People, Papers, Presentations

People, Papers, Presentations

Rice News Staff
Jan. 14, 1998

Gerald McKenny, associate professor and chair, Dept. of Religious Studies, had a session of the annual meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) devoted to a panel discussion of his book, “To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology and the Body.” The panel discussion was followed by a response from McKenny. The ASBH, which met in Houston Nov. 18-22, is the major academic organization for scholars in bioethics and medical humanities.

Hamid Naficy, associate professor, Film and Media Studies, Dept. of Art & Art History, delivered a paper titled “Movies and Iranian Identity During the Constitutional Revolution Period” at the Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America Conference, Chicago, Ill., Dec. 3-6. He also chaired a panel at the same conference on “Political, Exilic and Immigrant Identities in Visual and Musical Expression.” Naficy also edited a book titled “Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place,” recently published by Routledge. Based on a major symposium that Naficy organized at Rice in 1995, this interdisciplinary study of the media brings together essays by internationally accomplished critics to discuss the way film, television, music and computer and electronic media are shaping identities and cultures in an increasingly globalized world. Patricia Seed, professor, Dept. of History, was also a contributor to the book.

Karen Schnietz, assistant professor of management in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, authored “Democrats’ 1916 Tariff Commission: Responding to Dumping Fears and Illustrating the Consumer Costs of Protectionism,” published in Business History Review, 72 (1998): 1-45.

Stephen A. Zeff, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting, recently published the following articles: “The IASC’s Core Standards: What Will the SEC Do?” in the Fall 1998 issue of The Journal of Financial Statement Analysis; “Independence and Standard Setting” in the October 1998 issue of Critical Perspectives on Accounting; and “An American View on CLERP” in the November 1998 issue of the Australian Accounting Review. Zeff was recently appointed to the editorial boards of the following journals: Australian Accounting Review, Accounting & Finance, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Accounting Research Journal.