Arts and Humanities 2009-10: New Voices, New Visions
From Nona Fienberg, Arts and Humanities:
The “New Voices, New Visions” series features the voices of faculty members who have joined the Keene State College community in the past several years and the visions of faculty members exploring new and exciting areas of study. The Fall 2009 schedule:
- Field Work: The Evolutions of Environmental Literature (Tuesday, September 15, at 4:30 p.m., Thorne-Sagendorph meeting room)
Mark C. Long, professor of English and American Studies, and Laird Christensen, professor of English and Environmental Studies, Green Mountain College, will discuss their collaboration on a recently published collection of essays, Teaching North American Environmental Literature, as well as their contributions to the fields of environmental literature, ecocriticism, and place-based pedagogy.
- Voices of Resistance from the Pueblo: Eyewitness Accounts of the Political Situation in Honduras, Summer 2009 (Tuesday, October 6, at 4:30 p.m., Thorne-Sagendorph meeting room)
Dr. Candice Bosse, assistant professor of Spanish, will present political events in Honduras during the summer of 2009 from the perspective of Hondurans, as seen through personal interviews during a research visit to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, supported by the Whiting Foundation.
- Til Death Do Us Part: Royal Salvation Strategies in Late Medieval Cyprus (Tuesday, November 3. at 4:30 p.m.,Thorne-Sagendorph meeting room)
Dr. Stephen Lucey, assistant professor of Art, will present his research on a 15th-century chapel in Pyrga, Cyprus, and discuss the elaborate decorative program in light of the chapel’s intended memorial function and the ambitions of its founder, Janus de Lusignan, one of the last crusader kings.
