News and Events
Wednesday Memo
October 28, 2009
UMPeople
Alex Mechitov, Stephens College of Business, recently gave a presentation, titled “Brazil as an Emerging Economy: The Role of Higher Education,” at The U.S.-Brazil Arts and Culture Initiative: Challenges and Achievements in Linguistic, Cultural and Academic Exchange Conference, which was held Oct. 15-17 on the campus of the University of Montevallo. Mechitov’s presentation discussed economic development in Brazil and the role of national higher education in making that development more effective.
Lee Rozelle, English and Foreign Languages, delivered the keynote address Oct. 22 at the 10th Annual New Voices graduate conference at Georgia State University. His presentation at this conference dealing with “Literature and Rhetoric of the Apocalypse” was titled “Defying Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.”
Kimberly Barrett, Student Affairs, was invited to serve as a visiting professor at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan Oct. 18-20. She spoke with students, faculty, staff and community members about diversity in higher education. Her presentation during the faculty professional development luncheon Oct. 20 was titled “Beyond Access: Achieving Excellence Through Inclusion.”
Jim Murphy, English and Foreign Languages, participated in the 21st annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, held Oct. 22-24 at Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Miss. The theme of the symposium, “Time Goes Like A Dream No Matter How Hard You Run,” was taken from one of Welty’s stories. As such, the poets and fiction writers involved were invited primarily for their imaginative engagements of history. The following link to The Commercial Dispatch (Columbus, Miss.) yields a story on the symposium: www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=3456.
Clark Hultquist, History, gave a presentation, titled “The Meiji Restoration and the Making of Modern Japan, 1868-1912,” to the UAB New Horizons Group Oct. 21.