Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke on “Gun Policy and Schools After Parkland” at the SUNY Student Assembly Spring Conference held in Syracuse on April 7.
Andrew Morene, Kyla Young and Anahis Mercedes
Three Africana Studies majors and minors, Andrew Morene, Kyla Young and Anahis Mercedes, presented papers and attended academic sessions at the 49th annual National Council for Black Studies conference from March 20 to 22 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their session title was"Agentive and Non-Agentive Ideational Frameworks in the Black World."
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management Department, gave an invited presentation on the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act at the National Sports Law Institute's Fall Symposium held Oct. 15 at Marquette University Law School.
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett M ’15
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett M ’15, Health Department, had their research article, “Affirmative Consent: What Do College Student Leaders Think About ‘Yes Means Yes’ as the Standard for Sexual Behavior?” published in the American Journal of Sexuality Education.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), holds a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2012-13 Visiting Professorship at Fulda University of Applied Science, a partner university of SUNY Cortland. Recently, she presented a paper titled “An Ubuntu Ethics of Punishment” at the 7th Philosophy Conference hosted by Athens Institute for Education & Research (ATINER) in Athens, Greece. Also, Nagel has been invited to chair the program committee for gender studies, which will be embedded in the 2014 sociology conference hosted by ATINER.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Columbia University to give a campus-wide talk on April 23. Her talk was titled “Gender Politics in Current Regime in China.”
Ryan Vooris, Lindsey Darvin and Tara Mahoney
Ryan Vooris, Lindsey Darvin and Tara Mahoney, Sport Management Department, had a paper about the playing experiences of esports participants accepted to the Journal of Athlete Development and Experience.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her paper, “A World without Limits: Living in a Barbie Reality as Pop Culture Ambassador” competitively selected for presentation in San Jose, Costa Rica, on July 26 at the International Popular Culture Association annual conference. The theme of the conference was global issues related to popular culture. Lawrence’s paper discussed how Mattel, one of the world’s largest toy companies, has promised generations of children and their parents that girls should boldly “dream, discover and explore their world” through Barbie. Lawrence explored this pack-and-go approach to international relations in the doll world. A rhetorical analysis of the “cultural” narratives, “authentic” artifacts, and “ethnic” costumes provided for each doll in the “Barbie Dolls of the World” series was included along with illustrations.
Cheri Skipworth
Cheri Skipworth, residence hall director for Higgins Hall, participated in the Association of College and Personnel Administrators (ACPA) Conference held March 26-30 in Baltimore, Md. Skipworth serves on Pan African Network on the Committee for Multicultural Affairs. She helped to plan the Cultural Fest for the conference, which had 10 different performances.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently had her poem, “Three's a Crowd,” placed with 19 other selected poems in an exhibit titled “Hay(na)ku: A 21st-Century Diasporic Poetry Form” in the San Francisco Public Library. Also, she wrote a haiga, a Japanese form which is typically a haiku with illustration, accepted for publication in New Verse News. This poem called “Amiss” was written as a tribute (elegy) to Aretha Franklin on her passing. Her poem “Head Over Heels,” written for a fantastical theme in the haiku form, was accepted for publication in the last week of August by the Colorado Boulevard.net. Also, Lawrence received notice that her speculative poem titled “Not Tonight” will soon appear in Star*Line, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA).