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January 23, 2006
Volume 17, Issue 81

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 College of Arts and Sciences

 


The Ignatian Anniversary Year

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A Welcome Reception to welcome the
Department of Physics
into the College of Arts and Sciences will be held on
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
in Fusz Hall (Conference Room)
All are invited to attend.
For more information, contact Linda Thien.

 

EVENTS OF THE WEEK
SPRING SEMESTER CALENDAR

 

 

 

 

January 24

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

UNIVERSITY THEATRE: "Thiefth" by Susan Howe and David Grubbs
6:00 P.M.
University Theatre, Xavier Hall

Poet Susan Howe and musician/composer David Grubbs will present an electroacoustic performance of Howe's poems "Thorow" and "Melville's Marginalia" for voice, computer, and piano. Ms. Howe is the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism, including The Midnight (2003), The Europe of Trusts (2002), and Pierce-Arrow (1999). Mr. Grubbs has released eight full-length solo albums, the most recent of which is A Guess at the Riddle (Drag City). A CD of this collaboration was recently released on the Blue Chopsticks label; it has been included in the Artforum's Best of 2005 and a critics' poll in the January issue of The Wire magazine.

January 26
SLU Film Studies Program will open its Campus Film Series for Spring 2006 with "Tre metri sopra il cielo" (Lucini, Italy, 2004), at 7 p.m., in Kelley Auditorium, no cover. The film will be introduced by Film Studies and invited faculty. Upcoming films will be announced in this Newsletter.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 


FROM THE COLLEGE

Lecture: Dr. Angie Colette Beatty

The African American Studies Program and the Department of Communication is sponsoring a public lecture on Monday, January 23, 2006 at 3:30 p.m. in Xavier 332 (conference room) by Dr. Angie Colette Beatty, candidate for the joint assistant professor position in African American studies and communication.

Dr. Beatty's lecture, "Queen Bitches--Exceptions to the Patriarchal Rule?: New Methodologies for Analyzing the Role of Agency in Female Rap Music," will explore the role of agency in black female rappers' practice of gangstaism.

For more information, contact Dana Guyton (African American Studies) at 977-2242, or Delia King (Communication) at 977-3510.

2006 Alpha Sigma Nu Award Nominations

The AJCU (Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities) is still accepting nominations for the 2006 Alpha Sigma Nu Awards. This year's category is "The Sciences": Natural Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Sciences. Authors do not have to be either Jesuits or members of Alpha Sigma Nu to enter. All faculty (including emeriti) and administrators are eligible. Books must have been published between January 2003 and December 2005. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2006.
Applications are available online, at the A&S office in Fusz, or in the science department offices.

MOCRA EXHIBIT

"Arshile Gorky: The Early Years - Drawings and Paintings, 1927 - 1937" will be on exhibit until March 12, 2006 in MOCRA.

Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was one of the most influential artists in the development of Abstract Expressionism. This exhibition will feature over 40 rare drawings and paintings that reveal Gorky's early experiments and hint at his own distinct style that was to reach its maturity in the 1940s. This exhibition is part of "MOCRA: Sources," an occasional series of exhibitions presenting those seminal artists who have influenced the development of modern and contemporary art, and whose impact is seen in the artists of our time who engage the religious and spiritual dimensions in their work.

For more information, please call 977-7170 or mocra@slu.edu; or visit the website.



 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACADEMIC NEWS

Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards

American Studies
Dr. Matthew Mancini's book Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours has been published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Dr. Tim Kusky has published a paper in Chemical Geology, titled "Geochemical Characteristics of the Neoarchean (2800-2700 Ma) Taishan Greenstone Belt, North China Craton: Evidence for Plume-Craton Interaction."

Political Science
Dr. Emmanuel Uwalaka was an invited participant in the White House Targeted Workshop on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Nashville, Tennessee on December 8, 2005.

Dr. Elizabeth Markovits has been named co-program chair for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Association for Political Theory. Dr. Markovits' dissertation, Well-Spoken: Frankness, Rhetoric, and the Problem of Public Appearances in Democracy, has been nominated for the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in political theory for 2005.

Ms. Bridget Dowdle, a senior political science major, was named a Junior Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Ms. Allison Baker, a senior political science major, was a delegate to the Student Conference on United States Affairs at West Point, November 13-16, 2005. The conference theme was "U.S. Responsibility and the Global Community: Interests, Opportunities, and Ethics."

At Mary Stephen's (Associate Professor, Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence) suggestion, Dr. Tim Lomperis submitted an essay titled "Jesuit Conversations in Political Science" which was published in The National Teaching and Learning Forum 15, no. 1 (December 2005): 6-8. (The journal lists Dr. Lomperis from the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence rather than the department of Political Science.)

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