People, Papers, Presentations

Michael Barlow,
assistant professor of linguistics, was one of four invited
speakers at CompLex 2001, the sixth conference on Computational
Lexicography and Corpus Research held at the U. of Birmingham,
England. Barlow’s presentation given June 30 was titled
“Computers, Cognition and Lexicography.” He also
was invited to give a talk on “Future Directions in
Concordancing” at the Department of Linguistics, U.
of Lancaster, England, June 18. Barlow has been invited
to become a co-editor of the International Journal of Corpus
Linguistics published by John Benjamins.

Lilly Chen,
senior lecturer in Chinese, has been made president of the
International Chinese-American Educational Research and
Development Conference. She will preside at the annual meeting
of this organization at Ohio State U.

Steven Crowell,
professor of philosophy and department chair, has just published
a book with Northwestern U. Press titled “Husserl,
Heidegger and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental
Phenomenology.” The book is described as a “penetrating
and lucid discussion” and “an original, distinguished
addition to contemporary views of … the relation between
Husserl and Heidegger” that “calls into question
many well-entrenched views about Heidegger.” Also,
Crowell and Burt Hopkins of Seattle U. recently published
the first volume of a new periodical edited by them, entitled
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological
Philosophy. Renewing the impetus of Edmund Husserl’s
original “Jahrbuch,” Crowell and Hopkins have
assembled an internationally distinguished editorial board.

Chandler
Davidson, the Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs
in the Depts. of Sociology and Political Science, organized
and chaired one of the three plenary sessions of the annual
meeting of the American Sociological Association in August.
The session was titled “Disfranchisement in Urban America.”

Edward Djerejian,
director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public
Policy and the Robert and Janice McNair Professor of Public
Policy, was invited by the Center for the Study of the Presidency
in Washington, D.C., to participate in a series of roundtable
discussions to examine and define ways to strengthen the
State Department’s empowerment. The center’s panel
report, titled “Forward Strategic Empowerment: Synergies
Between Commanders in Chief, the State Department and Other
Agencies,” was presented to Vice President Dick Cheney
in August.

Steven W.
Lewis, senior researcher, James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy, and lecturer, Asian studies, presented
a paper, “Formalizing the Informal: Communal Property
Forms in China’s Economic Development,” at the
annual conference of the American Political Science Association
in San Francisco Sept. 2. His “What Can I Do for Shanghai?
Selling Spiritual Civilization in China’s Cities,”
a paper presented at the Baker Institute’s Transnational
China Project workshop in Hong Kong in March, will be published
in “Media in China: Consumption, Content and Crisis”
(Curzon Press) later this year.

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