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II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL
Escritoras y Compromiso
Ángeles Encinar Ph.D. (Spanish Literature) Associate Vice-Provost and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and the Arts and Carmen Valcárcel of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid are directing the Second International Conference of Escritoras y Compromiso: Literatura española e hispanoamericana de los siglos XX y XXI May 27 – 30 with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture. More than 120 professors from North America, Latin America, and Europe will participate. Speakers include Teodosio Fernández, Olvido García Valdés, Almudena Grandes, Alicia Kozameh, Selena Millares, Lourdes Ortiz, Azucena Rodríguez, Reina María Rodríguez, Consuelo Triviño, Esther Tusquets, Luisa Valenzuela, Fernando Valls and Mirta Yáñez.
Model United Nations
On February 14 and 15, 2008, more than 260 students had the opportunity to debate and resolve current international issues together at the Madrid Campus Model United Nations Conference. SLU Madrid students, under the direction of Program Director Tara Stone organized the event which was sponsored by the USA United Nations Association, Merrill Lynch, and the United Nations Association’s Global Classrooms initiative, which is implemented by the Fulbright Commission in 13 bilingual public high schools in Spain. At the conference, these students stepped into the shoes of UN Member State delegates to debate current issues on the UN’s agenda such as: Darfur, global warming and the social responsibility of the private sector.
Following the SLU Madrid Model United Nations Conference, two students travelled to Bremen, Germany to participate in a collegiate level Model UN Conference. In May, two Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus students will help staff the International Model UN Conference in New York.
In appreciation of this important initiative, on April 17 the United States Embassy in Madrid hosted a reception to honor the participants and organizers of Saint Louis University Madrid’s first Model United Nations. This project has also benefited the Madrid campus students by spawning more interest by the Madrid government in collaborative arrangements for our students in local schools.
Congreso "Realismo y Compromiso en la Poesía de los Años 80. Homenaje a Luís García Montero"
Co-directed by Xelo Candel, Ph.D. (Spanish Literature), this conference honoring Luís García Montero was co-hosted by the Madrid Campus and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 15 – 17 of April and supported by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, and the Diputacón de Granada.
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Taieb Gasmi, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering and Optics) Chair of the Science and Engineering Department received a grant from UNESCO to speak at the “The International Conference on Photonics and Applications ICPA 2008” in Vietnam in September. This ICPA 2008 conference will be held in conjunction with their 5th National Conference on Optics and Spectroscopy. Dr. Gasmi was the invited guest speaker in Trieste, Italy, in February at the International Workshop on Micro and Nano-Photonics for Life Sciences, co-sponsored by CEI (Central European Initiative), EOS (European Optical Society), ICO (International Commission for Optics), U.S. National Academy of Sciences, OSA (Optical Society of America), and SPIE (The International for Optical Engineering).
Ana Portilla, Ph.D. (Mathematics) Chair of the Mathematics Department has received grants from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science for research in: Geometric Theory of Functions, Physical and Technical Application and Theory, Complex Variable, Function Spaces and Operators between them.
Daniel Chornet Roses, Ph.D. and Anne McCabe, Ph.D. (English and Communication) are members of the research team awarded the bid for the Spanish portion of the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency's pilot media project for the analysis of media content. In addition to testing the methodology of the project, the team is involved in collecting data and carrying out quantitative and qualitative data analysis regarding the representation of migrants, minorities and university issues across six EU countries.
Anne McCabe, Ph.D. (Linguistics) is a researcher in a project which was selected for funding by the Comunidad de Madrid, and which is based at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The project is entitled "Longitudinal and Contrastive Analysis of the Oral and Written Interlanguage of Secondary School Students within the Comunidad de Madrid's Social Science and English Language Integrated Content Project."
Anne Dewey, Ph.D. (English Literature) received a fellowship to attend the Cornell University School of Criticism and Theory this summer.
Pepa Sanz (Dance) performed with the Malucos dance company on March 7 at the XII Festival of Flamenco in Jerez, Spain. She is also performing with Tanzcompagnie Flamencos En Route in Baden, Switzerland, in April and May. The performance A solas y a Dos is based on the dialogue between dance and words as expressed in the lyric poetry of Andreas Neeser.
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Xelo Candel, Ph.D. (Spanish Literature)
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La Arena. Madrid: Ediciones Torremozas, 2008.
De lo Vivo a lo Pintado. La Poética Realista de Max Aub en el Ámbito de la Modernidad Literaria. Valencia: Fundación Max Aub, 2008.
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Renzo Llorente, Ph.D. (Philosophy)
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“Sobre el Humanismo Especista de Víctor Gómez Pin.” Razonar y Actuar en Defensa de los Animales. Eds. Marta I. González, Jorge Riechmann, Jimena Rodríguez and Marta Tafalla. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata, 2008:119-135.
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Rafael Cabañas, Ph.D. (Spanish Literatura)
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“El Laberinto como Motivo Temático y su Implicación Narrativa en El Quijote.” Cervantes y su Tiempo. Vol. 1. Eds. Juan Matas Caballero; José María Balcells Doménech. León: Universidad de León, Secretariado de Publicaciones, 2008: 161-172.
“El Comportamiento Justiciero de Morales, ‘El Caballero Andante’ y Quijotesco en Un Campeón Desparejo, de Adolfo Bioy Casares.” Territorios de la Mancha. Versiones y Subversiones Cervantinas en la Literatura Hispanoamericana. Ed. Matías Barchino. Ciudad Real: Ediciones Publicaciones de Universidad Castilla la Mancha, 2007: 191-200.
Rev. of Luis Astrana Marín, Fundador de la Sociedad Cervantina. Los Trabajos y los Días de un Cervantista Solitario, José Montero Padilla y José Montero Reguera. Anales Cervantinos (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) XXXIX, January - December 2007: 390-392.
Director of Research: “Vida y obra de Ramón Gómez de la Serna.” EsMadrid TV.
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Anna Zlobina, Ph.D. (Psychology)
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Zlobina, A., N. Basabe, and D. Paez. “Las Estrategias de Aculturación de los Inmigrantes: su Significado Psicológico.” Revista de Psicología Social 23.2 (2008):15-23.
Paez, D., J. Liu, E. Techio, P. Slawuta, A. Zlobina, and R. Cabecinhas. “Remembering’ World War II and Willingness to Fight: Sociocultural Factors in the Social Representation of Historical Warfare Across 22 Societies.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 39.3 (2008): 250-257.
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Anne McCabe, Ph.D. (Linguistics)
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Rev. of Historical Discourse: The Language of Time, Cause and Evaluation, Caroline Coffin. Applied Linguistics 4. December 2007.
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Chris Ealham, Ph.D. (History)
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“Sin Espacios de Memoria.” La Vanguardia, 19 March (2008).
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Rafael Cabañas, Ph.D. (Spanish Literature)
“Ficción Criminal y Parodia en La Señal, de Eduardo Mignogna, y su Adaptación al Cine,” I Congreso Internacional de Ficción Criminal: “Justicia y Castigo.” Universidad de León. León, Spain. April 2008.
“El Quijote en la Literatura Argentina,” Casa Argentina en León. León, Spain. April, 2008.
Chris Ealham, Ph.D. (History)
“Spain in the Age of Revolution and Counter-revolution: the ‘Russian Fever’ versus the ‘Italian Way,’" Modern European History Research Seminar, Cambridge University. Cambridge, England. February 11, 2008.
Ana Portilla, Ph.D. (Mathematics)
"Approximation by Smooth Functions with Weights," Congreso Internacional APPOPT 2008 (IX International Conference Approximation and Optimization in the Caribbean), San Andrés, Colombia. March 3 – 10, 2008.
Fabiola Martínez, Ph.D. (Art History)
“Art as Lived Experience: Neo-Avant-Garde Expressions of Mexicanidad,” Latin America: The last Avant-Garde, CUNY. New York City, New York. April 4 – 5, 2008.
Maura Tarnoff, Ph.D. (English Literature)
“Sewing Violence,” Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Dallas, Texas. March 13 – 15, 2008.
Ángeles Encinar, Ph.D. (Spanish Literature)
"La Voz Propia de Inma Monsó: 'Mejor que no me lo Expliques,'" III Congreso Internacional Celehis de Literatura (Literatura española, latinoamericana y argentina), Universidad de Mar del Plata, Argentina. April 7 – 9, 2008.
Xelo Candel, Ph.D. (Spanish Literature)
"Memoria Lírica y Reivindicación de la Conciencia en 'Vista Cansada' de Luis García Montero," III Congreso Internacional Celehis de Literatura (Literatura española, latinoamericana y argentina), Universidad de Mar del Plata, Argentina. April 7 – 9, 2008.
Anne Dewey, Ph.D. (English Literature)
“Women and Citizenship in US Poetry after the 1960s,” University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. April 9, 2008.
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Stephen Casmier, Ph.D. (English), Saint Louis University, Missouri
Roswitha Casmier, Ph.D., (French), Saint Louis University, Missouri
Ronald Modras, Ph.D. (Theology), Saint Louis University, Missouri
Mary Elizabeth Hogan, Ph.D. (Higher Education), Saint Louis University, Missouri
Angharad Valdivia, Ph.D. (Communication), University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Lynda Greenwade, M.F.A., (Fine Arts), Friends Select School, Philadelphia |
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Carolina Aznar, Ph.D. (Archaeology, Theology) led her SOC-326 Archeology of Mediterranean Civilization to Mérida, Spain.
Donald Reck, S.J., Ph.D. (Theology), Ron Modras, Ph.D. (Theology), James O’Leary, S.J., M.A., M.Div., Th.M., M.Ed. (Theology), Michael McCarthy, M.A. (Theology) led the THEO-349 Ignatian Humanism class and other interested students on a Campus Ministry Pilgrimage Retreat to Loyola, Spain.
Francisco Jiménez, Ph.D. (Astrophysics) took his PHYS-113 Introduction to Astronomy class to Tenerife (Canarias Islands), Spain.
Matt Kineen, Ph.D. (English Literature) led his ENGL-489 Americans in Paris class to Paris, France.
Kevin Ingram, Ph.D. (History) took his HIST-377 History of the Jews in Spain class to Córdoba, Sevilla, and Toledo.
Raúl Martín, Ph.D. (Environmental Science) led the EAS-101 Earth systems I: Volcanoes of Spain class to Lanzarote (Canarias Islands), Spain; one of the EAS-105 Introduction to Oceanography classes to Menorca (Baleares Islands), Spain; and the EAS-325 (Global Change) and EAS-101 (Earth System-I) classes to Miraflores, Lozoya and Navacerrada, Spain to explore the impacts of global climate change on ecosystems and natural resources in the northern region of Madrid province.
Monica Pérez-Bedmar, M.S. (Oceanography) led one of the EAS-105 Introduction to Oceanography classes to Menorca (Baleares Islands), Spain.
Paul Vita, Ph.D. (English Literature) led the ENGL-454 Victorian Novel class to London, England.
Daniel Wood, M.A. (Communication) led the CMM-348 Introduction to Radio Broadcasting to London, England.
Maura Tarnoff, Ph.D. (English Literature) led the ENGL-432 Shakespeare class to London, England.
Beatriz Calvo Peña, Ph.D. (Spanish Language and Literature) led the SPAN-418 Spanish Culture and Civilization to Asturias, Leon, Granada, and Córdoba, Spain.
Knut Roder, Ph.D. (Political Science, Economics) took the POLS-393 Politics in the European Union. Brussels, Belgium and the POLS-252 Introduction to African Politics class to South Africa and Namibia.
Michael McCarthy, M.A. (Theology) and James O’Leary, S.J., M.A., M.Div., Th.M., M.Ed. (Theology), accompanied students to the ecumenical community of Taizé, France on a spiritual retreat. |
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