Mary Grace Neville, assistant professor of business, presented two papers last week at the Institute for Behavioral and Applied Management conference. One, co-authored with A.J. Senchack, professor of business, "Experiential Learning and Social Change in the Business Curricula," documents theory and practice for a business seminar that is conducted here at Southwestern. The second paper, co-authored with Lindsey Godwin at Case Western Reserve University, frames the academic stream of a global dialogue called Business as an Agent of World Benefit; the paper, titled "Bringing Society Alive in the Classroom," explores best practices for developing business students into socially responsible 21st century leaders.

October 21, 2004

Alicia L. Moore, assistant professor, and La Vonne I. Neal, associate professor, of the education department, were invited to present a workshop to public school teachers and university historians at the Association for the Study of African American Life History (ASALH) 89th Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, Penn., in September. Neal attended the conference to present the workshop titled "Voices From the Past: Oral History Projects as a Teaching Tool," which was based upon their article of the same title. This presentation included video footage of Moore and Neal interviewing Nancy Todd-Noches, the daughter of Lucinda Todd, the first plaintiff in the Seminal Brown et al. vs. the Board of Education Case.

Bob Snyder had his paper titled "Bridging the Realist/Constructivist Divide: The Counterrevolutionary Case of Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War" accepted for publication in the inaugural issue of the journal "Foreign Policy Analysis."

October 7, 2004

Alejandro de Acosta, assistant professor of philosophy, presented a paper, "Proposal for an Anarchism that Goes 'All The Way Down,'" at the fourth annual Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference in Plainfield, Vt., in September. He also participated in a round-table panel on "Anarchism and Post-Structuralism." Both of the presentations were part of his ongoing research in combining the politics of anarchism with the conceptual innovations of recent Latin American philosophy. On Oct. 20, he will present an invited lecture at the Seattle Research Institute in Seattle, Wash., to be entitled "In Which Anything Goes: An Anarchist Pedagogy." The lecture is part of the same research project.

Phil Hopkins, assistant professor of philosophy, presented an invited talk at Baylor in early October from an article, "Zeno's Boetheia toi logoi," under review at the "Review of Metaphysics."

La Vonne I. Neal, associate professor in the education department, was selected by the Texas Education Agency to be a "Technical Assistance Provider (TAP)" for a middle school in Austin, Texas. The purpose of a "TAP" is to provide guidance to principals on how to build leadership capacity on their campuses and how to build faculty content knowledge and teaching skills.