the The Green Bag 2d’s microsymposium in response to criticisms of the federal judiciary by Judge Richard A. Posner.
Mary Gfeller
Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department and SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, and Noyce Scholar Jason Miedema, adolescence education: mathematics major, hosted a book chat on Nov. 15 at the Blue Frog Café on Main Street in Cortland. Sponsored by the SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, the book chat brought together a group of SUNY Cortland faculty, staff and mathematics students to explore and review the book Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice by Eric Gutstein. Social justice issues and examples of social justice mathematics lessons were discussed, along with questions such as the following: “Should math teachers encourage students to use mathematics to critique injustices in their community and the world?” and “Should the goal of mathematics education be to give students the tools to challenge oppression?”
Jena Nicols Curtis
Jena Nicols Curtis, Health Department, presented sexual violence prevention education for the Department of the Navy’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response “Engaging All Voices” training seminar held in June in Orlando, Fla.
Jennifer Olin and Mark DePaull
Jennifer Olin, University Police officer, and Mark DePaull, University chief of police, were recognized by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services for leadership and dedication demonstrated while serving as the program managers for the University Police Department during the most recent accreditation assessment. The assessment was conducted by the New York State Law Enforcement Accreditation Council. Both Olin and DePaull received the DCJS John Kimball O’Neil Award on March 3 in Albany.
Laura Davies
Laura Davies, English Department, will facilitate a cross-generational career workshop at the Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC) convention in Tampa this March. The workshop is sponsored by the Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition. Also, Davies’ proposal, “Getting at the Root of the Problem: Preventing Plagiarism by Teaching Reading as a Process,” was accepted for the collection What Is College Reading? to be published in the Across the Disciplines series by the WAC Clearinghouse.
Robert Ponterio
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, presented a session titled “Make Web Materials Work on Student Smart Phones” at the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers’ NYSAFLT Annual Convention on Oct. 11 in Buffalo, N.Y. The session examined the basic techniques of Responsive Design for adjusting Web page text size, images, columns and video to display on desktop, tablet and smartphone media. Templates were provided to simplify converting existing class materials to an HTML5 format with built-in responsive style elements to make the process easier for teachers with limited Web development skills. All presentation materials and templates are available online at web.cortland.edu/flteach/wksp/nysaflt2013.html.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communications and Media Studies Department, co-authored a study that was published in Business and Professional Communication Quarterly. The title is “Communicative Care: How Companies Approach Mental Health CSR on Social Media.”