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10:25 a.m., Sept. 21, 2007--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Publications

Rudi Matthee, professor of history, “A Sugar Banquet for the Shah: Anglo-Dutch Competition at the Iranian Court of Shah Sultan Husayn (r. 1694-1722),” in Eurasian Studies, vol. 5, no. 1-2, pages 195-217.

Presentations

Steve Eidelman, Robert Edelsohn Chair in Disabilities Studies, “New Name--New Identity--New Opportunities--Not Business as Usual,” keynote address at American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities conference Region IX, Sept. 6, Lancaster, Pa.; “Issues and Trends for Organizations Supporting People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities,” at Arc of Baltimore leadership meeting, Sept. 10; and “Building Community from the Inside Out,” at the Arc of North Carolina annual convention, closing plenary session , Sept. 15, Durham, N.C.

Joyce Hill Stoner, professor of art conservation, “Degrees of Authenticity,” keynote address at University of Glasgow conference on art, conservation and authenticities, September, U.K.

Charles E. Robinson, professor of English, “Percy Shelley's Voice and Legacy in the Original Frankenstein,” at Shelley's Legacies conference, Sept. 13, University College, Oxford University.

Marian Lief Palley, professor of political science and international relations, “Federalism and Health Care: The Case of Women's Reproductive Health Care,” at American Political Science Association annual conference, Aug. 28, Chicago, and “American Foreign Policy and Women's Reproductive Health Care,” at a meeting of the Japanese American Women's Symposium, Aug. 27, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn.

Rudi Matthee, professor of history, “Western Missionaries in Safavid Iran: From Protection to Vulnerability,” at a conference on position of religious minorities in the Ottoman Empire and early modern Iran, June 13-17, Istanbul, Turkey.