Spring 2010 Faculty Updates

Professor of French Koffi Anyinefa gave a talk called“Sami Tchak: l'iconoclaste” at the conference“Conventions and Conversions: Generic Innovations in African Literatures,” March 1-4 in Berlin, Germany.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Ralph Barnes presented a paper entitled“The impact of replication rate on attitude revision in relation to science claims” at the 11th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, January 28-30 in Las Vegas.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Craig Borowiak gave two papers—“Answering to No One: Sovereignty and the Problem of Unaccountable Authority” and“Mapping Solidarity: The Rise of International Solidarity Economy Networks”—at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, February 17-21 in New Orleans.

Professor and Chair of Philosophy Ashok Gangadean gave the opening keynote address at the 30th Annual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, March 17-21 at the University of California, Berkeley.

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Hank Glassman presented a paper entitled“Ryôhen, Ninshô, and the 25 bodhisattvas of Hakone” at the conference“History and Material Culture in Asian Religions” at University of Pennsylvania, March 21-22, and was a respondent for the panel“Society, Genre, and the Translation of Heian Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Japan” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, March 26-29 in Philadelphia.

Associate Professor of Religion Tracey Hucks moderated a panel called“Emerging Voices in the Academy” at The Society for the Study of Black Religion's 40th Anniversary Meeting, March 18-21 in Atlanta.

Associate Professor of History Jim Krippner participated in a conference devoted to photography in Mexico during the 1930s and gave an invited lecture on Paul Strand's work at“Paul Strand in Mexico,” held March 11-13 at the Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca Mexico.

Professor of Fine Arts Ying Li was selected as the 2010 Donald Jay Gordon Visiting Artist and Lecturer by the List Gallery and the Department of Art at Swarthmore College. The List Gallery hosted Ying Li: A Survey, January 21—February 28, featuring 33 paintings and drawings ranging from Li's early career in China to the present.

Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Haverford-Bryn Mawr Choral Program Thomas Lloyd attended the American Choral Directors Association's Eastern Division Conference February 10-13 in Philadelphia, where he presided over the organization's first Community Choir Festival and convened a panel titled“‘Do you hear what I hear?' - Repertoire and Standards chairs present what they hear as ‘quality' in their genres.”

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Casey Londergan attended the 2010 annual meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Francisco February 20-24 with three seniors, Heather McMahon, Connor Bischak, and Katherine Alfieri.  Alfieri received a student travel award, and all three students presented posters at the meeting.  The group served as official bloggers for the Society during the conference. Londergan also published an article called“Cyanylated cysteine: a covalently attached probe of protein-lipid contacts,” co-authored with McMahon, Alfieri, and Katherine Clark '09; it appeared in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters in February. Finally, Londergan presented a poster entitled“Sensitivity of Cyanylated Cysteine to Protein Binding Events” at the American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 20-24 in San Francisco.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Rob Manning attended Mathematical Biosciences Institute: Workshop 5: "Mathematical and experimental approaches to dynamics of protein-DNA interactions," March 7-10 in Columbus, Ohio. The conference brought together a set of mathematicians and experimental scientists who work on understanding fundamental physical properties of DNA.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Lisa McCormick was invited to serve as a critic for Robert Faulkner and Howard Becker's new book Do you know?...: The Jazz Repertoire in Action at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, March 18-21 in Boston.

Associate Professor and Chair of English Maud McInerney presented a paper titled“Troy, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius: Translating History in Benoit de Ste Maure” at the Delaware Valley Medieval Association's symposium,“Translation in Medieval Europe,” February 20 at Bryn Mawr College.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Barak Mendelsohn presented a paper called“Hegemony and international society: Must there be a conflict?” at the 51st annual conference of the International Studies Association, held February 17-20 in New Orleans.

A paper by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Alex Norquist called“Noncentrosymmetry in new templated gallium fluorophosphates” was published in Volume 48 of the American Chemical Society journal Inorganic Chemistry. Three Haverford students—Sarah Choyke '10, Samuel Blau '12, and Abigail Larner '11—were listed as co-authors. Norquist presented the paper at the American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 21-25 in San Francisco.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Rebecca Sheehan gave a talk called“The Time of Sculpture: Rodin, Photography and the Avant-Garde Film” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, March 17-21 in Los Angeles.

Associate Professor of English Gustavus Stadler edited the March 2010 issue of the journal Social Text, a special issue on“The Politics of Recorded Sound.” It includes his article,“Never Heard Such a Thing: Lynching and Phonographic Modernity.”

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Jill Stauffer gave a paper called“Speaking Truth to Reconciliation: What can law reconcile?” at the Annual Meeting of Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, March 19-21 at Brown University. Additionally, she was a discussant on a panel on Hobbes and Sovereignty. Stauffer also attended a workshop at the University of Texas in San Antonio February 22-23, where she gave a paper called“How Much Does That Weigh?: Levinas and Human Rights.”

Assistant Professor of Sociology Anat Yom Tov presented a paper entitled“Are Wages Determined by the Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Composition of Jobs? A New Estimation of Job Devaluation and Earnings Processes” at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, March 18-21 in Boston.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Susanna Wing presented a paper called“Women's Rights, International Donor Institutions and Legal Reform in Africa” at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, February 17-22 in New Orleans.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Joel Yurdin was an invited participant in a session on Ancient Ethics at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, held December 28 in New York City. He gave comments on an academic paper entitled“Aristotle on Strength of Will.” He was also a seminar leader at the New York Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 27 in New York City, and gave comments on a paper at“Perceiving ourselves (and one another) perceiving: A Graduate-Faculty Workshop,” held March 26-28 at the University of Toronto.

Assistant Professor of Religion Travis Zadeh presented a paper called“Persian Translations and Commentaries of the Qur'ān in South Asia” at the American Oriental Society Annual Conference, March 12-14 in St. Louis.

Associate Professor of English Christina Zwarg was asked to give two lectures at separate October meetings held in Philadelphia this fall: The International Poe Conference and the meeting of the Society for the Study of Women Writers. Her first paper, entitled“Traumatic Mimesis in Poe” was solicited by the editors of Poe Studies and her second invited paper,“Verena Tarrant's Interrupted Lecture,” was part of a panel on Women and the Public Sphere. Zwarg also spent four fall days at Princeton working as a member of the Committee of Examiners responsible for the Graduate Record Examinations Subject Test in Literature.