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Vol. 6, No. 2 - October 6, 2006
Faculty/Staff Activities While on sabbatical in France, John Anzalone, professor of French and director of the MALS program, lectured on the representation of World War I in book illustration at the Ecole de Chartes in Paris last March, and at the Université de Nanterre in April. In June he was inducted into the Académie du Berry, one of the French regional scholarly academies, as a membre titulaire, and gave a reception speech on "Jean de Bosschère et les métiers d'homme." He attended the June induction of novelist and cineaste Assya Djebar into the Académie française as a private guest. Paul Arciero, associate professor of exercise science, was principal investigator of presentation titled "Comparison of Meal Frequency and Macronutrient Composition on Changes in Total and Regional Body Composition in Men and Women" presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in Denver May 31-June 3. Co-authors were Patricia Fehling, associate professor of exercise science, and the following Skidmore alumni: Ben Clippinger '06, J.P. Corry '05, Pam Gagne '05, and Roger Pressman '02, and Laura Gerson, UMass. Tim Harper, assistant professor of management and business; Dante Cantu, academic advisor, Higher Education Opportunity Program; Mariel Martin, residence hall director; and Kathryn Child, community coordinator in residential life, attended the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in May in Chicago with four students. Pushkala Prasad, Zankel Professor for Management in the Liberal Arts, participated in a panel titled "A Meeting of Minds: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Researching Workplace Diversity" at the June annual meetings of the Administrative Science Association of Canada in Banff, Alberta. She also served as the distinguished visiting fellow at the Institute of Public Interest Accounting during May and June in Calgary, Canada. Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, participated Sept. 10 in the Saratoga Poetry Zone's poetry reading of selections from American War Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Lorrie Goldensohn. In addition, he delivered two lectures on Shakespeare at the William K. Sanford Town Library in Colonie, N.Y. — "Shakespeare Without Words: Balanchine's Most Rare Dream" June 22; and "Shakespeare's Shylock: One of Us or One of Them?" June 15. Both presentations were sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities Speakers in the Humanities Program. Jeffrey Segrave, David H. Porter professor, presented a paper titled "Music as sport history: The special case of Pietro Metastasio and the story of the Olympic games" at "Sporting Sounds," a conference on music and sport, Sept. 26-27 at the University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. Garry Wilson and David Yergan, lecturers in theater, earned notice for their work on the Lake George Opera Company's presentation of The Barber of Seville this summer at the Spa Little Theater. Operaonline.us said the production "surpassed all expectations in every area that we rate opera productions," and singled out Wilson's scenic design ("superb") and Yergan's lighting ("truly wonderful"). The duo earned notice in the publication's third annual list of top productions, with Wilson getting the nod for Best Set Design, Summer Opera; and Yergan garnering the Best Lighting, Summer Opera, honor. Publications, Exhibitions & Performances Peg Boyers, executive editor of Salmagundi, is the author of the following poems : "Sacra Conversatione" and "Judgement Day," in Notre Dame Review, No. 23, Fall 2006. "Cup" and "Deposition," in The Paris Review, No. 178, Fall 2006. "Deposition" will be featured Oct. 2 on the Poetry Daily web site. "Lido" appeared in Intertia, Issue 3, August 2006. "Albanico Habanera" appeared in Slate Aug. 1, 2006. In addition, three poems - "Time Orders Old Age To Destroy Beauty," "Mantilla" and "The Effects of Intemperance" - and a short essay, "Under Stolen Italian Skies," appeared in the July issue of Guernica. "On the Limitation of Symbol" was published in Antioch Review, Vol. 64, No. 2, Spring 2006; and "Unsent Dedication" appeared in Daedalus, Vol. 135, No. 2, Spring 2006. Victor L. Cahn, professor of English, is the author and star of "Sherlock Solo," a play for one actor that will be staged at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6 and 7, at Albany Civic Theater, 235 Second Ave., Albany. In addition, he will present the play at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 10 and 11, at the Saratoga County Arts Center theater, 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. The 90-minute production centers on an undisclosed case whose "facts" are drawn from the stories, with original details by the playwright. Katharine A. Cartwright, chair, Department of Geosciences, is exhibiting her latest paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery, State University of New York College at Cobleskill, through Oct. 5 in a show underwritten by a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Arts Center of the Capital Region. In addition, she gave an invited lecture there Sept. 20 titled "Life at the Intersection of Art and Science." Carolyn Forchè, professor of English, is the author of "The Lost Suitcase," published in The New Yorker, Vol. 82, No. 30, Sept. 25, 2006. Christina Grassi, visiting assistant professor, anthropology and environmental studies, is the author of "Variability in Habitat, Diet, and Social Structure of Halpalemur griseus in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar," published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 131, No. 1, September 2006. Jennifer Delton, associate professor and chair, Department of History, is the author of "Good Business: Nondiscrimination Policies and Labor-Management Relations 1945-64," published in the Journal of the Historical Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2006. Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has recently published the following poems: "Cain's Gift" in Shenandoah, Vol. 55, No. 3, Winter 2005; "Butterfly Effect" and "Iconography" in Prairie Schooner, Vol. 79, No. 4, Winter 2005; "Dance Class" in Chautauqua Literary Journal, No. 3, 2006; "The Golden Chamber" and "In Hiding" in Notre Dame Review, No. 22, Summer 2006; and "Sublimated" in The Kenyon Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, Fall 2006; and "Mysteries" and "Poets' Park, Mexico DF" by Southern Poetry Review; Vol. 44, No. 2, 2006. Jeffrey Segrave, David H. Porter professor, is co-author of a chapter titled "Language, gender, and sport: A review of the research literature," published in the book Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender, Linda K. Fuller, ed., New York: 2006, Palgrave. One of his co-authors is Katherine L. McDowell, Skidmore, B.A., 1965 and M.A., 1995. (She was the first recipient of an MALS degree at Skidmore.) The second co-author is James G. King III, a current MALS student (who also is head women's tennis coach at Hamilton College). To close the Skidmore loop, editor Fuller is the parent of a Skidmore graduate. Bob Turner, assistant professor of government, is co-author (with Mark Cassell) of "When Do States Pursue Targeted Economic Development Policies? The Adoption and Expansion of State Enterprise Zone Programs," in Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 88, Issue 1, March 2007. Skidmore Intercom |