Academics & Research

Spanish faculty, Dr. Ketevan Kupatadze and Dr. Mayte de Lama, presented at the VI Congreso Internacional organized by the Asociación Hipánica de Humanidades in Madrid, Spain, on June 28-30, 2012.

Michael Matthews presented his paper "La historia cultural del auge de los ferrocarriles en la época porfiriana: patrimonio intangible del cambio tecnológico en México" ( The Cultural History of the Porfirian Railway Boom: An Intangible Patrimony of Technological Change in Mexico) at the Semanario Internacional: Paisajes Culturales y Patrimonio en San Luis Potosí, México.

Kirstin Ringelberg speaks on her most recent scholarship into gender and contemporary art at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Toronto.

Kirstin Ringelberg, Associate Professor of Art History, presented her current work on the Japanese video installation artist Tabaimo at the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) conference at Rikkyo University in Tokyo on June 30, 2012.

Communications associate professor George Padgett and assistant professors Naeemah Clark and Julie Lellis presented at the Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations Conference June 11-13 in Vancouver.

Teresa LePors, coordinator of library public services, and Derek Rodriguez, program officer with the Triangle Research Libraries Network in Chapel Hill, presented a session at the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities 8th Annual Assessment Conference at Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C., on May 31, 2012.