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Activities

Robert Boyers, professor of English and editor of Salmagundi, gave the opening address, titled 鈥淭he fate of ideas today,鈥� at a conference titled held Nov. 12-13 at the New School for Social Research. The conference celebrated the 50^th anniversary of Salmagundi and the launch of the new M.A. in creative publishing and critical journalism at the New School.

Tim Harper, Management and Business, Barbara Norelli, Scribner Library, and Mary Taber, Math, presented a paper titled鈥� 鈥滳ase Selection: A Case for a New Approach鈥� at the Oct. 27-31 meeting of the Southern Management Association Meeting in St. Pete Beach, Fla.

Christopher Mann, assistant professor of government, was in Washington, D.C., Nov. 16 to present on two panels at the " conference at American University's School of Public Affairs. He presented research on voter registration and pre-Election Day voting on one panel and research about using "social pressure" to increase voter turnout on the other panel.

Publications

Janet G. Casey, professor of English and director, First-Year Experience, is the editor of a new book titled Teaching Tainted Lit. According to its publisher, the University of Iowa Press, 鈥淭he essays in this collection presume that the popular is here to stay and that its instructive implications are not merely noteworthy, but richly nuanced and deeply compelling. They address a broad variety of issues concerning canonicity, literature, genre, and the classroom, as its contributors teach everything from Stephen King and Lady Gaga to nineteenth-century dime novels and the 1852 best-seller Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin.鈥�

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