Achievements

Ryan Hazen, Stephanie Osborne, and Zachary Weaver

English

Ryan Hazen, Stephanie Osborne, and Zachary Weaver are the recipients of the English Scholarship for 2018.

Prof. J. W. Powell

Philosophy

Prof. J. W. Powell, Philosophy, will deliver an invited presentation to the North American Wittgenstein Society (NAWS) and the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association on March 28, 2018. The title is “Locke and Heraclitus on Whether Language Is Based on Convention.”

Locke says yes, “else there would be but one language amongst all humans.” Heraclitus says no, roughly because what makes sense for one must make sense for all. There is of course more to the story.

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Dr. Armeda Reitzel presented her paper titled "The Star Spangled Story of the U.S. National Anthem" at the Popular Culture Association conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 28, 2018.

Prof. Janet Winston

English

Prof. Janet Winston (English and Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) presented research at the 27th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference in Savannah, Georgia on February 17, 2018. Her paper—“Rainbow Flags, Lizard People, and Me: Unpacking the Visual Rhetorics of Contemporary Antisemitism and Pro-Israelism”—examines how current forms of antisemitism, charges of antisemitism, and responses to antisemitism circulate in public discourse.

Emily Cobb

Art + Film

Emily Cobb recently returned from exhibiting her latest artwork in Sirens: New Work by the JV Collective during Munich Jewellery Week in Germany. Munich Jewellery Week is one of the most significant international events for contemporary jewelers, collectors, gallerists, curators and jewelry artists from around the world. Sirens is an interactive exhibition, and during opening night the podcast Percieved Value recorded several interviews in the gallery space. Listen soon at: https://www.perceivedvaluepodcast.com. The Sirens exhibition will travel to the Baltimore Jewelry Center in Maryland this April and New York City Jewelry Week in November.

Nicole Jean Hill

Art + Film

Professor of Art Nicole Jean Hill was invited by the Center for Prairies Studies at Grinnell College to be an artist-in-residence for the month of March. She is developing a series of photographs and animations about the ecology of the restored and remnant tallgrass prairies at the Conard Environmental Research Area in Kellogg, Iowa.

Marcy Burstiner

Journalism & Mass Communication

The Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will award Professor Marcy Burstiner a James Madison Freedom of Information Award March 27 in San Francisco for significant contributions to advancing freedom of information or expression. Burstiner will receive the Beverly Kees Educator Award for guiding students to harness the power of the California Public Records Act.

Matthew Derrick

Geography

Associate professor of Geography Matthew Derrick presented a paper titled "Mosques and Monumentality in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan" at the South and Central Asia Fulbright conference, held in New Delhi, India, February 26-28. Derrick is currently a Fulbright scholar based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Dr. Alison Holmes - International Studies, Loren Collins - ACAC, and Morgan Barker - Academic Technology

International Studies

Dr. Alison Holmes - International Studies, Loren Collins - ACAC, and Morgan Barker - Academic Technology will present a poster at the 20th Annual CSU Symposium on University Teaching, Cal Poly Pamona PolyTeach 2018, titled “Career Curriculum as a ‘Classic’ Productive Disruption: utilizing Canvas to assess student learning mastery in a cross-disciplinary model” on April 13 & 14, 2018. The objective of the project was to develop a model that would facilitate the dissemination of the collaborative ACAC/CAHSS curriculum and feedback/assessment mechanisms, allowing faculty to customize content, while enabling closer connections between students, faculty, career staff.

John W. Powell

Philosophy

Prof. John Powell, Philosophy, will present an invited paper 28 March in San Diego at the North American Wittgenstein Society's session of the Pacific Division American Philosophical Association. The paper aims to clarify the issue of whether language is conventional and sides with Heraclitus in claiming the currently widely-endorsed conventionalism is baseless and empty and supported by a tissue of begged questions. The paper also surveys stakes involved for current accounts of language as signs. with a fair amount of name-dropping. A draft will be posted to the APA Pacific Division Program website.