This newsletter, prepared monthly, provides highlights of the Performance Plan Updates developed by H&SS Department Heads of news within their departments. Represented here are works accomplished: grant awards, program and curricular initiatives, appointments, publications, performances, conference papers, and the like.

AWARDS

Sinhwa Kang, Ph.D. candidate in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in LL&C has been awarded a $1500 scholarship to attend the Doctoral Consortium and deliver her paper: Sin-Hwa Kang, S., Gratch, J., Wang, N., & Watt, J. (2008). Does the contingency of agentsí nonverbal feedback affect usersí social anxiety? In Padgham, Parkes, Mueller and Parsons (eds.), Proceedings of AAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16.

APPOINTMENTS

Michael Mascarenhas, Asst. Prof. in STS, served as United Nations' FAO Expert Consultation on Improving Planning and Policy Development in Aquaculture, Rome, Italy.

Sal Restivo, Prof. in STS, was appointed a member of the Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia, Italy, Graduate Program in Knowledge Design.

Ron Sun, Prof. in Cognitive Science, was re-elected to the Board of the Governors, the International Neural Networks Society (INNS),  2008-2010.

PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCES & EXHIBITIONS

Sharon Anderson-Gold, Prof and Head in STS, has an edited volume, Kant's Anatomy of Evil: Interpretative Essays and Contemporary Applications accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press. This volume includes her essay "Kant on Radical Evil and Crimes against Humanity".

Curtis Bahn, Assoc. Prof. in Arts, performed in the MahaDeviBot Sessions by Karmetik Collective Featuring Ajay Kapur, Curtis Bahn and Arne Eigenfeld, University Cultural Center Theatre, Singapore during the NUS Singapore National Arts Festival 2008 on Feb. 24; he organized the 3rd annual CeC & CaC (pronounced "Sek & Sak") presented by The Academy of Electronic Arts in partnership with the India International Centre, and participated in two nights of live multi-media  performance with Aparna Panshikar, Ansuman Biswas, Lawrence Casserly, Martin Gottfrit, Kenneth Newby and Aleksandra Dulek in New Delhi, India on Feb. 16-17; and performed Face Removal Services with Jesse Stiles during Troy Night Out at  Revolution Hall on Jan. 25.

Caren Canier, Prof. in Arts, had a one person show at the Mark Potter Gallery, The Taft School, Watertown, CT, January 25 - March 5 where she was also the Rockwell Visiting Artist.

Shawn Lawson, Asst. Prof. in Arts, premiered "Effervescence" a new 3D animation at a curated exhibition, "Path of Light" for the 2008 conference on Iridescence at Arizona State University.

Pauline Oliveros, Distinguished Prof. in Arts, published her score: Magnetic Trails for Violin and Piano, Deep Listening Publications; and "The Nature of Listening" - IDC - Institute for Distributed Conferencing on WWW and ‘The Collective Intelligence of Improvisation', Kosmos Journal.

Bill Puka, Prof. in Philosophy, contributed an article "A Dissent on Dissent: Educating For Bad Citizenship" to a volume on dissent being published on Ashley Press.

Sal Restivo, Prof. in STS, published "Society, Social Construction, and the Sociological Imagination,"  an invited commentary in Constructivist Foundations 3(2), 2008, 94-96.

Neil Rolnick, Prof. in Arts, had his work, Shadow Quarter, performed by the Cantiamo String Quartet at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, The Cedar Cultural Centerin Minneapolis, MN on Feb. 28.

Ron Sun, Prof. in Cognitive Science, published "Social Institution, Cognition, and Survival: A cognitive-Social Simulation" with I. Naveh in Mind and Society, Vol.6, No.2, pp.115-142. 2007.

James Zappen,  Prof. in LL&C,  published a review of "The Unity of Plato's Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life, by Devin Stauffer" in Rhetoric Review 26 (2007): 326-29; and a review of "Rhetoric Online: Persuasion and Politics on the World Wide Web," by Barbara Warnick for the Quarterly Journal of Speech 94 (2008): 116-21.

LECTURES AND PANELS

Sharon Anderson-Gold, Prof and Head in STS, delivered the keynote lecture "A Cosmopolitan Peace" at Lewis University's "Perpetual Kant: Peace, Politics and our Enlightenment Heritage" in Illinois on Feb. 21.

Curtis Bahn, Assoc. Prof. in Arts, organized and participated in Change Agents Conclave, panel discussion on the future of experimental art and performance, India International Centre, Delhi on  Feb. 15, and Performed a lecture/demonstration with Aparna Panshikar Indian Vocalist: "Extending Cultural Esthetics in Contemporary Performance," India International Centre, Delhi,  Feb. 17.

Nancy D. Campbell, Assoc. Prof. in STS, presented an invited lecture, "Gendering Addiction," to the Departments of Women's Studies and Biology and Society at the Arizona State University. She also gave a presentation, "Between Science and Politics" at the Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at the Arizona State University on Feb. 19.

Michael Mascarenhas, Asst. Prof. in STS, participated in the Semi-annual Meeting of the The Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges & Universities' Steering Committee, Beacon, NY.

Ron Sun, Prof. in Cognitive Science,  was an invited colloquium speaker, Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Nov. 14, 2007.