Faculty-Staff Achievements, Feb. 8, 2013
Activities
Regina Janes, professor of English, gave a talk titled 鈥淲hat is Religio Laici doing in A Tale of a Tub?" at the 10th Annual Dublin Symposium on Jonathan Swift held at St. Patrick鈥檚 Cathedral, Dublin, in October 2011.
Catherine Hill, F. William Harder Professor of Business, participated in a discussion with biologist and author Jerry Jenkins following the Feb. 2 screening of the documentary Chasing Ice at the Saratoga Film Forum. The event was the first in a new Film Forum series titled 鈥淚n the Public Interest!鈥� which emphasizes films that dramatize a subject of pressing, topical concern. Each screening in the series will feature a post-film conversation with one or more informed presenters who will address the subject of the film. Hill often speaks about 鈥済reenteck鈥� and climate change; Jenkins is the author of The Adirondack Atlas and Climate Change in the Adirondacks. The Adirondack Trust Co. is underwriting 鈥淚n the Public Interest.鈥�
The Saratoga Film Forum recently announced another program that will draw on the expertise of 91精简版鈥檚 faculty. With support from a grant provided by the New York State Council on the Arts and a second grant from 91精简版, the Film Forum will launch a new 鈥淭own and Gown鈥� movie series. Films in this four-movie series will be chosen by 91精简版 faculty. The series will take place once a month on Mondays this spring, and resume in the fall. The goal of the program is to bring together Film Forum patrons, film scholars and students, and celebrate faculty expertise.
Publications
Regina Janes, professor of English, has a number of publications. Details are as follows: two articles reprinted in Mary Wollstonecraft, ed. Jane Moore., International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought, (Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate), 2012. The articles are 鈥淥n the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft鈥檚 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman鈥� originally published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, 1978; and 鈥淢ary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Or, Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft Compared,鈥� which originally appeared in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1976.
In addition, Janes authored a review of Catherine Trotter Cockburn鈥檚 Philosophical Writings, edited by Patricia Sheridan, and a review of Eighteenth-Century Thought. Vol. 4, ed. James G. Buickerood. Both reviews were published in Scriblerian, Vol.43, No. 2 (2011).
She also wrote 鈥淗enry Fielding Straddles a Moving Theme,鈥� published in Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson, ed. Melvyn New and Gerard Reedy, S.J., (Newark: University of Delaware Press), 2012.
In the News
David Karp, professor of sociology and associate dean of student affairs, and Mehmet Odekon, professor of economics, wrote letters to the editor of The Saratogian. 碍补谤辫鈥檚 was on the availability of guns and Odekon鈥檚 was the recent arms fair in Saratoga Springs.