Casey Hickey, Jennifer Kronenbitter and Hailey Ruoff
Casey Hickey, Campus Technology Services; Jennifer Kronenbitter, Library; and Hailey Ruoff, Library, Instructional Technologies and Design Services; presented at the Wizard 2012 held Nov. 13 in Syracuse, N.Y. Their presentation focused on the streaming media project that converted the library’s video collection into a streaming format. Wizard conferences are geared toward the SUNY technical community in order to address current information technology-related issues important to SUNY. The attendees represent the full range of SUNY campuses and university-wide programs that include IT professionals at every level.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), presented her paper “The Ethic of Ubuntu and the End of Penality,” at a symposium on Mass Incarceration, Religion, and Abolitionism held Oct. 4 at Cornell University.
Pam Schroeder
Pam Schroeder, Academic Affairs Office, presented a session titled “Lessons from a Curriculog Implementation” at Digital Architecture’s (Curriculog) annual conference, held March 1-4 in Tampa, Fla.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, was quoted in a New York Times article, “Californians Will Soon Have Nonbinary as a Gender Option on Birth Certificates,” on Oct. 19 about California’s new legislation allowing for a gender-neutral designation on IDs and birth certificates and other official documents; specifically, how Title IX compliance might be affected by the law. Also, Newhall coauthored an article titled “‘Stick to Soccer’: Fan Reaction and Inclusion Rhetoric on Social Media” published in Sport in Society. Along with being published online, it will be in the forthcoming special issue on Women’s Soccer in the U.S., to be released in print in 2018.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had his review of The Politics of Knowledge in Education published in Educational Studies . Additionally, in July he presented his paper titled “Bernstein in the Urban Classroom” at the Eighth International Basil Bernstein Symposium in Nagoya, Japan. During the symposium’s opening session he led a tribute, along with Parlo Singh, Griffith University, Australia, and William Tyler, Charles Darwin University, Australia, to his friend, mentor and intellectual collaborator, Rob Moore, late senior lecturer of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge, U.K.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication Studies Department, co-authored an article titled “The Expanding Territory of Organizational Communication in China,” which was published this summer in the Chinese Journal of Communication.
Laura Davies
Laura Davies, English Department, presented “Real-World Scientific Research” at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention on Nov. 20 in Minneapolis, Minn. She was on a panel titled “Sites of Science Literacy Education at the Elementary, Secondary, and College Level.”
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Syracuse University in March and May and Case Western University in January to deliver three campuswide talks: two book talks on Tongzhi Living, and another talk on “Undertaking Sensitive Fieldwork” for Syracuse University in May.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her paper, “Get It While It’s Hot: A Rhetorical Examination of The Use of Female Images to Pimp Beauty, Sexuality and Vulnerability as Commodities in Contemporary American Advertising,” competitively selected for presentation at the national American Popular Culture Association Annual Conference held in April in Boston, Mass. Lawrence used stylistic tropes to examine and identify a variety of images incorporated into print advertisements to suggest overt sexuality and promiscuity. Other images offer beauty products aimed at exacerbating the viewer’s sense of vulnerability and inadequacy. Lawrence focused her rhetorical analysis on the combination of pressures inherent in an emphasis on purity while stressing the desired expectation of blatant sexuality from women. In addition, she illustrated the paradoxical dilemma created for contemporary female consumers and argued that this practice can create a backlash effect.
Robert Ponterio and Jean LeLoup
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, with Professor Emerita of International Communications and Culture Jean LeLoup, U.S. Air Force Academy, and William Heller, SUNY Geneseo, were the recipients of the Anthony J. Papalia Award given at the annual conference of the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers (NYSAFLT) for an outstanding article on foreign language education. Their article, “Cultural Perspective in the Language Classroom: Providing a Meaningful Context for Communication,” was published in the NYSAFLT Language Association Journal, Vol. 61, No. 3, 11-36, and is available online in the Language Association Journal archives.
Ponterio also received NYSAFLT’s Dorothy Ludwig Memorial Award for Outstanding Service for work on the Foreign Language Teaching Forum (FLTEACH); the Civilisation Française website supporting Marie Ponterio’s work on that project; the Bien Dit! high school French textbook series with Marie Ponterio and other authors; and numerous articles and workshops for professional development of language teachers.
Ponterio, Mark Warford, Buffalo State College, and Dawn Santiago-Marullo, Victor Central School District, presented a session at the NYSAFLT Annual Convention in Rochester on Oct. 16. In “Teaching in the Target Language: Issues and Answers,” they examined pathways to implementing the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages guidelines for teaching at least 90 percent in the target language at all levels of language instruction. They explored the theoretical underpinnings and implementation strategies from the perspectives of administration, schoolteachers and teacher training, with a focus on classroom practice and the student.