Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson was an invited speaker and panelist at several recent conferences.

Lecturer in Music Performance Jeff Stockham had a role in Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln. According to an article in JazFax, Stockham was a member of the U.S. Marine Band that played at a ceremony at which President Lincoln delivered a speech.

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, has published an article on "Literary Patronage" in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (ed. R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A Erskine, and S. Huebner; Blackwell 2013).  This appears in the Wiley Online Library.

An article co-authored by Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was published in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD). “Economies of Scale Versus Participation:  a Co-operative Dilemma?” was written with Panu Kalmi of the University of Vaasa.

Professor of Africana Studies Vincent Odamtten presented two papers at the African Studies Association meeting in Philadelphia in November. The first paper, “Men at the Table: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Feminist Invitation” was part of a roundtable, “The Literary Artist as Public Intellectual: The Example of Ama Ata Aidoo.”

Amit Taneja, director of the Days-Massolo Center, was an invited speaker on serving the mental health and social services needs of diverse communities at Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc.

Anne E. Lacsamana, associate professor and chair of the Women's Studies Department, presented her paper "'Feminism Seduced'? Theory and Practice at the Crossroads" at the 33rd Annual National Women's Studies Association Conference in Oakland, Calif.  The conference took place November 8-11.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, and Ted Lehmann, assistant professor of government, contributed to the recently published Exploring the Global Financial Crisis, volume 18. It is part of the series Advances in International Political Economy, edited by Cafruny and Herman Schwartz (University of Virginia) under the sponsorship of the International Studies Association (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013).

Research conducted on a 57-day expedition along the Antarctic Peninsula in 2010 led by Eugene Domack, the J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, was the focus of a Dec. 12 article in the journal Nature. “Polar research: Trouble bares its claws” provided an overview of the changing ecological balance in the waters off Antarctica due to warming waters, highlighting Domack’s measurement of temperature changes during the last three decades.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, was invited to be a guest at the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in Saint Louis.  While there she gave a lecture titled "Juvenal the Roman Satirist: One Man or Many?"  She also gave a workshop for faculty and graduate students on "What is a Cinaedus?"