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Arts and Letters Collin Asmus
(art) had work in “Small Works Invitational” at
the Meridian Museum of Art and two digital works in the
juried international exhibition, “Bit by Bit –
An All Digital Art Exhibition,” which showed online
at www.bitbybitdigital.org and at the Business of Art
Center in Manitou Springs, Colorado. The Addresses of the
Mississippi Philosophical Association has been published
with papers and autobiographical sketches by five
Millsaps philosophers: Bob
Bergmark (emer., phil.) “The
Mississippi Philosophical Association: A Historical
Statement” and “Knowledge, Belief, and
Commitment”; Michael
Mitias (emer., phil.), “Another Look
at the Ontological Status of the Aesthetic Object”; Ted Ammon (phil.),
“A Footnote to Pyrrhonian Skepticism”; Steve Smith (phil./rel.
stud.), “Resembling Intentions and Human
Kinds”; and Kristen
Brown (phil.), “Aristotle Saying
First Principles and Apparent Contradiction.”
Christopher Brunt (music) performed with the Mississippi
Symphony Orchestra as organ soloist on the
Saint-Saens-Symphony No. 3 “Organ.” Gail Buzhardt
(mod. lang.) presented “Foreign Languages Across the
Curriculum: Flexible Courses which increase creativity
and enrollment” at the annual meeting of the
Mississippi Foreign Language Association. She was also
elected vice-president of the college/university section
of the MFLA. Adolfo
Cacheiro (mod. lang.) presented a paper
entitled “Lost Illusions: Alejo Carpentier’s
Viaje a la semilla and El derecho de asilo” at the
International Conference on Caribbean Literature in
Puerto Rico.
David Davis
(hist.) was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award from
William Carey College. Catherine
Freis (class.) attended a meeting of the
Classical Association of the Mid-West and South, where
she presented a paper entitled, “Sondheim’s
Sweeney Todd and Classical Literature.” Paula Garrett (Eng./writ.
cntr.) received an ACS Technology Fellowship for the
Spring for the work she is doing in LS 1020 class. She
will use the fellowship to organize existing web-based
writing resources and to create new ones. At the
invitation of MLA vice president and as part of a special
series on “Critical Articulations of
Hispanism,” Eric
Griffin (Eng.) gave a paper on “The
Spanish Temper of Early Modern English Drama” at the
Modern Language Association's Annual Meeting in
Washington, D.C. Brent
Lefavor (thea.), Larry Wells (inst.
adv.), and Jonathan Sweat
(emer., music) appeared as cast members in a Galloway
United Methodist Church and Northminster Baptist Church
production of Shadowlands. Bob
McElvaine (hist.) attended the
Renaissance Weekend in Hilton Head and participated in
several panels. He was on a two-person panel with Betty
Friedan on the ideas in his book, Eve's Seed:
Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History. He also
gave a paper on “Biohistory” as a part of a
session with Edward O. Wilson of Harvard at the annual
meeting of the American Historical Association in Boston.
His article “Hell Hath No Fury Like a Man
Devalued” appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
Greg Miller (Eng.) has a second book of
poetry accepted for publication by the University of
Chicago Press. Elise Smith (art) gave a talk on “The
Construction of a Life: Wilhelmina Stirling’s
Biography of Her Sister Evelyn De Morgan” in the
Association of Textual Scholarship in Art History’s
session at the Southeastern College Art Association
meeting in Louisville. She is writing an entry on the
sculptor Belle Kinney for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia
and will be an outside reviewer for the art department at
the University of the South. A segment of the ETV show
“Mississippi Roads” focused on the making of
the musical comedy Real Life, The Idea written by Steve Smith
(phil./rel. stud.) and featuring Nicole
Bradshaw (inst. adv.). Sandra Smithson
(art) had three digital prints accepted into an
international art competition entitled “Works on
Paper” at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset,
Mass. She has been selected by the Vermont Studio Center
to be an artist-in-residence for July. Bill Storey
(hist.) published an article, “Making Credible in
Colonial Mauritius,” in a volume entitled Science
and Society in Southern Africa (Manchester University
Press). The article was based on a paper he presented at
the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. John Thatamanil
(rel. stud.) published “Casting the First Stone:
Reflections on Christian Character and Presidential
Politics,” in the Los Angeles Times. He also
presented a paper entitled “The Reason-Revelation
Dichotomy: The Relationship Between Philosophy and
Theology in Tillich and Milbank,” at the annual
National American Academy of Religion conference to the
North American Paul Tillich Society. His article,
“Managing Multiple Religious And Scholarly
Identities: An Argument for a Theological Study of
Hinduism,” will appeared in the Journal of the
American Academy of Religion. Sandy
Zale (hist.) published “The French
Kill Their King: The Assassination of Childeric II in
Late-Medieval French Historiography” in
Fifteenth-Century Studies 27; “Who Reads Unofficial
Histories of France in the Late Middle Ages?” in
Sewanee Mediaeval Studies; and “Louis Le Blanc,
Estienne Le Blanc, and the defense of Louis IX's
Crusades, 1498-1522” in Traditio 55.
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