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Volume 17, Issue 91
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Please submit material
for the College of Arts
and Sciences Newsletter
to Linda Thien by Tuesday
at 5:00 p.m. via e-mail: thienlr@slu.edu; fax: 977-3649; interoffice mail: Fusz
Hall, Second Floor
Don't forget to submit
important departmental news to
Grand Connections
The Ignatian Anniversary Year
Heroic leaders exhibit ingenuity...
"Leaders make themselves and
others comfortable in a changing
world. They eagerly explore new
ideas, approaches, and cultures
rather than shrink defensively from
what lurks around life's next
corner. Anchored by nonnegotiable
principles and values, they
cultivate the 'indifference'
that allows them to adapt
confidently."
Chris Lowney, author of
Heroic Leadership
FOR ALL FACULTY:
AN ESSENTIAL SEMINAR ON GRADING
Barbara
E. Walvoord, Ph.D.
University of Notre Dame
Don't
miss this opportunity to make an essential
part of the academic process more
productive and less painful for next year.
Tuesday,
May 16
8:30 a.m. - Noon
and/or
1-4 p.m.
To
register:
Call: 7-2913
or online at
http://fyp.slu.edu/
April
12
Poetry and Fiction Reading: Drs.
Paul Acker and Fred Arroyo will read from their poetry and fiction at
4:30 p.m. in the Humanities Building 142.
Dr. Paul Acker has published poems in Boulevard, Puerto del Sol, and Chelsea. He is the editor of the journal, American Notes & Queries.
Dr. Fred Arroyo has published fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and has work in Writing on the Edge, and forthcoming in North Dakota Quarterly and Pinyon. He has completed a novel and is presently working on two books, Close as Pages in a Book and Between Genres and Generations: From Literacy Narratives to Geographies of Remembrance.
Sponsored by the creative writing committee in the SLU English Department. For more information, contact Devin Johnston at johnstdd@slu.edu.
REINERT
CENTER FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE
April 11
Welcome Reception for New Service Learning Team: A
reception will be held to introduce and welcome Gail Herzog, Assistant
Director for Service Learning in the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence,
and Robert Wassel, Service Learning Coordinator in the Center for Leadership
and Community Service from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in the Cross Cultural Center
located in Busch Student Center, Room 237. This reception is jointly
sponsored by the Center for Leadership and Community Service and the
Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence. No RSVP required.
April
12
Ignatian Pedagogy Brown Bag Discussion:
The Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence is sponsoring an
Ignatian Pedagogy Brown Bag Discussion from 12:00- 1:00 p.m. in Verhaegen
Hall 219. Please RSVP to cte@slu.edu.
April
13
Audio Conference: "A Systematic
Approach to Support Part-Time Faculty" from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in
Verhaegen Hall, Room 212.
Please RSVP to cte@slu.edu.
FROM THE COLLEGE
If
you are a full-time faculty member
in a School or College that offers undergraduate
degrees, please complete the Survey of
Faculty Perceptions of the Core Experience by going to
http://www.slu.edu/
opdr/core/
coresurvey2.htm.
The
results of this survey will be used as one tool to
assess the effectiveness of these courses that all undergraduates take.
Your feedback is important!
SLU
Film Studies Program - Campus Film Series, Spring 2006
Thursdays, 7:00 p.m., Kelley Auditorium,
No cover.
Films are introduced by Film Studies and invited faculty.
April
20
Les
Choristes (Barratier, France, 2004) 1:37
April
27
The
Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (Elliott, USA, 2000) 1:30
SLU
THEATRE: April 21, 22 and 28, 29 - 8:00 p.m.
and Sunday, April 23 - 2:00 p.m.
The
Shape of Things
by Neil LaBute
asks, "What would you be
willing to change for someone you love?" and "What price
might you pay?" It probes our impulse to mold lovers into an
ideal, rather than love someone simply for who they are. Bitingly
comic and scathingly serious, the play explores love, sex, friendship
and the very nature of ART itself. The New Yorker magazine
has called Neil LaBute "an original voice - the best playwright
to emerge in the past decade - a genius." "How far would
you go for love?"...Decide for yourself,
but not until the last word of the play is spoken. The answer may
surprise you.
(adult content - not suitable for children)
April
27
Department Chairs' Meeting,
3:00 - 4:30 p.m., BSC 351.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
American
Studies
Dr. Matthew Mancini presented a lecture
titled " 'Too Good to Check': American Historians on Tocqueville's
'Disappearance' " at Rhode Island College on March 22
as part of the College's "Myth and Memory" series.
English
Dr. Hal Bush has
published a chapter titled " 'A Passion for the Impossible': Richard
Rorty, John Okada, and James Baldwin," in The Gift of Story:
Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World, in print from Baylor University
Press.
Dr. Donald Stump authored "Sidney's Critique of Humanism in the New Arcadia," in Challenging Humanism: Essays in Honor of Dominic Baker-Smith, edited by Ton Hoenselaars and Arthur F. Kinney, published by Newark: University of Delaware Press, pp. 154-78.
Timothy Moylan, doctoral candidate in English, received the Agnes Strickland Prize for his paper, "Advising the Queen: The Theme of Good Governance in Civic Entry Pageantry," at an international conference, Exploring the Renaissance 2006, in Houston, Texas.
Fine and Performing Arts
Dr. Michael Yonan
delivered a paper at this year's annual conference of the American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, held in Montréal, Québec.
It was titled "Epic Heroes and Female Monarchs in Eighteenth-Century
Europe."
History
Elisabeth I. Perry,
co-holder of the John Francis Bannon, S.J. Chair in History, spoke to
a faculty seminar on April 3rd in the Program in Jewish and Islamic
Studies at Washington University-St. Louis on "Writing the Lives
of Jewish American Women."