[InFocus] In Focus 9/15

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 IN FOCUS: September 15, 2006
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR *
*SOUTHWESTERN TO HOST PEACE CONFERENCE OCT. 11-12*
	  	

*September*

*15* Board of Visitors meeting

*15* Volleyball vs. The University of Texas at Dallas, 3 p.m.

*15* Volleyball vs. Emory University, 7 p.m.

*16* Volleyball vs. Houston Baptist University, 2 p.m.

*16* Volleyball vs. East Texas Baptist University, 6 p.m.

*19* Faculty recital, Kiyoshi Tamagawa, piano, 7 p.m., Caldwell-Carvey Foyer

*22* Men's soccer vs. Millsaps College, 2 p.m.

*22* Women's soccer vs. Millsaps College, 4 p.m.
22 Friday Night Live, Amalia Ortiz, 8 p.m., The Cove

*24* Men's soccer vs. Rhodes College, noon

*24* Women's soccer vs. Rhodes College, 2 p.m.

*29* Women's soccer vs. University of Dallas, 2 p.m.

*29* Men's soccer vs. Colorado College, 4 p.m.


Long before the recent flare-up of hostilities in the Middle East, 
Southwestern University senior Ansa Copeland wanted to put together a 
conference on peace and religion.

Her goal was not to address specific current events, but the general 
concept of peace, and how persons of different religions and conviction 
relate to and understand peace.

The result is a conference to be held at Southwestern Oct. 11-12 titled 
"Making Multi-faith Connections in the Practice of Peace and Non-Violence."

The highlight of the conference will be an Oct. 11 keynote speech by 
Arun Gandhi, grandson of famed Indian peace activist Mahatma Gandhi and 
founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. Gandhi will give a 
speech titled "Lessons from Grandfather in Peace and Social Justice." It 
will begin at 7 p.m. in the Lois Perkins Chapel on the Southwestern campus.

Registration for the conference is $5 for members of the Southwestern 
University community and $15 for the general public. Registrants may 
attend as many of the conference events as they wish.

Persons interested in registering for the conference may download a 
registration form at www.southwestern.edu/peaceconference. For more 
information on the conference, call 512-863-1527 or write 
peace2006 at southwestern.edu.

Read the entire story 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/060911.html>.

 

* EVENTS *
FACULTY PERFORMANCE WITH KIYOSHI TAMAGAWA SEPT. 19
The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Music Department, presents a faculty 
recital by pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in the 
Caldwell-Carvey Foyer.

Tuesday evening's concert will feature works from "The Well-Tempered 
Clavier, Book II" composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1744.

Kiyoshi Tamagawa, professor of music and chair of the Music Department, 
has performed throughout the United States and in several foreign 
countries as a soloist and collaborative pianist. His association with 
the distinguished violinist Eugene Fodor over the last decade has 
resulted in more than 30 recitals and a CD, "Witches' Brew." Recent
concerts include performances on the Bargemusic series in New York and 
recitals with Fodor at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in 
Guanajuato, Mexico, and in Mumbai, India. Other artists with whom he has 
played include members of the Shanghai Quartet, soprano Julianne Baird 
and New York Philharmonic cellist Evangeline Benedetti. The Bach cycle 
will be repeated at Texas State University and The University of Texas 
at San Antonio this fall.

The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, 
call Lacy Vain at 512-863-1379.

MEDIA COVERAGE

The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article on the upcoming Wycliff Jean 
concert. The /Sun/ also ran an article on the groundbreaking for the SU 
Habitat for Humanity house.

 

NOTABLES

In June, *Katy Ross*, assistant professor of modern languages, presented 
a paper titled "Representaciones de la madre en Un milagro en equilibrio 
de Lucía Etxebarria" at the Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades 
(Hispanic Association for the Humanities) conference in Madrid, Spain. A 
longer, English version of the paper was accepted for publication in a 
volume titled (M)Othering the Nation: Constructing and Resisting 
Regional and National Allegories Through the Maternal Body, which will 
be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2007.

*A.J. Senchack Jr.*, professor of business and holder of the Lucy King 
Brown Chair in International Business, was an invited presenter and 
participant in a professional development workshop, "Management and the 
Liberal Arts," that was held at the national meeting of the Academy of 
Management, Aug. 13-15, in Atlanta. Participants in the workshop were 
from liberal arts colleges with business programs, and many of them will 
also be attending the national conference on the liberal arts in 
business education to be held at Southwestern University Nov. 8-10. This 
conference is being hosted by the SU business faculty.

*David Tabb Stewart*, assistant professor of religion, helped facilitate 
the "Summer Workshop in College Teaching" at North Central College in 
Naperville, Ill., during July. This six-day workshop was jointly 
sponsored by the Society for Values in Higher Education and the Virginia 
Foundation for Independent Colleges. Stewart has been named director of 
the 2007 workshop to be held at the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore, 
Md. Stewart also presented a morning-long faculty seminar to the Society 
for Values in Higher Education's "Religion and Violence Group" titled 
"The Outrage at Gibeah: Judges 19-21."


 

 

 

 
 
 
 
  	  	 

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