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Performances/Media Productions/Exhibitions
Jurg Siegenthaler, professor emeritus, sociology, CAS: cocurator for the exhibit 150 Years of Social Services, Lawrence, Mass.

Honors/Awards/Appointments
Bette Dickerson, sociology, CAS: appointed to a three-year term on the Cultural Race and Ethnic Minorities Committee for the Southern Sociological Society.

Gemma Puglisi and Brigid Maher, SOC, and Brad Boeke and Rolando Arrieta, Media Production Center, SOC: judged television documentaries at New York Festivals, an international award competition, October.

Lectures/Presentations
Mary Garrard, professor emerita, art, CAS: taught art history segment of NEH National Summer Institute, “Worlds of the Renaissance,” Columbia University, New York City, July.

Julie Mertus, SIS: “Human Rights NGOs in the Age of the War on Terrorism,” Inaugural Conference for the new University of Connecticut Human Rights Center, September.

Renee von Worde, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Foreign Language Anxiety,” University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria, August.

Papers Presented
Maria Green Cowles, honors program and SIS: “The Civil-Society Dialogues and Transatlantic Economic Cooperation,” New Transatlantic Agenda workshop, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June.

Emilio Viano, SPA: delivered two papers, “Trafficking of Women and Children in Latin America: Current Trends and Developments” and “Preventing Terrorism: New Trends in Criminal Law and Policy in the U.S.A. and Other Countries Post 9/11,” Inter-American Victimology Congress, Cordoba, Argentina, August.

Jon Wisman, economics, CAS: “Creative Destruction and Community,” 11th World Congress of Social Economics, Albertville, France, June.

Published Works
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS: “Discussing America’s Wars in the Classroom: Pedagogical and Andragogical Approaches,” Resources in Higher Education, ERIC-RIE ED482478, June 2004. (Paper was initially presented at the SIS 45th Anniversary Symposium, April 2003.)

Abdul Aziz Said, director, Center for Global Peace, and SIS: op-ed for the Daily Star discussing the political and social effects of Saddam Hussein’s trial, July.

Charles White, professor emeritus, philosophy and religison, CAS: the Indian edition of his book A Catalogue of Vaishnava Literature: on Microfilms in the Adyar Library, the Bodleian Library and the American University Library was published by Motilal Banarsidass: New Delhi, India, June.

John White, professor emeritus, physics, CAS, and Krishna Tewari, physics doctoral student: “Dual Critical Points and Related Phenomena in Simple Fluids from the Perspective of (Approximate) Renormalization Theory,” International Journal of Thermophysics, vol 25, no 4, July 2004.

June Willenz, sociology, CAS: her paper “Rape in War: Realities and Remedies,” prepared for the panel “Women in an Insecure World,” has been accepted for publication in a volume of proceedings of the International Sociological Association conference “Military Missions and Their Implications Reconsidered: The Aftermath of September 11,” Ankara, Turkey, July 2004.

Media
Akbar Ahmed, SIS: interviewed by CNN, Fox News Channel, CBS-9, and the Pakistan Daily Times regarding terrorism in Iraq, August.

Laird Anderson, professor emeritus, SOC: interviewed by Air Force Times concerning the validity of Iraqi information on the death of civilian casualties, September.

Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: interviewed by UPI on cell phone etiquette, July.

Betty Bennett, literature, CAS: interviewed for the article “Keats-Shelley House, Rome,” Chronicle of Higher Education, July.

Jack Child, language and foreign studies, CAS: interviewed on the U.S. elections by Radio Fisherton (CNN in Spanish), September.

Angela Davis, WCL: interviewed by Canadian Television regarding race and power in the criminal justice system, specifically within the context of the Kobe Bryant case, August.

Claudio Grossman, dean, WCL: interviewed by the Legal Times regarding his appointment to the working group to plan the new International Association of Law Schools, September.

Peter Kuznick, history, CAS: interviewed by Radio Free Europe regarding the draft, and he and students were interviewed by the Kyoto Shimbun, Kyodo News Service, Japan Times, NHK (TV), RCC (TV), and Nagasaki TV during their Nuclear Institute Seminar trip to Japan, August.

Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: appeared on CNN’s Headline News to provide insight into John Kerry’s acceptance speech and was quoted in a Reuter’s story discussing the history of political conventions, August.
James Lynch, SPA: quoted by AP on crime statistics, September.

Howard McCurdy, SPA: quoted by USA Today regarding NASA, September.

Katherine Montgomery, SOC: quoted by Reuters regarding advertising to children on the Internet, September.

Candice Nelson, SPA: quoted in the Cincinnati Inquirer, San Jose Mercury News, State, and other media outlets regarding Ohio’s top corporate PACs raising record money in a struggling economy, August.

Robert Pastor, vice president, international affairs: interviewed by NPR’s Weekend Edition on the Election Law Journal articles on the electoral process in North America, August.

Jeffrey Schaler, SPA: interviewed for the article “Shoplifters of the world . . .” Hartford Advocate, August.
Leonard Steinhorn, SOC: quoted in the State regarding Bush and Tucker Eskew, August.

James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: quoted by AP and Knight Ridder regarding the election, August.

Robert Tobias, director, ISPPI, and SPA: quoted in Government Executive Magazine regarding the IRS modernization program; the discussion was hosted by Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation, August.

Roger Volkema, Kogod: quoted by the Baltimore Sun regarding negotiating prices, September.

Photo by Jeff Watts

Korean art historian speaks In the Washington diplomatic community, Yi Song-Mi is known as the wife of Korean ambassador Han Sung-Joo. But in Korea, she is a professor of art history at the Academy of Korean Studies and dean of its graduate school. A graduate of Berkeley and Princeton, the art history professor gave a talk last week titled “Confucianism and the Korean Arts” at AU’s Center for Asia Studies.