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Vol. 5, No. 2 - November 4, 2005
Faculty/Staff Activities Charles Joseph, vice president for academic affairs and professor of music, participated in two pre-performance talks at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center this summer. On July 23, he was the interviewer for "A Conversation with Ballerina Kay Mazzo," featuring the former principal dancer at the New York City Ballet and co-chair of the School of American Ballet, prior to that night's performance by the NYCB; on Aug. 11, he delivered a lecture titled "Passion Tempered by Form: Tchaikovsky's Delicate Balance," prior to a Philadelphia Orchestra concert. Tom Lewis, professor of English, gave a lecture based on his newly published book, The Hudson: A History, Oct. 30 at the Albany Institute of History and Art. The day's program, which also featured folk singer Rich Bala, focused on the history of the Hudson Valley. Mary Zeiss Stange, associate professor of women's studies and religion, was a featured speaker in "Hunting and Angling for Solutions," a session devoted to forging alliances between hunter/conservationists and "green" environmentalists, at the Sierra Club's first national summit, Sept. 11 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco. Publications, Exhibitions, & Performances Robert Boyers, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters, is the author of two books: Excitable Women, Damaged Men, a collection of stories, (New York, N.Y.: Turtle Point Press, 2005); and The Dictator's Dictation: The Politics of Novels and Novelists, a book of essays, (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2005). Margo Mensing, associate professor of art, was one of 70 artists featured in this summer's 2005 Exhibition of the Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, adjudicated by Ivan C. Karp, founder of the OK Harris Gallery in New York City. Mensing's work was the billboard-sized "Indian Point Nuclear Plant," a mosaic constructed from thousands of paper circles cut from security envelopes. John Nazarenko, senior artist-in-residence, Department of Music, performed with guitarist Chuck D'Aloia Aug. 27 at the Luzerne Jazz Festival. Pushkala Prasad, Zankel Professor of Management for Liberal Arts Students, is the author of Crafting Qualitative Research: Working in the Postpositivist Traditions (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe Inc., 2005) Linda Simon, professor and chair, Department of English, has an entry on Pragmatism in the just-published Encyclopedia of New England (Yale University Press).
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