Volume 51, Number 33 May 17, 2004 |
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CampusMemo accepts submissions to the Insiders column from members of the campus community. Items must reflect faculty or staff achievements beyond the campus, e.g., papers/lectures given at professional meetings; appointments to boards; books/articles published; performances, exhibits, readings of works off campus; awards and honors, etc. Please submit items no more than six months old. Items are edited for space. Deadline for submissions to "Insiders" is the 10th of the month preceding publication. Send submissions to: pubcom@sfsu.edu. Please include a contact name and extension. Behavioral
and Social Sciences Anoshua Chaudhuri, Economics, presented "Sibling Rivalry and Birth Order Effects on the Nutritional Status of Children in Rural Bangladesh" at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America held April 1-3 in Boston. Betty Blecha, Economics, has co-authored an article in the May issue of the American Economic Review titled "Efficiency in the Use of Technology in Economic Education." Business Creative Arts Jenny Lau, Cinema, discussed "Orientalist Discourse and the movie 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'" at FACES (Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford) on April 13 at Stanford University. Education Health and Human Services Susan Zieff, Kinesiology, has been elected history academy chair of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Jason Albertson, Health Education, participated in a panel discussion on homelessness following the screening of the documentary "Exposed: Homeless and the Media" on May 7 at The Canvas in San Francisco. Humanities Fred Astren, Jewish Studies, and Carel Bertram, Humanities, participated in a panel discussion titled "Is Seeing Believing? The Judaic and Islamic Tradition Against Idol Worship" held April 28 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Minoo
Moallem, Women
Studies, presented "Islamic Feminism and 'The
Spectacle of the Other Woman'" at the Women, Islam and Transnational
Feminism Conference held March 5 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She spoke on "Gender, Ethnicity and Social Inequality in a Global
Context" on April 6 at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and presented "Ethnicity
for Sale: The Gendering of Persian Carpet in the National and Transnational
Markets" at the Diaspora and Homeland Development Conference held
April 13 at the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology
in Berkeley. |
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