Bill Anthes (Art History)
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“Post-Studio/Post-Indian: Contemporary Indigenous Artists in the Transnational Field,” International Symposium on the Arts in Society, New York University, New York, February 2007. |
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“Native Moderns,” lecture at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, March 2007. |
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“Native Modern: American Indian Painting,” lecture at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 2007. |
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| Jennifer Armstrong (Biology)
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“Genome Science: Past Present and Future,” invited speaker at the San Diego Natural History Museum, March 2006. |
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“CHD1: A Chromodomain-containing Chromatin Remodeling Factor,” poster presentation at the 47th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, March to April, 2006. With Matthew S. Berger, Jennifer M. Lee, Ivy E. McDaniel and Nick L. Reeves.
“Genetic Studies of chd1 in Drosophila melanogaster,” invited talk at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), November 2006. |
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She also gave a different version of the above talk at the Asilomar Chromatin Conference, where it was awarded a “Best Talk” honor, December 2006. |
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In addition, Professor Armstrong gave an invited seminar in the Biology Department of Occidental College in November 2006. |
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| Martha Barcenas (Spanish)
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“Current Theories of Adult Second Language Acquisition,” paper presented at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Southern California Chapter, March 2007. |
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“Seminars and Catechisms: Connecting the Academy with the Community,” paper presented at the Minority Mentor Research Conference, Claremont Graduate University, March 2007. |
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“Working with Homeless Persons and Teachers: A Wisdom Tradition and Spiritual Capital Approach,” Hawaii International Conference on Education, presented and published in proceedings, January 2007. With Lourdes Arguelles.
“Alternative Methodologies to Minimize Foreign Language Anxiety,” presented at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Southern California Chapter, October 2006. |
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“Incorporating Environmental/Ecological Issues into Religious Education Programs: A Pioneer Pilot Course in OLA Church, Claremont, California,” presented at the International Conference on Youth & Education for the 21st Century. 2020: A Vision of Education & Rights for Youth, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, Texas, presented and published in proceedings, June 2006. |
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“Exploited and Abused Mayan Children in a Global Tourist Context: Implications for Educational Practice,” presented at the International Conference on Youth & Education for the 21st Century. 2020: A Vision of Education & Rights for Youth, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, Texas, published in proceedings, June 2006. With Lourdes Arguelles. |
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“A Brief History of the Inclusion of Spanish in the American Curriculum” presented at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Southern California Chapter, April 2006. |
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“Uncovering Cancun’s Disparities through Wilma’s Might,” presented at the 16th annual Pacific Southwest Women’s Studies Association Conference, Confronting Unnatural Disasters: Feminist Engagements Across and Within Borders, Occidental College, April 2006. With Lourdes Arguelles. |
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| Mita Banerjee (Psychology) |
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“The Connection Between Parents’ Meta-emotion Understanding and Parent-Child Interactions During Storybook Reading,” presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development meetings in Melbourne, Australia, July 2006. |
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“Parental Mind Mindedess and Its Links to Children’s Mind and Emotion Understanding,” presented at The Society for Research in Child Development meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2007. With Jacquelyn Christensen. |
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| Sumangala Bhattacharya (English and World Literature) |
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“Between Worlds: The Haunting of the Victorian Bengali Bhadralok in Four Ghost Stories of Rabindranath Tagore,” presented at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Purdue University, Indiana, August 2006. |
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| Nigel Boyle (Political Studies) |
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“The Patchy Europeanisation of Irish Governance,” European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Third Pan-European Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, September 2006. |
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| Carol Brandt (MLLC/International Programs) |
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“Bridging Difference Across the Local and Global,” conference presentation at the AAC&U national meeting in Washington DC, February 2006. With E. Clausen, S. Weisler, and K. Spear. |
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“Community-based Language Learning,” conference presentation for the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in Salamanca, Spain, June, 2006. With Ethel Jorge. |
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“The Art of Herding Cats: Deepening and Assessing Learning in Experiential Study Abroad Programs” and “Balancing the Equation: Combining an Intercultural Education with a Science Education,” conference presentations for the Council of International Educational Exchange (CIEE) in Seville, Spain, November 2006. |
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In addition, Professor Brandt gave the following invited lectures:
“Facilitating Reflective Learning through Writing in Study Abroad,” CIEE international conference in Seville, Spain, November 2006. With A.M. Wiseman and K. Rodriguez.
“Third Spaces Toward Democracy,” at Gordon College; and New England University, April 2006. |
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“English Language Studies within a Global Engineering Program,” at Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, March 2006. |
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“English for the Global-Local Studies Curriculum,” at Kobe Women’s College, Kobe, Japan, May 2006. |
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| José Calderón (Sociology/ Chicano/a Studies) |
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“Ways to Advance Diversity and Democratic Culture in the Classroom and Community,” presented at the 2006 Department Chairs’ Conference at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Conference in Montreal, Canada, August 2006. |
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Presented the Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology to Arthur Shostak at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Conference in Montreal, Canada, August 2006. |
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“MLK Across Racial Lines,” Presentation at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Teach-in at the Claremont Colleges, January 2007. |
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“The Engaged College: Educators for Social Responsibility,” presentation at a forum sponsored by Pitzer College and the Los Angeles Times, September 2006. |
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Appeared on Radio Campesina’s “Despierta Ya Campesina” (broadcast in five states) on November and December 2006 and January 2007 to discuss the elections in Mexico, immigration policies and California and national election results. The radio station also interviewed Professor Calderón in March 2007 about Pitzer’s Alternative Spring Break in La Paz where students laid the foundation for a future Cesar Chavez Educational Institute and delivered food and funds for farm workers affected by the freeze. |
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| Paul Faulstich (Environmental Studies) |
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“Researching Ethnoarchaeology in Aboriginal Australia,” invited lecture at Flinders University, Australia, July 2006. |
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Chaired the panel, “Animals in Rock Art” at the conference Rock Art Research: Changing Paradigms, in Agra, India, October, 2006. |
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David Furman (Art)
Professor Furman was invited to give lectures/slide presentations at the following institutions and conferences: |
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Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, November 2006. |
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University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, October 2006. |
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The Pottery Workshop/ Experimental Sculpture Factory, Jingdezhen, China, June 2006. |
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San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas, April 2006. |
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The Chicken Farm Art Center, San Angelo, Texas, April 2006. |
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| Judith V. Grabiner (Mathematics) |
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“Why Should Historical Truth Matter to Mathematicians?” British Society for the History of Mathematics, Oxford, England, February 2007. |
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Other invited talks included: |
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“Lagrange, Sufficient Reason, and Space,” Oxford History of Mathematics Group, Oxford, England, February 2007. |
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“Why Mathematics is the Most Important Thing in Western Thought,” Ilkeley Café Humanité, Ilkely, Yorkshire, England, March 2007. |
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“Why Should Historical Truth Matter to Mathematicians?” Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Lancaster, England, March 2007. |
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“Lagrange, Sufficient Reason, and Space,” University of Leeds Mathematics Colloquium, March 2007. |
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“Why Did Lagrange ’Prove” the Parallel Postulate?” Pure Mathematics Colloquium, University of Leeds, March 2007. |
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| Laura Harris (Black Studies/English and World Literature) |
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Professor Harris gave her first public reading of her fictional Rhinelander work: “Memoirs of Alice B. Jones (aka Mrs. Rhinelander)” at Caribbean Unbound III, Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland, March 2007. |
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| Melinda Herrold-Menzies (Environmental Studies) |
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“Boating on the Sea of Grass: Western Development, Tourism, Resistance, and Local Empowerment,” presented at the Annual Meeting for the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco, April 2007. |
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“Microcredit at Caohai, China: One Effort to Link Conservation, Development and Women,” invited talk presented for the Women’s Studies Series at the Huntington Library and Botanic Gardens, San Marino, California, February 2007. |
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“Post-Collective Villages in Russia and China,” invited lecture for the Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley, October 2006. |
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“Integrating Conservation and Development: A Look at Projects in Russia and China,” invited lecture for the Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley, October 2006. |
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| Jim Hoste (Mathematics) |
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“Lissajous and Fourier Knots,” Claremont Colleges Topology Seminar, September 2006. |
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“Lissajous Knots,” Mathematics Colloquium, Loyola Marymount University, October 2006. |
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| Brian Keeley (Philosophy) |
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Invited commentary on Paula Droege “Now or Never: How Consciousness Represents Time,” Society for Philosophy and Psychology, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2006. |
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“Defining Illness: Do We Discover Treatments for Diseases or Invent Diseases for Treatments?” Bioethics Seminar Series, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, a two-part lecture, 2006. |
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| Ming-Yuen S. Ma (Media Studies) |
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“Performing the Self,” panel participant for the exhibition “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China,” co-presented by the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 2006. |
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| Ronald Macaulay (Linguistics) |
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“Adolescents as innovators,” paper presented at the 35th Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Language, Ohio State University, Columbus, November 2006. |
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| Don MacFarlane (Biology) |
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Co-chair, “High Resolution Quaternary Records from Cave Environments,” Technical session, Geological Society of America Annual meetings, Philadelphia, October 2006. |
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Professor McFarlane also gave the following invited presentations at the conference:
“A Middle Pleistocene chronology for Kent’s cavern, England.” With J. Lundberg.
“Middle Pleistocene Cave Bears from Kent’s Cavern, England.” With J. Lundberg and M. Sabol |
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| Milton Machuca (Spanish) |
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Professor Machuca organized a symposium, “Desplazados/Uprooted: Stories of Black Displacement in Contemporary Colombia,”at Pitzer College, in April 2007. |
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Ntongela Masilela (EWL) and
Daniel Segal (Anthropology and History) |
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Professors Masilela and Segal with Professor Kebokile Dengu-Zvobgo (GFS) and Michael Ballagh (dean’s office) organized an Africa Symposium at Pitzer in Fall 2006. |
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| Kathryn Miller (Art/Environmental Studies) |
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“Public Art 101, Building Partnerships Inside & Outside the Box,” lecture and panel discussant, Ventura, California, March 2006. |
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| Lee Munroe (Anthropology) |
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“Negativity Themes in East African Dreams,” at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research in Savannah, Georgia, in February 2006. With S. Ackerman, S. Ereshefsky, J. Rivera, L. Tilem, and S. Marini. |
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“Following the Whitings: How Male Pregnancy Symptoms Get Studied,” presented at the 18th Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, as part of a symposium honoring the memory of Professor Munroe’s teachers John and Beatrice Whiting, Spetses, Greece, July 2006. |
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| John Norvell (Anthropology) |
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“Face and Friends: Twenty-odd Years of Online Community,” invited lecture at the Community Conversations Lecture Series: Millennial Media at Maryville College, Tennessee, April 2007. |
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“Para-etnografia e Culturas de Perícia” (Para-ethnography and Cultures of Expertise”), invited lecture at the Historical Socio-environmental Nucleus at the Federal University of Roraima, Brazil, August 2006. |
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Co-chaired with Professor Leda Martins the “Hello Brazil” symposium. |
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Adrian D. Pantoja (Political Studies & Chicano/a Studies) |
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“Politics From the Pulpit? Attitudes toward the Role of Religion in Politics Among Mexican American Catholics in Los Angeles County,” American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2006. With Richard Herrera. |
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“Onward Latino Christian Soldiers: The Effects of Being a Born-Again Christian on Latino Sociopolitical Attitudes,” presented at the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2007. |
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“The Effects of Transnational Ties on Immigrant Political Incorporation,” Midwestern Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2007. With Rafael Jimeno and Javier Rodriguez. |
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| Joseph Parker (IIS/Religious Studies) |
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“Postcolonial Feminist Approaches to a Liberal Arts Education,” Conference on Teaching for Social Justice and Responsibility, Coalition for Innovative Environments in Learning (CIEL), Hampshire College, October 2006. |
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“Postcolonial Feminist Pedagogy: Some Concrete Applications,” national meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Oakland, June 2006. |
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| Susan Phillips (Center for California Cultural and Social Issues/Anthropology) |
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Professor Philips co-organized a session for the American Anthropological Association meeting titled “Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Gangs: Potentials and Futures,” San Jose, 2006. |
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| Katie Purvis-Roberts (Chemistry) |
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“Characterization of Major Water Soluble Inorganic Water Soluble Ions in the Eastern Los Angeles Basin,” NCAR Early Career Scientists Assembly Junior Faculty Forum on Future Scientific Directions, Boulder, Colorado, August 2006. With E. Zeitler, A. Braun, Z. Davis, W. Wagner, A. Elktabi, and F. Elktabi. |
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“Risk Perception of Radiation Exposure of Villagers Living Near the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2006. |
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“Particle into Liquid Sampler (PILS) for Southern California PM-2.5 analysis,” invited presentation at the American Chemical Society National Meeting, Atlanta, March 2006. With Z.H. Davis, A. Braun, E.L. Zeitler, B. Brayton, J. Gordon, J. Wiggins-Camacho, and J. Chapman. |
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| Dan Segal (Anthropology and History) |
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“The Fragmentation of Human Time, or What is Wrong with Jared Diamond,” invited lecture at the Max Planck Institute in Halle, Germany, for an international conference organized in response to his co-edited volume, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle (2005), February 2007. |
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“Translation Effects in Ethnographic Writing and Historical Narratives,” paper presented at the American Philosophical Association meeting in San Francisco, April 2007 |
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| Susan Seymour (Anthropology) |
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“Mothers, Daughters and Grandmothers: A Longitudinal Study of the Changing Lives of Women in an Indian Town,” Distinguished Lecture for the Culture, Brain, and Development Program at UCLA, December 2006. |
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| Sharon Snowiss (Political Studies) |
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“Ancient Futures: Modernization and Tradition in China,” presented at an international conference on Constructive Postmodern Thinking and China’s Modernization, Claremont, California, December 2006. |
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“The Politics of Integrative Medicine,” presentation in San Francisco, March 2007.
She chaired and participated in a conference, “Conversations about Poverty and Development: Spinoza and Gandhi: Lessons for our World?” Claremont, California, April 2007. |
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| Claudia Strauss (Anthropology) |
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“Mistaken Identity,” American Anthropological Association 105th annual meeting, San Jose, November 2006. |
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“Blaming for Columbine,” UCLA, Mind, Medicine and Culture Seminar, May 2006. |
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| Zhaohua Irene Tang (Biology) |
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“The Interplay Between Cell Cycle and Pre-mRNA splicing—What Has Protein Phosphorylation Got to Do with It?” invited lecture at the Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, October, 2006. |
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| Rudi Volti (Sociology) |
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“Cars and Culture,” lecture presented at Greenfield Village (part of the Henry Ford Museum) in Dearborn, Michigan, June 2006. |
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| Albert Wachtel (English and World Literature) |
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Professor Wachtel and Michael Ballagh organized a celebration of the life and poetry of the acclaimed poet and former Pitzer Professor of Literature Bert Meyers at Pitzer in April 2007. |
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| Dan Ward (Political Studies) |
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“Alchemy in Clarens: Kropotkin and Reclus, 1877-1881,” paper presented at Humanity and the Earth/L’Homme et la Terre: the legacy of Elisée Reclus (1830-1905), Loyola University, New Orleans, October 2006. |
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| Phil Zuckerman (Sociology) |
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“Scandinavian Perspectives on God” at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in Portland, Oregon, October 2006. |
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