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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Presentation

Foreign Languages and Cultures

Vilma Navarro-DanielsVilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, presented on Chilean comic author Marcela Trujillo (a.k.a. “Malki 4-Ojos”) at the International Association of Women’s Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture’s annual congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. A paper from her research is forthcoming in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos.

Foreign Languages and Cultures

Maria Serenella PrevitoMaria Serenella (Sere) Previto, clinical associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, presented on Chilean songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, singer, poet, visual artist, and social activist Violeta Parra at the International Association of Women’s Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture’s annual congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Foreign Languages and Cultures

Vilma Navarro-DanielsVilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, was elected vice president of the International Association of Women’s Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture (Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica), whose members/voters are from across Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Navarro-Daniels also recently presented “Suicide as Cultural Resistance: Sebastián Sepúlveda’s film, ‘The Quispe Girls'” at the 71st Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.

History

Marina TolmachevaMarina Tolmacheva, professor, history, WSU Vancouver, presented “Geographical Coordinates in the Western Indian Ocean: Transmission of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages” in the Symposium “Science in Islamic Societies, Globally and Locally” at the 25th International Congress on the History of Science and Technology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She delivered the inaugural lecture in Curso de Geografia at the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, where she spoke on “Ibn Battuta e a Geografia Arabe.”

Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs

Any MazurAmy Mazur, professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, presented “GEPP En Action: L’ Approche, Le Réseau et Les Résultat Préliminaires” as the keynote lecture at Genre, égalité de droit et inégalités de fait, discrimination indirecte et transversale, les dispositifs, at the University of Nantes, France. Mazur also presented the workshop “The GEPP Network: An Overview on Money and Political Recruitment” at the University of Bergen. Norway.

Sociology

Don DillmanDon Dillman, Regents professor, sociology, presented the president’s invited address, “The Challenge of Creating Data Collection Methods That Are Neither Too Far Ahead Nor Behind Our Survey Respondents,” at the Statistical Society of Canada’s annual conference in Winnipeg. He also presented the keynote address, “The Worldwide Challenge of Pushing Respondents to the Web in Mixed-Mode Surveys,” at the 28th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Dillman and five recent sociology doctoral graduates, Michelle Edwards Neilson ’13, Morgan M. Millar ’12, Benjamin Messer ’11,  Leah Melani Christian ’07, and Jolene D. Smyth ’07, received the 2017 American Association for Public Opinion Research Award for development of a new data collection methodology.