Michael E. Hagerman,
associate professor of chemistry, has been asked by the NanoQuebec consortium to
participate in an international workshop on nanotechnology in Quebec.
His talk, “Luminescent inorganic-organic nanohybrid
assemblies,” is set for Nov. 13 in Sherbrooke,
Canada. For details on
the workshop, visit http://www.nanoquebec.ca/pages/workshop2003/en/index.php.
Prof. Smith leads panel on ‘Feminist Critiques of Globalization’
Jill S. Smith,
visiting instructor of German, organized and moderated a panel at this year's
national conference of Women in German in Carrollton,
Ky. The panel, “Women in the Fortress
Europe: Feminist Critiques of Globalization,” addressed how the issue of
globalization and women's roles therein is thematized
in recent German literature, film, and theoretical texts. She also presented a
paper, “Righteous Women and Lost Girls: Turn-of-the-Century German Feminist
Discourse on Prostitution in Berlin,”
at the annual convention of the German Studies Association (GSA) in New
Orleans.
Prof. Hamm-Ehsani publishes paper
Karin Hamm-Ehsani, assistant
professor of German, is to publish a paper, “Screening Modern Berlin: Lola Runs
to the Beat of a New Urban Symphony,” in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (40:1, Feb. 2004).
Search for dean of students launched
The College has launched a search for a new dean of
students, and the committee is soliciting nominations from members of the
campus community.
The committee chair is Julius Barbanel,
professor of mathematics.
Information about the position, which also carries the
title of “Vice President for Student Life” can be found at http://www.union.edu/HR/employment/Jobs/VPStudentLife.htm
‘We Won’t Pay!’ going up in Yulman Theater
The
Yulman Theater presents We Won't Pay! We
Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, directed by Prof. William Finlay, opening on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
The
play runs through Saturday, Nov. 8, at 8 p.m., with a closing show on Sunday, Nov. 9,
at 2
p.m.
Tickets
are $7 general admission, $5 for students, faculty and staff. For information,
call the box office at 388-6545.
Hunger
is a recurring theme in works by Fo, according Ron Jenkins, who translated the
play and wrote program notes on the web site for the American Repertory Theater.
“His characters are not just hungry for food. They are hungry for dignity,
hungry for justice, and hungry for love. The protagonists are driven by their
collective hungers to break free from the constraints in which their poverty
has confined them. Their initial challenge to the laws of the 'free market' propels
them into a comic defiance of the laws of human reproduction. Men get pregnant,
women give birth to cabbages, and amniotic fluid becomes the source of a
gourmet meal. The mechanisms of farce become metaphors for liberation.
Slapstick confusion begets new ways of understanding the world.”
For
more on the play, visit the ART website at: http://www.amrep.org/past/wewontpay.html