Faculty/Staff Activities

Terry Diggory, professor and chair, Department of English, participated Feb. 27 in a panel at the Opalka Gallery of Sage College of Albany in connection with its exhibition, "New York School: Another view." The exhibition catalogue includes his essay, "The Arts Community and the Changing Avant-Garde in Postwar New York."

Francisco Gonzalez, associate professor of philosophy, has had a number of activities. Details are as follows:

Four invited presentations in January: "Taking the Measure of Knowledge: Dialogue and Dialectic in Plato's Theaetetus," Jan. 13 at the Universitá degli Studi di Firenze; "How is the Truth of Beings in the Soul? Interpreting Anamnesis in Plato's Meno," Jan. 11 at the Universitá degli Studi di Roma Tor Vegata; "Tablettes de cire, pigeonniers ou grossesses imaginaries? Sur les puissance de l'âme de Théétète," Jan. 7 at the Université de Paris X-Nanterre; and "La dialectique est-elle dialogue chez Platon? Réflexions sur le Théétète," Jan. 5 at the Universite de Provence (Aix-Marseillé I), Aix-en-Provence.

On Dec. 10, he delivered an invited paper titled "An Abandoned Dialogue: Heidegger's Reading of Plato's Theaetetus 184-197" at Siena College. During Oct. 22-24, he attended the meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, held at Fordham University, where he presented "Socrates' Impious Piety in Plato's Apology."

He presented an invited paper titled "Whose Metaphysics of Presence? Heidegger's Interpretation of Energeia and Dunamis in Aristotle," at the New School in New York City. Last summer, he was at the VII Symposium Platonicum in Würzburg, Germany, where he presented "The Truth of Beings in the Soul: Plato's Meno on Recollection."

Publications

Katharine A. Cartwright. lecturer, Department of Geosciences, has been selected for inclusion in Who's Who Among America's Teachers for the second time in two consecutive years. Just two percent of the nation's teaching population receives this honor more than once.

Tom Davis, chaplain emeritus, is the author of Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances (2005, Rutgers University Press), with foreward by the Rev. Carlton W. Veazey. According to the publisher, the book brings to light the ways in which the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the clergy are not as incongruent as they often are construed to be. Although clergy supporters of choice are rarely, if ever, given attention in the media, Davis shows that they in fact play a major role in advancing women's rights, rebutting right-wing arguments, and helping to make (and keep) abortion legal nationwide.

Beginning with Margaret Sanger's efforts to include mainline clergy in the fight to provide information about contraceptives to the general public, Davis details the religious and historical dimensions of this long alliance up through current debates about the future of reproductive rights. He argues that Planned Parenthood, though a secular organization, is engaged in the "sacred work" of promoting social justice and that it is this work that continues to bring clergy into alliance with it.

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