吃瓜爆料

 

Awards

Michael Lomaestro Jr., groundskeeper, is a member of the Out of Control Band, which was inducted into the in an Aug. 11 ceremony at the Saratoga City Tavern. The event was hosted by veteran bluesman Michael Packer with emcee Steve Daub of WRPI radio. The ceremony featured short sets from inducted performers.

Activities

David Karp, associate dean of student affairs and professor of sociology, was a co-presenter (with Duke Fisher) of restorative justice trainings offered at Cornell, Stanford, and Carleton College this summer.

Viviana Rangil, associate professor of Spanish, was the guest speaker at the May 29 鈥淭own and Gown Movie Night鈥� sponsored by the Saratoga Film Forum. She introduced the 鈥淭he Holy Girl (La Nina Santa),鈥� Lucrecia Martel鈥檚 2004 drama about a young girl鈥檚 coming of age and a flirtatious doctor鈥檚 comeuppance in a provincial Argentine hotel. Town and Gown programs give 吃瓜爆料 scholars and artists a public form to curate, screen, and discuss a movie that has influenced their work. The evenings are supported by Saratoga Arts and 吃瓜爆料.

Publications, Exhibitions
& Performances

April Bernard, associate professor of English, is the author of "鈥� (June 5, 2013) and 鈥溾�� (Aug. 11, 2013), both published in nybooks.com, the blog of The New York Review of Books.

Regis Brodie and David Miller, professors emeriti of art and longtime artistic colleagues, are teaming up again for 鈥淏alancing Act: New Works,鈥� opening Sept. 20 at the 1475 Western Ave. (Stuyvesant Plaza), Albany. The show celebrates 鈥渢he deliberate and distinguished careers of two area masters.鈥� An opening reception is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 20; the show runs through Oct. 3.

Victor Cahn, professor of English, is the author of 鈥淎 Dish for the Gods,鈥� a play that opened Sept. 14 at the Lion Theatre in New York City, and runs through Oct. 5.

Two faculty members have published new books. David Karp, associate dean of student affairs and professor of sociology, is author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges and Universities (2013), published by Good Books. The book offers three models of campus practice, considerations when starting a campus program, and how to include restorative justice in the Student Honor Code. Read more at the publisher鈥檚

Flagg Taylor, assistant professor of government, is coauthor of The Contested Removal Power, 1789-2010 (2013, University Press of Kansas), which recounts the removal power debate from the founding of the United States until present day. Read more .

Steven Millhauser, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters, is the author of 鈥淭hirteen Wives,鈥� published May 27 in

Jay Rogoff, visiting assistant professor of English, has published his poem, 鈥淎 Mess of Shadows for Their Meat,鈥� in the current online edition of American Arts Quarterly (Spring 2013).

In the News

Rub茅n Graciani, associate professor of dance, was the subject of a feature story June 5 in the Albany Times Union titled

Chuck Joseph, professor emeritus, Department of Music, was a guest May 26 on program, where he discussed Igor Stravinsky鈥檚 The Rite of Spring prior to a performance of the piece by the Five Browns at Arthur Zankel Music Center.

A discussion of 鈥淢useum,鈥� a poem by Jay Rogoff, visiting assistant professor of English, is featured in Rachel Hadas鈥檚 鈥淔reelance鈥� piece on poetry and attention, in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), no. 5748 (31 May 2013). The poem appears in his most recent collection, The Art of Gravity (LSU Press, 2011).

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