Colleen Bell, women’s studies, College of Liberal Arts, presented a workshop with Susie Oppenheim; students from her course, “the Role of Conflict in Social Change”; and middle school students from Southside Family School in Minneapolis at the 32nd annual meeting of the National Society for Experiential Education on October 17, 2003. The workshop, “Teaching/Learning Social Justice Across Generations,” provided a snapshot of the collaboration between the two groups of students with ages ranging from eleven to thirty-five.

Mark Berkson, religion, College of Liberal Arts gave a lecture titled, “Conceptions of Ultimate Reality: How the World’s Religions View the Divine,” at the Dawn Schuman Institute in Chicago on September 13, 2003. On April 26, 2003, he delivered a paper to the American Academy of Religion’s Upper Midwest Regional Conference titled, “Teaching Islam after 9/11: Non-Muslim Perspectives and Muslim Responses.” He gave a lecture titled, “War, Actual and Metaphorical: Wartime Reflections on America’s ‘War on Drugs,’” at the University of Minnesota drug policy conference on March 28, 2003.

Ed Butterfoss, School of Law, was named vice chair of the accreditation committee of the American Bar Association. His article on weekend law programs, “Part-time Legal Education: It’s Not Your Parents’ Old Oldsmobile,” was published in the Fall 2003 issue of the Toledo Law Review’s “Dean ’s Leadership in Legal Education Series.”

Duane Cady, philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, wrote the “Pacifism” entry for the Global Studies Encyclopedia, recently published in English and Russian. He presented “Moral History and the Failure of Academic Ethics,” at a conference at Pacific University in Portland, Oregon, in October 2003.

Joseph Daly, School of Law, was a judge in the United Kingdom finals of the Jessup Moot Court Competition in London on February 7 - 9, 2003. He spoke on “Preemptive War,” to Fridley High School students on March 11, 2003, and taught a course, “International and Domestic Commercial Arbitration,” at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia from September 22 - 25, 2003.

Melissa S. Embser-Herbst, sociology, College of Liberal Arts, was a panelist at “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: 10 Years Later,” a conference hosted by the Hofstra Cultural Center and Hofstra University School of Law. She addressed how the ban on lesbian and gay service members actually harms service members, regardless of sexual orientation.

John Fenn, Graduate Liberal Studies, opened a new musical based on A Servant’s Christmas on November 22, 2003. In January, his earlier play, Dark Grace, will re-open in Grand Marais, Minnesota.

George Gaetano, theatre arts and communication studies, College of Liberal Arts, had an article published in the September 2003 issue of the Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal, titled, “What’s So Funny About Humor Theorizing and Humor Research? Sadly, Quite a Lot: A Communimirthologist’s Perspective.”

Leif Hembre, biology, College of Liberal Arts, presented the results of his collaborative research with Hamline graduates, Laura Peterson ’03, and Emily Walsh ’03, at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Savannah, Georgia in August 2003. The presentation was titled “Evolution of Negative Phototaxis in a Daphnia Population Revealed by Reanimation of Resting Eggs.” His article, “Seasonal and Diel Patchiness of a Daphnia Population: An Acoustic Analysis,” was published in the November 2003 issue of the Journal of Limnology and Oceanography.

Nancy Holland, philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, had an article titled, “‘With One Headlight’: Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophy of Science,” published in the June 2003 issue of Philosophy Today. She presented a paper, “Behavioral/Perceptual Holism in Dewey Merleau-Ponty and Edelman,” at the Behavioral Research Council conference on Dewey, Hayek and Embodied Cognition, held at the American Institute for Economic Research in July 2003.

Anne Kilstofte, music, College of Liberal Arts, had her composition, Sicilian Lullaby, premiere in Chiesa di Santa Dorotea, Italy, by the Italian Flute Ensemble. On March 15, 2003, her composition, Requiem for Still Voices, premiered in Denver, Colorado by the Arapahoe Philharmonic Orchestra. From April 8 -12, 2003, she served as a delegate and presenter at the International Festival of Women in Music Today in Seoul, Korea.

Lenore Kinne, education, College of Liberal Arts, presented her dissertation research, “Memory of Irrelevant Information in Arithmetic Word Problems,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Chicago, Illinois, on April 21, 2003. She and Therese Kiley, education, College of Liberal Arts, co-presented on “How Do We Know That Teacher Candidates at Hamline University Will Be Able to Bring Each Child Along?” at the Association of Liberal Arts Colleges of Teacher Education’s National Forum in New Orleans on January 24, 2003. The presentation featured a response to the Leave No Child Behind Act, as well as an overview of the Education Unit’s newly developed assessment system.

David Larson, School of Law, had two articles, “Online Dispute Resolution: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?,” and “There is No Disputing It: Online Negotiation Takes a Place at the Table,” appear in Volume 19 and Volume 20 of Negotiation Journal. He was interviewed by Corpus Christi Caller Times of Texas concerning a labor union president’s breaching of fiduciary duty, and by Editor and Publisher concerning the Department of Labor’s proposed regulations redefining which employees are exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Roseann Lloyd, Graduate Liberal Studies, was a keynote speaker at the Take Back the Night events held at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls.

Ann Mabbott, Graduate School of Education, presented, “Paving the Way for College Success: Building Blocks for English Proficiency,” as the keynote speaker for the Breaking Barriers Conference at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul on January 23, 2003. She spoke on effective ESL programs at the Minnesota Elementary School Principals’ Conference on February 13, 2003, and on “Course Quality in Online ESL Teacher Education,” for TESOL on March 27, 2003.

Bobbi McAdoo, School of Law, developed and participated in the mini-conference on court alternative dispute resolution at the annual conference of the ABA section of dispute resolution. She was part of an all-day panel presentation, “ Evaluation: Is the program working?” Why do we want to know and how do we find out?” She also participated in a panel titled, “Teaching Ideas from Theory to Practice/ Broad Field Initiatives,” for the Legal Educator’s Colloquium at the conference. She presented preliminary results of her new research on judicial perspectives on ADR at the Minnesota and International Association for Conflict Resolution annual conferences.

Angela McCaffrey, School of Law, had her essay, “The Healing Presence of Clients in Law Schools,” published in William Mitchell Law Review. She spoke on the topic, “Access and Interpreters: Physical, Language, and Cultural Barriers to Fair Hearings,” at the National Association of Hearing Officers’ Annual Training Conference on September 16, 2003. She presented to attorneys and interpreters on the topic, “Interpretation in Domestic Abuse Cases: Why Is It So Difficult?” as part of the Safe Justice domestic abuse project on October 14, 2003.

Kathy McLane, music, College of Liberal Arts, received a license in Dalcroze Eurhythimics from the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts in August 2003. Dalcroze Eurhythmics uses kinesthetic and aural experiences to teach musical understanding. She is the only licensed Dalcroze teacher in Minnesota and presents workshops throughout the Midwest.
Navid Mohseni, sociology, College of Liberal Arts, had his artwork on display in Giddens Learning Center from September 1 - October 20, 2003. The work consisted of ink drawings, pastels, and oil paintings.

Faith O’Reilly, legal studies, College of Liberal Arts, received her Master of Law degree in comparative and international law from the University of Iowa in August 2003.

James Pielemeier, School of Law, had his article, “Choice of Law for Multi-state Defamation: The State of Affairs as Internet Defamation Beckons,” published in the Spring 2003 issue of the Arizona State Law Journal.

Timothy Polk, religion, College of Liberal Arts, was a visiting scholar at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis in June 2003, where he gave a series of lectures titled, “True and False Prophecy—Just Praise: Biblical Theology with Footnotes on Film.”

Linda Rusch, School of Law, was elected to a four-year term on the executive council for the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Business Law Section in May 2003. In August 2003, she was appointed to the executive committee of the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code, and had her new casebook, Payment Systems: Problems Materials and Cases, published by Thomson/West Publishing.

Jeff Turner, theatre arts, College of Liberal Arts, had his essay, “On Boyhood and Public Swimming: Sidney Kingsely’s Dead End and Representations of Underclass Street Kids in American Cultural Production,” published by Ruttgers University Press and included in The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader. He presented a paper, “Riot Grrl: Recuperating Mary Tilford as a Site of Cultural Resistance in Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour,” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference on October 17, 2003. His book review of Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History, edited by Kim Marr and Robert A. Schanke, was published in the October 2003 issue of Theatre Journal.

Karen Vogel, political science, College of Liberal Arts, wrote a chapter on “Minnesota and the Global Economy: Connecting Global and Local in the 21st Century,” for Perspectives on Minnesota Government and Politics, a textbook edited by Steve Hoffman and published by Pearson Press in Spring 2003. She attended the Oxford Roundtable Series at Saint Anthony’s College, Oxford University, England, from August 8 - 17. In fall 2003, she became the chair of the political science department.

Yali You, music, College of Liberal Arts, traveled to China in spring 2003 for the first ever Chinese Cello Festival. Along with helping to organize the festival, she also conducted the festival’s cello orchestra, performed with the orchestra, gave lectures on the history of the cello, and gave a solo recital. She was the principal cello with the Superior Music Festival Orchestra in summer 2003.