Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Lorraine Morales Cox presented “Painting Black & Brown Sexuality: The Body Portraits of David Antonio Cruz and Michalene Thomas” at “Race, Sex and Power: New Movements in Black and Latino Sexualities” at the University of Illinois at Chicago in April. Drawing on critical race, feminist and queer theory, Cox considers Cruz and Thomas’s portrait paintings in relation to sexuality and racial identity through the use of humor and satire.
Also in April, Cox gave a paper on “The Creative Provocations of a Transcultural Flâneur: The Art and Politics of Remy Jungerman,” at the annual conference of the National Association for Ethnic Studies, titled “The Politics of Ethnicity,” in Atlanta. In addition, Cox has been commissioned to write the exhibition catalogue essay for the Afro-Surinamese-Dutch artist’s upcoming Fritschy Prize exhibition at the Museum Het Domein in Sittard, Netherlands. Cox will travel to Sittard as an invited speaker for the exhibition’s June 27 opening.
Last week, Cox took part in “Critical Collage, Artistic Interventions and Technologies of the Self,” a roundtable discussion on “Technology and Collage/ Montage,” at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association at New York University.
“Shakkei,” by Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music, will be performed in the North/South Chamber Orchestra’s “Ethnic Echoes” program on June 10 at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church in New York City. The concert will feature works by three generations of American composers under the direction of orchestra conductor Max Lifchitz. English oboist Virginia Shaw will be the featured soloist in the U.S. premiere of “Shakkei.” A term used in Japanese landscape design, shakkei means “borrowed scenery.” Tann is scheduled to be on hand to introduce her work and speak with the audience.
“The Tlingit Encounter with Photography” by Professor and Chair of Anthropology Sharon Gmelch will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Museum Press this fall. Exploring early photographic imagery of the Tlingit Indians of Southeastern Alaska, the book compares the Tlingit photographs taken by surveyors, scientists, museum collectors, commercial photographers and tourists. It features 130 photos covering the period 1868 to 1929 and is based on extensive archival research and interviews with Tlingit elders. A traveling exhibit is also being planned.
George Gmelch, the Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Anthropology, recently had two articles published and four previously published articles reprinted in different anthologies. The new essays are “Bill Kirwin: Pioneering a Community of Baseball Scholars” in “Nine: The Journal of Baseball History and Culture,” and “The Changing Culture of Professional Baseball” in “Elysian Fields Quarterly.” The reprinted essays are “Nice Girls Don’t Talk to Rastas,” “Lessons from the Field,” “Baseball Magic” and “Coming Home: Return Migration to Barbados.”
Visiting Professor of Anthropology Derick Fay has co-edited “The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: Restoring What Was Theirs.” The book is scheduled to be published by Routledge in July.
A paper by Associate Professor of Psychology Stephen Romero, titled “Electrophysiological Markers of Skill-related Neuroplasticity,” will be included in an upcoming edition of “Biological Psychology.” Co-authors are Tony Cacace of Albany Medical College; Dennis McFarland of the New York State Wadsworth labs; Lori Farrell ’04, who assisted as part of an independent study project; and AMC summer research student Rob Faust.
"The Hoffleit Centennial: A Year of Celebration,” edited by Professor of Physics and Astronomy A. G. Davis Philip, Professor William F. van Altena of Yale and Professor of Physics and Astronomy Rebecca Koopmann, was published by L. Davis Press in April. The book contains articles by Koopmann et al. (“The ALFALFA Undergraduate Workshop Promoting Undergraduate Participation in a Legacy Survey Project”) and by Philip (“Eleven Years of the Shapley Visiting Lectureships Program”).