University community reports recent presentations, publications

9:31 a.m., Nov. 7, 2014--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent performances, presentations, publications and service include the following:

Performances

UD dance minor students and faculty members will perform Nov. 7 and Nov. 20 at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts in Wilmington. Students Emily Brumbach, Dominique Carpio, Erica Del Priore, Samantha Gartley, Johanna Jan and Dominique Oppenheimer will perform choreography by dance minor faculty member A.T. Moffett. They are collaborating with Wilmington-based visual artist T.S. Kist on a work titled Wire/Less. Kist is a 2014 Delaware Division of the Arts Established Fellow in the visual arts-painting. In this exhibition, Kist repurposes abandoned technological components and wires to ironically address the evolution of the "wireless" movement and its subsequent accumulated waste. Moffett’s choreography explores the physicality of connection in the digital age. The Nov. 7 performance is part of DCCA’s First Friday Art Loop. Performances will be at 7 and 7:30 p.m. The Nov. 20 performance is at Art Salad, a lunchtime discussion forum. Both events are free and open to the public.

Campus Stories

From graduates, faculty

As it neared time for the processional to open the University of Delaware Commencement ceremonies, graduating students and faculty members shared their feelings about what the event means to them.

Doctoral hooding

It was a day of triumph, cheers and collective relief as more than 160 students from 21 nations participated in the University of Delaware's Doctoral Hooding Convocation held Friday morning on The Green.

• Doctoral hooding
• Old Swedes
• Summer SAT, ACT prep
• 'Opus 13' pre-sale

Presentations

Pascha Bueno-Hansen, assistant professor of women and gender studies, delivered a keynote address at a conference at York University in Canada on Oct. 31. The conference was on “Feminisms, Structural Violence and Transitional Justice.” The keynote address was titled "Decolonizing Transitional Justice: A Feminist Analysis," based on Bueno-Hansen’s forthcoming book with the University of Illinois Press.

Louis L. Hirsh, retired director of admission, presented “Think Like a College Admissions Committee” at Sussex Technical High School in Georgetown, Delaware, on Oct. 23. Using lots of examples, the presentation showed students and parents how selective college admissions committees go about assessing what they see on high school transcripts and in letters of recommendation and college essays.

Timothy Murray, librarian and head of the Special Collections

Department, University of Delaware Library, presented "Craftsman to Collector: Selling and Buying the Fine Press Book," during the Oak Knoll Fest Symposium, Oct. 3, in New Castle, Delaware.

Publications

David Shearer, professor of history, has published an article in a book collection that has just appeared, "Stalinistische Repressionen und das Problem der sozialen Umgestaltung," in Macht ohne Grenzen: Herrschaft und Terror im Stalinismus, eds. Jorg Baberowski and Robert Kindler (Berlin, 2014), 22-41.

Service

The Video Game Tournament Club recently surpassed its goal by raising more than $1,500 for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia through an event called Extra-Life. During the event, held at the Trabant University Center, students donated their time to play video games for 12 hours to benefit the hospital. Some played for 24 hours, streaming their games live via the Internet. It was the organization’s first Extra-Life event, according to Wisdom Mills-Owoo, club president and a senior engineering major.

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