Tabitha Espina Velasco, graduate student, English, presented “Navigation and Negotiation in the Narratives of the Halo Halo Generation” at the 16th Islands of the World Conference 2018 (ISISA2018): The Changing Futures of Islands” in Leeuwarden and Terschelling, the Netherlands. There she was awarded her second ISISA student scholarship.
Pamela Thoma, associate professor, English, presented “The Handmaid’s Tale: Missing Children and Sanctifying Motherhood in Popular Narratives of Decline” at Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, in Bournemouth, England.
Don Dillman, Regents professor, sociology, was appointed by the Committee for National Statistics of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine to a steering committee for conducting a workshop on improving the American Community Survey. Dillman also was a guest professor at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) In Mannheim, Germany; and he was an invited facilitator for the Australian Bureau of Statistics’s Workshop on Improving Data Collection Practices held in Melbourne.
Namrata Ray, doctorate student, sociology, presented “The Education-Occupation Nexus: Examining inter- and intragenerational mobility using India Human Development Survey” at the 4th Asian Population Association Conference in Shanghai, China. Ray’s participation was hosted and funded by the Asian Demographic Research Institute.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Cathartic Fear, Television, and Memory: ‘The Archives of the Cardinal'” at the 36th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Barcelona, Spain, where she also organized and chaired a panel on Human Rights and Memory.
Kirk McAuley, associate professor, English, was awarded an American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Keough-Naughton summer fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. He also presented his research on Robert Louis Stevenson at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Supernumerary Conference at the University of Roma Trė in Rome, Italy.
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, professor and chair, sociology, was invited to present at RC34’s session on “Youth in North America” at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association in Toronto, Canada. While there, Kirkpatrick Johnson also presented “Work Value Transmission from Parents to Children: Seeds That Sprout in Adolescence and Bear Fruit in Adulthood.” She also presented on behalf of herself, professor Christine Horne, and a colleague “The Conditionality of Adolescent Pregnancy Norms” at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence in Minneapolis.
Jennifer Schwartz and Erik Johnson, associate professors, sociology, presented “Sex Stratification in the Criminal Enterprise: Crimes Against the Environment” at the Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology, Leiden University, Netherlands.
Schwartz and Johnson were also invited to present “Women’s and Men’s Participation in Business-related Crimes Against the Environment: Sex-stratification in the Criminal Enterprise” at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Dene Grigar, professor and director, and John Barber, clinical associate professor, English/creative media and digital culture, WSU Vancouver, were invited speakers at the first electronic literature conference in the Arab world, Arab Electronic Literature: New Horizons and Global Perspectives, hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by Rochester Institute of Technology. Grigar presented “Preserving a Cultural Legacy of Born Digital Literature.” Barber presented, “Sound and Electronic Literature.” Barber’s sound art work, “There and Back,” was one of seven international works invited for a curated exhibition associated with the conference.
Dean Luethi, associate professor, music, authored Choral Crunches: Pedagogical Exercises for Choirs (GIA Publications, forthcoming). Luethi also presented “Kinesthetic Calibration: Using Movement to Improve Ensemble Accuracy” at the Washington Music Educators Association State Conference.