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Tim Salo (T&P)

Attended the 32nd Annual Communal Studies Association Conference held at Historic Harmony/ Old Economy, PA on Sept. 28-Oct. 1, 2005, taking historical tours and collecting research material. He presented a paper entitled " 'They brought themselves with them': The Origins of Rappite Radical German Pietism in 18th Century Wurttemberg and its basis for the 19th Century American Harmonist Society," at the International Conference on Pietism, Revivalism and Modernity, 1650-1850, and sponsored by the Department of Historical Studies, Umea Univeristet, in Umea, Sweden on Nov. 17-18, 2005. The papers of the conference will be published next year with Cambridge Academic Press.

Christopher Rodkey

Published the following in the journal, _Sacramental life_:

"A Polemic Against the Festival of the Christian Home"

"Remembering our Dead"

Two short book reviews.

He has also published the essay "Is Bad Philosophy Good Theology?" in The Newsletter of the North American Paul Tillich Society.

And in the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory:

Long book review of Lissa McCullough and Brian Schroder (eds.), Thinking Through the Death of God.

He had presented a paper at the Adventures in Philosophy Conference at New Jersey City University, in November, titled "Is Medical Experimentation on Prisoners Ethical?" and also chaired a session for the North American Paul Tillich Society at the AAR pre-meeting on Tillich and Symbol.

Dawn Digrius

Has a forthcoming publication:  "It Began With Pea Plants: Mendel, Inheritance and Evolution" in Icons of Evolution, edited by Brian Regal, Greenwood Press, forthcoming.

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Below is a list of the Drew graduate students who presented papers at the American Conference of Irish Studies MidAtlantic Regional Conference on November 11 and 12 here at Drew:

Terrie McCoy-- "Collecting Memories: Colportage in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds"

Johanna Church-- "Monastic Iconography in the Poetry of James Clarence Mangan and James Harpur"

Stephanie Dalianis-- "A Marriage of Old and New: A Look at the Modern Poetry of W. B. Yeats through the Lens of Greek Mythology"

William Bradley-- "St. Patrick on the Big Screen: Representations of History and Legend on Film"

Jean Minto-- "St. Patrick: The Reluctant Politician"

Joie Karnes-- "Memories of a Feminist Poster-Child?: Contradictory representations of Constance de Markievicz”

Jennifer Holly Wells-- “Reservations Across Time and Space: Regionalism and the Construction of Historical Memory in Seamus Deane and Louise Erdrich”

Kevin Huvane-- "The Show Won't Go On: Yeats’s refusal to produce O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie"

Karen Hill McNamara-- "'It Was a Life-Changing Book’: Tracing Cecil Woodham-Smith’s Impact on the Canon of Children’s Literature of the Irish Famine"

Lauretta Farrell-- "An Gorta Mor: Contemporary Commemorations of the Great Hunger"

Lori Bjornstad-- "The Great Vacuum: The Teaching of Irish History in American High Schools"

In addition, Johanna Church, Jennifer Holly Wells, Jean Minto, Kevin Huvane, and Terrie McCoy chaired panels during the conference.

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Amrita Ghosh, co-founder editor of trans-cultural electronic journal, _Cerebration_ interviewed eminent historian and writer, William Dalrymple in the special December Issue of _Cerebration_. The journal is currently sponsored by the CSGS and its editorial advisory board consists of well-renowned academics and authors like Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jack Lynch, Bapsi Sidhwa among some other professors from Drew and Indian journalists. The interview and new issue is available at: www.cerebration.org