Nov. 30, 2001

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese and chair, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, CCAS, led a panel on literary translation at the First Annual DC International Poetry Festival, Jack Morton Auditorium, Nov. 3. Members of the panel included Romanian poet Nina Cassian, Spanish poet Rafael Guillén (Spanish National Prize for Literature, 1994), and Pulitzer-Prize winner, poet, and translator Henry Taylor.

Paul Churchill, professor of philosophy, CCAS, presented “On Being Virtuously Loyal or Admirably Disloyal,” at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting.

Ernie Englander, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, presented “An Overview of the National Economy,” the keynote address at the conference, “Covering Business and Economics,” sponsored by the National Press Foundation. Englander’s presentation was part of a week-long program, “Accountability in Business and Government,” sponsored by the US Department of State’s International Visitor Program.

Jennifer Griffin, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, was an invited panelist at the Public Affairs Council annual board meeting in October. In an interactive session titled, “Building a New Foundation for the Foundation,” Griffin, a member of the board of trustees for the Foundation for Public Affairs, the nonprofit research arm of the Public Affairs Council, discussed future business-academic research strategies for public affairs.

William Griffith, professor of philosophy, CCAS, presented “Public Lands, Property Rights, and Intergenerational Justice,” at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World in Estes Park, CO.

Lisa Delpy Neirotti, associate professor of sport and tourism management, SBPM, presented, “Emerging Sports and Proprietary Events: Challenges and Opportunities” at TEAMS: Travel, Events, and Management in Sports, a conference in Salt Lake City, UT. Delpy Neirotti also conducted a study of the 2001 Tennis Masters Series in Indian Wells in March and determined it had an impact on the Coachella Valley economy of more than $100 million.

Sheryl Spivack, associate professor of tourism management, SBPM, received a $20,000, three-year grant from the National Park Service to develop an interactive guide for park visitors.

Bing-Sheng Teng, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, presented “Market and Resource-Based Determinants of Alliance Structural Integration,” at the Strategic Management Society annual meeting in San Francisco.

Michael K. Young, dean GW Law School, was named the Law School’s new Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence. Young follows Thomas Buergenthal, who left active service at GW in 2000 to serve as a judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Publications
Shmuel Ben-Gad, reference and collection development librarian, Gelman Library, reviewed the book “Robert Bresson” by Keith Reader in the Fall 2001 issue of Film Quarterly, page 70.

Gail D. Weiss, associate professor of philosophy and human science, CCAS, published “Splitting the Subject: Exploring the Interval Between Transcendence and Immanence,” in Resistance, Flight, Creation, Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy, edited by Dorothea Olkowski (Cornell University Press).

 

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