Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, presented a research paper titled “Radical Subjectivity in the Scandinavian Situationist Bauhaus” at the ‘Artists’ colonies in the world / The world in artists’ colonies’ conference. Held Monday, Nov. 28 through Wednesday, Nov. 30 at the University of Melbourne in Australia, Schwartz presented her paper remotely. The conference is intended for imagining the artists’ colony as an alternate model for writing art history.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had four of her speculative poems published in the special Gothic themed April issue of Prachya Review. Her surreal poem titled “Horror Show” is written in hay(na)ku form. Her second poem is a spiraling abecedarian describing a spectral “Flock of Morose.” Her poem “Aftermath” is written as a post-apocalyptic warning and “Little Mayhem” is a dark accounting of a visit from tiny but threatening otherworldly creatures. Lawrence also just received word that her love letter-inspired spiraling abecedarian titled “Love Note” was accepted for publication in the fall issue of the James Dickey Review.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, served as a panelist reviewing Summer Institute/Seminar proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities, on April 24 in Washington, D.C.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, edited the Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, which was chosen by the American Library Association RUSA BRASS Committee for Business Reference Sources as an Outstanding Business Reference source. This encyclopedia contained submissions from Sport Management Department chair Jordan Kobritz, faculty members Peter Han, Genevieve Birren and Ted Fay, and several graduate students.
Brian Williams
Brian Williams, Political Science Department, had an article accepted for publication in Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy. His article, ‘Private Member Bills and Electoral Connection in Wales’ finds evidence of an electoral connection between members of the National Assembly for Wales and their constituencies.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, had an encyclopedic entry on the work of Iris Marion Young published in December in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had her article, “Teaching with an Index Card: The Benefits of Free, Open Source Tools,” published in October in The Chronicle of Higher Education special issue on “Innovation.”
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, wrote and recorded a song inspired by Cortland’s common read, Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The single, “Hold On,” was released in February 2024 and can be heard on Spotify and other music streaming services under artist name Juniper Salute.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), presented “Troubling Justice: A Case for a Ludic Ubuntu Ethic” on April 27 at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany. Nagel is a scholar-in-residence from January through July, and this is her official contribution as a research professor at Max Planck under the auspices of the African Diversities Colloquium.
Moataz Emam
Moataz Emam, Physics Department, in collaboration with recent physics graduate Charles Canestaro ’13, jointly wrote “The Five Dimensional Universal Hypermultiplet and the Cosmological Constant Problem,” which was published in the journal Physics Letters B. The paper is based on research Canestaro conducted during his junior and senior years on the Cosmological Constant problem. This involves the apparent discrepancy between the measured rate of expansion of the universe and the theoretically calculated rate. The work proposes a solution to this problem based on the possible existence of higher dimensional supersymmetric fields and their effect on our universe from the “outside.”