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On Dec. 19 and 20, Professor of Comparative Literature Scott MacDonald served as a juror at the Black Maria Film Festival. The Black Maria, named for Thomas Edison's original filmmaking studio in New Jersey (it was covered in black tar paper), specializes in independent cinema, particularly on short documentary, experimental and animated films.

Kreisler's Long Sleep, a play written by Amy Biancolli Ringwald '85, will debut in Albany, N.Y., in January. It is based on her 1998 biography of Fritz Kreisler and features live performances by the violinist Christina Sunnerstam-Prince. Kreisler's Long Sleep will make its Albany bow in a staged reading on Monday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m., at Capital Repertory Theatre, 111 North Pearl St., Albany. 

Mason Fried '10 presented a paper at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December. He wrote the paper, "A Radial Pattern of Six Paleo Ice Streams Emanating from the Bruce Plateau Ice Dome, Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet: Constraints from Multibeam Bathymetry and GPS Rebound," with Eugene Domack, J. W.Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies; Miguel Canals (Universitat de Barcelona); J. Casamor and Matt King (Newcastle University, U.K.).

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"Coherence, Literature, Languages," an article that appeared in the Dec. 23 issue of InsideHigherEd, reported on a white paper released at the recent meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA) that addressed "new ways of organizing English and language programs within the general parameters of a liberal arts education." The article referenced the panel that wrote the report including its leader, Yale professor and former MLA president Michael Holquist, and Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung presented a paper at the Wenner-Gren Workshop on Translational Migration in East Asia at the University of California, Berkeley, in November. She illustrated the crucial role of the nightclubs for the development of a Korean migrant community in Japan.

Associate Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson published an article titled "The Rise of the Megachurches and Change in Religious Culture" in the online journal Sociology Compass on Dec. 12. 

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Hamilton Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods and Monk Rowe, director of the Jazz Archives, were featured in an Observer-Dispatch article, " The State of Utica's Jazz Scene."

Bill Ringle '44 wrote "Christmas Greetings" for Davidson News. Brenda Barger, Around Davidson correspondent, introduced him, "Today we hear from Bill Ringle, journalist extraordinaire, who was a member of the White House press corps from 1968 until 1988.  Prior to his duty at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., he spent some holidays away from his family while serving in World War II or teaching journalism in China."