Daniel Mosquera, assistant professor of modern languages, organized and chaired a panel titled “Instances of Reformulation: Apocalypticism in Colonial Latin America” for the LASA 2000 Conference (Latin American Studies Association) in Miami. He also gave a paper titled “La Monarquía del Diablo del Padre Antonio Julián, Reconsideraciones.” More recently, he gave a presentation on Colonial Legacies and “Globalization” in Latin America at SASS (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences) to members of SASS and teachers and directors of Latin American studies programs from other universities in Shanghai. He has just published an article, “Traslados ejemplares en la Nueva España: Olmos, Motolinía y el nomadismo de la voz,” in Homenaje a las Hermanas Luce López-Baralt y Mercedes López-Baralt, William Mejías López, ed. (Frankfurt: Iberoamericana, 2001). He has also just published a translation of a collection of early 20th century Afro-Colombian spirituals and songs for the record (CD) Lucía Pulido, distributed by Intuition, a division of Schott Musik International. Based in Germany, this company covers the areas of jazz and world music.
John Garver, professor of geology, was co-author (with Matthias Bernet, M. Zattin,and M.T. Brandon and J.A. Vance) of a paper titled “Steady state exhumation of the European Alps” in the journal Geology (v. 29, n. 1, p. 35-38). The article describes how the Alps have been a mountain range with about the same topography for the last 20 million years, an insight which gives an important new understanding to how mountain belts form and maintain topography through time. Bernet, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, has been doing analysis for his research at the College's fission track laboratory in the F. W. Olin Center.
George Gmelch, professor of anthropology, co-presented a workshop on running anthropological field programs at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco in November.