People, Papers, Presentations

Claire Bartlett,
director of the Language Resource Center and associate director
of the Center for the Study of Languages, has been elected
to a three-year term on the executive board of the Computer
Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). This
is an international professional organization of those interested
in computer-assisted language instruction.

Lilliana
Borcea, associate professor of computational and applied
mathematics, Dept. of Computational and Applied Mathematics,
won the award for the outstanding paper by a young presenter
in signal processing at the Acoustical Society of America
meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Dec. 3-7. The paper, “Imaging
in Random Media,” is about using sound to identify
small targets that are buried in heterogeneous media.

Jane Chance,
professor of English, has had the revised edition of “The
Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power” translated
into Japanese by the publisher, Hayakawa Shobo. The publisher
also has taken an option to translate “Tolkien’s
Art.”

Jean-Joseph
Goux, the Lawrence H. Favrot Professor of French, Dept.
of French Studies, gave a lecture on “Marx, Walras,
un déplacement éthique” at a colloquium
on “Money” organized by the Collège International
de Philosophie and held in Paris in November. He also was
an active participant at a table discussion about Jacques
Derrida at the same colloquium. Goux also gave a lecture
titled “Toward a Frivolity of Values?” at the
colloquium “Values of the 21st Century” organized
by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) and held at its seat in Paris Dec
8. Subsequently he co-signed with Jérôme Bindé,
director of the Office of Prospective and Prevision at UNESCO,
an article on the purpose of this colloquium, which was
published in more than 15 daily newspapers around the world,
including in Switzerland, Brazil, Egypt and India. On Dec.
15, Goux was the keynote speaker at an international colloquium
on “Presence and Representation” organized by
the University of Nantes. He gave a lecture titled “Les
lois non-écrites, ressources de l’irreprésentable.”
In January Goux also gave a lecture at the colloquium “Zola
and Money” at the Center Pompidou (Beaubourg) in Paris.

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