All members of the faculty and administration are invited to attend this year’s
commencement events:

Sun. May 19 Baccalaureate
4:00 p.m. St. Paul’s Chapel,

Tues. May 21 Presentation of
2:30 p.m. BC Candidates Lehman Lawn (Assemble at 2:00 in the lst floor corridor of Barnard Hall)

Wed. May 22 Columbia University
10:30 a.m. Commencement

*** Academic Bulletin Board ***

Mon., May 20, 4:15-6:00 p.m.

Phi Beta Kappa Initiation

James Room

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The Gladys Brooks Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award:

Elizabeth Castelli, Religion

Shawn-Marie Garrett, Theater

Barnard Excellence in Teaching Award :

Philip Ammirato, Biological Sciences

Richard Gustafson, Slavic

Academic Integrity :

Shawn-Marie Garrett, Assistant Professor of Theater, had a conversation with Gale Gates et. al. Artistic Director, Michael Counts, about the state of contemporary New York theater , aired on WKCR 88.9FM on April 26, 2002.

David Goldfarb, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages, gave a lecture as part of the Faculty Research in Progress Series at the Harriman Institute, "Fircyk: The Cultural Semiotics of the Overdressed Pole" on April 24, 2002. Also, Goldfarb gave two papers in England, "Witkacy’s Tropic Discourse: From Petersburg to Australia and Rangoon" at the British-French Association for the Study of Russian Culture at Surrey University, Guildford, U.K. and "The beautiful sovereign of five million slaves: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Catherine the Great" for the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies conference, Cambridge University, U.K., April 2-10, 2002.

Terri Gordon, Lecturer of French, presented a paper, "Le jazz-hot: Cabaret in Paris in the Roaring Twenties" and co-chaired a panel, "Jazz in Paris: Reception and Influence of Jazz in French Culture" at the International Colloquium in 20th/21st Century French Studies at the University of Connecticut, April 5-7, 2002.

Erk Grimm, Assistant Professor of German, gave a paper, "Forgetting the Future and Digging in the Present: The Archive as a Motif in Contemporary German Literature" at the 33^rd annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, in Toronto, Canada, April 11-14, 2002. He also organized and moderated the panel session "Homeward Bound? Patterns of Migration to and from Germany." His article, "The Disappearance of Fury: H.M. Enzensberger’s Diplomatic Poetry of the 1990s" appeared in "German Poetry After the Wall," a special issue of The Germanic Review, 77.1 (2002): 7-33.

Jack Hawley, Professor of Religion, has written an essay called, "Sacred Journeys" for the Viewer’s Guide this is produced in conjunction with the PBS program, "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly," March 2002, pp 4-7. Several contributions to that Guide, including his, relate to the destruction of the World Trade Center and its aftermath. He spoke on "God’s Vacation" to the University Seminar on Religion in America on March 25, 2002 and presented a paper entitled, "Love Lost, Love Crossed, and the Damage of Separation" to an international conference on "Eros and the Religious Imagination" at New York University on April 19-21, 2002.

Keith Moxey, Professor of Art History, gave the keynote address, "Disciplines of the Visual," at "Theorems of Power: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Sovereignty and Visuality" held at NYU, April 13, 2002.

Peter Platt, Assistant Professor of English, delivered a paper, "Staging ‘the Wondrer’: Shakespeare’s Cabinet of Curiosities and the Paradoxes of Playing, " at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, April 11, 2002.

Nan Rothschild, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, co-authored two papers "Seneca Village: Racial and Social Space," and "The Seneca Village Project: Working With Modern Communities in Creating the Past" for the Society for American Archaeology’s Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, March 20-24, 2002. She gave a lecture "San Jose de las Huertas, a 19^th Century Buffer Site" at the Hispanic Society of New Mexico, February 22, 2002. She also participated in a panel discussion "Buried Treasure? Archaeology in New York City" at the New-York Historical Society on February 28. She published a review, "The Historical Archaeology of Buenos Aires, A City at the End of the World" in the Journal of Archaeological Research, vol 57, Summer 2001.

Rosalind Rosenberg, Professor of History, was a commentator on the panel, "Social Theory and Historiography in Post-war America: A Biographical Approach" at the conference of "Organization of American Historians, " Washington D.C., April 12-14, 2002.

Sue Riemer Sacks, Professor of Educaton, organized and moderated the panel "Engaging Youth: Model Programs and Innovative Directions" for the conference, "Balancing the Equation for Women and Girls in Science," which was sponsored by the National Council for Research on Women and held at Barnard on February 7, 2002. She presented a paper, "Urban Hurdles and Challenges: Striving for the Children," on the panel, "High Stakes Assessment, New Prescriptions for Practice, and Teacher Education at Liberal Arts Institutions" at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New Orleans , April 4, 2002. She also coordinated two events at Barnard, the 50th Anniversary celebration for the Barnard Education Program on April 19 and 20 and the "Teachers as Heroes: 9/11 and Beyond," Recognition Day for the Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education on May 3, 2002.