Assistant Professor Dana Van Kooy (HU) recently attended the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference (NASSR) at UC-Berkeley where she presented her essay, “New World Discontent and the Aesthetics of Disappearance” on a panel entitled Black Romanticism. She also participated in a special seminar on “Worldnessness and Wordlessness.”
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L. Syd M Johnson (HU) published the chapter “Reproductive Technologies” in the handbook Philosophy: Medical Ethics, Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Philosophy series.
Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval (HU) and
Ciro A. Sandoval (HU) are
co-authors of an essay published by Johns Hopkins University Press in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, Vol, 43, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 570-591.
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The New York Times published an article by Humanities alumna Roxane Gay about the police killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Read the article here.
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A review by Laura Kasson Fiss of three books on Victorian music appears in the latest issue of Victorian Studies.
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) is a featured philosopher at the blog Philosopher, and published “Paternalism, Protection, and Athlete Autonomy.”
Michael Bowler (HU) has published a co-edited volume, “Hermeneutical Heidegger” (Northwestern University Press, 2016).
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) participated in the Animal Research Neuroethics Workshop at the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nominations are now open for the 2016 Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
This year, nominations are being accepted from dissertations in the fields of:
Michigan Tech may nominate one student in each field. PhD students who have completed all of their degree requirements between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2016 are eligible. The fields of competition for 2017 will be humanities/fine arts and biological and life sciences.
The deadline to submit nominations is 4 p.m. Monday, June 20 following the online instructions. Nominations must be delivered to Debra Charlesworth in the Graduate School. Emailed nominations to gradschool@mtu.edu are preferred. Contact Debra Charlesworth if you have any questions about the competition.
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L. Syd M Johnson (HU) was interviewed for an article on brain death at popular web site Big Think. The article is entitled “A Company Is Trying to Resurrect the Brain Dead, a Really Bad Idea.”