People, Papers, Presentations

People, Papers, Presentations

RICE NEWS OFFICE
June 25, 1998

Janet Braam, associate professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Cell Biology,
gave the presentation "Regulation and Functions of the Arabidopsis TCH
Genes" at the NSF Plant Cell Biology Training Grant Seminar Series, UC-Davis,
May 11-12, 1998. She was an invited speaker at the series.

Jane Chance, professor, Dept. of English, has published an entry on "Literary
Influences on Middle English Literature (Medieval Latin)," in "Medieval
England: An Encyclopedia," ed. Paul Szarmach et al., The Garland Encyclopedia
of the Middle Ages (New York: Garland Press, 1998) and also an article on "Gender
Subversion and Linguistic Castration in Fifteenth-Century English Translation
of Christine de Pizan," in "Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts,"
ed. Anna Walecka Roberts, 161-94 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
1998.) Chance also moderated a session at the recent International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo, Mich., on May 9, on "Language
and the Body in Medieval Women Mystics" co-sponsored by Mystics Quarterly
and the 1997 NEH Institute on Medieval Women, which was directed by Chance at
Rice U.

Lynda L. Crist, editor, Jefferson Davis Papers, Jefferson Davis Association,
gave the keynote address titled "Jefferson Davis and the War Department,"
the first speech for a series called "How We Fought the War: Day-to-Day
Operations" at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on April
20, 1998.

Vera Dernovsek, graduate student, Dept. of French Studies, gave a presentation
titled "Order and Disorder in Mariage Greuze’s ‘Village Bride’" at
the South Central Society of 18th Century Studies on Feb. 22, 1998.

Jean-Joseph Goux, the Lawrence Favrot Professor of French Studies, gave a presentation
titled "L’imaginaire économique dans ‘Les nourritures terrestres’
d’André Gide" at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, on April 16, 1998.

Angelo Miele, professor emeritus, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Material
Science, lectured on "The Flight from Earth to Mars: Optimal Trajectories
for Round-trip Missions," at the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear
Problems in Aviation and Aerospace in Dayton Beach, Fla., on April 29, 1998.
The paper was co-authored by Tong Wang, senior research scientist, Dept. of
Mechanical Engineering & Material Science.

Joan E. Strassmann, professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
gave a presentation titled "Genetic Structure of Wasp Societies,"
at the Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford U., May 4, 1998. She also presented
"The Evolution of Swarm-founding Wasps: Collective Worker Control,"
at the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, U. of Chicago, May 7, 1998.
A third presentation, "Worker-queen Conflict in Polistes, a Small-colony
Social Wasp," was made at the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
U. of Chicago, May 8, 1998.

Larry Temkin, professor, Dept. of Philosophy, gave a presentation titled "In
Sickness and in Health, Till Death Do Us Part: Fundamental Questions about Equality
and the Human Condition" at the Harvard Center for Population and Development
Studies in March 1998. Also in March 1998, Temkin gave the Eastwood Lecture
at Southern Methodist U titled "From Torture to Hangnails: A Problem with
Practical Reasoning." He also gave a seminar titled "Equality, Priority,
and the Leveling Down Objection," a joint seminar on distributive justice
for the UCLA School of Law and Philosophy Department in April 1998.

Edith Wyschogrod, the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious
Thought, Dept. of Religious Studies, published a book titled "An Ethics
of Remembering: History, Heterology and the Nameless Others" (University
of Chicago Press, 1998). She gave the Toulouse Lecture, titled "For Whom
am I? The Response of Emmanuel Levinas" at Seattle U. on April 2, 1998.
On April 4, 1998, she gave a lecture,"Levinas and the Glory of the Infinite,"
at the Northwest Society for Phenomenology, Existentialism and Hermeneutics.
She gave a lecture titled "History and the Heterological Historian"
at the Conference on Ethics and History at Emory U. in Atlanta on April 17,
1998.