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Panelists discuss human trafficking and violence against women, today at 6 p.m.
Women's History month continues on March 30 with a training session and panel discussion on issues surrounding human trafficking, which is a relevant issue right here in Western New York. Among the featured speakers will be Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis, an expert in women's violence issues from Pepperdine University.
Immigrant and low-income women's expert to speak
Dr. AnahÍ Viladrich Fredonia's Women’s Study Program will host Dr. AnahÍ Viladrich, a medical anthropologist and sociologist from Hunter College, who will speak about low-income...
Study tests effectiveness of podcasts vs. lectures
Dani McKinney, right, together with fellow Psychology professor Jennifer Dyck and student Elise Luber, ’08, conducted a study which investigated the effectiveness of podcast lectures compared to their live lecture counterparts. The results have surprised some, and have people talking about what it could mean to the future of teaching and learning.
Berger VanWesenbeeck wins summer fellowship
Birger Vanwesenbeeck (English) has been awarded a Summer Research Fellowship from the Northeast Modern Language Association. He will receive the award during a formal ceremony at the NeMLA conference in Boston at the end of February. The monetary award of $1,000 will allow him to do research at the Paul de Man Archives at the University of California at Irvine for an article-in-progress (tentatively) entitled "Faust in the Fifties: Gaddis, de Man, and Fielder."
Theatre talent helps bring back forgotten Mark Twain comedy
For more than 100 years, a Mark Twain script lay forgotten in a file drawer at a university library in California. Today it has come...
International Brown Bag featuring Japan and Belize this month
SUNY Fredonia has announced a series of five presentations starting Monday, Feb. 2, designed to share the teaching and research experiences of Fredonia faculty members who have recently traveled abroad. Dr. Cheryl Drout opens the series with a talk on Japan.
William Graebner's new book examines Patty Hearst case
William Graebner (History, emeritus) just published (October 15) a book, Patty's Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). The book has been discussed or reviewed in the Atlantic Monthly, the Economist, and Newsday. It is the first substantial reconsideration of Patty Hearst’s story in more than twenty-five years, William Graebner vividly re-creates the atmosphere of uncertainty and frustration of mid-1970s America.
U.S. Presidential Election 2008
David Rankin quot;>Analysis of 2004 presidential election. David Rankin, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Political Science He co-authored the book, “Winning the White House, 2004: Region by Region, Vote by Vote,” and is currently working on “Winning the White House, 2008,” for publication with Palgrave Macmillan (New York: 2009). Dr. Rankin's electoral analysis and commentary, election-related community events such as presidential "Debate Watch," and his election year courses, American Politics: Election 2000 and American Politics: Election 2004, have been featured in print and broadcast media coverage. He is available for telephone and in-person interviews.