- Newsworthy: Creative/Research Forum - Wednesday, February 11 - 2:00 pm - 3104 Haley Center
- Bert Hitchcock Presented at "Reading Today's Southern Writers"
- Coordinator of World Literature
- EGO Meeting - Today - 3:00 pm - North Eagle's Nest
- Great Flicks - Tonight - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
- Amanda Vaughan to Present Women's Studies Lecture - Thursday, February 5 - 12:30 pm - 208 Foy Union
- Symposium Committee Needs Suggestions for 2004-05 Activities by Monday, February 9
- Nominations Now Being Accepted for Women's Leadership Institute
- CDRR and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs to Sponsor Forum - Friday, February 13 - 7:00 pm - Foy Union Ballroom
- CLA PETL Panel Discussion - Thursday, February 19 - 3:30 pm - 202 Thach Hall
- Submissions for the Robert Hughes Mount, Jr. Poetry Prize Due by Monday, March 1
- OIT Department Announces Teaching with Technology Day - Tuesday, March 16
Creative/Research
Forum - Wednesday, February 11 - 2:00 pm - 3104 Haley Center
The Creative/Research Forum scheduled for Wednesday, February
11 will feature English faculty members Chris Forhan, Keith Gibson, and
Cedrick
May.
Their presentations, described below, will start at 2:00 pm
in 3104 Haley Center.
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Chris Forhan: The Actual Moon, The Actual StarsChris Forhan, who specializes in poetry, will be reading from his most recent book, The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars (Northeastern UP, 2003), plus selections from his more recent work. He also plans to talk about a change occurring in his work recently and the reasons for—and challenges of—writing in a more disjunctive, elliptical, and associative style than in his earlier work. The poetry that Forhan will read from in the forum will illustrate this stylistic shift, and he will discuss questions that this change of style has brought to his mind that are applicable to the work of most creative writers: How might a change of style lead to a change of subject? How can one distinguish between meaningful mystery and needless obscurity? What might a poem be able to say by keeping something unsaid—by employing noticeable gaps, lacunae? |
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Keith Gibson: Scientific Revolutions in the 21st CenturyKeith Gibson's research traces the arguments that have shaped artificial intelligence research since 1950. Thomas Kuhn's work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, originally published in 1962, relied on the examination of paradigm shifts that were as many as 400 years old. Gibson's book-length project brings Kuhn's historical perspectives to bear on an ongoing scientific argument, one that has features that are strikingly different than those in the 16th and 17th centuries. Gibson examines elements such as the changing nature of the scientific community, the shifting roles of academic and entrepreneurial research, and the influence of governmental agendas. His work, though still in progress, is shaping up to lend support to many of Kuhn's general principles, while also suggesting some new data on the progress of scientific knowledge. |
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Cedrick May: "Enthusiasm" or Religious EmotionalismCedrick May's presentation is a study of "enthusiasm," or religious emotionalism, as a racial and class marker in 18th century British and British North American society. During the 17th and 18th centuries, British and American authorities viewed religious emotionalism as a potential threat to religion and government. Black evangelical writers like John Marrant, Prince Hall, Richard Allen, and David Walker, however, would clarify and redeem the role of "enthusiasm" in North American evangelism, particularly among African-descended peoples and poor whites. May will discuss their recognition of the social and political importance of emotionalism as a unifying feature of evangelical Christianity among the North American under classes like free blacks, slaves, and poor whites. |
Bert Hitchcock Presented at
"Reading Today's Southern Writers"
On January 22, Bert Hitchcock was one of 14 invited scholars
from the US and Europe to give presentations at the "Reading
Today's Southern Writers" lecture series at the University
of
South
Carolina Beaufort.
The book Hitchcock discussed, Almost Family by Roy Hoffman, focuses on the relations of a Jewish family and an African-American family during the Civil Rights Movement years in a Deep South city.
Coordinator of World Literature
The English Department is pleased to announce that Alex Dunlop
has agreed to serve as Coordinator of World Literature beginning in Fall
2004.
EGO Meeting - Today - 3:00 pm - North Eagle's Nest
Today's EGO meeting will discuss graduate insurance plans, tuition
waivers, tuition cut problems, spring elections, and more. Snacks will
be provided.
Great Flicks - Tonight - 7:30 pm - 1203
Haley Center
Sense and Sensibility (Lee, 1995)
The director of The Hulk and Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon turns his attention to another story of powerfully repressed
emotion. Emma Thompson not only leads the talented cast in this adaptation
of the Jane Austen novel, but she also wrote the screenplay.
View the Great Flicks Spring Schedule.
Amanda Vaughan to Present Women's Studies Lecture - Thursday,
February 5 - 12:30 pm - 208 Foy Union
The Auburn University Women's Studies Program will present a
lecture by Amanda Vaughan, the founder and first president of the Leading
Edge Institute, a statewide leadership development group for young women
in colleges across the state. Vaughan will speak on "The (Non) Politics
of Poor White Women in Alabama."
The discussion is open to the public and will take place Thursday, February 5 at 12:30 pm in 208 Foy Union. For more information, email Mary Kuntz.
Symposium Committee Needs Suggestions for 2004-05 Activities
by Monday, February 9
The Symposium Committee is starting to plan the 2004–05 activities.
Please send suggestions for guest speakers and ideas for symposium
formats to one of the committee members—Betsy
Smith, Alicia
Carroll, Bert Hitchcock, Penny
Ingram, Shea Stuart, or
James Truman—by Monday, February 9.
Nominations Now Being Accepted for Women's Leadership Institute
Nominations are now being accepted for the Women's Leadership
Institute, which will take place May 17–22. Please email
the names and email addresses of up to three outstanding women (graduate
or undergraduate students). View
more information.
CDRR and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural
Affairs to Sponsor Forum - Friday, February 13 - 7:00 pm - Foy Union
Ballroom
The Center for Diversity and Race Relations (CDRR)
and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs will present "The
Future of the Race - The Du Bois and Washington Discussion in the 21st Century," an
analysis of issues that affect the future of blacks in Alabama and the nation,
on Friday, February 13 at 7:00 in the Foy Union Ballroom. A reception
will be held at 6:00. The event is free and open to the public.
The forum will feature Dr. Cornel West, Dr. John Sibley Butler, and Ms. Cynthia Tucker. Read more information. For more information about Black History events, visit the CDRR website.
CLA PETL Panel Discussion - Thursday, February 19 - 3:30 pm
- 202 Thach Hall
The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Promotion of Excellence in
Teaching and Learning (PETL) will present a panel discussion on Auburn
University's Academic Honesty Policy on Thursday, February 19 at 3:30
pm in 202 Thach Hall. The coordinator will be Dr. Kelly Jolley, Philosophy.
A small panel of CLA faculty will briefly discuss their experiences with the University's Academic Honesty Policy and field questions from the audience regarding how to deal with specific issues and concerns related to violations of the policy.
If you have questions or comments, please email Bill Buskist.
Submissions for the Robert Hughes Mount, Jr. Poetry Prize
Due by Monday, March 1
The English Department is pleased to announce its annual Robert
Hughes Mount, Jr. Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Academy of American
Poets, and endowed by Mrs. Frances Mayes, offering a $100 prize for
the best poem submitted by an Auburn University student. Past judges
of the Mount Poetry Prize have included poets Susan S. Chambers, Davis
McCombs, and Katherine Soniat.
Graduate or undergraduate students may submit up to three poems to Jeremy Downes' mailbox in 9030 Haley Center. The contest deadline is Monday, March 1.
Submission Guidelines:
| • | cover sheet with contact information (no identification on poems) |
| • | three poems maximum |
| • | no electronic submissions |
The prizewinner will be announced at the English Department's annual Benson Lecture on Thursday, April 15. If you have questions about Auburn's contest, please email Poetry Prize Coordinator Jeremy Downes, or call him at 844-9040.
The Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize Program was founded in 1955 with only ten schools but now awards more than 170 prizes across the country. Many prominent American poets won their first recognition with an Academy College Prize, including Diane Ackerman, Mark Doty, Tess Gallagher, Louise Glück, Joy Harjo, Robert Haas, Li-Young Lee, Heather McHugh, William Matthews, Robert Pinsky, Sylvia Plath, George Starbuck, Mark Strand, and Charles Wright.
Prizes are funded by alumni interested in encouraging young writers, by the colleges and universities themselves, or through the gifts of donors to the Academy. Two-thirds of the prizes are now, like Auburn's, supported by permanent endowments. The Academy of American Poets is the largest organization in the country dedicated specifically to poetry. The academy sponsors a broad range of national programs, including the prestigious Whitman, Laughlin, and Marshall Awards, as well as National Poetry Month in April, an annual celebration of the vitality and richness of American Poetry. For more comprehensive information, visit the Academy's website.
OIT Department Announces Teaching with Technology
Day - Tuesday, March 16
The Education Technology Services Department within the Office
of Information Technology (OIT) and the AU Library will be sponsoring
a Teaching with Technology Day on Tuesday, March 16 from 9:00 am to 4:00
pm in the AU Library. Faculty members will have the opportunity to share
their special methods of enhancing the learning experience of their students
and to present their accomplishments in a context that will encourage
face-to-face discussion with their colleagues.
The informal presentations may be in the form of a computer lab presentation or poster board presentation with or without the use of a computer. Faculty who need a wireless laptop will be able to check one out from the AU Library. All poster board presentations will be located on the first floor hallway of the AU Library just outside of the computer lab.
Faculty members wishing to participate in the Teaching with Technology Day are requested to submit a brief description of their proposed presentation by email to Terry Daughtrey. Please include the name and number of the course and summary information about the use of the technology in the course.
Tables, poster board backing material, folding chairs, wireless computers, and a computer lab will be provided to the presenter. Also, a color printer for creating large posters can be used at the AU Library for the purpose of the presentation at no cost. If you have questions, please email Terry Daughtrey or call him at 844-9939, or email Harmon Straiton or call him at 844-1760.
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