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News Archives Judith A. Barnes Honored by Leadership Award and a Named Fellowship, Russell Sage College - 12.05.2005 LL&C M.S. and Ph.D. alumnus Judith A. Barnes '84 was recently honored by Russell Sage College (her undergraduate alma mater) with the Crockett Medal, the highest recognition bestowed by that college's Alumnae Association. In recognition of Judy Barnes' many contributions (the breadth and scope of her volunteer and professional activities; dedicated member of non-profit boards contributing to the quality of life in the Capital Region of New York; principal of her own strategic marketing and communications firm [J.A. Barnes & Company]; founding officer of a revolutionary high technology company [MTI MicroFuel Cells, a subsidiary of Mechanical Technology]; adjunct professor at Rensselaer in the Lally School of Management and Technology; and emerging filmmaker) the Board of Trustees of The Sage Colleges was honored to present her with the 2005 Community Leadership Award in October. Sage's President Jeannie Neff also announced the establishment of the Judith A. Barnes, Ph.D., Faculty Fellowship in Communications, supported by endowment gifts in her honor.
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Patricia Search Receives Creative Achievement Award - 11.29.2005 LL&C Prof. Patricia Search was recently awarded the Creative Achievement Award by the International Visual Literacy Association at the organization's annual conference. She is only the fourth person to receive this award which acknowledges creative work that substantially furthers the cause of visual literacy and significantly advances the creative field through such factors as innovation, conceptual breakthrough, excellence of design and execution, and technical achievement.
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Ekaterina Haskins Presented Paper: The Politics of Memory in Post-Communist Russia - 11.17.2005 LL&C Assistant Prof. Ekaterina Haskins presented a paper entitled "The Politics of Memory in Post-Communist Russia" at an interdisciplinary conference, Contesting Public Memories, held at Syracuse University October 6-8, 2005.
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Patricia Search Participates in Art Exhibition: New Concepts in HCI and Interaction Design - 11.17.2005 LL&C Prof. Patricia Search had a solo art exhibition in October 2005 at the International Visual Literacy Association Conference and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Conference in Orlando, Florida. The art exhibition explored new concepts in HCI and interaction design. Prof. Search presented her research in HCI and interaction design in a paper titled "The Spatial Grammar of Interaction Design" at the International Visual Literacy Association Conference.
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Tamar Gordon a Featured Speaker at SEAMO-SPAFA Conference on Culture and Development - 11.17.2005 LL&C Associate Prof. Tamar Gordon will be a featured speaker at the SEAMO-SPAFA (South East Asian Ministers of Education Organization - Regional Center for Archaeology and Fine Arts) 2nd International Conference on Culture and Development, "Celebrating Diversity, Achieving Equity" (Bangkok, Thailand), November 28-30, 2005. The Conference will feature a Director's screening and discussion of her documentary film Global Villages. She will also will deliver a separate paper, "Whose Development? Cultural Management and Globalized Economy in China's Ethnic Theme Parks".
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Tamar Gordon an Invited Speaker at Conference on Rhetoric Culture in Mainz, Germany - 11.17.2005 LL&C Associate Prof. Tamar Gordon is an invited speaker at the conference on Rhetoric Culture (Mainz, Germany), February 13-17, where she delivered a paper entitled "The Cultural Rhetoric of Proselytic Media."
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Tamar Gordon an Invited Speaker at Conference: On Voyage -- New Directions in Tourism Theory - 11.17.2005 LL&C Associate Prof. Tamar Gordon was an invited speaker at the conference On Voyage: New Directions in Tourism Theory (UC Berkeley), October 7-9, 2005, where an evening was devoted to a director's screening and discussion of her documentary film Global Villages. She also delivered a separate paper, "The Incidental Tourist: Creating and Disciplining Religious Subjects at the Polynesian Cultural Center".
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Tamar Gordon Edited a Special Issue of Journal Material Religion - 11.17.2005 LL&C Associate Prof. Tamar Gordon edited a special issue of the journal Material Religion 1(3), "Visual Cultures of Pentecostalism" (in print Nov. 2005) entitled "Introduction: The Visual Cultures of Pentecostalism." Gordon, T. and Mary Hancock, "The Crusade is the Vision: Branding Charisma in a Global Pentecostal Ministry".
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David Seelow Publishes Two Articles in Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature - 11.03.2005 LL&C Adjunct Lecturer David Seelow has published two articles. "D.H. Lawrence, Controversial Modern Novelist and Poet" and "Sigmund Freud, Founder of Psychoanalyis" appear in the just-published Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Nov. 2005, Oxford University Press.
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James Watt Appointed to National Advisory Board for Emergency Medical Research, Albany Medical Center - 10.28.2005 LL&C Prof. James Watt, Director of the Rensselaer Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory, has been appointed to National Advisory Board for the Project on Empirical Models for Community Notification and Consultation in Emergency Research of the Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical Center. The project conducts research in defining effective communication methods to inform and involve communities in medical research that poses ethical issues, such as the enrollment in research studies of unconscious trauma victims. The project recently completed a community awareness and attitude survey in the Capital Region in conjunction with a major clinical trial of a blood substitute for immediate treatment of victims in shock.
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James P. Zappen To Present on Collaborative Communication Practices - 10.24.2005 LL&C Associate Prof. James P. Zappen is scheduled to do a presentation on "Collaborative Communication Practices for Community Technology Projects". The presentation, by invitation, will be held at the Department of English, Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA), on Thursday, November 10, 2005, 12:30-2:00 pm. For more information, check out: Collaborative Communication Practices for Community Technology Projects
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David Seelow Has Book Recommended by CHOICE Journal - 09.30.2005 LL&C Adjunct Lecturer David Seelow's book Radical Modernism and Sexuality: Freud/Reich/D.H. Lawrence & Beyond, published last January by Palgrave Macmillan, was recommended by CHOICE in its September edition. CHOICE is the journal for librarians in higher education. Reviews are scheduled within the next couple months for consideration also by The Journal of the History of Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (a U.K. based journal).
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Katherine Isbister and James Watt Named Co-Principal Investigators on Motion Capture, Animation, and VR Grant - 08.30.2005 LL&C Associate Prof. Katherine Isbister and LL&C Prof. James Watt are co-Principal Investigators on the recently funded grant "Acquisition of System for Multi-Site Networked Motion Capture and Visually Immersive Laboratory for Social and Behavioral Research". The grant was funded by the Major Research Instrumentation program of the National Science Foundation. It will fund the installation of a 16-camera motion capture, real-time animation, and high-resolution VR display in the Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory (SBRL). The equipment will support projects proposed by 12 faculty in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and School of Science. The initial projects will investigate kinesics and social computing, distance group collaboration, games research, and social robotics.
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Katherine Isbister Delivers Talk at International Game Developers Association - 08.30.2005 LL&C Associate Prof. Katherine Isbister recently presented her research at the local chapter of the International Game Developers Association's monthly meeting. The talk was entitled "Better Game Characters by Design: A Psychological Approach".
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Katya Haskins: Honorary Member of Editorial Board of New Antigone Journal - 08.30.2005 Assistant Prof. Katya Haskins has been invited to become an Honorary Member of the Editorial Board of the journal New Antigone (ISSN: 1832-7680). The journal is a new fully refereed and double-blind peer-reviewed quarterly journal that promotes postgraduate women's research in literature, arts, history, sciences, anthropology, gender studies, linguistics and many other domains without being exclusively for and about women and postgraduates. For more information on the journal, visit: www.newantigone.com
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LL&C Professors Receive Planning Grant from the STC - 08.30.2005 LL&C Chair and Prof. Cheryl Geisler, along with Associate Prof. Audrey Bennett, Clinical Associate Prof. Roger Grice, Assistant Prof. Katherine Isbister, Prof. Robert Krull, Prof. Patricia Search, Prof. James Watt and Prof. James Zappen, received a planning grant from the Society for Technical Communication (STC) for a project on "Usable Content in a Post-Document World".
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Audrey Bennett a Reviewer for Conference on Designing for User eXperience - 08.08.2005 LL&C Associate Prof. Audrey Bennett served as a reviewer for the Conference on Designing for User eXperience (DUX 2005) to be held in Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, November 3-5, 2005. The conference is co-sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, and the AIGA.
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Cheryl Geisler Delivered Workshop at Institute of Rhetoric Society of America - 08.08.2005 LL&C Prof. and Chair Cheryl Geisler organized and led a two-day workshop for scholars across the country on "A Rhetoricians Guide to Discourse Analysis" at the Institute of the Rhetoric Society of America in Kent, Ohio.
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Ekaterina Haskins Publishes in the Journal of Communication Inquiry - 08.08.2005 LL&C Assistant Prof. Ekaterina Haskins published "Metonymy and the Metropolis: Television Show Settings and the Image of New York City" with William Sadler as the lead article in the July 2005 issue of the Journal of Communication Inquiry (29:3, pp. 195-216). Haskins also presented "Plato and Isocrates on Athenian Democracy and its Genres" at the International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference in Los Angeles, July 13-17, 2005.
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James P. Zappen Presents at Conference Held at Penn State University - 08.08.2005 LL&C Associate Prof. James P. Zappen delivered "Kenneth Burke and Mikhail M. Bakhtin on Form, Genre, and Social Collaboration," at the 19th Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition and at the 6th Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, Pennsylvania State University, July 2005.
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