UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 16, Page 6
January 4, 1996
Two faculty selected to attend Salzburg Seminars

     Marian Lief Palley, political science and international
relations, and Leslie Reidel, Professional Theatre Training Program,
have been selected as fellows of the 1996 Salzburg Seminar in Austria.
     Established in 1947, the Salzburg Seminar focuses on contemporary
issues of worldwide scope, as well as significant aspects of American
society.
     G. Arno Loessner, urban affairs and public policy, the first
University fellow to attend the Salzburg Seminar in 1977, chairs the
selection committee. More than 20 faculty members have been fellows
over the years.
     Palley will attend the session on "Health Care Partnerships:
Meeting the Needs of Underserved Communities" in March, and Reidel
will attend the session on "The Power of Theatre: Artistry,
Entertainment, Social Commentary" in September.
     The president of the Southern Political Science Association,
Palley has served as secretary of the American Political Science
Association, as president of the Women's Caucus of that organization
and as book editor of the Journal of Politics. She has been a
Fulbright Visiting Professor at Ewha Women's University in Korea and
visiting professor at the University of Adelaide in Australia, at Bar
Ilan University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
     At the University, she has chaired the Department of Political
Science and International Relations, has served as director of the
Women's Study Program and is president-elect of the Faculty Senate.
     Palley is the author or co-author of nine books, including Women
of Japan and Korea and Women and Public Policies, which has been
published twice by the Princeton University Press and is being
reissued by the University Press of Virginia.
     During the past year, Palley has focused on health-care policy in
the United States and plans to teach a course on the politics of
health care. One of the important issues in this area is meeting the
needs of underserved and unserved populations-a topic of the 1996
Salzburg Seminar.
     According to Palley, health-care policies should be an important
concern of students, both as citizens and consumers of health care,
and as future health care-providers, such as those entering the
medical, nursing or other health-related professions.She said the
Salzburg Seminar will be timely in her research and in planning her
course.
     Reidel has directed more than 75 productions, specializing in
Shakespeare and plays targeted to young audiences. Most recently,
Reidel directed Moliere's Learned Ladies and Noel Coward's Private
Lives at the University.
     Before joining the UD faculty, he taught at Temple University for
10 years and helped to establish a theatre training program at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which eventually relocated to the
Delaware campus as the PTTP. In addition to his work with PTTP, Reidel
also teaches undergraduate courses in "Introduction to Theatre" and
"Introduction to Performance."
     According to Reidel, the PTTP is involved in the theatre on an
international basis, hosting persons in the performing arts from
different countries and cultures and co-sponsoring the International
Brecht Symposium on campus. Reidel has been associated with theatre
programs in London and in Japan.
     Participating in the seminar whose theme is that "drama is at
once social, political and cultural," Reidel said, should be
beneficial to him both in his involvement with PTTP, where he teaches
the history, literature and criticism of the theatre, and in his
undergraduate courses.
                                                   -Sue Swyers Moncure