Month: October 2017

HISTORY – The Marine Corps History Division of Marine Corps University has just published Rod Andrew’s monograph “Hill Fights: The First Battle of Khe Sanh, 1967.” This is the Marine Corps’ first official history of this important but lesser-known phase of the fighting in Vietnam. Andrew recently retired from the Marine Corps Reserve, where his last billet was Officer-in-Charge of the Field History Branch.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci’s choral composition titled “I Softly Sing” was premiered by the University of Arizona Symphonic Choir Oct. 28. The piece utilizes the poem “The Gift to Sing” by James Weldon Johnson. In addition, Anthony was asked to be the guest conductor for the Oconee County Choral Festival this October leading both middle and high school students in rehearsal and performance.

HISTORY – On Oct. 19, Vernon Burton received the South Carolina Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities presented by the South Carolina Humanities Board. Dixie Goswami, professor emerita of English, also was honored with the award. At 5 p.m. Nov. 3, Burton will be part of a panel discussion on Benjamin E. Mays as part of the Fine Arts and Lecture Series (FALS) at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. The next day, a statue of Mays will be unveiled at the Mays Historic Site in Greenwood, where Burton, a member of the site’s board, will participate in the weekend celebration of the longtime president of Morehouse College.

ENGLISH – Lucian Ghita’s article “The Specters of the Jacobethan Avant-Garde in Romanian Experimental Theatre” has been published in the essay collection “Shakespeare in Romanian, Shakespeare in the World” (Romanian Literature Museum Publishing House, 2017), edited by George Volceanov and Ioan Cristescu.

CAAH – Rick Goodstein led a roundtable discussion, “Interdisciplinary Core Curriculum Within the Production Studies in Performing Arts Major at Clemson University,” at the 54th Annual Conference of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Oct. 19.

HISTORY – H. Roger Grant has been awarded the William D. Middleton Fellowship for his forthcoming book project on the history of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. This award is given annually by the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society based in College Station, Texas.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Steven Grosby’s chapter, “Nationalism,” was published in the two-volume Sage Handbook of Political Sociology (November), pp. 587-603.

LANGUAGES – Daniel Holcombe published a book chapter, “Marco Berger: Homoaffective Edging and Cinematic Queered Continuums,” in Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture, edited by Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz for Palgrave Macmillan. In the chapter, Holcombe combines queer theory with Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytical theory l’objet petit a to analyze the spectator gaze and cinematic techniques in two films by Argentinian director Marco Berger.

LANGUAGES – Jason Hurdich, who teaches American Sign Language, was named the Marie Griffin Interpreter of the Year. The award, given by the Southeast Regional Institute on Deafness, recognizes his outstanding service to the deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind communities of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and the Carolinas. Hurdich was featured recently in a front-page article in the Greenville Journal.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION – Amalia Leifeste and Brittany Lavelle Tulla, (a Charleston preservationist and historic preservation alumna), presented a paper at the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians at their meeting in Lynchburg, Virginia in late October. The paper, developed with Carter Hudgins, illustrates the fine line that architect Joseph Croxton navigated between national guidelines and local regionalism in his designs for the CivilIan Conservation Corps-era buildings constructed at Kings Mountain National Military Park and Kings Mountain State Park.  Also, over fall break Hudgins and Leifeste did fieldwork at Hard Bargain Farm in Maryland with five historic preservation graduate students. The field drawings, notes and photographs will be translated into measured drawings of the buildings over the remainder of the semester. These drawings will be included in the conference guide for the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s annual meeting in Alexandria, Virginia in 2018.

ARCHITECTURE – Andreea Mihalache presented the paper “Speculations on Robert Venturi’s Less Is a Bore” at the annual conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (Lynchburg, Virginia, Oct. 11-14). She also explored the topic in a Planning, Design and the Built Environment Colloquium Oct. 20 at Clemson.

HISTORY – Edwin Moise presented a paper “Reading Enemy Communications and Still Not Knowing: Tonkin Gulf 1964” Oct. 20 at the Symposium on Cryptologic History, hosted by the National Security Agency’s Center for Cryptologic History, in Laurel, Maryland.

LANGUAGES – Kelly Peebles published the article “The Head, the Heart, and Hysteria in Jeanne Flore’s ‘Tales and Trials of Love’ (c. 1542)” in the Journal of Medical Humanities. She presented the paper “Mothering in the Shadow of the Crown: Royal cousins, religious refugees, and the nurturing influence of Renée de France” at the Royal Studies Network’s Kings & Queens 6 conference, which was held in Madrid, Spain, Sept. 12-15.

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Elora Raymond’s solo-authored paper “The Impact of Income Sorting on Housing Wealth Inequality: A Comparison between Urban Regions in the United States” was accepted for publication in the Community and Economic Development Discussion Paper Series at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Her article “Wholesale Funding and the Increase in Construction Bank-Owned Real Estate in the U.S. Financial Crisis” appears in the current issue of Urban Geography. In addition, her article “Uneven Recovery and Persistent Negative Equity in the Southeast” is forthcoming in the Journal of Urban Affairs and was the recipient of the 2017 Best Conference Paper Award from the Urban Affairs Association.

ARCHITECTURE – On Oct. 11, Kate Schwennsen provided the keynote presentation, “We have done more than stir: We have persisted,”at “LEVEL: A Symposium on equity in the design of the built environment,” sponsored by the North Dakota Humanities Council in Fargo, North Dakota.

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya gave the lecture “Make Civil Rights and the Humanities Happen at Your Library” on Oct. 12 at the 2017 South Carolina Library Association Conference in Columbia. He also read the paper “Humanizing Economics: Pedagogical Approaches to Transforming the Homo Economicus” at the 32nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities held Oct. 27 at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Benjamin L. White’s article “The Traditional and Ecclesiastical Paul of 1 Corinthians” appeared in October in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly 79 (2017): pp. 651-669.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury participated in a workshop Sept. 8-10 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany on the theme “Sovereignty, Religion, and Secularism: Interrogating the Foundations of Polity.” He also gave a paper, “The Politics of Depoliticization,” on Sept. 14 as part of a panel on “Law and Human Rights” at the Center for Religion, Conflict, and Globalization at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

HISTORY – On Sept. 14, Vernon Burton moderated the question and answer session for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at Clemson University. Most newspapers in South Carolina covered the story of the first visit to Clemson by a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice. On Sept. 26, Burton spoke on the topic of race and Southern identity at the Oconee/Pickens County Lion’s Club Zone meeting at the Duke Energy’s World of Energy. Burton was also the first among the 10 historians of United States history who filed an amici curiae brief in support of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al., respondents in the Husted v. Randolph case in the Supreme Court on voter registration suppression. Burton and Dixie Goswami, professor emeritus of English, will receive the Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities from the South Carolina Humanities Council on Oct.19.

PERFORMING ARTS – Paul Buyer was invited to attend the Yamaha Marching Percussion Summit Sept. 25-27 in Buena Park, California. Marching percussion educators and artists met with designers from Yamaha Japan to discuss Yamaha’s marching percussion products, the future of marching percussion and current trends in product development and market needs. Attendees included college and high school marching band drumlines; Drum and Bugle Corps (DCI); and Winter Guard International (WGI).

ART – Andrea Feeser attended the Aug. 25 opening of artist Jimmie Durham’s exhibition “God’s Children, God’s Poems” at the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zürich. She spent several days with the artist – the subject of her book in progress – and his colleagues, discussing and documenting the show. Feeser visited Durham’s Berlin studio in March, where she and two of her former Clemson art department students documented Durham’s creation of the work for the Zürich exhibition.

HISTORY – H. Roger Grant has been elected to the board of directors of the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library in St. Louis.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Steven Grosby’s article “Nationen lever” appeared in Swedish in the September issue of Axess Magasin, pp. 30-33. The Swedish news magazine published in Stockholm focuses on liberal arts and the social sciences.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter gave a poetry reading Sept. 28 and led a workshop for young people at the 10th annual Storymoja Festival in Nairobi, Kenya.

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Chair Mike Jackson announced that his department will host its second Construction Industry Symposium on Oct. 12 in Greenville, South Carolina. Last year’s event in Charlotte was so well received, the department decided to make the symposium an annual event. The event sponsor is BB&T/BB&T Insurance Services.

HISTORY – When Ken Burns and Lynn Novick were making the documentary series “The Vietnam War” for PBS, a member of their staff consulted Edwin Moise on several issues. Professor Moise’s name appears in the credits for Episode 3 of the series, “The River Styx.”

ENGLISH – Lee Morrissey’s essay, “Milton, Modernity, and Periodization of Politics” was published in Modern Language Quarterly, and his essay “Transplanting English Plantations in Aphra Behn’s ‘Oroonoko’” was published in The Global South.

LANGUAGES – Salvador Oropesa published the article “‘El Quijote’ en la trilogía de la frontera de Cormac McCarthy: Neobarroco del Southwest” in the Colombia-based journal Lingüística y Literatura 72 (2017): pp. 135-55. In his abstract, Oropesa said: “We read Cormac McCarthy as a novelist of the Baroque of the Southwest paying special attention to syntax, vocabulary, and intertextuality. The bulk of the critical attention on McCarthy is anglocentric. We cover the influence of Spanish literature, mainly Cervantes, in the Border Trilogy.”

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Elora Raymond presented the paper “Corporate Landlords, Institutional Investors and Displacement: Evictions in Single Family Homes” at Leeds University in the UK for the annual RC21 Sociology of Urban and Regional Development conference Sept. 11-13. The paper is available from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Community and Economic Development Paper Series.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise is on book tour for the 10th anniversary edition of “The Amputee’s Guide to Sex.” She read in New York City at The Kitchen with Eileen Myles and at the KGB Bar with Natalie Shapero. Readings in September and October take her to Charleston, Asheville and the Chippewa Valley Book Festival. An interview with Weise appears in BOMB magazine. New poems appear in Granta.