Brian Barrett and Anne Burns Thomas
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy, served as a co-organizer of the Third International Social Realism Symposium hosted at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, from June 29 to July 1. The symposium attracted a record number of researchers and teachers to address educational questions by drawing significantly on social realism, which explores the social conditions of knowledge production and exchange as well as its structuring in the curriculum.
Barrett and Anne Burns Thomas, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented their paper titled “Flipping the Script: Exploring the Impact of Curriculum Modules on Access to Knowledge and Teacher Professionalism,” which also was co-authored by Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy, at the conference in Cambridge.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, is a contributor to a new volume, The Social Contract in Africa, (The African Institute of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, 2014), edited by Sanya Osha. Asumah’s chapter is titled “African Relational Democracy: Reframing Diversity, Economic Development and Society-Centered Governance for the Twenty-First Century." Worldwide orders can be secured through African Books Collectives, Oxford, England.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “Gun Accessories and the Second Amendment: Assault Weapons, Magazines, and Silencers,” appearing in the most recent issue of the journal Law and Contemporary Problems, published by the Duke University Law School.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Kinesiology Department, was cited by the Theatre Association of New York State for her musical and ensemble performances in an outdoor summer performance of the Greek tragedy “Antigone” by Sophocles, held at the former Case Mansion in Auburn, N.Y. Also, she choreographed the stage combat in “Antigone.”
Also, Kane’s History and Philosophy of PE and Sport class welcomed guest speaker Conor Heffernan, an assistant professor of physical culture and sport studies at Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Heffernan presented a session on “Irish Emigrants and the Shaping of American Sport.” Kane met the speaker through their participation in the summer 2020 International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) Tokyo virtual conference, where Heffernan was a presenter.
The Fall 2020 American Dance Circle, a publication of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation (LSF), featured an article by Kane, who is LSF vice president, about dance and social activism at the Highlander School, where Myles Horton, Pete Seeger, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lewis and many others met to discuss workers’ rights, civil rights, adult literacy and more during the 20th century.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke at King’s College in London, England, and at the Southbank Centre in London on “American Gun Policy,” “Gun Violence: A Comparative Perspective,” and “America and the World, 1960-1990,” from Nov. 9 to 11. Two of the talks were in conjunction with the Southbank Centre’s Superpower Weekend, examining America's influence on Britain and the world.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and Arron Bound ’14, had their article titled “A Critical Discourse Analysis of No Promo Homo Policies in US Schools” published in volume 51, issue 4 of Educational Studies. The article reports on research they conducted during Bound’s Summer 2013 Undergraduate Research Fellowship offered through Cortland’s Undergraduate Research Council. Barrett served as Bound’s faculty mentor.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented a talk titled “Compassion and the Apocalypse: ‘Commanders [and Communities] in Crisis’” on Aug. 7 at the Comics Studies Society annual conference, Re/Building Community.
Timothy Delaune
Timothy Delaune, Political Science Department and pre-law advisor, had a peer-reviewed chapter published in the special issue on law and the liberal state, volume 65 of the book series Studies in Law, Politics and Society. His chapter, “Jury Nullification: An Illiberal Defense of Liberty,” examines the practice of American juries in criminal cases acquitting clearly guilty defendants as an exercise of democratic political power contrary to the liberal order, in accordance with the political theory of Carl Schmitt.
Nan Pasquarello
Nan Pasquarello, Title IX coordinator, was one of seven women recognized by the Zonta Club of Cortland on International Women’s Day for their thoughtfulness and for acts of kindness that have improved the wellbeing of women and children in the community. Pasquarello, who coordinates campus prevention and response to gender-based discrimination and harassment, has served on the Cortland YWCA board of directors since 2011 and is completing her second year as board president.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article, coauthored with Graham McPhail from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, published in the Journal of Education. It is titled “Conceptualizing a radical visible pedagogy.”