May, 1999

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Sally Scully, History, delivered a paper, "Policing Desire: Food Consumption and Its Constraints in Early Modern Venice," at the Medieval and Renaissance Text Society’s annual conference, Arizona State University, Feb. 19. Scully also gave a paper at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, April 23, entitled, "The Social World of Venetian Witchcraft: Laura Malipiero, Her Circle, Her Sphere."

At the annual meeting of the American Ethnological Society, C. Sarah Soh, Anthropology, presented the paper "Husband Is to Wife as Heaven is to Earth: Nature and Culture in Sex/Gender relations in Korean Society," Portland, Oregon, March 26, 1999. Soh’s essay "Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’" was published in the February International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter.

On March 10, Glenn Fieldman, International Relations/Political Science, spoke to a World Affairs Council Great Decisions study group about the implementation of and problems connected with the expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe.

Business

On March 26, Stanley J. Kowalczyk, Management, Katy Azoury and Jamie Eng, Business Analysis & Computing Sytems, along with Sylvia Flatt of USF presented a paper at the Annual Western Academy of Management Conference in Redondo Beach. The paper was titled "An Empirical Exploration of the Relationship Between Organizational Culture & Reputation."

Hailin Qu, Hospitality Management, presented the paper "The Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong as an International Conference Destination in Southeast Asia" at the CHME Hospitality Research Conference held at the University of Surrey, UK, April 7–10. In January, he presented a paper entitled "A Study of Visitor’s Expectation and Satisfaction in Hong Kong Lantau Island’s Tour" at the Annual Graduate Education and Graduate Students Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism held in Las Vegas.

Creative Arts

Patricia Taylor Lee, Music, was artist in residence at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, March 18 and 19, where she gave a concert of French piano music and conducted master classes for UNC music students. Lee was recently elected to the Commission on Accreditation of the National Association of Schools of Music.

Akira Mizuta Lippit, Cinema, was invited in March by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies to present the paper "On Transparency and Shadows: Atomic Radiation and Japanese Cinema." Her article "Magnetic Animal: Derrida, Wildlife, Animetaphor" appeared in the most recent issue of Modern Language Notes. Lippit also contributed an article in French "L’animal magnetique" to the book "L’animal autobiographique: Autour de Jacques Derrida" edited by Marie-Louise Mallet and published by Galilee. In February, her interview with Vietnamese experimental filmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha was published in Japanese in InterCommunication.

Education

Kate Kinsella, Secondary Education, was one of four scholars invited to conduct a featured half-day workshop at the Annual State Conference of the California Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages held in Reno. The workshop was held on April 18 and addressed the topic "Dynamic Strategies for Self-Directed Academic Second Language Development."

In January, Marci Hanson, Special Education, provided workshop training and consultation on early intervention strategies to the Indian Institute on Cerebral Palsy, Calcutta, India. Hanson also gave the keynote address "Working with Families with Multiple Risks" to the Oregon Division of Early Childhood Council for Exceptional Children, March 4, Eugene, Oregon, and presented the invited poster paper "Longitudinal Follow Along of Children in Preschool Inclusion" at the Society for Research in Child Development, April 16, Albuquerque.

"Racial and Ethnic Identity in School Practices: Aspects of Human Development," a book edited by Rosa Hernandez Sheets, Elementary Education, and Etta R. Hollins had been published by Lawrence Erlbaum.

Colleen Stump, Special Education, has recently had a book published with co-author June L. Bigge. The book is titled "Assessment, Curriculum, and Instruction with Disabilities."

Ethnic Studies

Ruth Love, Black Studies and Administration & Interdisciplinary Studies, traveled to Cuba in December with a Congressional team to assess various issues. Love looked into the education system which produces a 99% literacy rate.

Angela Gonzales, American Indian Studies, published an article on "The (Re)Articulation of American Indian Identity: Maintaining Boundaries and Regulating Access to Ethnically-tied Resources" in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Special Edition: American Indians and the Urban Experience. Gonzales also presented a paper "Native Intellectuals and Identity" at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association invited symposium on the Philosophy of Vine Deloria Jr. at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, April 3.

Health and Human Services

Allen Abraham, Kinesiology, was elected President of the California Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD) on March 14.

David Anderson, Kinesiology, had a paper published in the March issue of the journal Human Factors, titled "The discrimination, acquisition, and retention of aiming movements made with and without elastic resistance."

The Biofeedback Foundation of Europe has published a new book by Erik Peper, Health Education, and Katherine Hughes Gibney titled "Healthy Computing With Muscle Biofeedback: Taking the Guesswork Out of Assessment, Monitoring and Training." He also presented the paper "From Self-Knowledge to Clinical Success with Dynamic Relaxation, Imagery and Self-Healing at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback in Vancouver, Canada, April 7–11.

Darlene Yee, Gerontology, was elected to the Editorial Board for the Journal of Aging and Health.

Humanities

"In Denial of Consolation" a poem by Sally Croft, English appears in the winter issue of Buckle &. Two other poems by Croft, "Now" and "In the Complex," appear in the spring issue of Baybury Review.

Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, presented a paper "Women of color in the U.S.: Pedagogic reflections on the politics of the ‘name,’" at the Modern Language Association convention, held in December in San Francisco. In March, Moallem presented the paper "Disjunctive temporalities in Islamic nationalism and transnationalism" at the Nation and Cultural Perceptions of Identity International Conference, sponsored by UCLA. An article, "The Immigrant Experience: Affective and Effective Spheres and Issues of Race and Gender" was published in the Spring issue of Soundings.

Ellen Peel, World & Comparative Literature/English, presented the paper "The Emergence of Galatea: Rewritings of a Myth" at the conference Feminist Literature: Global Outlook on Gender Issues which was held in January at Srinakharinwirot University and Salisbury State University, Bangkok, Thailand. Her article "He Reads, She Speaks: How Narrative Form Conveys Conflicting Values in Corinne, or Italy" appeared in Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy.

Louise Rehling, Technical & Professional Writing, gave two talks in Atlanta in March: "Read Ads, Hear Grads...and Teach Accordingly?," at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Annual Meeting and "Six Degrees of Collaboration: Alternative Assignment Structures for Professional Writing Courses," at the Conference on College composition and Communication annual convention.

On March 12, Anita Silvers, Philosophy, gave a seminar on disability policy for the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. On March 13, Silvers presented a paper on "Disability for Dependence" at the annual conference of the Working Group for Law, Culture and the Humanities at Wake Forest Law School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. On March 11, she spoke on "Rehabilitation Ethics" to the staff of the North Carolina Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlotte.

Marcia Green, NEXA, presented the paper "The Sound of the Theremin, The Image of Freud, and the Words of Klaastu in ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’" at the National Association for Humanities Education in Jacksonville, Florida, March 11–13.

Pamela Vauhn, Classics, was elected president of the California Classical Association—Northern Section. She will serve for the 1998-2000 term.

Library

Deborah C. Masters, Judy Ganson, Linda Madden, Library, along with Bonnie Gratch Lindauer of City College presented "Aligning Library Performance Measures with Institutional Outcomes and Outputs: A Case Study" at the Association of College and Research Libraries Annual Conference held April 7–11 in Detroit.

Lynn A. Bonfield, Library, has been selected by the California Heritage Preservation Commission to be one of the two recipients of the 1998 Archivist Award of Excellence. The award is for her work as director of the Labor Archives and Research Center.

Science and Engineering

Ralph Larson, Biology, served as a panelist on the forum, "Rockfish for the Future: A Solution-Based, Multidisciplinary Forum and Discussion," which took place Mar. 26–28 at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

During April, Susan Lea, Physics and Astronomy, visited Colombia and Mexico City where she made several presentations. At the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, she led presentations on physics education, the astrophysics of neutron stars, and on women in the field of physics.

James Orenberg, Chemistry and Biochemistry, presented a seminar, "Chemical Analysis of Martian Soil," at City College as part of the National Institute of Health’s "NIH Science Scholars Program."

On March 14, Charles Shapiro, Physics and Astronomy, presented a seminar, "Nuclear Weapon Test Explosions: Environmental and Human Effects," at San Diego State University.

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