Olivia DrakeLisa Dierker, chair and professor of psychology, and Jennifer Rose, research associate professor of psychology, are the co-recipients of a $97,936 grant from the University of Illinois, through the National Cancer Institute. The award will support their research titled "Social Emotional Contexts of Adolescent Smoking Patterns" through July 2011.
Eric GershonIn 1786 the American Philosophical Society published a volume of essays and commentaries by its members on natural curiosities: a partridge with two hearts, a horse with a worm in its eye, a slave girl with mottled skin. More than 220 years later, Professor of Art Jeffrey Schiff has transformed these Enlightenment-era accounts into a series of 16 artworks now on display at Wesleyan’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery “Double Vision: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,” runs through Sun., Feb. 27, with a panel discussion scheduled for Feb. 22 at the gallery. “The troubles we continue to have with…
On Dec. 13, 2010, the Center for the Arts received a grant worth $9,250 from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism (CCCT) to support the Green Street Art Center's After School Program in 2011-12.
The Green Street Arts Center received a $2,500 grant from the Middlesex County Community Foundation on Dec. 28. The award will support the "Arts in the Communities" project through June 30, 2011. "Arts In Our Communities" is a collaborative program which aims to increase the number of people engaging in arts activities, as both participants and audience members. The program’s objective is to provide the tools of critical thinking and civic engagement while injecting a powerful stream of creativity into the local communities, thus reinvigorating people’s drive to work, think and create together. Arts In Our Communities intends to bring a…
The Green Street Arts Center received an award for $5,000 from Bank of America on Dec. 16. The one-year grant will fund Green Street’s Afterschool Program.
Scott Higgins, associate professor of film studies, edited the book, Arnheim for Film and Media Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, 2010. Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a pioneering figure in film studies, best known for his landmark book on silent cinema Film as Art. He ultimately became more famous as a scholar in the fields of art and art history, largely abandoning his theoretical work on cinema. However, his later aesthetic theories on form, perception and emotion should play an important role in contemporary film and media studies. In this new volume, edited by Higgins, an international group of leading…
Katherine Kuenzli, associate professor of art history, is the author of The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at the Fin-de-Siecle, published by Ashgate, 2010. According to the publisher,"this is the first book to provide an in-depth account of the Nabis' practice of the decorative, and its significance for 20th-century modernism." "Over the course of the 10 years that define the Nabi movement (1890–1900), its principal artists included Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Sérusier, and Paul Ranson. The author reconstructs the Nabis' relationship to Impressionism, mass culture, literary Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Wagnerianism, and a revolutionary artistic tradition in…
Mark Slobin, professor of music, is the author of Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press, 2010. According to the publisher, "This is the first compact introduction to folk music that offers a truly global perspective. Slobin offers an extraordinarily generous portrait of folk music, one that embraces a Russian wedding near the Arctic Circle, a group song in a small rainforest village in Brazil, and an Uzbek dance tune in Afghanistan. He looks in detail at three poignant songs from three widely separated regions--northern Afghanistan, Jewish Eastern Europe, and the Anglo-American world--with musical notation and lyrics included.…
Associate Professor Gina Ulysse is the author of “Rising From the Dust of Goudougoudou,” published in the Winter 2011 edition of MS Magazine. The world has watched Haiti’s most vulnerable women survive quake, flood, cholera and homelessness in the last year— yet those women still feel invisible. “A year after the quake, I can look at Haiti and only see doom. More public-health crises are inevitably on the way. NGOs remain a parallel state system that negates local authority and workers. There is still no concrete plan to permanently house the homeless,” she writes in the article. Ulysse is associate professor…
David PesciAndy Szegedy-Maszak, Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek, professor of classical studies, joined the guests on a recent episode of WNPR’s Colin McEnroe Show to discuss narcissism in our society. The show was inspired by an article in The New Yorker by New York Times columnist David Brooks, who also joins the show.
A discussion with Jeffrey Schiff, professor of art, on his new art installation, “Double Vision: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,” was recently featured on WNPR’s 'Where We Live.' “Double Vision” is on view in Wesleyan's Zilkha Gallery through Sunday, Feb. 27. Schiff speaks about his exhibit, inspired by the writings of the American Philosophical Society -a group which included Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and other early American luminaries.
David LowAlberto Ibarguen ’66, CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has joined the board of directors of AOL, according to The Associated Press. He will serve on the board’s audit and finance committee. Ibarguen replaces William Hambrecht. The company is currently realigning itself as an online news source, and Ibarguen, former publisher of The Miami Herald, provides a valuable addition to the board. The Knight Foundation supports journalism training programs and many digital news delivery experiments. Ibarguen also serves on the board of ProPublica, an independent nonprofit organization that focuses on producing investigative journalism in the public interest.