People, Papers, Presentations

People, Papers, Presentations
RICE NEWS OFFICE
March 12, 1998

Michael Barlow, assistant professor, Dept. of Linguistics, and associate director,
Center for the Study of Languages, was invited to the U. of Montana at Missoula
to give a talk titled "A Corpus-Based Study of Spatial Metaphor" on
Feb. 19, 1998. Barlow also gave a presentation titled "Directions for Technology-Enhanced
Language Learning" on Feb. 20 at the U. of Montana.

Dagobert L. Brito, George A. Peterkin Professor of Political Economy, Dept.
of Economics, with Michael D. Intriligator, professor of economics, political
science and policy studies, UCLA, co-authored an article titled "Deterring
Nuclear Weapons Proliferation" for the Journal of the Institute of Economic
Affairs, Vol. 17, No. 4, Dec. 1997, pp. 4-9.

Jane Chance, professor, Dept. of English, organized and moderated a session
on "Myth and Gender in the Middle Ages" for the Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary
Conference on "Peace, Negotiation and Reciprocity: Strategies of Co-Existence
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Ariz., Feb. 13, 1998. Chance also delivered a paper
on "Mediating between Classical Myth and Christian Allegory: The Feminized
Subject in ‘The Assembly of Gods.’" Hers was the best-attended session
of any at that conference. Chance also organized a session on "The Literary
Traditions of Medieval Women" for several other NEH Institute participants
at a conference on "Gender and Creativity in the Middle Ages," Harris
Manchester College, Oxford U., Oxford, England, Jan. 6, 1998. Chance recently
received a Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Efforts for the Faculty
Awareness and Advocacy from the Texas Faculty Association.

Raquel Guirardello, graduate student, Dept. of Linguistics, gave a presentation
titled "The Causative Construction in Trumai" at the 72nd annual LSA/SSILA
Meeting, New York, N.Y., Jan. 9, 1998.

Walter Isle, professor and chair, Dept. of English, has been elected vice president
of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). He will
serve as vice president in 1998 and will become president in 1999. ASLE has
over 1,000 members in the United States and Canada, with affiliated organizations
in Japan and Great Britain.

David Mead, graduate student, Dept. of Linguistics, gave two presentations
at the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (8-ICAL),
Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 28, 1997-Jan. 2, 1998. The presentations were titled "A
Cognitive Approach to -ako in Kulisusu" and "Proto-Celebic Focus."

Sérgio Meira, graduate student, Dept. of Linguistics, gave a presentation
titled "Constituency and Semi-Constituency in Tiriyó (Cariban)"
at the 72nd annual LSA/SSILA Meeting, New York, N.Y., Jan. 9, 1998.

Diana Strassmann, senior research fellow, feminist economics, gave a presentation
titled "Feminist Economics" at Texas Christian U., in February 1998.

Leona Urbish, director, Office of Institutional Research, was elected vice
president/president elect of the Texas Association of Institutional Research
at the 1998 TAIR Conference in Austin, Texas, Feb. 22-25, 1998.