| Inamoto Receives Chaplin Prize
Lecturer of Japanese Masako Inamoto has won this year's Chaplin Memorial Award for Excellence in Japanese Language Teaching, administered through the Northeast Council of the Association for Asian Studies.
The annual $1,000 prize was established by Professor George Chaplin to honor his wife, Hamako Ito Chaplin, who was considered an outstanding instructor of Japanese and scholar of the Japanese language and taught at Yale University from 1956 to 1975. Current graduate students or full-time instructors of Japanese from throughout the country are eligible for the Chaplin Memorial Award.
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Chair Paty Rubio called Inamoto "One of the star teachers in the department. It is wonderful to have her talents receive national recognition."
A Skidmore faculty member since 1989, Inamoto holds degrees from Kwansei Gakuin University in Hyogo, Japan; the University at Albany, State University of New York; and Ohio State University. She is known for a teaching style that emphasizes understanding of the global community, and for stressing the finer points of Japanese culture by helping students understand the differences between phrases that show respect for elders and bosses, and those that are saved for conversations among peers or younger people.
Lilly Earns International Honor
Reg Lilly, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, has been voted a Correspondent of the Collège internationale de Philosophie, a national institution supported by several French ministries that is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of philosophy in France and abroad.
Correspondents – who come from throughout the world – are nominated by program directors of the Collège. The duties of a correspondent include making regular reports on meetings, conferences, debates, and publications of philosophical interest in their region or country; and organizing events or gatherings to promote philosophical work. Toward that end, Lilly will deliver a series of eight lectures in French at the Collège internationale from October to December 2005 in Paris. During the same period he will be serving as the inaugural director of Skidmore's new Paris Seminar.
The series will be geared toward philosophy professors and graduate students in philosophy and will be open to the public. Titled "The Fissured Subject and Tragic Being," the series will be an analysis of the human condition from a philosophical as well as from a psychoanalytic and literary critical perspective. Drawing on Reiner Schürmann's Broken Hegemonies (which Lilly translated) and incorporating trauma theory as found in Freud, Lacan, and contemporary psychoanalytic theory, the final lectures of the seminar will employ fundamental concepts of Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot to propose a critical supplement of Martin Heidegger's "existential analytic" and his later "history of being."
College Receives NEA Grant for Jazz Institute
The College has received a grant of $7,500 from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the Skidmore Jazz Institute. Offered in collaboration with the New York State Summer School of the Arts School of Jazz Studies, the Skidmore Jazz Institute-two weeks of serious jazz for students of all ages-returns to Skidmore from June 25 to July 9 this year. The program features master classes, daily improvisational classes, and private instruction for students from high school age on up.
This is the third grant in four years from the NEA, and as in the past the funds will be used to support the popular performances by guest artists and provide scholarship support for students. Guest artists performing this year include the following:
- June 28, the Bill Charlap Trio-Blue Note pianist Charlap will be joined by Peter Washington on piano and Kenny Washington on bass.
- July 1, Jazz Drummer Carl Allen and the Art of Elvin
- July 2, The Dick Oatts Quartet
- July 5, Saxophonist Terell Stafford's Quintet
All concerts begin at 8 p.m. in the Bernhard Theater. Admission is free.
Media Update
Skidmore faculty and staff whose expertise has been used in recent stories in the mainstream media include the following:
Mary Lou Bates, dean of enrollment and financial aid, was a source for an April 24 Baltimore Sun story titled "College Admission, But With a Catch: A Growing Number of Students Weigh Second Semester Entry as Universities Try to Keep Dorms Full All Year Long."
Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was quoted in the following stories: "As Merit-Aid Escalates, Wealthy Often Win," April 19, The Washington Post; "Ivy Leagues Top $40,000," April 21, Newsday; "You May Have More Money for College Than You Think," April 27, St. Paul Pioneer Press; and "College Sticker Shock: $40K and Rising," May 3, cnn/money.com.
Donna Brent, visiting assistant professor of education, was cited in "Colleges Chasing Internet Cheaters," The Post-Star, Dec. 19, 2004.
Jennifer Delton, associate professor of history, was interviewed for "Vietnam: 30 Years Later - Class Offers Closer Look at Both Sides During Vietnam Era," April 25, The Saratogian.
Mary Lynn, professor of American studies, was a source for "'Father Time' Set the Clocks from Spa City," March 5, The Post-Star; and "Skidmore Grows Through the Years: Professor Takes Audience Back Into College's History," March 25, The Post-Star.
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