Teresa Meade, the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture, and Eric Langner ’12, economics and Latin American and Caribbean studies major, delivered an invited lecture, “Brazil: An Emerging 21st Century World Power?” on Oct. 22 at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, Cambridge, Mass. Members of a Harvard Extension class had read Meade's book, “A Brief History of Brazil,” and she subsequently was invited to present at Harvard's weekly lecture series. Last spring, Meade directed Langner’s Sophomore Scholars project about the effects of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Brazil’s economic outlook. The lecture was an expanded version of a presentation at Union during Homecoming Weekend, titled “Brazil: What Difference Will the Olympics Make?”
Jillmarie Murphy, assistant professor of English and American Literature, recently presented a paper at the Charles Brockden Brown Society Biennial Conference, “Weird American: Circum-Atlantic Cultures, 1790-1830” at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. The paper was titled “'Was she not a mangled corpse?’: Charles Brockden Brown and the Female Cadaver in Arthur Mervyn.”
“Bitter Scrolls: Sexist Poison in the Canon” by Peter Heinegg, professor of English, has been published by the University Press of America. The book is a collection of essays on misogyny in the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as the western classics, from Homer to William Butler Yeats.
Samuel Amanuel, assistant professor of physics, has published a paper on reinforcement mechanism in nanofilled polymer melts and elastomers in collaboration with Sanford Sternstein of RPI and Meisha Shofner of Georgia Institute of Technology. The article discusses a plausible mechanism of how the mechanical property, especially modulus, of rubber is influenced due the presence of nano particles. The article appeared in the Journal of Rubber Chemistry and Technology.