Julie Ficarra
Julie Ficarra, International Programs, presented research on the coloniality of images used in study abroad marketing materials, and the unequal relations of power that can be perpetuated in international programs, with a focus on program design strategies that promote equity, ethics, and social justice. She also presented on her recently published article, titled: ‘Curating Cartographies of Knowledge: Reading Institutional Study Abroad Portfolio as Text’. The Forum on Education Abroad conference was held from March 21 to 23 in Boston, Mass.
Henry Steck, William Veit, Julia West and John Suarez
Henry Steck, distinguished service professor emeritus of political science, William Veit, risk management officer, Julia West, risk management intern, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement director, participated in SUNY Central’s Deliberative Democracy Conference held June 22 and 23 at the SUNY Oswego Metro Center. Steck participated in the Experience a Deliberation workshop. West, Veit and Suarez conducted the Risk Managed Applied Learning Workshop in which participants applied enterprise risk management concepts to a real-life project as a way of determining how they could apply those concepts to their own projects. Suarez served as a panelist on the Envisioning the Uses of Deliberation panel and served as a facilitator in the Experience a Deliberation workshop.
Evan Faulkenbury
Evan Faulkenbury, History Department, had an article published in the peer-reviewed journal The Public Historian. “A Problem of Visibility: Remembering and Forgetting the Civil War in Cortland, New York” is about the history of Cortland’s Union soldier monument that stands downtown in Courthouse Park. A photograph from its 1877 dedication ceremony was featured on the cover of the journal.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper titled “Killing History: The Senseless Death of the Renaissance Ballroom,” at the 44th North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) Annual Convention, held May 27-30 at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Also, she was named co-editor, with Gary James of Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K., of the NASSH bi-annual newsletter.
Ellen Paterson
Ellen Paterson, Library, has a book review of Dying To Please: Anorexia, Treatment, and Recovery, by Avis Rumney, 2nd ed., McFarland, 2009, published in the December 2009 issue of CHOICE.
Mecke Nagel
Mecke Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, taught a summer course in German, “Reflections on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra,” for the International Summer University at Fulda University, which is in its first year of a student exchange agreement with SUNY Cortland. Nagel also co-edited a volume on “Prisons, Peace and Social Justice,” for the Summer 2011 issue of Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, (Routledge).
Kate Polasek
Kate Polasek, Kinesiology Department, recently had her article “Friendship Formation among Professional Male Dancers” published in Dance and Gender: An Evidence-Based Approach.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, as editor-in-chief of Wagadu, announces the recent publication of a special issue of the online academic feminist journal. Edited by Nikita Dhawan, professor of political theory and gender studies and director of the Research Platform Gender Studies, at University of Innsbruck, the issue outlines the ideological function of diversity and intersectionality as legitimizing performance indicators in discourses and institutions. Included in the issue is an article by Nagel titled “Pitfalls of Diversity Management.”
Paul Arras
Paul Arras, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented a paper titled “The Presence and Absence of Bodies in 9/11 Imagery” at the Popular Culture Association National Conference held March 27-30 in Chicago.
Richard Kendrick
Richard Kendrick, Institute for Civic Engagement and Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented “Where Are Our ‘Habits of the Heart’?” at a conference titled “Making the Middle East and North Africa Region a Burgeoning Democracy,” held Feb. 25 to 29 in Marrakech, Morocco. Also, he co-led a two-day training session, with Julia Ganson of Syracuse University, on civic education and civic engagement for Moroccan higher education faculty and students. The conference and training were organized by the North-South Center for Social Sciences and sponsored by the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund.