KUDOS
Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, professor of humanities and western civilization, presented the American Folklore Society’s 2007 Don Yoder Lecture in Religious Folklife during its annual meeting Oct. 18 in Quebec. Her lecture was titled “Perceiving the Sacred: Visionaries, Hagiographers and Portrayals of Religious Experience.”
David Perlmutter, associate dean of graduate studies and research at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, attended a photo ethics conference sponsored by National Chengchi University and the TVBS Hong Kong and Taiwan television network on Oct. 22. Perlmutter gave a keynote speech on the challenges of “fauxtography” to photojournalism.
John Edgar Tidwell, professor of English, gave a presentation at the Langston Hughes Symposium on Oct. 26 at the City College of New York titled “Sterling A. Brown, Langston Hughes and the Cult of Unintelligibility.”
Kellie Harmon, university ombuds, attended two professional development workshops Oct. 15-19 in Philadelphia. The workshops, offered by the International Ombudsman Association, included “The Intermediate Workshop: Skills for the Experienced Ombudsman” and “Drawing from Psychology: Theories of Solution Focused/Problem Solving Therapies.”
Albert W. Burgstahler, professor emeritus of chemistry and editor of the journal Fluoride, spoke on fluoride and Down syndrome at the 27th conference of the International Society for Fluoride Research Oct. 9-12 in Beijing, China. He also gave seminars on other aspects of his fluoride research at Shanxi Agricultural University in Taigu and at the China Agricultural University in Beijing. Burgstahler lectured on Shakespeare authorship Oct. 8 at the Shanxi Agricultural University and gave invited seminars on his Shakespeare research to the English departments at Beijing Normal University, the University of Shanghai and Fudan University in Shanghai on Oct. 16, 20 and 24, respectively.
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