Scholarship and Creative Activity
Faculty Notes
On 12 March the
International Forum hosted Dr. Jonathan Abel presenting "When Possible Worlds Collide: Proper Names and the Possibilities of Self Reference." summary
Irina Stakhanova spoke on "Murder and Death in Medieval Russia" at the 28 February-1 March "Beholding Violence Conference" at BGSU.
Christina Guenther is research fellow at the BGSU Institute for the Study of Culture and Society in Spring 2008. Her 13 February ISCS lecture, entitled "Cartographies of Identity: Memory and History in Ruth Beckermann's Documentary Films from 1980-2006," will soon appear in a volume on Austrian film. Dr. Guenther is completing work on Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of History and the Arts, co-edited with Beth Griech-Polelle (Cambridge Scholars Press).
Christina Guenther is presenting "Performing Ethnicity: Doron Rabinovici’s and Ruth Beckermann’s Representations of Cosmopolitan Viennese" at the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association conference (MALCA) in Seattle in late April.
Visiting faculty member (from the U of Salzburg) Irene Fussl is speaking at MALCA on "Hosenrolle und Kastrat."
Geoffrey Howes's paper, "Nihilism and Authenticity: The Cafe Museum in Viennese Culture," has been accepted for the October conference "The Viennese Cafe as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange" at the Royal College of Art in London (preliminary program).
Professor Howes's article "Patterns of Representing Madness in Austrian Fiction" will appear soon in Crime and Madness in Modern Austria: Myth, Metaphor and Cultural Realities, edited by Rebecca Thomas, and published by Cambridge Scholars Press (Newcastle).
Metropolis Vienna, Geoffrey Howes's translation of Peter Rosei's novel Wien Metropolis, will be published soon by Green Integer Press (Copenhagen and Los Angeles).
Dr. Timothy
Pogacar is editor of Slovene
Studies: Journal of the Society for Slovene Studies. Slovene
Studies is a "forum for the expression of a variety of
scholarly viewpoints on problems of Slovene literature, linguistics,
history, ethnography, and other areas."
Irina Stakhanova gave a presentation on subjectivity and reality in Andrei Zviagintsev's film The Return at the Institute for Culture and Society in January. Dr. Stakhanova has organized a session on "Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages in Oho: Challenges and Expectation," at Ohio Foreign Language conference, 3-5 April 20008.
Geoffrey C. Howes's translation of an excerpt from Doron Rabinovici's novel Ohnehin (Anyway) appeared in the journal Dimension2: Contemporary German-Language Literature (9:1/2) in October, 2007.
Irina Stakhanova took part in a panel entitled "Self as a Theoretical Category" at the 15-18 November convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
Anastasia Alexandrova presented "The Functioning of Russian as a Foreign Language, Heritage Language, and Medium of International Communication in Business, Government, and Science: Current Theoretical and Practical Issues in the Study and Teaching of Russian in the North American Context" at a conference hosted by the American Councils for International Education and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 15-17 October 2007. She also attended the ACTFL annual convention and World Languages Expo, 16-18 November, where she attended workshops on technological innovations in teaching foreign languages.
Geoffrey Howes has co-organized (with Jefford Vahlbusch of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) three sessions on German poetry, including poetry readings, for the Midwest Modern Language Association Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, 8-11 November.
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