People, Papers, Presentations

Michael Barlow , assistant professor of linguistics, gave a presentation May 23 at the Academy of Hungarian Sciences, Budapest, on ”Alignment and Analysis of Parallel Corpora.” Barlow also presented a paper titled ”ParaConc: Concordance Software for Multilingual Parallel Corpora” at the third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation held in Las Palmas, Spain on May 28.

Werner H. Kelber , the Isla C. and Percy E. Turner Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Cultures, presented a lecture titled ”The Limits of the Two-Source Hypothesis: Oral Performance, the Poetics of Gospel Narrativity, Memorial Arbitration” at the annual meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas at Durham University, U.K., Aug. 9. He also presented a paper titled ”Geschichte als Kommunikationsgeschichte: Geschichtsphilosophische überlegungen zur Medienwissenschaft” at a symposium on Erkenntnistheoretische Voraussetzungen und Geltungsansprüche Religöser und Philosophischer Interpretationsmodelle at the Evangelische Akademie Loccum on Oct. 5. And he presented a paper titled ”L’Evangile de Thomas: Herméneutique au Carrefour de la ‘Presence Divine’/’Absence Divine’ ” at an International Colloquium on Oralité et Ecriture: Le Monde des Esprits at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, on Oct. 9.

Marcia O’Malley , assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, received the best paper award for her paper titled ”Comparison of Human Haptic Size Discrimination Performance in Real and Simulated Environments” at the 2002 Phantom Users Group (PUG) Conference held in Santa Fe, N.M., Oct. 26-29.

William B. Parsons , associate professor and chair, Dept. of Religious Studies, gave a presentation titled ”Psychology, Mysticism and Augustine’s Confessions” at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, UT Medical Banch at Galveston Oct. 15.

Kinga Perzynska , director of the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library, attended the Vatican’s Commission Plenary Assembly of Members in Rome Oct. 17-19 where she presented a report to Pope John Paul II on the status of religious archives in the United States and international cooperation of archivists of religious collections. The Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church was created in 1993 to coordinate protection of the church’s art, libraries and archives. In June, the pope appointed her to a five-year term. She is the first woman named to the commission composed of 44 members from around the world. Before coming to Rice last spring, she was the archives director for the Catholic Archives of Texas.

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