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NEWS RELEASE
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University
www.las.iastate.edu
9-8-09
Contacts:
Joe Kupfer, Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, (515) 294-0058 (jkupfer@iastate.edu)
Sandra Norvell, Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, (515) 294-1594 (snorvell@iastate.edu)
Steve Jones, Liberal Arts & Sciences Communications, (515) 294-0461 (jones@iastate.edu)
ISU Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
honors awardees, opens 2009-10 lecture series
AMES, Iowa – The Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (CEAH) at Iowa State University will honor its 2009 award winners as they present their research at a reception on Thursday, Sept. 17, 6-8 p.m. at the Oak Room in the Memorial Union.
At 8 p.m. that evening in the Memorial Union’s Sun Room, Des Moines Register columnist Rekha Basu will present a lecture titled “Global Hopscotch: The Borderless World and the Search for Home.” The lecture is part of CEAH’s series "Iowa in the Global Community" – an initiative providing a view of Iowa's place in the world.
The reception and lecture are free.
The opening reception will highlight Iowa State faculty members who have received research funding from CEAH, which supports distinction in humanistic scholarship and artistic creations at Iowa State University.
The 2009 CEAH Fellows for Scholarship and Creative Activity:
Annemarie Butler, Philosophy and Religious Studies -
Hume's Naturalistic Account of Philosophical Belief in External Objects
Jane Dusselier [with Tobie Matava], Anthropology -
An Online Resource Center for the Study of Japanese American Internment Art
Janet Fitzpatrick [with Sarah J. Kadolph], AESHM -
Ethnic Textile Traditions of Iowa Immigrant and Native Populations
Paul Griffiths, History -
Knowing England: Disciplining & Documenting Individuals, 1500-1700
Heidi Hohmann, Landscape Architecture -
A Scenic and Civic Hydrology: History of the Minneapolis Park System
Jeffery Houghtby, History -
Common Land and Community in Early Modern Burgundy, 1500-1793
Sarah J. Kadolph [with Janet Fitzpatrick], AESHM -
Exhibit Catalog: Ethnic Textile Traditions of Iowa Immigrant and Native Populations
Thomas Leslie, Architecture -
A Combination of Strength and Beauty: the role of Building Technology in the Transformation of the 'Chicago Style' 1904-1934
Olga Mesropova, World Languages and Cultures -
Humor in Transition: Russian Monologue Comedy from Gorbachev to Putin
John Monroe, History -
Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture, France, and the Invention of 'Primitive Art'
Teresa Paschke, Art and Design -
The Influence of Globalization on Ornamental Styles and Surface Patterns
Leland Poague, English -
'Tell Me the Story So Far': Hitchcock and His Writers
Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Library -
'Women's Archives Reader' (published monography, scheduled for publication in 2011) and 'Biological Identities: Reproductive Issues in U.S. Archival Collections’; (article in monography)
Kimberly Zarecor, Architecture -
Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: The Architecture of Industrialized Housing in Early Postwar Czechoslovakia
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For more information, see:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~ceah/Opening09.htm
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~ceah/basu.htm
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2009/sep/Basu
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