People, Papers, Presentations

People, Papers, Presentations

Nicholas
K. Iammarino, professor, Dept. of Kinesiology, with
Thomas O’Rourke, U. of Illinois, presented a paper
titled “Improving the School Health Program Through
Service Learning” at the 74th annual meeting of the
American School Health Association, New Orleans, Oct. 28.

Maria-Regina
Kecht, associate professor of German Studies, Dept.
of German & Slavic Studies, was an invited speaker at
the International Symposium “Imagined Austria-Imaginiertes
Oesterreich,” Nov. 9-11 at the International Research
Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, Austria, where
she presented a paper on the topic “Geschichte(n) zeigen
und Geschichte(n) erzählen: Der weibliche Name des
Widerstands.”

Rafael M.
Mérida-Jiménez, assistant professor, Dept.
of Hispanic & Classical Studies, has just published
a new edition of Don Juan Manuel’s “Lib ro del
Conde Lucanor” (Barcelona: Edebé), a collection
of short stories originally written c. 1335. One of Mérida’s
articles has been reprinted in “Historia y crítica
de la literatura española. 9/1,” considered
to be the most prestigious anthology of Spanish literary
criticism, which goes to press only once a decade.

Hamid Naficy,
associate professor of film and media studies, Dept. of
Art & Art History, gave a presentation titled “Lured
by the Ethnographic Film Grass!” at the Middle Eastern
Studies Association Conference in Orlando, Fla., Nov. 16-19.

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