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Faculty and staff are invited to the College's 12th annual Baccalaureate at 3:30 pm, Saturday, June 10, in 131 Hitchcock Hall. Alumnus Brian Besanceney (B.A. History/Political Science) will give the Baccalaureate address. Mr. Besanceney is the assistant secretary for public affairs in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. RSVP: College of Humanities, 292-1882. Please encourage graduating students to participate. Visit the College of Humanities Student Information Web pages.

John Conteh-Morgan, French and Italian: translation with an introduction of Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment by Louis Sala-Molins (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006).

Jane Hathaway, History:  "The Forgotten Icon: The Sword Z lfikar in Its Ottoman Incarnations," Turkish Studies Association Journal 27, 1-2 (2003): 1-13.

Dale Van Kley, History: "Catholic Conciliar Reform in an Age of Anti-Catholic Revolution" was reprinted in Religious Differences in France, Past and Present, ed. Kathleen Perry Long (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2006): 91-140.

Brian Hauser (English), Marian Lupo (English), and Yongfang Zhang (East Asian Languages and Literatures), are recipients of the Graduate Associate Teaching Award, the university's highest recognition of exceptional teaching by graduate associates.

Graduate student Christine LaHue, History, was awarded the Washington College Fellowship in Early American History for a month-long residency at the Athenaeum by the Boston Athenaeum. While there she will present her research at the C.V. Starr Center at Washington College, Maryland.

Jane Hathaway, History, participated in a Faculty Exchange Program between the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Damascus University, May 9-23. She presented "The Ottoman Decline Paradigm and Ottoman Decline Writers" to the History department faculty and graduate students and engaged in a question-and-answer session with History department undergraduate students.

Robin Judd, History, served as the inaugural Holocaust Scholar-In-Residence for the Bexley Public Schools. She met with twenty-five different History and Government classes as well as high school and middle school faculty. Following her two days of teaching, she presented "The Nazi Seizure of Power and the Interwar Debates over Toleration."

Christopher Reed, History, delivered the annual Hulsewé-Wazniewski Lecture in Chinese Art and Material Culture at the Sinological Institute, University of Leiden, The Netherlands on May 17. He spoke about his current research on print communism and its role in advancing China's Gutenberg revolution from 1921 to 1966. On May 18, he offered a workshop on the role of nostalgia in literary accounts depicting Beijing's booksellers and antiques district Liulichang from the mid-18th century to the mid-20th century.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, presented "Beauty Queens, Medical Doctors, and Radical Activists: Explorations of Asian American Identity through History, Visual Culture, and Documentary Film" at the University of Chicago on May 16 as part of the Amandla Lecture Series. She served as a discussant for a roundtable entitled "Unexpected Journeys: Reflections on the Significance of the Japanese American Internment Oral History/Documentary Project" at Ohio State University on May 19, which was sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Caucus of Graduate and Professional Students (APAC) Brown Bag Series. She also presented "A Vietnamese Negro: Robert S. Browne, the Antiwar Movement, and the Global/Personal Roots of Black Inter/Nationalism" at the Stanford University Humanities Center Asian Americas Workshop on May 30. Annelieke Dirks was also presenter on the "Unexpected Journeys" roundtable, and undergraduate student Genna Duberstein, who also presented on the roundtable, placed first in the Humanities Division of the Denman Research Forum for her project entitled, "Faces of the Past, Voices of the Present: The Uses and Effects of Combining Oral History and Film."

Lee Martin, English, will discuss and sign his book, The Bright Forever, a 2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Fiction, 7:30 pm, June 8, Barnes & Noble, Easton, The discussion will be facilitated by Kacey Kowars, host of the Kacey Kowars Show.