MAY 2012
Emmanuelle Vanborre, assistant professor of French, will present on teaching about the French Caribbean in language classes in a talk entitled: “L'anse créole: découvrir les Antilles francophones,” at the MaFLA Diversity Day (Massachusetts Foreign Language Association) on May 5.
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Marv Wilson, professor of biblical studies, will give a plenary presentation entitled, "The Challenge of Intractable Supercessionary Thinking," at the 42nd Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches in Rochester, NY, May 12-14.
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APRIL 2012
Gregor Thuswaldner, associate professor of German and linguistics and co-director of the Salzburg Institute of Gordon College, has been invited to present his paper “From Stresstest to Schuldenbremse: How the German Media Frames the Financial Crisis in Europe" at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC 18), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, April 26-28.
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Jessica Ventura, assistant professor of kinesiology,will be presenting her paper, "Developing Intercultural Sensitivity through Directed Global Education Programming" at the American Society of Engineering Education 2012 North East Conference, April 27-28 at U-Mass Lowell.
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MARCH 2012
Kaye Cook, professor of psychology, will present (with colleagues) a paper on "Committed Questers: Understanding Religious Maturity in Emerging Adults" at the 2012 Mid-Year Research Conference on Religion and Spirituality of the American Psychological Association Division 36, March 30 & 31 in Columbia, MD.
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Gregor Thuswaldner, associate professor of German and linguistics and co-director of the Salzburg Institute of Gordon College, has been invited to present his paper “The Language of Crisis: An Analysis of the Financial Crisis Metaphors in German Media” at the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, University of California, Berkeley, March 23-24.
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Emmanuelle Vanborre, assistant professor of French, will chair a panel discussion on "Haiti after the Earthquake: the Impossible and Necessary Witnessing," March 16 at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) in Rochester, NY. On March 17, Vanborre will also be a part of around-table discussion at Boston College about the state of Romance Languages and Literatures.

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FEBRUARY 2012
Sharon Ketcham, associate professor of Christian ministries, will participate as a chair-elect of the board of the Association of Youth Ministry Educators, February 10-12 in Dallas, Texas, along with Mark Cannister, professor of Christian ministries, who is also on the board.
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Gregor Thuswaldner, associate professor of German and linguistics and co-director of the Salzburg Institute of Gordon College, has been invited to present his paper "Hitler and the Church: Thomas Bernhard’s Critique of an Unholy Alliance“ on February 9 at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
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Moises Park, assistant professor of Spanish, will be presenting Feb 16-18 at the XXVIII Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures in Baton Rouge, LA, on "Postmortem (2010): San Salvador Allende y la autopsia histórica."
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JANUARY 2012
Judith Oleson, associate professor of social work, presents her paper entitled, "Public Apology as a Post Colonial Theological Practice?" at a conference on "Story Weaving: Colonial Contexts and Post-Colonial Theology" Jan.23-25 at Whitley College in Melbourne, Australia.
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Bruce Herman, Lothlorien distinguished chair of fine arts, is featured in "Overshadowed: Recent Paintings of Bruce Herman" at College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO, Jan. 13-Feb. 27. He will give a convocation chapel address there Jan. 25.
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Gregor Thuswaldner, associate professor of German and linguistics and co-director of the Salzburg Institute of Gordon College, has been invited to present his third book, a monograph on the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, and to give two presentations on Thomas Bernhard on January 10-11 at the University of Vienna, Austria.
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Stephen Smith, professor of economics and business, attends the American Economics Association meetings and takes part in editorial board meetings of the journal of the Association of Christian Economists, Chicago, Jan. 6-8.
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Karl-Dieter Crisman, assistant professor of mathematics, will present "Symmetry in Voting Theory: The Borda-Kemeny Spectrum and Beyond" at the Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session in Boston, Jan. 4-7.
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DECEMBER 2011
Brian Glenney, assistant professor of philosophy, presents his paper "Hearing Real Colors with Adaptive Technologies" at the Sensory Worlds Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, Dec. 7-9.
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NOVEMBER 2011
Judith Oleson, associate professor of social work, presents her paper "Holding A Round Table: Implications for Post-Colonial Theological Dialogue" at the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 19-22.
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Brian Glenney, assistant professor of philosophy, presents (with co-author John Noble, Harvard University) his paper, "Double-Healing and Experiential Blindness on the Way to Jerusalem", at the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 19-22.
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Stephen Smith, professor of economics and business, presents with co-author Michael Anderson his work "Ethnic Networks and Global Trade," at the the Southern Economics Association, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7.
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OCTOBER 2011
Suzanne Phillips, professor of psychology, attends the 51st annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Fairfield, CT, Oct. 28-29.
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Jim Zingarelli, professor of art, featured in an exhibit entitled "Jim Zingarelli: Sculpture, Painting, & Drawing" at Wheelock College, Boston, MA, Oct. 25-Dec. 2.
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Sharon Ketcham, assistant professor of Christian ministries, gives the plenary talk “Youth Ministry and Incarnation in Praxis: A Biblical and Theological Call to Reconnect Adolescents to the Church” at the Association of Youth Ministry Educators, Seattle, WA, Oct. 22-24.
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Stephen Smith, professor of economics and business, presents (with co-authors Michael Anderson and Martin Davis) "Ethnic Networks and Price Dispersion" at the U.S. International Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Stephen will also attend the 2011 Free Market Forum sponsored by Hillsdale College, the Acton Institute, and the CCCU in Atlanta, GA, Oct. 27-29.
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Bruce Herman, Lothlorien distinguished chair of fine arts, will speak on "The Fire and the Rose: A Role for Imagination in the Life of Faith?" at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle, WA, Oct. 15-16.
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Bert Hodges, professor of psychology, and Jonathan Gerber, assistant professor of psychology, attend the Society of Experimental Social Psychology conference in Washington, D.C., Oct. 13-15. Hodges presents his paper "Bridging Hemispheres: Linguistic Effects on Color Recognition in China" with co-authors Aitao Lu, Jijia Zhang, and Xiaoquing Wang.
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Pilar Perez Serrano, assistant professor of Spanish, presents her paper "Nina Velilla: disolución de la identidad y procesamiento del trauma en Los engranajes de Raúl Hernández Garrido" at a conference celebrating the journal Estreno, devoted to contemporary Spanish theater. Sherman, TX, Oct. 13-15.
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Andrew Logemann, assistant professor of English, presents his paper “Qualia and Mrs. Dalloway: The Neuroscientific Structure of Modernist Narrative” at the Modernist Studies Association, Buffalo, NY, Oct. 6-9.
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SEPTEMBER 2011
Bruce Herman, Lothlorien distinguished chair of fine arts, is featured in "Face to Face: Recent Work by Bruce Herman" at Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, Sept. 5-Oct. 20.
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Andrew Logemann, assistant professor of English, presents his paper, “‘The Irreparability of the Past’: Joyce and the Neuroscience of Memory,” at the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in Kitchener, Ontario, Sept. 22-25.
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Paul Brink, associate professor of political science, presents a paper entitled, “Charting the Path Not Taken: Pluralist Explorations in Early Modern Political Thought” at the American Political Science Association conference in Seattle, WA, Sept. 1-4.
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AUGUST 2011
Margie DeWeese-Boyd, associate professor of social work, presents her paper “Vermont vs. Wal-Mart: Creating Public Policy for Smarter Growth & Sustainable Development” at the Ecocity World Summit in Montreal, Aug. 22-26.
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Roger Green, professor of biblical studies, presents at the World Methodist Council Headquarters in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, Aug. 14-21.
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JULY 2011
Dale Pleticha, professor of physics, attends the annual summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Omaha, Nebraska, July 30-Aug. 3.
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JUNE 2011
Jennifer Hevelone-Harper, professor of history, at the sixth North American Syriac Symposium at Duke University, June 26-29.
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