Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, had her article, “Hermann von Ihering: Shifting Realities of a German Brazilian Scientist from the Late Empire to World War I,” published in the Special Edition: Germans and Brazilians issue of the Oxford Journal German History.
Dennis Weng
Dennis Weng, Political Science Department, co-authored an article that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chinese Political Science in 2017. “Disrespect for Human Rights and Contentious Participation: Evidence from China,” was co-authored with Ching-Hsing Wang of the University of Houston and two SUNY Cortland undergraduate students, Laura Barnstead and Garrett DuMond. Also, Weng is a guest speaker at a conference on human rights issues set for Friday, April 21 in Taiwan.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, will perform in the Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s production of “Othello” from July 25 to 28 and from Aug. 1 to 3, at the Cornell Plantations, Ithaca, N.Y.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, presented a paper, “Transferencia cultural de la comedia aurisecular en Repertorio Español” (“Cultural Transference of Spanish Golden Age Plays at New York City’s Repertorio Español”), on April 30 at the First Symposium of Early Modern Hispanic Studies. The symposium was sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor and the Spanish and Hispanic Studies Department of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
John Suarez
At the May 17 SUNY Civic Education Community of Practice Convening in Albany, N.Y., John Suarez, director of the Galpin Institute for Civic Engagement, co-developed and co-facilitated an active listening activity for about 65 people with Babette Faehmel, a history professor at SUNY Schenectady.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented a paper titled “Inchoate Kinship: Psychoanalytic Narrative and Queer Belonging” at the Project Narrative Summer Institute at Ohio State University. The Institute was held from July 9 through July 21 and brought together scholars working on “Queer and Feminist Narrative Theories.”
James F. Hokanson, Bryanne N. Bellovary and Erik Lind
James F. Hokanson, Bryanne N. Bellovary and Erik Lind, Kinesiology Department, along with three exercise science students, Madison Rees, Danielle Toth and Matthew Ballesteros, presented multiple papers at the State of New York Undergraduate Research Conference hosted by Buffalo State on April 23. The research focused on investigations of changes in body weight perception, heart rate and blood pressure while standing in an Alter-G lower body positive pressure treadmill.
Debbie Warnock
Debbie Warnock, Sociology Department, presented two papers at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association held in August in Seattle, Wa. One of her articles, “Inequalities at the Outset: Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Differences in Parents’ Perceptions of Paying for College,” was published in July in the Journal of College Student Development. Another of her articles, ““The Poor Kids’ Table”: Organizing around an Invisible and Stigmatized Identity in Flux,” was published in September in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, had her article, “Ubuntu and African Prison Intellectuals” published in the Spring 2013 journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas.
Robert Ponterio and Jean LeLoup
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, and Jean LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish and the U.S. Air Force Academy, presented a session titled “FLTEACH: Widgets, Twitter, Boards and Mail for Online Professional Development” at the American Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2013 Annual Convention and World Language Expo held Nov. 22 in Orlando, Fla. The session examined the variety of online tools that LeLoup and Ponterio, the forum creators, have developed to enhance the 5,400-member, 81-country grass roots professional development project, now in its 20th year. There was a particular focus on recent enhancements including responsive design for the website, the use of embedded widgets pushing content to the Web, the #flteach Twitter hashtag, wiki, and FLTEACH Facebook page. The project’s searchable archives, annotated bibliography, language teaching methods syllabi collection, and various email options were also discussed. The presenters emphasized the range of options for participation and the applications of the project to pre-service teacher training and ongoing professional development for teachers in the field. The session outline is available at http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/wksp/actfl2013.html