Posted on May 16, 1997

Pilar Moyano, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled “Violencia y género en la literatura centroamericana contemporánea” recently at the V Congresso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana organized
by the Ministry of Culture and the National University of San José in Costa Rica.

John Sowa, professor of chemistry, is a member of the Town of
Glenville's Municipal Services Committee, which is weighing the issue of
consolidating town and city functions as Schenectady Mayor Albert Jurczynski has proposed.
He also is a member of the county Local Emergency Planning Committee with an assignment on
the Hazardous Materials subcommittee. Sowa also was a source in a recent article in the
Albany Times-Union about the effects of traumatic brain injury. Also, he is
co-author, with Jan Tucci, of Therapist Training Manual for Del Giacco's Art
Therapy.

Lee Rose, adjunct assistant professor of theatre, will perform in
David Mamet's radio play, The Water Engine, as part of Theatre Voices of
Albany's 1996-97 season. It will be broadcast on Wednesday, April 30, at 9 p.m. on
WAMC – FM 90.3 FM.

Robert Sharlet, Chauncey Winters Professor of Political Science,
recently published “Transitional Constitutionalism: Politics and Law in the Second
Russian Republic,” the lead article of a special issue of Wisconsin International
Law Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1996); and “Russia as an Emerging Democracy —
Five Years After the Fall of the USSR,” as a featured essay in The Americana
Annual (Grolier, 1997). Recent papers include, “Russian Constitutional
Development Since the Elections,” at the annual meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Boston; “Russian Constitutional
Dialogues,” the keynote address at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, SUNY-Albany;
and “Conceptual Approaches to Russian Constitutionalism” at the University of
California at Berkeley. He has also been invited to join the editorial board of Demokratizatsiya.-
The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, jointly published by American University
and Moscow State University.

Posted on May 16, 1997

A guest speaker series in Sociology 65 – the Sociology of
Human Rights with Prof. Martha Huggins – is open to members of the campus community.
Remaining this term:

May 21, 7:30 p.m., Social Sciences 105, Dr. Haleh Vaziri,
specialist on politics in Iran and a feminist political activist, on “Women's
Human Rights Education in Muslin Societies.”

May 28, 2:55 p.m., Humanities 119, Robert Sharlet, Chauncey
Winters Professor of Political Science, on “The Progress of Human Rights: Citizen and
State in Post-Soviet Russia.”

June 4, 2:55 p.m., Humanities 119, Dr. Darius Rejali, professor
of political science and board member of the International Gay and Lesbian Rights
Committee, on “Human Rights for Gays and Lesbians: An International Survey.”

Posted on May 16, 1997

Teresa Meade, associate professor of history, has been appointed co-chair of the Program Committee of the 1999 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
to be held at the University of Rochester.

Regarded as the most important women's history conference in the country, and probably the world, the Berkshire Conference draws several thousand participants.

Professor Meade, whose specialty is Latin American history, will share the chairperson responsibilities with Nell Painter, professor of U.S. history at Princeton
University, and Sharon Strocchia, professor of European history at Emory University.

Two history majors, Larry Gutman and Phoebe Burr, have signed on as
members of the “Berks” team to work with Professor Meade as student assistants.

Preparations for the conference will begin in September.

Posted on May 16, 1997

The Career Development Center's Web site is listed among the top Internet job resources in the latest edition of What Color is Your Parachute? A
Practical Manual for Job Hunters and Career Changers (Ten Speed Press) by Richard Nelson Bolles. “I like the wisdom of the Career Development Center at Union College,” writes Bolles, something of a guru among the job-seeking set. The CDC's Web address is http://www.union.edu/career/CDC.The site, which
has been listed in a number of publications and newspaper columns recently, has had more
than 87,000 hits since January 1. Webmaster is Thomas Denham, assistant director of CDC.

Posted on May 16, 1997

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman will speak on “Biographer Pursues Houdini: Researching the Life of the World's Handcuff King” on Monday, May 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

Author of The Cultural History of the American Revolution, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather (for which Silverman won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize),
and Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance (winner of the Mystery Writers Award), Silverman has recently published Houdini!!!, which has been praised
for its insight into American culture.

The talk is sponsored by the English department.