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Peggy Ahwesh, associate professor of film and electronic arts, screened films at Skolská 28 Gallery and at the Academy of Film and Television (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic, last fall. With Keith Sanborn, faculty in film, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, she presented “Laughter and Abjection,” two evenings of individual and collaborative films, at the Rodina Kino in St. Petersburg, Russia. In December, Ahwesh and Sanborn traveled to Ukraine and presented “Happy Video New Year: Bricolage with Stereotypes” at the Yagallery in Kiev, an event sponsored by the Fulbright Program, and were artists in residence in the village of Legedzine. JoAnne Akalaitis, Wallace Benjamin Flint and L. May Hawver Flint Professor of Drama, directed The Play of Daniel in New York City in December at The Cloisters and at Grace Church.
Mark Danner, James Clark Chace Professor in Foreign Affairs and the Humanities, published two essays last fall in the New York Review of Books: “Obama and Sweet Potato Pie” and “Frozen Scandal.” Tim Davis ’91, visiting assistant professor of photography, presented Kings of Cyan at Galerie Mitterand + Sanz in Zurich, May 30 – October 18. The exhibition consisted of photographs, centered on Italian political posters, that Davis took during his 2007–08 American Academy in Rome Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize. Yuval Elmelech, associate professor of sociology, is the author of Transmitting Inequality: Wealth and the American Family, published last year by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.
Sanjib Baruah, professor of political studies, spoke at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, at a February conference on new modes of governance and security challenges in the Asia-Pacific.
Omar G. Encarnación, associate professor of political studies, published an essay, “Reconciliation after Democratization: Coping with the Past in Spain,” in the fall 2008 issue of Political Science Quarterly.
Laura Battle, professor of studio arts, showed work in an invitational exhibition at the museum of the National Academy in New York last summer and received the Academy’s Charles Loring Elliot Award and Medal.
Peter Filkins, visiting professor of literature and First-Year Seminar, is the translator of a new edition of H. G. Adler’s novel The Journey that was published by Random House.
Daniel Berthold, professor of philosophy, published an article, “Talking Cures: A Lacanian Reading of Hegel and Kierkegaard on Language and Madness,” in Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology. Leon Botstein, president of the college and Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities, was invited to contribute the article “The Unsung Success of Live Classical Music” to the Wall Street Journal. For Newsweek International he wrote “The Real Crisis in High Schools,” and for Thought & Action, the journal of the National Education Association, he wrote “Higher Education and Public Schooling in Twenty-First Century America.” With the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the radio orchestra of Israel, which he serves as music director and conductor, Botstein toured the West Coast and Midwest. He led the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in concerts featuring the work of Bard professor Joan Tower, Beethoven, and Richard Strauss at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts; Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs at Peter Norton Symphony Space; and Édouard Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys at Lincoln Center. Leaving Rock Harbor, a novel by Rebecca Chace, visiting assistant professor in First-Year Seminar, was published by Scribner’s this spring. Laurie Dahlberg, associate professor of art history and photography, presented a paper, “At Home with the Camera: Modeling Masculinity in Early French Photography,” in November at the Western Society for French History conference held in Quebec City. Deirdre d’Albertis, associate professor of English, was an organizer of “The Pursuit of Happiness,” the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, held at Skidmore College April 24–26.
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Richard Gordon, Research Professor of Psychology, completed the final round of interviews for his project on the modern history of eating disorders. In London he interviewed Susie Orbach, feminist psychoanalyst; Rachel Bryant-Waugh, child psychologist and codirector of the program on eating disorders at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children; Robert Palmer, editor of European Eating Disorders Review; and Hubert Lacey, head of the Adult Research team of the St. George’s Hospital Eating Disorders Service. Elizabeth M. Holt, assistant professor of Arabic, published “‘In a Language that Was Not His Own’: On Ahlam Mustaghanami’s Novel Dhakirat al-Jasad and Its French Translation ‘Mémoires de la chair’” in Journal of Arabic Literature last year. Samuel K. Hsiao, assistant professor of mathematics, is a coauthor of “Enumeration in convex geometries and associated polytopal subdivisions of spheres,” published in the 20th-anniversary issue of Discrete & Computational Geometry. Lodz Symphony by Peter Hutton, professor of film, was screened by the Whitney Museum of American Art last October. In November Anthology Film Archives in New York City screened Hutton’s New York Portrait (part 2) and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, showed his Time and Tide and At Sea. David Kettler, Research Professor in Social Studies, is a coauthor of Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber: Retrieving a Research Programme (Ashgate, 2008); coauthor of “Weimar Sociology” in Weimar Thought (Princeton University Press, 2009) and author of “Spiritual Diaspora and Political Exile” in Neuer Mensch und kollektive Identität in der Kommunikationsgesellschaft (Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008).