Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department

Currently Accolades: Presented for November 6, 2023

by Currently November 2nd 2023

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  1. Scott Burns, Geology faculty emeritus, presented two talks on October 15 & 16 at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh.
  2. Heejun Chang, Geography Faculty and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, gave an invited seminar titled “Nature-Based Solutions for Enhancing Water-Related Ecosystem Services in Urban Areas” at Seoul National University's Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Seoul, South Korea.
  3. Heejun Chang, Geography Faculty and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, served as a panel presenter and discussant at a special session titled “Meet the Editors” at the 15th Korea-China-Japan Joint Conference on Geography in Seoul, South Korea. 
  4. Kai Hang Cheang, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty, presented “Queer Modernism in Kit Fan’s Diamond Hill; Or, What is Queer About Global Hong Kong Anglophone Novel Now” for the panel “Queer and Trans Worldmaking as Creative Resistance: Case Studies from Hong Kong” at the National Women's Studies Association Conference on Oct. 27 in Baltimore.
  5. Jon Holt, World Languages and Literature faculty, presented a paper titled “Happy for Divorce!: Anno Moyoco’s Go! Happy Mania and Life after Marriage in Shōjo Manga,” on Oct. 28 at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, in Portland, Oregon.
  6. Mary Morningstar, Education, will present “Expect, Engage, Empower: Successful Transitions for All,” on Nov. 9 at a webinar for CEEDAR, a national center for Special Education.
  7. DeLys Ostlund, associate dean for faculty and professional staff and World Languages & Literatures faculty, presented “Bending Gender in Lope de Vega's La prueba de los ingenios” on Oct. 26 at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference in Portland, Oregon.
  8. Jennifer R. Perlmutter, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper titled “Reimagining the Fairy Tale Princess in Amélie Nothomb’s The Book of Proper Names (2002)” on Oct. 26 at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference in Portland, Oregon.
  9. Jennifer R. Perlmutter, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented her translation and research on “Story of the Celibate Man” on Oct. 19 & 20 at the SE17 conference in Rochester, New York.
  10. Vicki L. Reitenauer, Women, Gender and Sexualities Studies faculty, and Rhiannon M. Cates, Special Collections & University Archives and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, co-presented the workshop “Amplify!: Co-creating a Journal of Writing-as-Activism” on Oct. 21 at the 2023 Imagining America National Gathering in Providence, Rhode Island. 
  11. Marta Stelmaszak Rosa, Business faculty, was invited to present her paper “Organizations as Digital Enactment Systems: A Theory of Replacement of Humans by Digital Technologies in Organizational Scanning, Interpretation, and Learning” on Sept. 27 by the UK Academy for Information Systems.
  12. Lalaine Sevillano, Taylor Geyton, Rebecca Davis, Social Work faculty, and Anne Dungalen, undergraduate student, co-presented “The cost of liberation: AAPIs Navigating the Complex Relationship Between Racism and Critical Consciousness” on Oct. 27 at the Annual Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Atlanta.
  13. Lalaine Sevillano, Social Work faculty, and Alma Trinidad, BSW Program Director and Chair, served on a panel titled “Using Kuwentos (Storytelling) as a Liberatory Tool to Cultivate Kapwa and Sense of Belonging” on Oct. 28 at the Annual Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Atlanta.
  14. Lalaine Sevillano, Social Work faculty, and Alma Trinidad, BSW Program Director and Chair, presented “Illuminating Social Work's Educationally Invisibilized: A Heterogenous Pilipino/x/a Case Study Session” on Oct. 29 at the Annual Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Atlanta.
  15. Lalaine Sevillano and Taylor Geyton, Social Work faculty, co-presented “I Can’t Even Hear My Own Voice: The Silence of Black Women in Anti Racist Social Work Education” at the Annual Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Atlanta.
  16. Cynthia A. Sloan, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented the paper “The Teaching of World Literature as a Shared and Collaborative Enterprise,” on Oct. 29 at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, Oregon. 
  17. Christof Teuscher, Engineering and Computer Science faculty, gave an invited keynote presentation on “Material and Physical Reservoir Computing for Beyond-CMOS Electronics” at the International Conference on Neuromorphic, Natural and Physical Computing, Oct. 25-27 in Hanover, Germany.
  18. Eva Thanheiser, Mathematics faculty, co-presented “Mathematizing Community Art Using Complementary Definitions of Mathematics” at the Research Conference for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Oct. 25-28 in Washington, DC.
  19. Yasin Tunc, Curriculum & Instruction faculty, gave a keynote speech titled “Rearticulating World Language Teaching beyond Activities, Methods, and Approaches: Grounding Teaching in Students’ Aesthetic Experiencing of Learning” at the 2023 Fall Conference of the Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching, Oct. 13-14 in Eugene, Oregon. 
  20. Inés Warnock, World Languages and Literatures, presented “Diversity of Representation in Spanish Language Textbooks: Reflecting the Richness of Cultures” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference on Oct. 29 in Portland, Oregon.
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