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Justice Sachs of South Africa speaks at WCL
Forty years ago, Albie Sachs was in exile after years of harassment and detention in apartheid South Africa. Some 20 years ago, he was nearly killed by a car bomb planted by the police. Now he’s a justice of the South African Constitutional Court and known as a key figure in the struggle for human rights and democracy in South Africa. Sachs spoke last week at AU’s Washington College of Law, discussing recent cases dealing with social and economic rights. —SA
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Honors/Awards/Appointments
Arturo Porzecanski, SIS: has been appointed to the board of directors of the Tinker Foundation, based in New York, which funds projects addressing environmental policy, economic policy, and governance issues in Latin America, and also awards field research grants to recognized centers of Latin American studies with graduate doctoral programs at U.S. universities. John Richardson, director, CTE, and SIS: participated in the selection process for Fulbright Scholars as a member of the National Selection Committee for Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Lectures/Presentations
Kathe Hicks Albrecht, curator, Visual Resources Center, art department, CAS: panelist for “Taming the Many-Headed DAM (Digital Asset Management),” Museum Computer Network Annual Conference, November.
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Fanta Aw, director, ISSS: “How EducationUSA Can Help Your International Recruitment,” NAFSA Region VIII Conference, Washington, D.C., November. Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and Center for Global Peace: “Emergent Qualitative, Quantitative and Triangulative Research Methods,” Special Research Methodology Lecture, Howard University, September. Francine Blume, director, Experiential Education, Career Center: “Using New Technologies to Reach Out to Your Students,” Northeast Association of Student Employment Administrators South District Meeting, American University, December. Jack Child, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Antarctic Penguins,” outreach to D.C. Public Schools, Lafayette Elementary School, Washington, D.C., December. Todd Eisenstadt, SPA: “Indians but by Choice: Indigenous Communities and the State in Southern Mexico,” Department of Political Science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City, January 2006. Christine Lam, Career Center: “Millennials,” Northeast Association of Student Employment Administrators South District Meeting, American University, December. Helen Langa, art history, CAS: “Chicana Artists: Diverse Voices in the Struggle for Social Justice,” Hispanic Heritage Month, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., September. Robert Marshak, SPA: “The Hidden Dimensions of Organizational Change,” Center for Organizational Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November. Julie Mertus, SIS: “New Developments in Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy,” New London University, United Kingdom October. Gary Weaver, director, Intercultural Management Institute, and SIS: delivered lectures to university students, faculty members, and professional women in the United Arab Emirates on cross-cultural issues related to working in a multicultural environment as well as the contemporary American identity, sponsored by the Department of State, December. Brian Yates, psychology, CAS: copresented “An Evaluation Framework to Compare Costing and Valuation Approaches,” meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Portland, Ore., November. Media
Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was quoted in the New York Times Magazine in an article on modern neologisms, November. Joshua Ederheimer, SPA: quoted in the article “Slayings on the rise this year in Broward County,” South Florida Sun-Sentinel, November. Brian Forst, SPA: interviewed in a conversation with chief-select Lanier on her vision of community policing and plans for the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington Post radio (107.7 FM), November. Curtis Gans, director, Center for the Study of the American Electorate, and SPA: interviewed by the Associated Press and WAMU 88.5 on the continuing rise in the number of independent voters, November. Jane Hall, SOC: was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times for the article “Revenge by the book: It’s the rage. White House insiders no longer keep silent out of loyalty,” October. David Lublin, SPA: was quoted regarding the U.S. midterm elections in articles in the Munchener Merkur and Mittelbayerische Zeitung, November. Chris Palmer, SOC: interviewed on WUSA-TV Channel 9 about his latest IMAX film, Hurricane on the Bayou, and about Seinfeld’s Michael Richard’s hurling of racial epithets at a comedy club, November. Gemma Puglisi, SOC: wrote a response on Len Bias’s legacy, Washington Post Outlook section, July. Judith Shapiro, SIS: discussed the roles of intellectuals in the United States and China on Voice of America radio (China Branch), in Mandarin, December. Shalini Venturelli, SIS: participant in the panel “Global Information Economy,” WAMU 88.5 FM, September. Published Works
Mohammed Abu-Nimer, SIS: “Nonviolent Action in Israel and Palestine: A Growing Force,” in Bridging the Divide: Peacebuilding in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lynne Rienner, 2006.
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Joseph Domask, Washington Semester Program: “Achieving Goals in Higher Education: an Experiential Approach to Sustainability Studies,” in International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, vol 8, no. 1, 2007. David Rosenbloom, SPA: his coauthored book Constitutional Competence for Public Managers: Cases and Commentary has been published in Chinese by Renmin University Press, Beijing, 2006. Jeffrey Schaler, SPA: “Foley’s Folly,” Liberty, vol 20, December. Russell Stone, director, Center for Israel Studies, and sociology, CAS: provided a quiz with answers for the New York Times feature “Pop Quiz: Middle East, Studies: “North, South, West, and East of Eden,” January. April Wilson, graduate student, SPA, and coordinator, Washington Mentorship Program: wrote several entries for the Encyclopedia of Juvenile Violence, Greenwood Publishers.
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