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New SLU Venues on the Madrid Campus
In October we put the final touches on the conversion of our former men’s residence to a new library and cafeteria complex when we inaugurated the Everett Rice Memorial Room, which houses a collection of art books that the late Professor Rice donated to our campus and also serves as a lovely room for all of our art history courses.
In January, we inaugurated the opening of Manresa Hall, a new rental acquisition, located just behind our administration building. The Andalusian-style building houses new staff and faculty offices, classrooms, and music and art studios. Both buildings also provide garden and terrace spaces for students to gather and study outdoors, when the Madrid weather permits.
And a new venue for the 5th Annual Interpretation of Spanish and Latin American Song
 Since its premier in 2002, the Interpretation of Spanish Song summer courses have introduced the rich heritage of Spanish art song to voice, piano and guitar students from the world’s foremost music schools and conservatories. This year we’re delighted to welcome the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Spain’s oldest conservatory, as a co-sponsor of the festival.
Since its founding in 1830 by royal decree, the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid has been the dynamic center of music instruction and education for generations of Spanish artists. The Conservatory is located in the museum district of central Madrid and offers classrooms, practice rooms, a performance auditorium and one of the most important musical libraries in the world with approximately 130,000 books, 11,000 music manuscripts and 3,000 hours of recorded music, all at the disposal of students and faculty alike.
Publication of selected papers of the Converso and Morisco Studies Conference Series
The academic publishing house Brill has announced that it will publish an anthology of selected papers presented at the first and second conferences on Jewish and Muslim converts to Christianity in Spain's history that our professor Kevin Ingram, Ph.D. (History) has organized and hosted at the Madrid Campus over the past three years. In its review, Brill pointed out that “very few attempts to pursue comparative approaches and to explore Jewish and Muslim converts side by side have been made,” adding that “there is much need for such a series, which will with regard to methodological issues have importance beyond the field of Iberian history and culture.”
More information on the Converso and Morisco Studies at the Madrid Campus.
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Ángeles Encinar, Ph.D., (Spanish Literature) Associate Vice-Provost and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and the Arts was a member of the distinguished jury for the Ministry of Culture’s Premio Nacional de Narrativa which announced the 2007 winner of this prestigious award: Vicente Molina Foix for his novel El Abrecartas.
Other members of the jury included officials from the Ministry of Culture, the Real Academia Española, the Asociación Colegial de Escritores, the Asociación Española de Críticos Literarios, the Real Academia de la Lengua Vasca, the Real Academia Gallega, the Instituto de Estudios Catalanes, and last year’s award-winner Ramiro Pinilla García.
Renzo Llorente, Ph.D. (Philosophy) Chair of the Social Sciences and Humanities Department was appointed as a member of the American Philosophy Association’s Committee on Hispanics. His term will run from July 2008 until June 2011.
Taieb Gasmi, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering and Optics) Chair of the Science and Engineering Department was the invited Guest Speaker and member of the International Program and Advisory Committee for the Conference on Optics and Laser Applications in Medicine and Environmental Monitoring for Sustainable Development (OPTOLASERMED 2007) in Cape Coast, Ghana, November 2007. Dr. Gasmi presented the paper "Differential Absorption Lidar Systems for Pollution Remote Sensing in the Infra-Red Region."
Ana Granados Sanandrés, Ph.D. (Mathematics) and Pablo Fernández Gallardo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) have received a grant from La Caixa Catalunya Foundation for the project “Matemáticas en Lugares Insospechados” (“Math in Unlikely Places”).
Cristina Matute, Ph.D. (Linguistics) was a member of the organizing committee for the Conference "Coloquio Internacional sobre Corpus Diacrónicos en Lenguas Iberorromances" of the Universidad de las Islas Baleares in Palma de Mallorca, October 2007.
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Ann Dewey, Ph.D. (English Literature)
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Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007.
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Olga Muñoz Carrasco, Ph.D. (Spanish Literature)
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Sigiloso Desvelo: La Poesía de Blanca Varela. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2007.
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Taieb Gasmi, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering and Optics)
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Gasmi, T. and A.Wagué, A.Ndao, A. Konté (of the University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal). "Measurement of Electron Density and Temperature of Aluminum and Iron Alloy Samples by Self-Calibrated Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy," Measurement Science & Technology 12 (2007).
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Carolina Aznar, Ph.D. (Archaeology, Theology)
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“Aportaciones arqueológicas de los últimos diez años al estudio de la monarquía israelita,” Estudios Bíblicos, 64.3-4 (2007).
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Paolo Saona Hoffman, Ph.D. (Finance)
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Saona, P. and F. López. “Earning Management and Debt Ownership Structure in Spanish Firms.” Corporate Ownership & Control 5.1 (2007).
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Paulette Stohlmann, M.S.N. (Nursing)
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Stohlmann, P. and Georgia Robins Sadler, Christine Chong-hee Lieu, and Judith T. Fullerton. “Communication Strategies for Nurses Interacting with Deaf Patients.” MEDSURG Nursing, The Journal of Adult Health 16.3 (2007).
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Renzo Llorente, Ph.D. (Philosophy)
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Interview En Defensa de los Animales. Fundación Equanimal November 2007.
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Renzo Llorente, Ph.D. (Philosophy)
“The Amauta’s Ambivalence: Conflicting Perspectives on Race in Mariátegui’s Social Thought,” Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Latin American and Latino Thought Conference. State University of New York at Buffalo. October 2007.
Carolina Aznar, Ph.D. (Archaeology, Theology)
"Storage Jar Transportation and Exchange Networks in the Southern Levant," Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. San Diego, California. November 2007.
Interview “The Treatment of Old Testament Narratives in the movie ‘David and Goliath.’" “Más cine por favor.” Canal Popular. Madrid. 22 December 2007.
Iván Sanchez, Ph.D. (Biology)
“Plant Colonization after Foredune Construction over Dredged and Wind-born Sand Sediments in Basque Country, North Spain.” International Conference on Management and Restoration of Coastal Dunes. Santander, Spain. October 2007.
Paolo Saona Hoffman, Ph.D. (Finance)
“¿Es la Velocidad de Ajuste a la Ratio de Endeudamiento Objetivo Explicada por el Entorno Institucional?: Un Análisis a Través de un Conjunto de Países,” XVII ACEDE Congress (Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de Empresa), Universidad Pablo de Olave. Sevilla, Spain. September, 2007, and XV Foro de Finanzas, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain. November 2007.
Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Ph.D. (Economics)
"When Necessity Becomes a Virtue: The Effect of Product Market Competition on Corporate Social Responsibility," Strategic Management Society Conference. San Diego, California. October 2007.
John Masso, M.S.N. (Nursing)
“La Prescripción Enfermera,” I Jornadas Universitarias de Enfermería, Consejo General de Enfermería de España. Madrid, Spain. November 2007.
Taieb Gasmi, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering and Optics) and Heidi Buffington (Department of Admissions & Promotions)
"Studying Engineering Abroad in a Multi-cultural Environment in Spain," Tenth Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education. Purdue University. November 2007.
Thomas J. Miley, Ph.D. (Political Science)
"Separatist Violence and 'Peace Processes': The Spanish Experience with ETA," and "The Politics of 'Linguistic Normalization' in Catalonia, Spain," The Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Diyarbakýr Bar Association Conference on Kurds in Tukey: Main Requirements for a Peace Process. Diyarbakir, Turkey. September 2007.
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Stephen Casmier, Ph.D. (English), Saint Louis University, Missouri
Cameron McCarthy, Ph.D. (Communication), from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Rowshita 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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Oscar Martínez, Ph.D. Candidate (Political Science), led his POLS-351 Rebirth of Democracy class to Prague, Czech Republic and Budapest, Hungary.
Raúl Martínez, Ph.D. (Geology) led the EAS-105 Oceanography course to Mallorca (Balearic Islands), Spain.
Aitor Bikandi, Ph.D. (Spanish Literature) led the SPAN-418 Spanish Culture and Civilization class on two trips in Spain, one to Zamora and another to Cáceres and Mérida.
Carolina Aznar, Ph.D. (Archaeology, Theology) and Fabiola Martínez, Ph.D. (Art History) led an academic excursion to Greece which included Athens, Delphi, Cape Sounion, and Crete.
Knut Roder, Ph.D. (Political Science, Economics) took the ECON-395 Political Economy of the European Union class to Brussels, Belgium.
Kevin Ingram, Ph.D. (History) took his HIST-334 Spanish Civil War class to El Escorial, Spain.
Donal Reck, S.J., Ph.D. (Theology) hosted the 7th Annual Interfaith Retreat where students, faculty and staff from varied faith traditions reflected and shared experiences at Los Molinos, a retreat house near Madrid.
Michael McCarthy, M.A. (Theology) accompanied students to the ecumenical community of Taizé, France on a spiritual retreat. |
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