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CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT — Robert Benedict moderated a panel titled “Preservation, Displacement and Gentrification” at Tulane University’s Virtual Preservation Forum. Benedict also presented a paper, “It’s A Great Adaptive Use of the Historic Textile Mill but What About the Mill Village?” at Goucher College’s “Preserving Place in a Rapidly Changing World” Virtual Conference. The paper is a case study of the rehabilitation plans for Union Bleachery and the loss of place attachment among mill villagers following a devastating fire and closure of the mill in 2003.

ENGLISH — David Blakesley began a three-year term as President of the Kenneth Burke Society, an international organization founded in 1986. Blakesley also presented at two conferences and led a webinar: “The Value of (Burkean) Theory in an Age of Activism” at the 11th Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society (June 25); “The Complicated Legacies of Open Access Publishing: Lessons Learned by a Scholarly Publisher and Journal Editor” at the 2021 Information, Medium, and Society Conference, Nineteenth International Conference on Publishing Studies; and “Driving Student Engagement in an English Class,” Yellowdig webinar (July 14).

PHILOSOPHY — Pascal Brixel presented his paper “Two Faces of Alienated Labor: Why ‘Meaningful Work’ Is Not Enough” virtually at the annual conference of the Marx and Philosophy Society, based in the U.K. He also presented his paper “Incentives Compromise Autonomy” virtually at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, based in the U.K. And he presented his paper “Equality Is Not Enough: Freedom, Work, and the Limits of Republicanism” virtually at a Workshop on Labor Justice and the Transformation of Work, hosted by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.

HISTORY — Vernon Burton’s recent co-authored book, “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court” received another glowing review: this one in the Progressive magazine. On June 17, the Talking Points Memo excerpted a section from “Justice Deferred,” titled “How the Roberts Court Laid the Groundwork for 2021’s All-Out Assault on Voting Rights.” On June 18, Burton keynoted the groundbreaking in Fayetteville of the Civil War and Reconstruction History Center, the newest North Carolina state museum. On June 23, Burton did a virtual book talk with the celebrated Oxford Mississippi bookstore Square Books for its Crossroads Book Group. On June 24, Burton did a book signing at a reception sponsored by the College of Charleston and others. He also recently discussed “Justice Deferred” at the Charleston College of Law, and on June 28 he signed books at the Blue Bicycle Book Store and did a seminar with the Law School’s Summers Fellows at Charleston Pro Bono Legal Services. The June 28 Princeton Alumni Weekly featured Burton and his co-author Armand Derfner: “Orville Vernon Burton ’76 and Armand Derfner ’60 Examine the Supreme Court’s Record on Race.” On June 30, C-Span released its Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership in which Burton participated. On July 6, Gerardo Marti, Professor of Sociology at Davidson College, included “Justice Deferred” as one of three books he recommended to understand race and the America legal system. On July 8, Burton participated in a panel featuring “Justice Deferred” at the Washington History Seminar sponsored by the National History Center and the Wilson Center. On July 19, Burton gave a lecture at the Penn Center and another on the Supreme Court during Reconstruction via Zoom to public school teachers in the NEH Summer Institutes for “America’s Reconstruction.” Burton was part of a research team of doctors and computer scientists presenting at the ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) annual meeting, June 4-8. Their presentation was titled “Artificial intelligence (AI) comparison of social media-based patient-reported outcomes of PD-1, BRAF, and CTLA-4 inhibitors for melanoma treatment.”

LANGUAGES — In July 2021, the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf released a research report on mentorship for the production of “The Black Drum,” the first signed musical. Jody Cripps participated as a researcher/interviewer and some of his work can be seen in the report.

VISUAL ART — Rachel de Cuba was named as the new Co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville, a contemporary art collective curating exhibitions in Greenville, South Carolina. In July, she curated “Placement in Process,” the first exhibition in TSA Greenville’s new gallery space in the West Village of Greenville. The show featured Atlanta-based artists Ana Meza and Katharine Miele. Alongside her curatorial endeavors the artist’s textile work “Nabéga” is featured in the group show “It Feels Like the First Time” at Mana Contemporary Chicago. This survey features work of more than 50 artists connected to the Tiger Strikes Asteroid Network and was curated by Holly Cahill and Teresa Silva. The exhibition runs through September 30.

RHETORICS, COMMUNICATION, AND INFORMATION DESIGN — Cody Hunter presented “A Flash of Light to Blurred Vision: The Rhetoric of the Threat of a Nuclear War The Day After Trinity and in the Year 2020” at the 11th Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society (June 25).

LANGUAGES — Jason Hurdich participated in a recent podcast panel discussing recent turmoil at the Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf, the only national accreditation body for sign language interpreters. Hurdich reports that most of the board of directors resigned, leaving only one person on the board as of Sept. 1. Hurdich says, “Amid turmoil where the Deaf and interpreting communities have been devolved into issues of racism and audism, there have been opportunities for enlightenment. Thus, the podcast was one of several avenues to educate the members of the Deaf community of what was happening and what needs to occur in the period of transformation.”

PERFORMING ARTS — Kendra Johnson was the professional costume designer for August Wilson’s “How I Learned What I Learned,” starring film and stage actor Tony Todd for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. An article about the production can be found here.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Sahar Mihandoust, and doctoral student Swati Goel, along with other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), recently published an article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health discussing how operating room layout and surgical table positioning influences flow and disruptions: “Impact of Surgical Table Orientation on Flow Disruptions and Movement Patterns during Pediatric Outpatient Surgeries.” The CHFDT research team also published work in the Health Environments Research & Design Journal discussing how the positioning of equipment, booms and staff impacts safety in a mirrored room design: “Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Patient Room Design: Identifying Safety Risks in Mirrored Rooms Through a Graphical Systems Analysis.”

PHILOSOPHY — Claire Kirwin presented her paper “Moral Disagreement and Getting Something Right” at the Ethics of Conversation and Disagreement Virtual Workshop. She also presented her paper “Sympathy for the Devil? The Guise of the Good Remastered” virtually at the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association Joint Session, based in the UK.

HISTORY — Pamela Mack advised a team of students who won funding in the Clemson COVID Challenge ’21. This summer’s Creative Inquiry program had teams of students from Clemson and University of South Carolina develop projects on both the science and the impacts of the pandemic. Mack’s team on “Combatting Distrust of COVID Vaccination” investigated the reasons for distrust and proposed preparing social media posts linked to an infographic to answer that distrust. The team was awarded funding of $882.85 for software for the infographic, printing to distribute it as a poster, and paid promotion of the social media posts. The students, who earn no course credit for these summer projects, have agreed to continue to work on this initiative for several more months.

LANGUAGES — Joseph Mai co-edited “Everything Has a Soul: The Cinema of Rithy Panh,” published by Rutgers University Press in July. Sixteen contributors explore the boundless creativity and ethical sensitivity of one of Southeast Asia’s cinematic visionaries in this first book on the Cambodian filmmaker and genocide survivor Rithy Panh. Mai’s own chapter, “Resilience in the Ruins: Artistic Practice in ‘The Burnt Theatre’,” explores architecture, artistic creation, and Cambodian national identity. Mai also published a study of the influence of the philosopher Stanley Cavell on the French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin: “In Praise of Cinema: Cavell, Arnaud Desplechin, and Telling What Counts in ‘Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse.’” It can be found in “Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind,” edited by David LaRocca for Bloomsbury.

ARCHITECTURE — Andreea Mihalache presented the paper “On Foot: Embodied Atmospheres in Public Places” at the 5^th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture (July 2-5, Monte Verita, Switzerland), which this year centered on the topic “Public Space: The Real and the Ideal.” Mihalache also received The Plan Journal 2020 Best Paper Award for her article “Musings on Boredom, Midcentury Architecture, and Public Spaces,” The Plan Journal Vol. 5 (2020) Issue 1 (Spring): 119-138.

PERFORMING ARTS — Lisa Sain Odom was invited to teach in a week-long guest faculty residency with the Art of Song program, part of the three-week Orvieto Musica chamber music festival in Orvieto, Italy. While there, July 4-10, Odom taught a voice masterclass and individual voice coaching sessions to the young artists, preparing them for the two concerts they sang that week. Also while in Italy, Odom sang in concert at the Chiesa di Sant’Andrea in Orvieto. On July 1, Odom began serving in her new role as Vice President of the South Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

LANGUAGES — Kelly Peebles and Gabriella Scarlatta (Professor of French and Interim Provost, University of Michigan-Dearborn) published their co-edited book “Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France: From Fille de France to Dowager Duchess” in Palgrave Macmillan’s Queenship and Power series. The volume’s contributors consider the cultural, spiritual, and political influence in sixteenth-century Europe of the youngest daughter of King Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne. Essays draw on a variety of often overlooked sources, including poetry, theater, fine arts, landscape architecture, letters, and ambassadorial reports. Peebles contributed the single-authored chapter, “Renée de France as Dowager Duchess and Epistolary Diplomat,” and co-authored two chapters with Scarlatta, “Introduction: Renée de France’s Life and Legacy,” and “Epilogue: Future Directions for Studying the Life and Legacy of Renée de France.”

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT — Luis Enrique Ramos-Santiago had his most recent research accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Case Studies on Transport Policy. This is another solo-authored paper by Ramos-Santiago accepted by a high-ranking journal with an international audience. The paper titled “Towards a better account and understanding of bus/rapid-transit interactions: The case of Los Angeles” reveals the importance of bus network integration and bus service quality for rapid-transit patronage in large polycentric agglomerations and provides generalized linear models of bus/rail transfers at station-level that could be used for sketch-planning purposes. Land use and transportation policy implications are discussed in the paper. A pre-print version of the manuscript is available in the open-access journal Science Direct. Ramos-Santiago’s ongoing research explores the potential role of spatial-interaction models (e.g., cumulative opportunities gravity-based composite index) for improving direct-ridership forecasting equations at station-level. He will be presenting the findings of this most recent study in the upcoming Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference in October 2021.

RHETORICS, COMMUNICATION, AND INFORMATION DESIGN — Jacob Richter presented “Nervously Loquacious at the Edge of an Abyss: Kenneth Burke, Trained Incapacities, and the Vocabularies of Climate Change” at the 11th Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society (June 25).

ENGLISH — For the World Shakespeare Congress, which took place July 18-24, hosted by Singapore (but in virtual mode), Elizabeth Rivlin organized a paper session titled “Global Shakespeare Publics” and presented a paper as a part of the panel titled “‘To Thine Own Self Be True’: A Women’s Shakespearean Public at Chautauqua.”

LANGUAGES — Johannes Schmidt and Kyle Anderson participated in the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ 2021 National Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success. They took part as members of a six-person team created by Bridget Trodgen. Clemson was one of 61 participating universities competitively selected to learn about and discuss the role of high-impact learning experiences for high retention and graduation rates, advance equity, equality and inclusion, improve student engagement and provide learning abroad opportunities at all levels of the university. An action plan was developed and presented to Provost Robert Jones. Read more on Clemson News.

ARCHITECTURE — Kate Schwennsen was elected 2022-23 Secretary of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) during the College’s recent annual meeting. Following her term as Secretary and upon election by the members of the College, Schwennsen will advance to the office of Vice-Chancellor for 2024, and the year following to Chancellor. The AIA College of Fellows seeks to advance the profession of architecture, mentor young architects, and be of ever-increasing service to society. AIA Fellows are recognized with the AIA’s highest membership honor for their exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society. Only 3 percent of the approximately 90,000 AIA members are Fellows.

LANGUAGES — Eric Touya read a paper titled “Approaches to Teaching French-Speaking Cultures through Business, Economics, and Politics” on the panel “What’s New in French for Specific Purposes?” – held at the 94th Annual AATF Convention in New Orleans on June 15. He also published a book review of Hédi Bouraoui’s “Passerelles. Poésie” (Toronto: Canada Mediterranean Centre Éditions) in Dalhousie French Studies, Revue d’Études Littéraires du Canada Vol. 118, 2021.

PERFORMING ARTS — Bruce Whisler presented a paper titled “Acoustics Study in Audio Curricula: An Overview and Summary” at the Audio Engineering Society International Conference on Audio Education. The conference was held virtually on July 22-24, and the paper is available for download in the Audio Engineering Society archives.

ART — Valerie Zimany’s ceramic artworks are on exhibit in the “Summer 2021 Workshop Artist Showcase,” held May 6-August 19 at Tennessee Tech University’s Appalachian Center for Craft. More information and installation views are available here: https://www.tntech.edu/fine-arts/craftcenter/exhibitions.php. Zimany’s ceramic work was also on view in “Form & Function,” a national juried exhibition at Applied Contemporary Gallery in Oakland, California. The exhibition, which ran from May 8–June 26, was juried by noted artist Christa Assad. More information and an installation video are available via the gallery’s website: https://www.appliedcontemporary.com/current-exhibition.

ENGLISH — David Blakesley is the Founder and Publisher of Parlor Press. The Conference on College Composition and Communication has awarded its annual Outstanding Book Award to the Parlor Press book “Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean,” edited by Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond A. Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette. To learn more about this prize and the book, see https://parlorpress.com/blogs/news/mla-prize-for-creole-composition and https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/awards/oba.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY —  Vernon Burton and co-author Armand Derfner were interviewed on the Law360 podcast about their new book, “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court.” The podcast is available for download on iTunes and other podcast apps. On May 1, Library Journal published the second review of “Justice Deferred.” On May 30, Cornell University history Glenn Altschuler published the first full-length review of the book in the Florida Courier. “Justice Deferred” was officially released on May 31.

PERFORMING ARTS — Paul Buyer has been selected to serve as a Leadership Facilitator with the Jeff Janssen Sports Leadership Center. With the program adapted for bands, Buyer is looking forward to helping high school and college band programs work toward excellence, reach their potential, and develop their next generation of leaders. As Janssen’s only licensed Band Leadership Facilitator in the country, Buyer will be presenting unique, in-person Leadership Summits in the Upstate and Charlotte, N.C. areas to develop and improve leadership skills in band members, student leaders, and staff.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Elizabeth Carney recently present a virtual public lecture, “Eurydice of Macedon: The Power of Memory,” at the University of Marburg in Germany. Carney also wrote the recent book chapter, “The First basilissa: Phila, Daughter of Antipater and Wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes” in “New Directions in the Study of Woman in Antiquity,” edited by Georgia Tsouvala and Ronnie Ancona (Oxford University Press, 2021).

ARCHITECTURE — Joseph Choma is officially the inventor of “Foldable Composite Structures,” U.S. Patent Number 10,994,468. The patent was issued on May 4. See a complete description of the patent here. On May 7, Choma gave a virtual talk (to an audience of 2,800 people) titled “Designing with Mathematics” as part of Notions of India: Shaping a Billion Dreams. On May 24, Choma gave an invited presentation titled “Foldable Structures and Materials” for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS21). On May 27, Choma and his collaborators, Jefferson Ellinger and Wesam Al Asali, were selected as one of the 12 shortlisted teams out of 119 entries from 41 countries for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) Installation Competition.

LANGUAGES — Stephen Fitzmaurice and Salvador Oropesa published an essay titled “American Sign Language: Innovations in Teaching and Learning in One of the Most Popular Languages in the United States” in the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin. This essay showcases how the Clemson University Department of Languages has gained tremendous insight into the ways in which studying ASL provides important linguistic, cultural, and professional opportunities for students of modern languages.

RHETORICS, COMMUNICATION, AND INFORMATION DESIGN — Cynthia Haynes’ essay “Sacred Passages, Rhetorical Passwords” was selected as the lead essay in an important new edited collection from Penn State University Press called “Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric,” edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Kyle Jensen. Haynes writes that “the sacred belongs to no category or system of representation. It is beyond what can be communicated, perhaps beyond all knowing. Rhetoric, on the other hand, takes that barrier as its foremost challenge: seeking to permeate the impermeable, to relate to the unrelatable, to unveil so as to enlighten. It is a kind of sacred act. Rhetoric acts within the sacred, in words other than it otherwise would. This chapter aims to examine this unruly character of rhetoric by situating the two in a different kind of relationship, one that forms an organic bond — a passageway through which things come and go, ebb and flow, to and fro. To enter this forgotten passage, one needs passwords…. This chapter intends to weave rhetoric and the sacred into a passing through various forgotten passages and the passwords with which we gain entrance to ‘the answer itself. The one that was waiting for us’ (Cixous), even the one that is unholy.”

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Sahar Mihandoust, and graduate students Rutali Joshi and Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi, all with the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, presented work online for the 52^nd Annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA52) Conference — “Just Environments: Transdisciplinary Border Crossings” — held May 19-23. The team’s presentations included: “Comparing the Clinical Team’s Perception of the Surgical Environments Between a High-Fidelity Physical Mock-Up and a Post-Occupancy Evaluation,” “Identifying Flow Disruptions in a Physical Mock-Up of a Pediatric ICU: An Evaluation of a Three-Phased Scenario,” “Designing for Family Engagement in the Neonatal ICU: An In-Depth Look at Single-Family Rooms,” “The Impact of Daylight Versus Window Views on Health Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Study of Patients with Heart Disease in a Cardiac ICU,” “Exploring the Relationship Between the Surgical Table Orientation in the OR and Flow Disruptions in the Intra-Operative Phase,” “Comparison of Circulating Nurse’s Workflow in Pediatric Operating Rooms Pre and Post Optimization,” “Impact of Workstation Design on Noise Levels and Perceptions of Speech Intelligibility During Emergency Physician Handoffs” and “Understanding Sources of Disruptions to Telemedicine-Based Stroke Care in an Ambulance Using Simulation.”

ARCHITECTURE — The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA53) Conference Organizing Committee is thrilled to announce EDRA53 Greenville hosted by the Clemson University School of Architecture. The conference will be held in Greenville, South Carolina on June 1-4, 2022. As we emerge from a global pandemic, it has become imperative that environmental designers and researchers consider health — a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being over time — as a critical goal for all design projects. Thus, the theme of the conference is “Health In All Design.” Organizers hope to attract a multidisciplinary community of practitioners, researchers, and students to engage in conversations about the role of built environments in promoting health, equity, sustainability and resilience. Greenville is an excellent example of the conference’s theme and is listed among the 10 most livable cities in the United States.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph and David Allison recently published an article in Instituto de Pesquisas Hospitalares (IPH) Magazine: “Design Insights from a Research Initiative on Ambulatory Surgery Operating Rooms in the U.S.” IPH Magazine is an interdisciplinary Brazilian publication designed to disseminate and promote knowledge in Architecture, Engineering, Administration, and other fields that contribute to the improvement of health facilities construction and management.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Claire Kirwin was the runner-up for the 2021 Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics for her paper “Value Realism and Idiosyncrasy.” She presented a version of that paper at the Cyprus Metaethics Workshop via Zoom on May 21. She also presented her paper “Sympathy for the Devil?: The Guise of the Good Remastered” via Zoom at the New Mexico – Texas Philosophical Society Annual Meeting on May 26. Finally, she was interviewed about her work on value realism for the ‘Elucidations’ philosophy podcast.

LANGUAGES — Salvador Oropesa delivered a paper virtually, “Bajarse al Sur: ‘El Niño’ (2014) de Daniel Monzón y ‘Bebedores de té’ (2018) de José Manuel Caamaño Sánchez,” at the XVI Congreso de novela y cine negro: (Re)escrituras en negro at the Universidad de Salamanca.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Mashal Saif was named a Senior Fellow of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, the funding from which will be used to support research for her new book project.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE — Thomas Schurch has been elevated to the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects. His ASLA Fellows profile describes his impact in the field: “Thomas Schurch has demonstrated exceptional knowledge-based leadership and significant cross-disciplinary discourse between practice and theory for more than 40 years. Long devoted to advancing landscape architecture and urban design, he has made significant contributions through teaching, research, writing, and community-based learning techniques that have benefited both students and communities. … His many writings on subjects such as urban design, sustainability, and climate change have been lauded by his peers and the public.”

LANGUAGES — Gabriela Stoicea’s monograph “Fictions of Legibility: The Human Face in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin” (Transcript, 2020) has just been reviewed in the official journal of the German Studies Association. Read the review here.

VISUAL ART — Anderson Wrangle’s “Savannah River Watershed” and Clemson graduate Amanda Musick’s “Land Unfolding” projects came together in a recent exhibition, “Topographic & Expressive Landscape Photography: Amanda Musick and Anderson Wrangle,” at the Arts Center of Greenwood. The two projects created a dialogue about the ways a changing landscape is described and documented. Through their distinct processes, the artists offered a glimpse into the state of the landscape around us. The approaches to landscape in this exhibit split along the line of subjectivity and objectivity, but both approaches relied on direct observation, and immersion in the environment. These are not imaginary landscapes. Musick’s landscape constructions refer to her individual sensory experience in the world, and even as her constructions form a view, they refer to moving through the landscape and the perspective of the artist doing so. Wrangle’s landscapes are conceived of from an objective and descriptive position, and in most of the work he has endeavored to take the artist out of the work.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Dan Wueste was featured prominently in zippia.com’s collection of experts speaking about the job market for recent graduates in philosophy. See his comments here.

VISUAL ART — Valerie Zimany’s ceramic artworks, featuring ceramic 3D printed components and Japanese Kutani enamels, are on view in the group exhibition “Finding Nature” at Blue Spiral 1 gallery in Asheville, N.C. through June 25. Also in the exhibition are Zimany’s graduates Nina Kawar (MFA,’14) and Deighton Abrams (MFA, ’16), as well as Mike Vatalaro, Professor Emeritus. The exhibition presents works “which visually describe the way meaningful interactions with nature can make us feel whole.” More info on the exhibition is available at: https://www.bluespiral1.com/exhibit/313-finding-nature. In addition, Zimany’s artwork was selected for the national juried exhibition “Spring to Life,” which was on view at 311 Gallery in Raleigh, N.C. from May 7-29. The exhibition explored the color and complexity of all things flora and fauna. More info on the exhibition is available at https://www.311artgallery.com/exhibitions/2021/spring-to-life.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — David Antonini’s book, “Public Space and Political Experience: An Arendtian Interpretation,” was published by Lexington Press on April 15. Reviews and publication information can be found here.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Abel Bartley was selected as the Commissioner of the Year by the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission during its annual meeting, held virtually on April 9.

ENGLISH — David Blakesley edited “Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2020” with Jessica Pauszek, Kristi Girdharry, Charles Lesh, and Steve Parks. The paperback was issued by Parlor Press, the independent publisher of scholarly books Blakesley founded in 2002. Blakesley also presented “The Commonplaces of Book Publishing” at the 2021 annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Vernon Burton on April 15 presented a virtual lecture at Iowa State University on the Voting Rights Act. On April 23, Burton presented a virtual lecture at Furman University on Reconstruction. His interview “Southern History, Influence and Tradition” with James Howell aired this month on the series “Maybe I’m Amazed.” Burton served as a commentator on the “Last Rice River,” a half-hour experience examining the rise and fall of the Rice Kingdom on South Carolina’s Combahee River. (It can be viewed here). Burton wrote the foreword for Clemson Emeritus Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School Frankie Felder’s new book, “OURstory Unchained and Liberated from HIStory,” just published. Burton’s co-authored book, “Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, Charleston, SC: Administrative History,” was just released by the National Park Service. The book was the result of a three-year grant to Burton at Clemson from the National Park Service.

ENGLISH — Cameron Bushnell was named CAAH Faculty Member of the Year. CAAH students nominate faculty members for the honor, and the recipient is chosen by a panel of CAAH ambassadors.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Joshua Catalano gave an invited talk, virtually, about digital public history at Northern Arizona University on April 1. He also participated in a virtual panel discussion about career paths for graduates of digital humanities centers at George Mason University on April 12.

LANGUAGES — Jody Cripps created a lyrical signed music piece in American Sign Language (ASL) called “Larry the Lion” in honor of his family friend, Larry Opperman, who recently passed away. The two had a close relationship, though Cripps, when growing up, feared Opperman based on his appearance. In order to follow the lyrical song in ASL, Cripps suggests the viewer learn some signed vocabularies, such as beard, good, heart, mom, lion, scared, sorry, still, and mine. Handspeak.com is a reliable ASL dictionary online. Cripps’ signed song can be seen here.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Caroline Dunn participated in a virtual roundtable event reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the international Kings and Queens conferences series, the fifth of which was hosted by Clemson University. Dunn also recently presented “The Fourteenth Century Plague” at the First Clemson TIDE (Tigers for Inclusion, Ethics, and Diversity) conference, held virtually on March 30.

ENGLISH AND WORLD CINEMA — Maziyar Faridi was named the co-recipient of the Charles Bernheimer Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association. The Bernheimer Prize goes to the best dissertation in the field of Comparative Literature. Faridi’s dissertation, “On an Aporetic Poetics of Relation: Translation, Difference, and Identity in Modern Poetry and New-Wave Cinema of Iran (1920s-1970s),” was nominated for the award by Northwestern University. In awarding Faridi the Bernheimer prize, judges said Faridi’s dissertation “develops an elegant narrative arc about an understudied corpus of modernist Iranian literary and cinematic texts. … This is a richly compelling contribution to comparatist global modernist studies.”

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — H. Roger Grant participated in the St. Louis Mercantile Library-Barriger Zoom seminar, “The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad,” on April 17. One of three presenters, Grant spoke on “Building the Rock Island System” and responded to questions and comments.

ENGLISH — Walt Hunter was selected as the 2021 recipient of the Dr. Ted G. Westmoreland Award for Faculty Excellence at Clemson University. A student, staff member and faculty member each nominated Hunter for the award. Established in 2013 through an endowment funded by the late Dr. Ted G. Westmoreland, the award is presented annually to honor a distinguished faculty member who has made exemplary contributions to undergraduate student success at Clemson University.

ARCHITECTURE, PERFORMING ARTS — Anjali Joseph and Linda Li-Bleuel are recipients of the 2021 Clemson University Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement awards.

ARCHITECTURE — Elements of a new operating room design, developed by Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Scott Reeves and other researchers with the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing at Clemson University have been incorporated into the R. Keith Summey Medical Pavilion at the Medical University of South Carolina. The New York Times recently covered the implementation of the new design developed by this multidisciplinary team.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, Sahar Mihandoust, and doctoral student Rutali Joshi, along with other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), presented work virtually April 15 for the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care — “Understanding Challenges in the Home Environment and Technology Preferences for Home Assessments and Modifications Among Older Adults Undergoing Joint Replacement Surgery: A Qualitative Feasibility Study.” Joseph delivered a presentation for the event — “Using Flow Disruptions to Study System Interactions in Healthcare.” She also participated in a virtual panel discussion — “Methodologies and Challenges Associated with Exploring Flow Disruptions in Hospital Environments.”

LANGUAGES — Arelis Moore de Peralta published a peer-reviewed manuscript titled “A Contribution to Measure Partnership Trust in Community-Based Participatory Research and Interventions with Latinx Communities in the United States” in Health Promotion Practice, with co-authors Prieto Rosas, Smithwick, Timmons and Torres. In addition, Moore was a second author in two published peer-reviewed manuscripts. The first one titled “Faculty Perception of the Contribution of Start-Up Packages to Professional Development” in Innovative Higher Education Journal with co-authors Höfrová, Rosopa, Small, Steele Payne, and Rymesova; and the second one titled “How Partnership Trust can Facilitate and Result from CBPR: An Assessment of Situational, Organizational, and Institutional Related Factors” in the Epidemiology International Journal with co-authors Charles, Prieto-Rosas, and Smithwick.

ENGLISH — Chelsea Murdock presented “4Rs at the Center: Relations in Writing Center Praxis” at the virtual International Writing Center Association Collaborative held April 7. She also presented “Standing Peachtree: Storying Places” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication held April 7-10.

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT — Luis Enrique Ramos-Santiago’s first solo-authored paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of Public Transportation. JPT is an international peer-reviewed specialist journal. His paper titled “Does Walkability Around Feeder Bus-Stops Influence Rapid-Transit Station Boardings?” assesses the influence of built-environment and land-use attributes around feeder bus stops on rapid-transit patronage, and discusses policy implications related to promoting more sustainable travel in the United States using multimodal transit systems. The Los Angeles metropolitan area, a decentralized and dispersed mega-city considered an archetype of automobile-dependency, served as case study in Ramos-Santiago’s investigation. Ramos-Santiago is also working on two other parallel investigations focusing on the intersection of mass transit, urban design, and transit planning demand modeling. The first extends his work in Los Angeles by developing predictive models for bus-to-rail transfers. The second investigation is supported by an international research collaboration with colleagues from Universidade da Coruña where the team compares the performance of two light-rail systems from Spain (Granada, Tenerife) and three light-rail systems from the U.S. (Charlotte, Norfolk, Cleveland). The results from these two investigations are expected to be published this fall.

ENGLISH — Elizabeth Rivlin presented a paper, “(En)Listing Shakespeare in The Great Books,” as part of an April 1 live virtual seminar on “Reading Lists” for the 2021 Shakespeare Association of America Meeting. The abstracts for the seminar can be found here.

LANGUAGES — Satomi Saito was interviewed by Felix Shannon, the host and producer of Death of the Reader, a crime and mystery radio show on 2SER 107.3 FM in Sydney, Australia about Japanese detective fiction. The interview aired on April 11 in Sydney and the episodes on the podcast are now available: the regular episode about “The Decagon House Murders” by Yukito Ayatsuji (Saito is about 10 minutes in), and also the extended version of the discussion including Saito’s current work on Web fiction.

LANGUAGES — Anne Salces-Nedeo pioneered Clemson University’s virtual reality (VR) language classroom on April 21-22 with her French 3050 students. With the help of Kyle Anderson and his team of student designers, Salces-Nedeo’s project successfully came alive in the VR Mondi Paris space. In the VR space, the students were able to apply their knowledge and soft skills acquired over the semester with Salces-Nedeo by presenting and discussing (in French) architectural, cultural, and historical facts about France and Paris (especially such locations on Ile de la Cité as Notre-Dame de Paris, Sainte-Chapelle, and Conciergerie; kings Louis IX, Charles V, Henri IV, Louis XVI; the wars of religion and the French Revolution). Salces-Nedeo will continue to develop the VR Mondi Paris space with Anderson’s team to eventually offer this learning experience to all levels of French students.

LANGUAGES — Johannes Schmidt gave a virtual talk on “Universal Beauty and Particular Ugliness: Herder’s Concept of ‘That Which Is Good’ After the ‘Ideen’” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. In addition, he helped organize the panel discussion “Women in German Romanticism,” which he co-chaired with Elizabeth Millán.

PERFORMING ARTS — Mark Spede was nominated and selected as the Ball State University School of Music Alumnus of the Year. Spede is also the co-author of the International Coalition Performing Arts Aerosol Study, which is undergoing peer review for publication. That study recently was honored by the American Academy of Teachers of Singing with an inaugural AATS Award for COVID-19 Response. The report provided vital information to bands and choruses as they sought to establish protocols for safely performing during the pandemic.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Charles Starkey presented “Virtue Without Character” at the annual Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA).  He also presented the paper at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Society for Philosophy.  Both conferences were held online this year in April. In addition, Starkey presented “Literary Style and the Moral Psychology of Leopold’s Land Ethic” at the meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, held in conjunction with the Pacific Division meeting of the APA in April.

LANGUAGES – In April, Jae DiBello Takeuchi began a one-year term as president of the Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese (SEATJ). SEATJ serves the Southeastern region (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Florida) and holds an annual conference attended by Japanese-language scholars and teachers from across the United States and Japan. As part of her role, Takeuchi will coordinate the 2022 conference, which will be hosted by Clemson University. Takeuchi’s first task as president was to organize a meeting for SEATJ members to discuss the recent increase in anti-Asian racism. The event, titled 「茶和会」 (or “sawakai,” a play on words of the term “tea party” that aims to share a feeling of peacefulness) was held on April 28 via Zoom.

LANGUAGES — Pauline de Tholozany published a book chapter titled “Narrative as Legal Precedent: Thoughts on Flora Tristan’s ‘Impatience’” in “Wall to Wall: Law as Culture in Latin America and Spain” (Vernon Press, 2021). The book explores the encounter of Hispanophone culture and the law. In her chapter, Tholozany investigates 19^th-century activist Flora Tristan’s plea for divorce laws in France and Peru.

ENGLISH — Rhondda Robinson Thomas was named senior Researcher of the Year at Clemson University. Thomas has garnered national and international recognition for her interdisciplinary, multifaceted Call My Name Project. The project documents and shares the stories of African Americans in the history of Clemson University and surrounding communities. In addition, Thomas participated in a roundtable featuring Black female historians at the “History of Slavery at the University of Georgia: Virtual Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress”  sponsored by the University of Georgia on April 30, and was a panelist for “Telling Truer Stories: Restorative Stories Beyond the COFC” at the Virtual Critical Conversations about Racial Healing Series sponsored by the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, College of Charleston on April 7.

LANGUAGES — Graciela Tissera presented a research paper, “Cursos de español para profesionales de la salud: el cine y la representación de traumas psicológicos,” at Terceras Jornadas de Español para Fines Específicos de Viena (III JEFE-Vi), April 23-24. The virtual conference was organized by Universidad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales de Viena (WU), Consejería de Educación de Suiza y Austria, and Asociación Austriaca de Profesores de Español (AAPE). The research analyzed “La casa muda” (Uruguay, 2010) by Gustavo Hernández and “Paranormal Xperience” (Spain, 2011) by Sergi Vizcaíno to explore the perspectives of these filmmakers on multiple personality disorders involving disruptions of memory and identity.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Benjamin White has joined the editorial board of The Journal of Theological Studies, founded in 1899 and published by Oxford University Press.

VISUAL ART — Todd Anderson has begun a relationship with Round Weather art gallery in Oakland, California. Along with this new venue in the Bay Area, you can also see Todd Anderson’s artwork in person at Kai Lin Art gallery in Atlanta, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Mezzanine Gallery Store (main lobby) in New York City, and at Old Main Gallery in downtown Bozeman, Montana.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Amit Bein presented a talk, “Not So Distant Neighbor: Turkey and the Middle East in the 1930s,” at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom on March 25. Bein’s talk can be viewed here. The March 25 presentation, taking place via Zoom, was hosted by the University of Cambridge’s Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — On March 5, Vernon Burton chaired the CAAH Humanities Hub virtual book launch discussion of Peter Eisenstadt’s new biography, “Against the Hounds of Hell:  A Life of Howard Thurman.” Eisenstadt is an affiliate professor in History. On March 25, Burton spoke at the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce Induction (posthumous) of Benjamin E. Mays into the Greenwood Hall of Fame. On 29 March, Burton presented a virtual lecture, “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: Race and Memorialization in South Carolina,” for the Modjeska Simkins School in Columbia, S.C. Burton was interviewed by Charleston CBS-affiliate WMBF News for a segment with Live 5 on S.C. Senate Bill 534 which calls for using the 1776 Commission Report recommendations for teaching U.S. history in the public schools. The interview aired March 31. Burton has been invited to join the Board of Advisors for the Atlanta History Center as it plans for a broader and more diverse exhibit of the American South.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Joshua Catalano gave an invited talk titled “Digital History and Graduate Education” at University of Washington (virtually) on March 1.

ENGLISH – Luke Chwala presented “Gothic Manifestations of Contagious Cultural Conflicts in ‘American Horror Story’, Seasons 7-8” at Simon Fraser University’s virtual conference, Gothic in a Time of Contagion, Populism, and Racial Injustice, co-sponsored by the International Gothic Association, held March 10-13. He also presented “Queer Ecologies and Colonial Resistance in James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’” at the 42^nd International (virtual) Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Climate Change and the Anthropocene, held March 18-21.

LANGUAGES — Jody Cripps was the interviewer for the “The Black Drum Performance Documentary,” focusing on signed music, an emerging visual performance that has developed from within the Deaf community using a variety of performance practices. In addition, there were two talkback discussions with the cast and crew. In this one, cast member Yan Liu at 40:10 talks about acting and the research conducted by Cripps and his colleagues. In the second talkback, at 40:18 producer Joanne Cripps explains how the process of signed music began with the cast of “The Black Drum.” In this video, Cripps and others discuss other aspects of signed music.

VISUAL ART — Provost Pathways Fellow in Art Rachel de Cuba was invited to show work in “Distant Neighbors: Artists from the Tiger Strikes Asteroid Network at Eckert Art Gallery” in Pennsylvania.  This exhibition celebrates the idea that meaningful conversations and creative communities can thrive between artists in far-flung places. The show runs until May 1. “Distant Neighbors” includes paintings by Carl Baratta, Mark Brosseau and Sun You, photographs by Yael Eban, collages by Holly Cahill and Kara Mshinda, sculptures by Alexis Granwell and Sun You, and video by Rachel de Cuba.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — H. Roger Grant has been honored by the Board of Trustees of the State Historical Society of Iowa for his book “A Mighty Fine Road: A History of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company” (Indiana University Press), which was selected for the 2021 Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award. This annual award recognizes the author of the most significant book published on Iowa history during the previous calendar year.

RHETORICS, COMMUNICATION, AND INFORMATION DESIGN — Cynthia Haynes gave the keynote address to the North Texas Gaming Symposium (NTX) hosted by Texas Christian University on March 20. Her talk, “End Game Racism: MMORPG’s ‘Crusader’ Narrative, the Walkthrough,” focused on how the crusader narrative in video games has been taken up by white supremacists and become fodder for racist gamers. Through an analysis of the Norwegian massacre of 2011, and Anders Behring Breivik’s use of World of Warcraft to stimulate his theorycraft for playing the game as well as for planning the Oslo bombing and massacre on the island of Utøya, Haynes concludes that her own gameplay is called into question as a potential game “walkthrough” itself and sets about to re-write an endgame that recalibrates the potential reduction of racist values.

ENGLISH — Walt Hunter gave the guest lecture for the Transhistorical Anglophone Literary Studies group at the Universidad de Alicante on March 18. He spoke on the topic of “The Place of Poetry.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Elizabeth Jemison was interviewed by the New Books Podcast Network in connection with her recent book, “Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South.” The March 31 podcast can be heard here. Jemison also was interviewed by The Anxious Bench on Patheos.com in a March 11 article, “Christian Citizenship in Black and White.”

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, David Allison, and doctoral student Rutali Joshi, along with other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, published an article in HERD: Health Environments Research and Design Journal: “Emergency Physicians’ Workstation Design: An Observational Study of Interruptions and Perception of Collaboration During Shift-End Handoffs.”

PEARCE CENTER — On March 31, the Pearce Center hosted for selected faculty a virtual workshop presented by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. “The Essentials!” workshop focused on strategies and techniques to help faculty presenting their research to non-specialist audiences, including grantees, collaborators in other fields, and public audiences. Aimed at research scientists and practitioners who want to help others explore science and its significance, attendance was limited to 16 participants who self-nominated or were nominated to apply by their department chairs and/or associate deans for research. At least one faculty member from every college on campus attended the workshop, including Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing. Other Clemson faculty who participated in the workshop and their colleges include: Aby Sene Harper (CBSHS), Amy Scaroni (CAFLS), Barbara Campbell (COS), Carl Blue (COB), Christopher Eck (CAFLS), Faiza Jamil (COE), Jane DeLuca (CBSHS), Jessica Larsen (CECAS), Karen High (CECAS), Kumar Venayagamoorthy (CECAS), Lea Jenkins (COS), Lesly Temesvari (COS), Rhys Hester (CBSHS), Scott Husson (CECAS) and Shanna Hirsch (COE).

ENGLISH — Amy Monaghan presented a paper at the 2021 Society of Cinema and Media Studies virtual annual conference, “The Commercial Sofia Coppola: Advertisements for Herself and Others,” on March 18 via the SCMS conference platform.

PERFORMING ARTS — Lisa Sain Odom won the 2021 National Association of Teachers of Singing Foundation Pedagogy Award. The award will support Odom’s attendance at the 2021 Voice Pedagogy Institute at Rider University this July. Odom was also selected as a master class clinician for the Mid-Atlantic National Association of Teachers of Singing Region Workshop where she worked virtually with two students from the region, providing feedback and suggestions for improved performance. (See her working with students via Zoom here and at 53:15 here.) Also in March, Odom presented a conference session, “Making the Cut: Your Perfect Musical Audition Cut” for the 2021 Southeastern Theatre Conference (virtual) and held a live Q&A on the subject on March 3rd.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE — Original research (three projects) by Mary G. Padua, and Xiaotong Liu, recent graduate of the Planning, Design and the Built Environment Ph.D. program, who also received her Clemson Master of Landscape Architecture degree in 2016, were selected out of around 250 submissions for virtual delivery at the 2021 annual conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), March 16 -19. For the “History, Theory and Culture” conference track, Padua presented her sole-authored paper titled, “The ‘Sacred’ and ‘Profane’: Contemporary Gaze of South Carolina’s Vernacular Landscape,” part of her larger ongoing research project called the “American Experiment: Through the Lens of South Carolina’s Cultural Landscape,” funded by the Clemson Architectural Foundation. For the “Landscape Architecture for Health” track, Padua, with Liu as second author, presented “Health-based Axioms: Postulating Adaptive Strategies for Universal 21st Century Outdoor Environments” and in the same track, Padua was second author to Liu who presented “Nature As Restorative Resource for Pre-School Children: A Comparative Case Study in Childcare Centers.”

LANGUAGES — Salvador Oropesa recently published the book chapter “De Lisbeth Salander a la Ertzaintza: Fantasías neoliberales en la serie procedimental de Eva García Sáenz de Urturi” in “Cosmic Wit: Essays in Honor of Edward H. Friedman,” edited by Vicente Pérez de León, Martha García and G. Cory Duclos. (Juan de la Cuesta, 2021, pp. 182-99).

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Michael Silvestri gave a virtual talk on March 25 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison titled “Spies, Sailors and Revolutionaries: Bengali Revolutionary Networks and British Imperial Intelligence Between the World Wars.” Silvestri’s presentation, which can be viewed here, was part of the 2021 Spring Lecture Series hosted by the UW-Madison’s Center for South Asia. On March 20, Silvestri presented a virtual talk at the Southern Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. His presentation was titled “‘A Country that has Served the World Well with Police’: The Royal Irish Constabulary and the Policing of the British Caribbean.”

LANGUAGES – Jae DiBello Takeuchi presented her research in a talk titled “バカにしなくても大丈夫です [You don’t have to treat me like I’m stupid]: Linguistic Microaggressions and L2-Japanese Speaker Legitimacy” at the annual Spring conference of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese, held on March 25-27. The conference was held virtually and all sessions were presented live. In addition, recordings of sessions will be made available on the AATJ website for additional viewing. Takeuchi was also invited to contribute an article to the “JSP Class in the Spotlight” column of the March 2021 issue of the Japanese for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group Newsletter (American Association of Teachers of Japanese). This article introduces Takeuchi’s Japanese for Business classes and Clemson’s Language and International Business program to Japanese language teachers around the country.

ENGLISH — Rhondda Robinson Thomas’s book “Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community” was awarded honorable mention in the 2021 book competition sponsored by the National Council on Public History.

LANGUAGES — Graciela Tissera presented a research paper, “El individuo y los sistemas en la filmografía de Antonio Hernández y Miguel Cohan,” at the XXVII CILH Virtual Conference, March 4-6, 2021, organized by Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos. The research explores the impact of systems on individuals to analyze social, philosophical, political, and economic issues in two films: “En la ciudad sin límites” (Spain, 2002) by Hernández and “Betibú” (Argentina, 2014) by Cohan.

LANGUAGES — Eric Touya organized a panel session titled “COVID-19 and the New Normal in France and Beyond” at the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium organized online through Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Papers included topics on COVID-19 and public humanities, the Paris Opera Ballet, virtual activism, flânerie, and intimate-partner violence. He read a paper on this occasion entitled “Political Ramifications of COVID-19 in France: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and the Future of Democracy.”

ENGLISH — Jillian Weise‘s memoir, “Common Cyborg,” garnered attention from multiple major publishers and went to auction. It was bought by editor Jenny Xu at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It will be published in Spring 2023.

PERFORMING ARTS — Bruce Whisler was a panelist in immersive audio at the Audio Engineering Society Midwest Region Summit on March 20. The meeting was hosted virtually by Webster University in St. Louis and featured presentations by audio educators and professionals nationwide. Whisler’s particular focus on the panel was ambisonic audio for 360-degree video.

VISUAL ART – Valerie Zimany’s artwork is featured in “A Handful of Life Water,” an international online exhibition, on view at the Sille Sanat Art Center in Konya, Turkey from Feb. 6–Aug. 6, 2021. The exhibition was organized by Zehra Özkara Çobanlı, Professor Emerita of Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey and member of the International Academy of Ceramics. Zimany is featured with 54 other artists from the International Society of Ceramic Arts Education and Exchange, including China, Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom, Kenya, Mexico and Turkey. More info on the exhibition is available at: https://sergi.sillesanat.com/.

LANGUAGES — Yanming An recently published a Chinese translation of Georg Brandes’ “Friedrich Nietzsche” in Yilin Press of China.

VISUAL ART — Todd Anderson participated in a panel discussion, “Don’t just stand there, do something,” chaired by Robert Derr at the 2021 College Art Association (virtual) Conference. The panel focused on collaborative art practices centered on social and environmental change. Anderson discussed “The Last Glacier,” a small art collective he co-founded about 10 years ago. In addition, Anderson’s work is featured in the exhibit “The Last Glacier: Images of Our Changing Landscape” through June 19 at the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell, Montana. The exhibition is being featured by Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, a print and web-based special global project of the Codex Foundation. The project brings together about 50 exhibitions and art interventions throughout North and South America, Europe, and Australia, centered on societal change and the climate crisis. Visit Extraction here.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES — James Burns‘ article “The African Bioscope—Movie House Culture in British Colonial Africa,” is being reprinted in a special three-volume issue of “Black Camera: An International Film Journal” commemorating the 50th anniversary of FESPACO (Festival panafricain du cinema et de la television de Ouagadougou), the oldest African film festival.  The editor in chief called the essay “integral to an understanding of the colonial formation of African cinema.” The article was originally published in the French journal “Afrique & Histoire.”

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Vernon Burton keynoted the first virtual Interdisciplinary Conference on “Race, Identity & Equity” hosted on Feb. 15 by the University of South Carolina at Beaufort. Burton spoke on how different disciplines study and approach race relations. In the “Justice Initiative” newsletter on Feb. 15, editor Heather Gray introduced Burton and highlighted some of his work. She recapped the eight parts she had serialized earlier from Burton’s Foreword to Benjamin E. Mays’ autobiography, “Born to Rebel.” Gray also reprinted part of an interview with Burton by Roy Rosenzweig from 2001 in History Matters. (The complete interview can be viewed here.) Burton was interviewed twice by Gray in February to broadcast later on her Atlanta radio show, “Just Peace” on WRFG-FM. One program aired Feb. 8 with Burton and his friend Emory Campbell about Penn Center and the book Burton wrote, “Penn Center:  A History Preserved,” and the second edited interview was aired on Feb. 15 where Gray ranged over a number of topics related to Southern history and race relations, including Burton’s friendship with Mays.

ARCHITECTURE — Joseph Choma gave three invited virtual lectures at the Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture in Mumbai, India, at the Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — H. Roger Grant presented on Feb. 18 “The Rock Island Railroad Takes Shape: The Iowa Main Line Experience.” His Zoom lecture and question-and-answer session were part of the ongoing “Iowa Stories Series” sponsored by the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.

ENGLISH — Walt Hunter spoke with the poet Jay Bernard about Claudia Jones for the Young Poets Network. Hunter has three new poems and a review in the recent issue of Literary Matters.

LANGUAGES — Jason Hurdich was named 2021 Palmetto Goodwill State Champion for his work on behalf of individuals with disabilities and the Deaf community related to barriers to employment. Palmetto Goodwill honored Hurdich for his dedication to helping people achieve their full potential through the dignity and power of employment. Palmetto Goodwill presented the certificate in a ceremony at its corporate headquarters in North Charleston to Hurdich on Feb. 19. Hurdich joins 23 previous Goodwill Champions. During his time with the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department, Hurdich suggested Palmetto Goodwill incorporate ASL classes for hearing employees interacting with their Deaf co-workers, which was implemented in 2020. It became a success locally. Later, it was expanded to Hawaii, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Hurdich’s acceptance speech can be viewed here.

Also in February, Hurdich presented a live performance titled “Deaf Influencer’s Journey Into the World of Social Media” in Santa Rosa, California. Hurdich spoke about his journey as a social media influencer and as a Deaf creator on different social media platforms. His platforms are primarily TikTok and Instagram. He discussed how creators in minority communities, including creators with disabilities, face challenges in mainstream social media communities, such as dealing with shadow bans where the company partially blocks a creator to protect them from being bullied. Hurdich currently has more than 100,000 followers and 4 million likes on TikTok. His videos have more than 50 million views. This event was sponsored by Santa Rosa Junior College.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, Sahar Mihandoust, and doctoral students Rutali Joshi and Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi, along with other researchers from Clemson University authored two papers. One study published in The Gerontologist explored how proactively evaluating and adapting the home environment prior to total joint replacement surgery may support transition to the home after surgery: “Understanding key home and community environment challenges encountered by older adults undergoing total knee or hip arthroplasty.”  The other study was a collaboration with researchers from the Industrial Engineering program at Clemson to explore how the design of telemedicine systems support communication and teamwork to provide stroke care in an ambulance. This study was published in Human Factors: “Communication and teamwork during telemedicine-enabled stroke care in an ambulance.”

ENGLISH — Melissa Edmundson Makala published the solicited essay “Many (Un)Happy Returns: Nostalgia and Haunted Memory in the Final Season of ‘Supernatural’” in the Canadian journal, Monstrum, which can be accessed here.

ARCHITECTURE — Sahar Mihandoust published an article in Health Environments Research & Design Journal (HERD) recently: “Exploring the Relationship Between Perceived Visual Access to Nature and Nurse Burnout.”

LANGUAGES — Arelis Moore, M.D. was invited, as a guest speaker, to the IV Anniversary of the Institute on Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Iberoamerican University (UNIBE), Dominican Republic. Moore presented on the topic “Amplifying voices: Community-based participatory research and its impact in health promotion” on Feb. 3 on the UNIBE’s YouTube channel. On Feb. 10, Moore published a peer-reviewed manuscript titled “Social Determinants of Health Approach to Facilitate Fulfillment of the U.S. Latinx Children’s Right to Personal Security: The Strong Communities Initiative as a Case Study” in the Epidemiology International Journal, 5 (1).

ENGLISH — Clare Mullaney recently wrote a commentary for Times Higher Education about the benefits of online learning for disabled students: “The shift online has finally made space for disabled students.”

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE — Hala Nassar was part of a team that presented “A Low-Cost Acoustic Alerting System for Rogue Drones in Public Spaces” at the National Robotics Institute conference. This was part of an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborative work with Duke Robotics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University in North Carolina. Nassar is the Clemson University Principal Investigator of this National Science Foundation grant titled “Drones and the Design of Outdoor Public Space.”

LANGUAGES — Johannes Schmidt recently published the chapter “Johann Gottfried Herder: Misunderstood Romantic?” in the Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy, edited by Elizabeth Millán (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 177–203).

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Charles Starkey presented “Epigenetic Obligation” with Kendra Gordillo, an Honors student writing a thesis on biomedical ethics, as part of the annual meeting of the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics at the end of February.

VISUAL ART — Denise Woodward-Detrich was juror for the 2021 Juried Exhibition held Jan. 15-Feb. 25 at the Blue Ridge Arts Center. The exhibition draws applications from a regional audience and the exhibit showcased 75 works representing a broad range of ideas and media. Woodward-Detrich was also invited as one of three jurors for the “74^th Annual Student Art Competition” hosted by the Ewing Gallery at the University of Tennessee. Woodward-Detrich reviewed more than 300 works of art selecting 78 works and identifying 22 awards for graduate and undergraduate artworks. Jurors were invited to present a talk on “Artist as Curator” held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit. The jurors’ presentations can be viewed here.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Amit Bein recently participated in a New Books Network podcast, discussing his book “Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period.” The podcast is available here.

ENGLISH — David Blakesley, publisher and founder of Parlor Press, was pleased to receive a prestigious award for a Parlor Press book. The Modern Language Association has awarded its biannual Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize to “Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean,” edited by Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond A. Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette. The Shaughnessy Prize recognizes the best book published in rhetoric and composition over a two-year period. More information about the prize and book can be found on the Parlor Press website here, or on the Modern Language Association website here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Pascal Brixel presented his paper “Why We Work” — on how monetary incentives for work affect the autonomy of workers — via Zoom at “The Ends of Autonomy,” an international interdisciplinary colloquium organized by Monash University in Australia.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Vernon Burton was part of an interdisciplinary team that presented “Using Social Media to Understand the Patient Perspective and the Emotional Impact of Dermatologic Condition” at the PRISM Virtual Health Symposium 2020, sponsored by University California San Francisco, Dec. 3-4, 2020. Travis Andersen interviewed and quoted Vernon Burton for a Jan. 11 article in the Boston Globe on the contrast between the response of then-incumbent President George H.W. Bush to defeat in 1992 to then-incumbent President Donald Trump in 2020. On Jan. 18, Vernon Burton was interviewed on Fox Carolina News for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day about commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. Burton was also interviewed by Bret McCormick to comment on and help explain the culture of a mill town in South Carolina in the 1950s-1970s for the eight-part series podcast and newspaper series, “Return Man.”  Available at Apple podcasts and The Columbia State paper. The Charleston Post & Courier ran a front-page story about the Echo Project, and Adam Parker interviewed Vernon Burton, chair of the History Advisory Committee for the proposed museum to promote racial reconciliation using the inspiring story portrayed in the recent film “Burden” of a former white nationalist and his conversion by African American minister the Rev. David Kennedy in Laurens, South Carolina.

ENGLISH — Cameron Bushnell presented her paper “Orientalism Otherwise: The Figure of the Disoriental in Négar Djavadi’s ‘Disorienta’” as a part of a panel, “Orientalism Writes Back,” at the Modern Language Association Conference on Jan. 9, 2021.

ENGLISH — Emeritus Professor Wayne K. Chapman recently published “Leonard Woolf’s ‘The Village in the Jungle’ in Retrospect” in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany 96 (Fall 2019-Fall 2020), 26-28. This article is part of a special issue titled “Centennial Contemplations on Early Work by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf” edited by Rebecca Duncan. Chapman also published “In Memoriam: Molly Jane Hoff (1931-2019),” Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Fall 2019-Fall 2020), 8; as well as a review of Fred Leventhal and Peter Stansky, “Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), in Woolf Studies Annual 26 (2020), 161-63.

LANGUAGES — A piece of signed music by Jody Cripps had been featured on the virtual Blackwood Gallery as part of the presentation series “Translation, Camouflage, Spectatorship.” Cripps was one of the panelists, and his signed piece “Rain” was discussed in relation to visual translation and featured on the gallery from January 22nd – January 27th. “Rain” can be viewed here. More information about the presentation is available here.

VISUAL ART — Rachel de Cuba, Provost Pathways Fellow in Art, was invited to show artwork alongside artist matthew anthony batty. The two-person show, “From: Mangroves To: Magnolias,” is up until the end of February at Wofford College Richardson Art Gallery.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION — Frances Ford was recognized at The Preservation Society of Charleston’s 67^th Carolopolis Awards as conservator for the team restoring The Faber House, located at 635 E. Bay St., which received a Pro Merito Award. Ford analyzed the exterior finishes and discovered the original colors which were then replicated for the restoration.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Stephanie Hassell presented her work on Indian Ocean slavery in the Labor and Mobility Roundtable as part of a virtual conference, “The Indian Ocean World: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead,” on January 29, 2021. The conference website can be viewed here.

LANGUAGES — Jason Hurdich presented “Ableism and Social Media” at a virtual conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December. He discussed the influence of ableism on social media, focusing on Deaf creators and individuals with disabilities. Most of the audience in this Learning Community Meeting-Wisconsin Population Health Service were master of public health fellows with a few medical doctors at UW-Madison. The program is one of the most premier programs of its kind in the nation, focusing on medicine, public health, and disability application.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Elizabeth Jemison presented on a panel titled “Localizing American Religions Pedagogy in Institutional Contexts” that she organized for North American Religions section of the American Academy of Religion’s (virtual) annual meeting in December 2020. An independent bookstore, Novel in Memphis, Tennessee, hosted a virtual book event for her recently published book, Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South, with well over 100 people in attendance. Also in December, Jemison published in the public-facing online journal Religion & Politics; her article, “The Long Road to White Christians’ Trumpism,” connects her recent book to the 2020 election.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, served as a healthcare design session moderator for the International Perspectives on the Future of Architecture and Urbanism in the Post-COVID Age – Online Symposium. The online symposium healthcare design sessions were held January 30, 2021. Joseph also served as coauthor on a paper recently accepted for publication in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering: Task, Usability, and Error Analyses of Ambulance-based Telemedicine for Stroke Care. Joseph also participated in a podcast, “How Healthcare Facility Design Impacts Patient Care” on the marketscale.com website.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Steven Marks was quoted extensively in a piece, “The Problem With Capitalism” in The Signal.

ENGLISH — Amy Monaghan was invited to deliver a virtual seminar on “Ocean’s Eleven” (dir. Soderbergh, 2001) in January. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the nonprofit Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts has offered its educational programming virtually, using film as a window into other cultures, eras, and experiences. The seminar was presented in three parts. Registrants received a link to Monaghan’s pre-recorded lecture on Soderbergh’s precision-engineered heist film. They then viewed the movie on their own. Finally, a live discussion and Q&A took place on January 28 via Zoom. Participants submitted questions before the hour-long event, as well as during the discussion.

ENGLISH — Angela Naimou contributed an essay to the volume “Liquid Borders: Migration as Resistance,” published in January by Routledge. The book features internationally recognized scholars and activists across the humanities and social sciences who analyze major issues involving contemporary migration. Naimou’s essay examines practices of refuge and deportation for Iraqi refugees and writers based in Europe and the U.S. She was also elected to the American Literature Society, a professional organization of scholars devoted to the preservation, study, and recognition of American literature and culture.

ARCHITECTURE — The South Carolina chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects announced its jury’s Annual Awards selections including the book, “Hybrid Modernity: The Public Park in Late 20th Century China” and author Mary G. Padua with Landscape Architecture as recipient for the 2020 Honor Award-Communications. This category represents significance in communicating landscape architecture works, history, theory and technologies to an expanded audience through print media and other means. The Honor Award signifies an achievement for outstanding and imaginative work. Padua also engaged in a Zoom webinar on Dec. 11 with students and faculty (architecture, fine arts, landscape architecture and urban planning) at Xiamen University in Fujian Province, China. This interactive virtual session explored the green revolution covered in the sixth chapter of “Hybrid Modernity”: “Transforming from ‘hybrid’ to ‘ecological’ modernization in China’s 21st century.” Along with first author Pai Lu, recent PhD PDBE alumnus, Padua and three other Clemson faculty had the article, “Walking in Your Culture: A Study of Culturally Sensitive Outdoor Walking Space for Chinese Elderly Immigrants” published in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal.

LANGUAGES — Kumiko Saito was one of the four panelists in “Sailor Moon: How These Magical Girls Transformed Our World,” a YouTube live stream webinar series about academic perspectives on Japanese pop culture, hosted by The Japan Foundation and broadcast on Jan. 28. She also presented a short lecture in the webinar, “Crossing Gender and Genre: Sailor Moon in Japan’s Socio-Historical Contexts.” The feature recorded over 350 simultaneous live viewers.

LANGUAGES — Together with Rainer Godel, Johannes Schmidt published the Herder Yearbook XV (2020). This is the fourth time Godel and Schmidt co-edited this bi-annual academic journal on behalf of the International Herder Society.

LANGUAGES — Daniel J. Smith published “The Hidden Meaning of Codeswitches in Spanish English Conversations” in the journal Normas: Revista de Estudios Lingüísticos Hispánicos in December 2020. Also in December 2020 he presented “The Spanish English Bilingualism of Children in the United States” at the virtual conference, the VIII CONGRESO VIRTUAL INTERNACIONAL LiLETRAd (Literature Languages Translation).

LANGUAGES — Eric Touya published the article “Gilets Jaunes, Macron’s Presidency, and France’s contradictions” in the academic journal Contemporary French Civilization. He also read a paper via Zoom titled “‘Habiter poétiquement le monde’: présence et représentation chez Claudel et Jean-Luc Marion” at the 2021 Modern Language Association of America Conference held in Seattle.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Lee B. Wilson published a chapter in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society titled “‘Negroes, Goods, and Merchandizes’: Legal Language and the Dehumanization of Slaves in British Vice Admiralty Courts, 1700-1763”. The article examines how English legal categories and procedures facilitated the dehumanization of Black people by conditioning litigants to analogize slaves to maritime property. Drawing attention to the ways in which legal language shaped reality for white colonists and African slaves, the article also suggests that slavery and the laws that governed it were not beyond the pale of English imperial legal history. Rather, they were yet another invidious manifestation of English law’s protean potential.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Stephanie Barczewski and Michael Silvestri began three-year terms as joint Executive Secretaries of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). The NACBS is a scholarly society dedicated to all aspects of the study of British civilization. The NACBS sponsors a scholarly journal, the Journal of British Studies, online publications, an annual conference, as well as several academic prizes, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate essay contests. While the largest single group of its members teach British history in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, the NACBS has significant representation among specialists in literature, art history, politics, law, sociology, and economics. Its membership also includes many teachers at universities in countries outside North America, secondary school teachers, and independent scholars.

PERFORMIG ARTS — During Fall 2020, Becky Becker was named to Minot State University’s Academic Hall of Fame, but due to COVID-19 protocols, she will not be inducted until Fall 2021. (Read the press release here.) Becker earned a B.S.Ed. in Communication Arts with an emphasis in Theatre Arts, and a B.A. in English from MSU in 1992. In addition to this unexpected honor from her undergraduate institution, Becker recently published “Performing ‘Digital Citizenship’ in the Era of the Blind Spot” in the peer-reviewed journal, Theatre Symposium: A Publication of the Southeastern Theatre Conference.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – James Burns’ recent article, “Comparing Historical Cinema Cultures: The Case of the British West Indies, 1900-1945,” was published in the Journal of Media History. The article can be read here.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Vernon Burton was interviewed by Brittany Gibson and quoted in an article on Jamie Harrison for the American Prospect which appeared Nov. 4. See the article here. On Nov. 13, Burton was part of a webinar, “Symbols of the Confederacy and White Supremacy: Removing Monuments to Hate in the Public Square.” The webinar was sponsored by the Board of Directors of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts.

LANGUAGES — Jody Cripps was invited to speak at a Nov. 23 virtual forum titled “International Inclusive Early Childhood Education Forum (IIECEF 2020): Building a Global Movement to Promote National Sign Languages in the Early Years,” held in Ghana, West Africa. He and his colleague, Kara McBride from World Learning, presented “Signed Language and Performing Arts: Then and Now,” and they talked about how the emergence of signed languages and their history are reflected in the performing arts within signed language communities and promoted future goals with providing signed language literacy and literary works to deaf children around the world.

ART — Rachel de Cuba recently presented via Zoom as a part of the Virginia Tech’s Virginia Dares Conference for Decolonizing Media. The presentation, “I Hope I Thank you Enough,” focused on the use of studio practices to investigate the influences of colonization within familial histories. De Cuba’s film work “A Dwelling Growth” was also an official selection of the Virginia Dares Cinematic Arts Awards and was featured during the virtual conference on Nov. 13. De Cuba has also been recently appointed to the College of Art Association’s Committee on Diversity Practices. The committee promotes artistic, curatorial, scholarly, and institutional practices that deepen appreciation of political and cultural heterogeneity as educational and professional values.

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice published an article, “Educational interpreters and the Dunning-Kruger effect,” in the Journal of Interpretation. This research found the least skilled educational interpreters overestimate their interpreting skills whereas better educational interpreters underestimate their abilities. These findings raise important questions about equitable educational access for Deaf students and whether educational interpreters are able to adhere to codes of professional conduct by only accepting interpreting work for which they qualified.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Elizabeth Jemison published her first book, “Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South” (University of North Carolina Press). The book received advance praise from Publishers Weekly (“A thorough exploration of how Black and white Christians drew on their faith in the aftermath of the Civil War to make radically divergent claims about an ideal political order”) and the Library Journal (“This well-researched and well-written book offers a corrective to certain of the popular myths about race relations in the pre-Civil War South, and of postemancipation relations; it also has a good deal to teach us about race relations today.”)

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT) and the CHFDT research team published an article Nov. 5 in the British Journal of Anaesthesia: “Observational Study of Anaesthesia Workflow to Evaluate Physical Workspace Design and Layout.” Joseph also served as a co-author on a paper recently published in Paediatric Anaesthesia: “Perioperative Anxiety in Pediatric Surgery: Induction Room vs. Operating Room.” In addition, Joseph and Ellen Taylor, the latter from the Center for Health Design, are editing a special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) titled “Improving Patient and Staff Safety through Evidence-Based Healthcare Design.” The deadline for manuscript submissions is March 31, 2021.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Claire Kirwin presented her paper “The First-Person Perspective for Moral Philosophers” via Zoom at a “Meet the Researcher” seminar at Cambridge University. At the same event, she also spoke to Ph.D. and master’s students about her experiences in the profession and gave advice on professional development.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION — Amalia Leifeste was honored at the Association of Preservation Technology’s award ceremony where she and her co-author Brent Fortenberry earned the Martin Weaver Award for the most outstanding article demonstrating excellence in the category of history of technology, training and education in historic preservation published in the APT Bulletin during 2020. The article is titled “Querying the Products of Two Recording Techniques: Analog and Digital” and can be found in the good company of previous winning articles here. Jon Marcoux has published a chapter in a new edited volume, “The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology,” which focuses on the archaeology of Native American communities in the southeastern United States. In the chapter, Marcoux uses archaeology to document the ways Native American groups survived the chaos of the early colonial period. Marcoux and colleagues also published an article in the Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage documenting 18^th century pottery fragments found in South Carolina that bear decorations likely made by enslaved potters who learned their craft in Africa. The article can be viewed here.

LANGUAGES – Jae DiBello Takeuchi’s article “スピーチスタイルとネイティブスピーカーバイアス：在日L2話者から学べること” (“Speech Styles and Native Speaker Bias: What We Can Learn from L2 Speakers in Japan”) was published in the proceedings of the 28th Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ) Conference.

ENGLISH — Rhondda Robinson Thomas gave a talk about her recently released book “Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in An American University Community” via Zoom on Nov. 30. The book is a part of the Humanities and Public Life series at the University of Iowa Press. Joining her were three of the project’s collaborators: Eric Young, a descendant of Thomas and Frances Fruster, enslaved persons who labored on the Fort Hill Plantation, and Clemson alumnus; Thomas Marshall, Clemson alumnus and Educational Policy Fellow of Color at the Intercultural Development Research Association in San Antonio; and Monica Williams-Hudgens, a community organizer, scholar of domestic violence, and the granddaughter of South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond. The conversation was facilitated by Hilary Green, Associate Professor of History in the Department of Gender and Race Studies, director of the Hallowed Grounds Project: Race, Slavery, and Memory, and co-program director of the African American Studies program at the University of Alabama. This event was hosted by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, the University of Iowa Press, and Clemson University College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.

LANGUAGES — Graciela Tissera presented a research paper, “From Literature to Film: The Eidetic Imagery in Michelangelo Antonioni and Damiano Damiani,” at the Southeast Coastal Virtual Conference on Languages & Literatures, organized by Georgia Southern University.

ART – Valerie Zimany’s artwork is featured in the 2020 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, an international juried competition on view at the New Taipei Yingge Ceramic Museum in Taiwan from Nov. 20, 2020 – May 9, 2021. Zimany is one of only 10 other prominent U.S. artists selected for this prestigious museum exhibition. A total of 104 artists from around the world were selected from approximately 1,000 submissions. The international jury panel included: Chang, Ching-Yuan (Taiwan), Chair of the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts of the Tainan National University of the Arts; Liao, Hsin-Tian (Taiwan), the 14th General-Director of the National Museum of History and Professor of National Taiwan University of Arts; Yulin Lee (Taiwan), Director of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; Martin Smith (UK), Ceramic artist and Senior Research Fellow of Royal College of Art; Sandra Benadretti-Pellard (France), Commissioner General of the International Ceramics Biennale of Valluris and Chief Curator at the Musée de la Céramique de Vallauris; Toshio Matsui (Japan), Director of The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park and Professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design; and Arief Yudi (Indonesia), Founder and Director of Jatiwangi art Factory and curator of the 5th Indonesia Contemporary Ceramics Biennale 2019. More information on the exhibition is available here.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Deborah Wingler, doctoral student Herminia Machry and other researchers at the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing published three new manuscripts. “Minor Flow Disruptions, Traffic-Related Factors and Their Effect on Major Flow Disruptions in the Operating Room” was published as an EPUB in BMJ Quality & Safety. “An Observational Study of Door Motion in Operating Rooms” was published in Building and Environment, 144: pp. 502-507. “Comparing the Effectiveness of Four Different Design Media in Communicating Desired Performance Outcomes with Clinical End Users” was published in the Health Environments Research & Design Journal. The Center’s researchers are also working on the development of an operating room design toolkit that would help architects and clinicians better understand safety requirements in the OR and how design affects health-care outcomes.

HISTORY – Amit Bein presented at the conference “Middle Eastern and Balkan Mobilities in the Interwar Period (1918-1939)” at the University of Cambridge, England. His topic was “Strolling Through Istanbul: Egyptian Travellers in 1930s Turkey.”

ENGLISH – David Blakesley was accepted into the 2018-19 Adobe Partners by Design Program for art and design faculty. The program brings faculty members together to share best practices in the fields of art and design, lead local student design events, judge Adobe Design Achievement Awards, test new Adobe products and connect with the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDa) for professional and student opportunities.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s essay, “Mystery and Contradiction: My Story of Ninety Six,” appeared in “State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love,” vol. 3 (University of South Carolina Press), edited by Aida Rogers, pp. 18-27. The series was begun by the late novelist Pat Conroy, and this volume contains a foreword by Nikky Finney and an afterword by Cassandra King. Burton and other authors appeared at an Oct. 5 reading at the Anderson County Arts Center.

HISTORY – Joshua Catalano’s article “Digitally Analyzing the Uneven Ground: Language Borrowing Among Indian Treaties” was published in the inaugural issue of Current Research in Digital History.

ENGLISH – Luke Chwala’s essay, “Emerging TransGothic Ecologies in H. Rider Haggard’s ‘She,’” was published in the special issue Trans Victorians of the Victorian Review, vol. 44, no. 1, Fall 2018.

ARCHITECTURE – Maria Counts has been elected a regional director for the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). Region 6 includes Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Puerto Rico. As regional director, she will provide service to the board through outreach, coordination with other universities and will serve on an executive committee.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter gave a keynote address for the conference “The Precariat in Art and Culture” on Sept. 21 at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.

ENGLISH – Steven Katz was a noted speaker at the first Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing Sept. 7-8 in Nashville, Tennessee. At the symposium, Katz was interviewed by Mari Ramler, a graduate of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID). He also performed classical guitar with current RCID student Michael David Measel, who played mandolin and guitar, to demonstrate “Temporalities in Transition: ‘The Epistemic Music of Rhetoric’ by Steven Katz – 22 Years Later.” Current RCID online student Amy Patterson photographed, streamed, recorded and ran the boards for the panel.

PERFORMING ARTS – Linda Li-Bleuel has been selected to participate in The Trailblazers: Provost’s Mentoring Initiative for Faculty. This Clemson program provides experiential leadership training focused on the unique challenges of leadership in higher education.

HISTORY – Edwin Moise gave a talk, “Myths of the Tet Offensive,” on Sept. 12 at the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park, in Wheaton, Illinois.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred Elysse Newman presented a paper at the Academy for Neuroscience for Architecture 2018 conference held at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. Her paper “Home as Health Intervention” outlined research in a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) in Atlanta, where physical models of inhabitants’ homes and the mental constructs derived from them were tested to explain the degree to which home environments support or augment mobility and health. This research has the potential to increase physical and social activities of older Americans, and make a significant impact on their health.

ENGLISH – Barton Palmer’s volume “Adaptation in Visual Culture: Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds,” co-edited with Julie Grossman of LeMoyne College, received the 2018 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Book Award for edited collection. This was Palmer’s second time winning the award. Palmer has also published “Rule, Britannia! The Biopic and British National Identity” (SUNY Press), co-edited with Homer B. Pettey of the University of Arizona. The volume focuses on how screen biographies of prominent figures in British history and culture shaped and promoted a protean national identity. The contributors engage with the concept of British nationality, especially as the sense of collective belonging is challenged by the ethnically oriented alternatives of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish nations.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert’s set design for the Aurora Theatre’s smash hit “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” was nominated for a Suzi Bass Award, which is Atlanta’s version of the Tonys.

LANGUAGES – Daniel J. Smith has been listed as an advisory board member on a European Research Council Advanced Grant application, “Cross-Community Bilingual Usage Patterns and Their Acquisition by Children.” His research on Spanish-English bilingualism in northeast Georgia is cited in the proposal for a potential project at the University of Cambridge. This will be the first major study of its kind to conduct a cross-community investigation of geographically separated groups of people who are nevertheless speakers of the same pair of languages, Spanish and English, in various locations in Europe and the Americas.

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera published “‘The Appeared’ (2007) by Paco Cabezas: Redefining the Book of Hidden Memories and Cyclical Time” in “Terrifying Texts. Essays on Good and Evil in Horror Cinema,” edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper (McFarland & Company).

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya read a paper titled “Claudel dans/pour l’avenir: diplomatie, économie, éco-critique” at the Colloque International Paul Claudel Résolument Contemporain, sponsored by Sorbonne University, the National Library and the Comédie Française at the Université de Paris IV Sorbonne in Paris.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise’s essay, “Common Cyborg,” appears in Granta. The essay discusses Donna Haraway’s erasure of disabled women, Google’s romance with futurism and, as Weise writes, “how much we cyborgs sell our body parts for on eBay.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury participated in a policy dialogue on “The New Populism, the Old Human Rights and the Global Order” at the European University Institute School of Transnational Governance in Florence, Italy, Jan. 9-11. His co-authored piece “Online Resource for Religion and the Law” was published in Religious Studies Review. Amesbury also published two co-authored papers – “Emoji Dei: Religious Iconography in the Digital Age” and “Nothing Outside the Text? Religion and its Others in Emoji Discourse” in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion.

ENGLISH – Susanna Ashton co-edited “Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt” with Bill Hardwig, an English professor at the University of Tennessee. The new book is part of the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series published by the Modern Language Association of America. Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was born to free parents of color and he made a career as a journalist, stenographer, political activist and author of numerous stories, dozens of essays and a series of novels. His writings addressed issues including segregation, class, racial passing, Southern nostalgia and the Wilmington coup d’état of 1898. This collection of essays is designed to share with other teachers in ways that bring the challenging and brilliantly rewarding works of Chesnutt to their classrooms.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci’s four-movement work for choir and orchestra titled “Christmastide” was premiered in December by the Lake Forest College Department of Music in Illinois. The work consisted of three arrangements of traditional Christmas Carols and one newly composed setting of “Angels From the Realms of Glory.”

HISTORY – Vernon Burton participated in the filming of a documentary on slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation policies on Dec. 29 at the Benjamin E. Mays historical site. On Jan. 3, he participated in a documentary filming on Esau Jenkins, the Freedom Schools, and the Civil Rights Movement on Johns Island. He substituted for the mayor of Charleston to present the key to the city and to proclaim Jan. 4, Candie Carawan Day to honor the legendary civil rights activist and folk singer. He was quoted in the Mother Jones story “The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Unleash a New Wave of Voter Purges.” Burton was interviewed on Solomon Jones’ Philadelphia radio program “Our Voice” on Jan. 10 about voter restriction laws. He gave the Martin Luther King Jr. speech and initial lecture for former Charleston Mayor Joe P. Riley’s International African American Museum (IAAM) lecture series Jan. 16 at The Citadel. Burton was quoted In the Texas Tribune on the Texas in-person voter identification law and Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s role. He also presented a paper on the 14^th Amendment at the Louisiana State University Law School symposium Jan. 27.

HISTORY – Elizabeth Carney presented the papers “An Exceptional Argead Couple: Philip II and Olympias” at the Conference on Exceptional Couples, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and “The End of the Argead Dynasty: Causes and Commemoration” at the Eighth International Macedonian Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. She published “Argead Marriage Alliances” in “The History of the Argeads: New Perspectives,” edited by Sabine Müller, Tim Howe and Robert Rollinger (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2017, 139-150). Carney became Professor Emerita in January.

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice published “Best Practices for Educational Interpreters in South Carolina,” a technical assistance resource for the South Carolina Department of Education Office of Special Education Services. He was also featured in the Member Spotlight of the national Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.

ENGLISH – Lucian Ghita’s essay “Bannon and the Shakespearean Revenge Playbook” was published on the Los Angeles Review of Books blog on Jan. 7. His preface to the Romanian translation of William Shakespeare’s “Henry VIII,” titled “Spectacles of Power and Theatrical Disenchantment in ‘Henry VIII,’” appeared in Vol. 12 of the New Romanian Shakespeare Series, edited by George Volceanov (Bucharest: Editura Tracus Arte, 2017).

PERFORMING ARTS – Lillian “Mickey” Harder, artistic liaison of the Brooks Center, selected artists to appear at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals Young Performers Career Advancement Program (YPCA) concert Jan. 15 at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In addition to being a judge, she served on the classical connections committee, was a panelist and mentored pianist Fei-Fei Dong.

LANGUAGES – Daniel Holcombe published the essay “Salvador Dali’s Everyman: Renaissance and Baroque Classicism in ‘Don Quixote and the Windmills (1946)’” in Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. Here he traced Dali’s classical trajectory through art historical analyses of the third watercolor illustration from the artist’s first illustrated edition of “Don Quixote.” He also published “Salvador Dalí’s “Don Quixote: High Art or Kitsch?” in Laberinto Journal. He was recently named an editor of this online peer-reviewed journal published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. His article in Laberinto defines Dalí’s role as an illustrator of the 1946 text. It also reveals how Dalí achieved what critics have deemed impossible: the rendering of both fantasy and reality in the same pictorial composition. Holcombe presented related research at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference in Atlanta.

ENGLISH – Tharon Howard contributed the chapter “The Viability of Online Communities and Virtual Teams for Enterprise Clients” to the first edition of “The Wiley Handbook of Human Computer Interaction Set,” edited by Kent Norman and Jurek Kirakowski. The two-volume collection is the definitive source on current research and theories in the field of Human Computer Interaction.

ENGLISH – Steve Katz published “Foreword” [Autopoeisis: The Evolution of Robots as Poems], written in both poetry and prose, in Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society, edited by Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design graduate Steven J. Thompson (IGI Global, 2018), xii-xxi. Katz also reviewed an experimental scholarly essay written as an electronic short story for the new rhetorical journal Intraspection. On Jan. 24, he presented a science writing workshop at Clemson on “Reading and Responding to Deep Values of RFPs in Writing Proposals” for the NSF-NRT Doctoral Program in Critical Resilient Infrastructure; in collaboration with Sez Atamturktur (Civil Engineering), Steve is a co-principal investigator on Atamturktur’s multimillion dollar NSF-NRT grant that funds this multidisciplinary Ph.D. program.

HISTORY – Edwin Moïse published the article “The Tet Offensive Was Just the Beginning” in the Opinion section of the New York Times. His new book “The Myths of Tet: The Most Misunderstood Event of the Vietnam War” was published by University Press of Kansas.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou published an interdisciplinary forum on global refugee matters in the latest issue of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. The forum features essays by 10 scholars across humanities, social sciences and law. More about the forum, and full access to Naimou’s “Preface” and the “Dossier on Contemporary Refugee Timespaces” is available at Humanity journal.

ARCHITECTURE – Hala Nassar co-authored the chapter “Village Talk” in the Island Press book “Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity,” in conjunction with Clemson alumnus Paul Duggan. The book was edited by David de la Pena, Diane Jones Allen, Randolph T. Hester, Jeffrey Hou, Laura J. Lawson and Marcia J. McNally. To design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice and inspire long-term stewardship, the authors contend that bringing community members to the table opens up the possibility of exchanging ideas meaningfully and transforming places powerfully.

ENGLISH – R. Barton Palmer published an essay on Richard Burton in “Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances: Vol. 1: Hollywood” and an essay on Alec Guinness in Vol. 2 (Edinburgh University Press). He served as the general editor of “William Faulkner in Hollywood,” by Stefan Solomon (University of Georgia Press) and the following books from Edinburgh University Press: “Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace,” by Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kääpä; “Short Films From a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935-1965,” by C. Claire Thomson; “Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand: Genre, Gender and Adaptation,” by Alistair Fox; and “Who’s in the Money?: The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s New Deal,” by Harvey Cohen. Palmer served as co-editor on “Adaptation and Visual Culture: Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds” (Palgrave) and “Machaut’s Legacy: the Judgment Poems in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond” (University of Florida Press). Palmer presented one of the plenaries at the University of Mannheim Mediavistik Seminar Dec. 14 in Munich. He also provided texts for the Orlando Consort’s performances of “Machaut: Songs From Le Voir Dit” and translations for the related CD.

PERFORMING ARTS – Kerrie Seymour performed under contract with Actors’ Equity Association in Eugene O’Neill’s classic play “A Moon for the Misbegotten” Jan. 26-Feb.10 at The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Kelly Smith signed a contract with Oxford University Press for an anthology on social and conceptual Issues in astrobiology. The project is an interdisciplinary look at some complex “extra-scientific” issues surrounding the search for life on other planets: What are our moral responsibilities to extraterrestrial life? What exactly is life and how will we know when we find it? What kinds of rules should govern whether and how we attempt to communicate with alien beings?

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Charles Starkey presented “Courage in Public Debate: Process Courage, Accolade Courage, and Values” in January at the “Virtues in the Public Sphere” conference at Oriel College, University of Oxford in England. The presentation involved a collaborative research project with Clemson University faculty Cynthia Pury (psychology) and Laura Olson (political science).

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya gave the lecture “Mallarmé et Claudel: ‘Qu’est-ce que cela veut dire?’ Théorie, poétique, et les fins du monde” at the Modern Language Association of America Conference Jan. 5 in New York.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury’s post “The Agency of Agencies: Bureaucracy and the Politics of Religious Freedom” appeared on the University of Groningen’s blog “The Religion Factor.” He also participated in a roundtable discussion on the theme “Resisting: Political Theology” and chaired the Law, Religion, and Culture unit at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion Nov. 18-21 in Boston.

HISTORY – Rod Andrew discussed his book “The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder” in an interview on “Walter Edgar’s Journal,” which aired on South Carolina Public Radio stations.

HISTORY – Amit Bein’s book “Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period” (Cambridge University Press) will be released in the United States in December.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton published two essays, “Southern Identity,” pp. 40-53, and “Religious Practices,” pp. 111-26, in “The Routledge History of the American South,” which was edited by Maggi M. Morehouse (New York: Routledge, 2017). Burton’s book “The Age of Lincoln” was this year’s selection for Piedmont Technical College’s “One Book, One College” series. As part of the event, he spoke at the college’s library Nov. 28.

ART – Andrea Feeser is invited to participate in the seminar “Routes of Indigo: Interwoven Histories of the Global South” May 20–22. The “exploratory seminar program” hosted by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, brings together 11 scholars who specialize in indigo, concentrating on those working in Africa, India, the Middle East and the Americas. Participants will address the role of indigo in global history and the history of modernity.

HISTORY – H. Roger Grant was reelected president of the Lexington Group Inc., an international railroad historical organization, at its annual meeting Oct. 25-28 in Panama City. He is the author of “The Prince Plan: A Largely Forgotten Proposal for Railroad Consolidation,” which appeared in Railroad History (Fall-Winter 2017):8-17.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Steven Grosby chaired “Civil Society and Self-Governance: A Colloquium for Emerging Scholars” and was a member of the organizing committee for the conference “The Constitution of Order in a Self-Governing Society.” Both gatherings were co-sponsored by the Smith-Tocqueville Center for Studies in Political Economy at Michigan State University and The Philanthropic Enterprise, and were held consecutively at Michigan State University Nov. 30-Dec. 3.

ENGLISH – Steve Katz presented several lectures and workshops at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge Nov. 8-10: “Scientific Articles as Arguments;” “Writing-Teacher Workshop: Reading Style Across the Disciplines” and “Science and Authorship Ethics: Communicating With the Public” at the Center for Computation and Technology. Steve also met with Jewish studies program faculty on Nov. 9. His trip was arranged and funded by the Office of Research and Educational Development at LSU. Katz also published “A Predestination for the Posthumanistic” (with Nathaniel A. Rivers) in “Kenneth Burke and the Posthuman,” a book edited by Chris Mays, Nathaniel A. Rivers and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins (Transdisciplinary Rhetoric Series, Penn State UP [142-160]); and “Lines and Fields of Ethical Force in Scientific Authorship: The Legitimacy and Power of the Office of Research Integrity” (with former Master’s student C. Claiborne Linvill) in “Scientific Communication: Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies,” edited Han Yu and Kathryn Northcut (Routledge’s Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture [39-63]).

ARCHITECTURE – Andreea Mihalache presented the paper “The Priest, the King, and the Street Vendor: Urban Allegories in Saul Steinberg’s ‘Strada Palas’ (1966)” at the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) International Conference (Nov. 16-18, Birmingham, UK) on the topic of Architecture, Festivals and the City. At the International Conference on “The Tools of the Architect,” organized by the European Architecture History Network (EAHN, Nov. 22-24, Delft, Netherlands), she presented the paper “Saul Steinberg’s Embodied Cartographies.”

LANGUAGES – Salvador Oropesa presented the paper “La Trilogía del Baztán de Dolores Redondo como guía de liderazgo en el contexto de la novela policiaca contemporánea española” at the XXVII annual congress of the International Association of Female Hispanic Literature and Culture Nov. 8 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

PERFORMING ARTS – Kerrie Seymour is directing “The Cake” by Bekah Brunstetter (producer of the NBC show “This Is Us”) at The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville. The production runs Dec. 1-17. In January and February Seymour will appear as Josie in Eugene O’Neill’s “A Moon for the Misbegotten,” also at The Warehouse.

HISTORY – Michael Silvestri published the article “‘A Fanatical Reverence for Gandhi:’ Nationalism and Police Militancy in Bengal during the Non-cooperation Movement” in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. He also presented the paper “‘Those Dead Heroes Did Not Regret the Sacrifices They Made:’ Responses to the Russian Revolution in Revolutionary Ireland, 1917-1923” at a conference on “The Wider Arc of Revolution: The Global Impact of 1917” on Oct. 27 at the University of Texas-Austin. A two-volume collection of essays with the same title as the conference will be published in 2018, exploring the global impact of the Russian Revolution. Professor of history Steve Marks is one of the co-editors.

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas made presentations on her research project, “Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,” at the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s ninth biennial conference Nov. 7-11 in Seville, Spain and Nov. 14 at Furman University for a Cultural Life Program sponsored by the Furman Taskforce on Slavery and Justice and The Furman Humanities Development Fund.

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera presented her research on armed conflicts and historical memory in film, “Paco Cabezas y Gilles Paquet-Brenner: intersecciones de la memoria histórica en el cine,” at the IX Congreso de Análisis Textual Trama y Fondo (University of Valladolid, Spain) in October. Tissera also attended the II Congreso Internacional Figuraciones de lo Insólito en las Literaturas Española e Hispanoamericana organized by the University of León, Spain in October to present her research paper “Jorge Luis Borges y David Roas: percepciones de múltiples universos y seres soñados.” The research focused on the perception of time, space, and personal identity related to supernatural dreams and idealist philosophy in the fiction of Borges and Roas.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise presented on “Accommodating Ableism” at the Creative Writing Studies Conference Nov. 10-13 in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Two of her poems were published in Bellingham Review. A short story was published in Epiphany.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Benjamin L. White presented two papers at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature Nov. 18-21 in Boston. The papers were titled “Practicing Paul: Outline for a New Approach to Pauline Biography” and “Fingerprinting Paul: Weighing the Value of Stylometric Analysis in the Determination of the Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles.”

ART – Valerie Zimany is exhibiting as a juried artist in the South Carolina Biennial 2017 Part II, which runs Nov. 15–Dec. 24 at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia. The 24 artists included in the Biennial 2017 were selected from a record number of 146 submissions. The jury consisted of Lisa Dent, director of grants and services at Creative Capital in New York City; David Houston, director of the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University in Georgia; and Lori Kornegay, curator of art at the South Carolina State Museum. The Biennial 2017 is a survey exhibition of work by contemporary artists who are current residents of South Carolina.