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. Englanders presentation
was part of a week-long program, Accountability in Business and
Government, sponsored by the US Department of States 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 Schools
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).
Kudos is a recognition of the awards,
honors, and recent publications of the GW faculty and staff. To submit
information for Kudos, please E-mail ByGeorge! at bygeorge@gwu.edu,
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