People, Papers, Presentations

Mark Kulstad,
professor of philosophy, has been elected as the next president
of the Leibniz Society of North America. He will begin a
four-year term at the end of 2002. The initial idea to found
the now 25-year-old society surfaced originally at a Leibniz
conference here at Rice U., organized by Kulstad. Kulstad
has just returned from France, where he read a paper at
an international Leibniz colloquium in Rennes, “Leibniz
et les puissances du langage.”

William Martin,
the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Professor of Religion and Public
Policy, gave the Charles and Rosemary Licata Lecture at
the School of Public Policy, Pepperdine U., March 14. His
talk was titled “Muslims and Modernity: Cultures in
Conflict.” Also at Pepperdine on the same date, Martin
spoke at the Faith and Public Policy Series on the topic,
“With God on Their Side: Religion and American Foreign
Policy.”

Atieno Odhiambo,
professor of history, whose 1992 book, written with D.W.
Cohen, “Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the
Sociology of Power in Africa,” has been translated
into German by two academics at the University of Berlin,
Sibylle Alsayad and Adelheid Seyler, and has appeared as
“Wer Begrabt SM? Politik des Wissens und Soziologie
der Macht in Afrika.”

Paula Sanders,
associate professor of history, has accepted an invitation
to spend much of the 2002-2003 academic year at the National
Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, N.C. She will
continue work there on her book, “Making Cairo Medieval.”
This invitation complements Sanders’ receipt of a research
fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities
for the same project. Sanders also received a grant from
the American Philosophical Society this year, but declined
it in favor of these other fellowships.

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