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SNAPSHOTS What’s In a Name?

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Babette E. Babich, Ph.D., A&S
professor of philosophy, recently published an essay titled “Mousike techne: The Philosophical Praxis of Music in Plato, Nietzsche, Heidegger,” in Gesture and Word: Thinking Between Philosophy and Poetry (Continuum, 2002). She also published an article titled “Nietzsches Chaos sive natura: Natur-Kunst oder Kunst-Natur” in Natur und Kunst in Nietzsches Denken (Böhlau, 2002).

Parantap Basu, Ph.D., A&S
associate professor of economics, presented a paper titled “Foreign Direct Investment, Inequality and Growth” at the 3rd Annual Missouri Economics Conference jointly sponsored by the research divisions of the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and St. Louis, April 11-12. The conference was hosted by the University of Missouri-Columbia. During the spring semester, Basu also coordinated an economics lecture series sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham College at Lincoln Center and Fordham College at Rose Hill.

Norman Cowie, Ph.D., A&S
assistant professor of visual arts, screened his short film, Welcome to New York, on April 13 at the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Cantor Auditorium. The film looks at the connections between neoliberal policies and conservative think tanks in New York City during the 1990s through the lens of Mayor Giuliani's “quality of life” campaign. It tied for Best Documentary at the 2002 Athens International Film and Video Festival and was Best Documentary Short at the 2002 Boston Underground Film and Video Festival. The screening was part of the Brooklyn Arts Council's 37th International Film and Video Festival.

Joanne Dobson, Ph.D., A&S
adjunct associate professor of English, recently published her latest academic mystery novel, The Maltese Manuscript (Poisoned Pen Press, 2003).

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., A&S
Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, delivered the annual Spring McGinley Lecture, “True and False Reform in the Church,” on April 23. Other recent lectures include: “Deepening Our Faith,” Corpus Christi Parish, Chatham, N.J., March 26; and “Catechesis and the Challenges of Contemporary Culture,” Marist College, April 14. He participated in the panel discussion, “Jewish-Christian Relations in the New Millennium: From Contention to Cooperation,” at the 92nd Street Y, on April 3. He also attended meetings of the Communio Study Circle in Stamford, Conn., and the “Dulles Colloquium” in New York City. Recent publications include: “Vatican II: Substantive Teaching: A reply to John W. O’Malley and Others,” America, No. 188; “The Population of Hell,” First Things, No. 133; “The Eucharist as Sacrifice” and “The Eucharist and the Mystery of the Trinity” in Rediscovering the Eucharist: Ecumenical Conversations, edited by Roch A. Kereszty. Cardinal Dulles also received the Jerome Award from the Catholic Library Association for outstanding excellence in scholarship.

Gloria Durka, Ph.D., GSRRE
professor of religious education and family ministry, recently published the following articles: “Teaching for Beauty,” in Panorama: International Journal of Comparative Religious Education and Values (Spring 2003); “The Amazing Grace of Teaching,” in The Virginia Journal of Education (Spring 2003); “The Teacher's Calling,” in the 2002 Proceedings of the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, Leading With Hope: The Vocation of the Religious Educator. She presented a paper titled “The Teacher’s Calling” at the annual meeting of the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, held in Philadelphia, Nov. 1-3, 2002. She was also recently named to the editorial board of the Journal of Teacher Education and Training.

Natalie Friedman, Ph.D., MC
visiting assistant professor of English, recently published an article titled "How to Make Your Students Cry: Lessons in Atrocity, Pedagogy, and Heightened Emotion,” in The Bulletin (February 2003). The Bulletin is the publication of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion.

Donna Gitter, J.D., BUS
assistant professor of legal and ethical studies, recently published an article titled “The Conflict in the European Community Between Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights: A Call for Legislative Clarification of the Essential Facilities Doctrine,” in American Business Law Journal (Spring 2003). She has been invited to present this research at two conferences in Europe this June—the International Conference on Business Economics, Management and Marketing, which will be held at the Athens Institute for Education and Research, and the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference in Venice.

Quamrul Haider, Ph.D., A & S,
associate professor of physics, presented a paper titled “Limitations of Final-State-Interaction Analysis in Studying the Formation of Eta-Mesic Nucleus,” at the Annual Nuclear and Particle Physics Meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Philadelphia, April 5-8. The paper was co-written by L.C. Liu of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Charles Hallett, Ph.D., GSAS
professor of English, will publish his essay, “ ‘For she is changed, as she had never been’: Kate's Reversal in The Taming of the Shrew,” in the Shakespeare Bulletin (Fall 2003).

Andrew S. Hillman
visiting lecturer of diplomacy for the graduate program in International Political Economy and Development (IPED), just concluded a difficult role as the lead U.S. negotiator on a United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR 1472), adopted March 28, 2003, to modify the UN Oil-for-Food program as a central means for expediting delivery of essential humanitarian supplies to the Iraqi people. He is a senior career foreign service officer assigned to the United States Mission to the United Nations.

Paula Harrington, Ph.D., MC
assistant professor of English, presented her paper titled “War Text in Context: Stephen Crane's 'The Little Regiment,’” at the New York State English Association (NYSEA) conference held at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in April. Another of her papers, “Eating Our Own: Mark Twain's 'Cannibalism in the Cars,’” has been selected for presentation at the American Studies Association’s annual conference, which will be held at the Hartford Civic Center in October.

Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., Ph.D., A&S
Distinguished Professor of Theology, delivered the annual Cardinal Suenens Lecture at John Carroll University on April 3. She also delivered the keynote address for the annual Spirituality Convocation of the Diocese of Paterson, N.J., at the College of St. Elizabeth, April 5. Her essay, “Worth a Life,” was published in Vatican II: Forty Personal Stories (Twenty-Third Publications, 2003).

Virginia T. Kaiser, Ph.D. MC
associate professor of social work, presented a paper titled “Social Work and History: Cross Discipline Team Teaching in a Learning Community,” at the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Annual Program Meeting in Atlanta on Feb. 28. She also completed site visitor training, which will enable her to serve the CSWE as a member of an accreditation review team.

James R. Lothian, Ph.D., BUS
Distinguished Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Research in International Finance, presented a paper titled “International Money and Common Currencies in Historical Perspective” and served on the scientific committee at the Tor Vergata International Conference on Banking and Finance, at the University of Rome, Dec. 4-6. He is currently a visiting scholar in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, where he presented a paper titled “Movements in Exchange Rates and Relative Price Levels in the Netherlands and Britain Over the Past Four Centuries.” The Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF), which Lothian edits, and the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics recently co-sponsored a conference on the regional and international implications of financial instability in Latin America at the University of California in Santa Cruz. JIMF will publish a selection of these papers in a special issue. Lotian’s article, “Has International Financial Integration Increased?” will be published in the July issue of Open Economies Review.

John P. McCarthy, Ph.D., A&S
professor of history and director of the Institute for Irish Studies, delivered a lecture titled “A Reappraisal of the Role of Kevin O’Higgins in Irish History” to the Local History Group at Waterville, in County Kerry, Ireland, Feb. 19. He discussed "Ireland Today," at the Rotary Society of New York luncheon, held at the Princeton Club on March 18; “Recent Irish History,” at the Irish American Club of St. Joan of Arc Parish in Jackson Heights, N.Y., on April 12. He also delivered a lecture titled “The Religious Flavor of the Irish Constitution” before the Young Lawyers Committee of the Guild of Catholic Lawyers of New York, April 28. He reviewed Irish Foreign Policy, 1919-1966: From Independence to Internationalism, edited by Michael Kennedy and Joseph Morrison Skelly, for the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 27-8 (2001-02).

Philip Napoli, Ph.D., BUS
assistant professor of communications and media management in the School of Business, was recently named to the advisory board of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council. He also published an article titled “The Public Interest Obligations Initiative: Lost in the Digital Television Shuffle” in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (March 2003). He presented a paper titled “Competitor Analysis and Information Overload in a Rapidly Changing Environment: A Participant Observation Perspective on the Broadcast Television Industry” at the annual meeting of the National Business and Economics Society in March. He presented three papers at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in San Diego, May 23-27.

Wullianallur R.P. Raghupathi, Ph.D., BUS
associate professor of information systems, recently published an article titled “Strategic IT Applications in Health Care,” which he co-wrote with Joseph Tan, in Communications of the ACM (December 2002). He has also published short fiction and poetry in the New School University’s online magazine, DIAL.

Nina Tassi, Ph.D., ADM
associate vice president of academic affairs, recently delivered a paper titled “Reading the Book of Jeremiah After the American Apocalypse” at the annual conference of the College English Association in St. Petersburg, Florida, April 3.