Professional Activity

Dr. Patricia Pedroza, Women’s & Gender Studies, will present at The Summer School: “Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons” which will take place in Barcelona, Spain, July 9-19. The submission of her Performance-Essay “La Morena y el Toro/TORITO: A Mestiza Possibility when Serpent is not the Symbol of Female Sexuality” was accepted as analysis and investigation of the impact of the teaching about decolonial paradigms in the sphere of knowledge and higher education. This seminar is offered through the Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues, in Barcelona, Spain, in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

In April of 2012, Gina Velasco, an assistant professor in Women’s and Gender Studies, was invited to give a public lecture at Colgate University, titled “Performing the Filipina ‘Mail Order Bride’: Queer Neoliberalism, Affective Labor, and Homonationalism.” In addition to her lecture, Professor Velasco co-taught a faculty workshop on teaching queer studies within a transnational framework. Professor Velasco also organized and participated in a roundtable discussion on Asian American queer performance at the Association for Asian American Studies national meeting in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Jim Chesebrough (assistant professor of Music) and Rob Skrocki ‘14 were invited to present a workshop entitled “The Playground’s No Fun If You Can’t Work the Slide! Trombone Articulation” at the New Hampshire Music Educators Spring Conference held at the Grapone Conference Center in Concord on April 13. This clinic reviewed the basic techniques for teaching slide/articulation skills to young trombonists. Rob Skrocki is a talent scholarship recipient at Keene State College, majoring in Music Education with a concentration in trombone.