Laura Kasson Fiss (HU, Pavlis Honors College) presented a paper entitled “Clubs for the Unclubbable: Humor and Literary Sociability among Doyle, Zangwill, and Others” at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
On Nov. 3-6, Andrew Fiss (HU), Shelly Galliah (HU) and Anna Swartz (HU) presented research papers in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of the joint meetings of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA), the History of Science Society (HSS), and the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA).
Fiss presented as part of the panels titled “The Gendered Body: Medicine and Biology in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” and “Performing Science,” the Womenss Caucus feature about the intersections of theater and STEM education.
Galliah presented “John Oliver’s ‘Real Climate Change Debate’: Creatively Using Comedy to Intervene on a Manufactured Scientific Controversy,” as part of a panel about “Wild Learning.”
Swartz presented “The CSI Effect: Are Jurors Starstruck by Forensic Science?” which contributed to the panel about “History, Science, and their Publics.”
This travel was partially supported by the History of Science Society and the Department of Humanities.
If you’re interested in studying abroad this summer, you may be interested in Crossing Borders: Study Abroad this Summer 2017 in Cumbria, England. Stop by the program information session on November 16 from 4-5 pm in Walker 134.
As part of the Humanities Colloquium Series, Michele Speitz, professor, Furman University, will lead a seminar discussion of three essays: Langdon Winner’s “Technologies as Forms of Life,” John Tresch’s “Introduction to The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon” and Susanne Stratling and Jocelyn Holland’s “Introduction: Aesthetics of the Tool—Technologies, Figures and Instruments of Literature and Art.”
This seminar is from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 10) in Wadsworth Hall’s Cherry Room.
For copies of these articles, contact Dana Van Kooy. Refreshments will be provided.
A paper by L. Syd M Johnson (HU), “Death by Neurological Criteria: Expert Definitions and Lay Misgivings,” has been published in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine.
Hop on board the Flow Train for a ride into smooth writing from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 in the MTMC (Walker 107). This presentation will cover the basics of how to make your paper glide: transitions, sentence structure and vocabulary use.
Ethan Klein, a third year mechanical engineering student with a minor in German at Michigan Tech has always had a fascination for Germany and German culture.
So you can imagine how excited he was to have been chosen to participate in a Cultural Vistas Fellowship program in Germany.
Cultural Vistas Fellowship awards a select group of students the opportunity to travel abroad, with the goal of increasing understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship in a global market. The two-month program destinations include Germany, India and Argentina. The students undergo an intensive two-day training program in New York prior to departure, preparing them to live and work in their selected countries; they then share their experiences in New York once again, when they return.
Klein, whose fascination with German history is fueled by his family ancestry, was thrilled to have the opportunity to not only go to Germany, but to secure an internship where he and his team members worked on a testing apparatus for linear led lighting systems.
When Klein was younger, his family hosted a German exchange student, Matthias Straubinger. Klein’s family kept in contact with Matthias over the years. Klein was very pleased to be able to spend time with Matthias while in Germany. The two toured some of the local sights, including a historic park in the Grunewald Forest and a castle built in 1542 by Prince-Elector Joachim II.
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Laura Kasson Fiss (HU, Pavlis Honors College) published an article entitled “‘The Idler’s Club’: Humor and Sociability in the Age of New Journalism” Victorian Periodicals Review 49, No. 3 (2016). You can read the article here.
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) was in Washington DC for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities annual meeting Oct. 6-9.
She presented “Dead Wrong: Inference, Uncertainty, and Inductive Risk” in a panel session with Robert Truog (Harvard) and John Banja (Emory).
She also co-chaired the meetings of the Neuroethics Affinity Group and the Animal Bioethics Affinity Group.
Stuart Hall, one of the most prominent and influential scholars of cultural studies internationally, delivered eight foundational lectures on the theoretical history of cultural studies at the University of Illinois in 1983. After his death in 1914, Hall’s widow authorized publication of those lectures, which were recorded by Jennifer Daryl Slack (HU).
Slack, along with Lawrence Grossberg from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, transcribed, edited and wrote an introduction to these lectures. The lectures have been published by Duke University Press under the title “Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History.”