For the Record, Nov. 21, 2014

University community reports recent presentations, publications

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9:36 a.m., Nov. 21, 2014--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent presentations, publications and service include the following:

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.

Presentations

Bahira S. Trask, professor, associate chair and graduate coordinator of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, was the plenary speaker at the National Council on Family Relations conference, Families at the Nexus of Global Change. The conference, with more than 500 registrants, was held in Baltimore, Nov. 18-20. Trask’s presentation was titled “Globalization, Families and Social Justice: Positive 21st Century Transformations.”

Philip Goldstein, professor emeritus of English at UD’s Wilmington campus, presented the paper "Reading, History, and Patriarchy in Toni Morrison's A Mercy" at the Midwest Modern Language Association Convention in Detroit, Nov. 14-16.

Publications

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, is the author of "Rabbit Ears," one of the short memoirs inspired by items of clothing that appear in the volume Worn Stories, edited by Emily Spivack (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014). The volume has been the subject of a feature on National Public Radio, as well as articles in The New York Times, the Boston Globe, and many other national publications. Stetz's contribution has been singled out for mention in an article in the News Journal. Among the other contributors to Worn Stories are cultural figures as diverse as the filmmaker Albert Maysles, the fashion designer Cynthia Rowley, the singer Rosanne Cash, the New Yorker critic Sasha Frere-Jones, and the soccer star Brandi Chastain.

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Professor of History, published “The Ottoman-Safavid War of 986-998/1578-90: Motives and Causes,” International Journal of Turkish Studies 20:1-2 (2014): 1-20.

Theodore E.D. Braun, professor emeritus of French and comparative literature, wrote and article published by the Association des Membres de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques 82 (Tarn-et-Garonne), "Jean-Jacques Le Franc, le Bienfaiteur de Pompignan," which is available online.

Service

Philip Goldstein, professor emeritus of English at UD’s Wilmington campus, recently completed a three-year term on the Community College Coordinating Committee of the Modern Language Association.

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