August 4, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.: Dean’s Forum, Foster Auditorium and via Media Site Live. Joe Salem, associate dean for Learning, Undergraduate Services and Commonwealth Campus Libraries, will present. Also, Anne Langely, associate dean for Research, Collections and Scholarly Communications will be introduced.
August 6, noon – 1 p.m.: Travel Research Award presentation by Angelique Szymanek, from SUNY Binghamton, Mann Assembly Room. Szymanek will highlight her research using the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection. Her dissertation, “Representations of Rape in Visual Culture,” focuses on the relationship between feminist art production and the anti-rape movement in the U.S. throughout the 1970s.
August 14, August 14, 2:00-3:30 p.m.: From Roman Centurions to Academic Researchers: Integrating Traditional Scientific Knowledge of Bordeaux Wines, Foster Auditorium and MediaSite Live. Learn how vintners and scientists have worked with the wine industry to maintain and improve the quality of the Bordeaux wines, in this presentation by Serge Delrot, University of Bordeaux professor of plant physiology and French National Institute for Agronomical Research director. This seminar is organized by the Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge and the University Libraries. Full story next week.
August 26, noon – 1 p.m.: Travel Research Award presentation by Albert M. Petska Eighth Air Force Archives winner David Cain, of the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library and the University of East Anglia, England, Mann Assembly Room. Cain will highlight his research on the social interaction of the 8th USAAF with local people in the East of England between 1942 – 1945.
August 27, noon – 1 p.m.: Travel Research Award presentations by Helen F. Faust Women Writers award winner Amanda Stuckey, from the College of William & Mary, and Dorothy Foehr Huck award winner Bob Hodges, of the University of Washington, Mann Assembly Room. Stuckey will talk about her research on bodily behavior in the nineteenth-century boy book. Hodges will talk about his use of the library’s collection of 19th and 20th century utopian literature for his dissertation “Figurations of Modernity in Antebellum U. S. Romances.”