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Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Omobolaji Olarinmoye recently published two articles and a book chapter.

“Apocalypse Now and Then: Four Rules for Watching the World End,” an essay written by Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate, appeared on The Huffington Post site on July 24. In his article, Plate discusses apocalyptic films both pre- and post-9/11 and assures his readers that “we've had apocalypses for so many years, and will continue to have them."

Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer will read at the Poetry Society of America’s New York City Poetry Festival on Saturday, July 27.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented “Worker Separation and Sorting Under Performance Pay: A Duration Analysis of Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data” on June 28 at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) conference in Milan, Italy.

Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer appears in a production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Also, he recently recently attended the True Acting program at Willamette University.

De Bao Xu, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented an invited talk at ICICE 2013, the International Conference on Internet Chinese Education, held July 11-14 in Pasadena, Calif.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas published an article in the first issue of Studio Cee, a new London-based magazine of the arts. The article "'The organic scribe: The range, depth and humanity in the printed work of Eusi Kwayana" examines the published work of Eusi Kwayana, a Guyanese polymath and politician.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill presented a paper titled “Black Spatialities: Technologies of Invisibility in Europe’s Border Regimes” at the Nordic Geographers’ Meeting, held June 11-14 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera and Scholar-in-Residence David W. Rivera led a workshop on pedagogical techniques in higher education on July 3 at the Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod (LUNN) in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio’s Academic Minute will feature William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Ernest Williams on Wednesday, July 17. The broadcast can be heard locally at 7:34 a.m. or 3:56 p.m. at 90.3 FM and on InsideHigherEd.com.