Sandy Baum, professor of economics, went to London in November to consult to the Prime Minister’s Office and the office of the Chancellor of the Exechequer on university tuition and student aid policies.

Terence Diggory, Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, presented a paper titled
" 'Peacefully Hammering': Williams's Urban Pastoral" in a session on "[William Carlos]
Williams and the Urban Environment," at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association Dec. 27-30, 2002, in New York City.

Jeffrey Segrave, professor of exercise science and athletics director, presented an invited paper titled “The Modern Olympic Games and Ritual Invention” at the American Historical Association annual meeting Jan. 3, in Chicago.

Gordon Thompson, associate professor of music, presented a lecture as part of the Albany Institute of History and Art’s exhibition, The Beatles: Now and Then, Photographs by Harry Benson.  Thompson’s lecture, “Twist and Shout: British Beatles and American Roots” dealt with the songs by American rock and rhythm-and-blues artists that the Beatles recorded.

Publications

Skidmore’s Advancement Office has been honored with “Accolades” awards in communications by District II (Mid-Atlantic) of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.  The awards will be presented Feb. 3 at CASE’s regional conference in New York City.
     College Relations staff members won a Gold Award in the category of “Quality of News Writing.”  The pieces submitted were written by Bob Kimmerle, director of college relations; Barbara Melville, staff writer; and Andrea Wise, director of media relations.
     Scope, the Skidmore magazine, won an Honorable Mention in the category of “Periodical Staff Writing.”  Four College Relations writers were cited:  Barbara Melville; Peter MacDonald, director of publications; Sue Rosenberg, Scopeeditor; and Maryann Teale Snell, Scope associate editor.
     Advancement’s Friends of the Tang brochure took both a Gold Award in the category “Fund-Raising Publications” and a Bronze Award in the category “Visual Design in Print, Single-Page Publications.”  Project manager for the brochure was Mary Jo Driscoll, leadership gifts officer; the graphic designer was free-lancer Beth Laub.

Erica Bastress-Dukehart, assistant professor of history, is the author of The Zimmern Chronicle:  Nobility, Memory, and Self-Representation in 16th-Century Germany, published in November by Ashgate Press, London.
     The book brings the history of the Zimmern family to English readers for the first time with an examination of the most famous noble family chronicle to come out of 16th century Germany.  The work is distinctive because of its representation of the collective memory of the Southwest German nobility.  The Zimmern authors included not only their own recollections, but also those of their noble contemporaries.  By memorializing relationships within their community, they drew attention to the increasingly important issue of how their lineages had been historically constituted.
     Bastress-Dukehart relates the history of the chronicle and introduces the long-standing mystery surrounding the text’s authorship.  She then draws attention to the importance of inheritance and the obligation for ancestral memoralization that property devolution demands, setting the stage for the history that the chronicle tells.  She portrays the Zimmern Chronicle as more than a family history, arguing that because the authors filled their work with legends, sexual tales, and farcical stories of daily life in Southwestern Germany, they proved themselves adept at stimulating the curiosity of their readers, thus ensuring that the audience would read the work to its conclusion.
     Bastress-Dukehart came to Skidmore in the fall of 2002 from the University of Oregon, where she earned several citations for her teaching. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Oregon, where she earned a B.S. degree in history and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  She earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in early modern European history at the University of California at Berkeley.

Hédi Jaouad, associate professor of French, is the new editor, and Marc-André Weisman, associate professors of French, and Charlene Grant, lecturer in Spanish, are new associate editors of Revue CELAAN Review, the journal of the Center for the Study of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa.  Published three times a year, the journal presents scholarly articles on Maghrebian authors and French authors from the Maghreb (North Africa) and occasional notes on North Africa’s role in the work of authors from France and elsewhere.  Jaouad has been associated with the publication since its inception 20 years ago, while a graduate student at Temple University.  The Center was founded by Eric Sellin, a former professor there.  When Sellin (who was a professor of Jaouad’s) retired, Jaouad accepted his invitation to become editor of the review.

Reg Lilly, associate professor of philosophy and chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, is the author of an article, “Foucault and the Disappearance of the Visible Subject” included in the recently published collection, Panorama:  Philosophies of the Visible, edited by Wilhelm Wurzer and published by Continuum Press.

Linda Simon, professor of English, is the author of an essay, “William James:  The European Connection,” forthcoming in William James in Russian Culture, edited by Joan Delaney Grossman and Ruth Rischin, due in March from Lexington Books.