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Emeritus Center to hold meeting
Jennifer A. McDonough, vice president for university advancement, will speak on "University Development at UB: An Update" at the next meeting of the Emeritus Center, to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in 102 Goodyear, South Campus.
The talk is free and open to the public.
For further information, contact the Emeritus Center at 829-2271.
Baldy center to hold workshops on book publishing
The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the Law School will sponsor two workshops aimed at facilitating publishing for UB faculty members.
A Book Publishing Workshop will be held from 12:30-2 p.m. today in 545 O'Brian Hall, North Campus. The workshop is open to faculty from any discipline interested in learning more about the book-publishing process, and will be lead by Alex Schwartz, senior book editor at the University of Chicago Press.
The workshop will address topics that include:
What should be included in a book proposal and what needs to be submitted with it
How to choose a press and how to approach the editor
What to expect in the review process
Writing a book vs. writing an article
Changes in publishing over the past 10 years and how these changes impact authors.
The Baldy Center also is organizing intensive workshops on books about law or legal institutions, or any aspect of law and social policy authored by a UB faculty member.
The first workshop, to be held from 3-6 p.m. today, will look at the manuscript for "Interpreting State Constitutions in a Federal System: A Jurisprudence of Function," written by James Gardner, professor of law.
The workshop is designed to be an interdisciplinary discussion that will provide helpful feedback to the author, and will be conducted by a small group of interested faculty and an outside commentator, Robert Schapiro, professor of law at Emory University.
A workshop to be held in January will discuss the manuscript for "The Ethnic Effect: The Effect of Ethnicity on Electoral Politics in New Democracies," written by Johanna Birnir, assistant professor of political science. David D. Laitin, professor of political science at Stanford University, will be the outside commentator.
Faculty members interested in attending these workshops should contact the Baldy Center at 645-2102 or baldyctr@buffalo.edu. The center will forward to all participants copies of the book manuscripts to be discussed.
Other book manuscript workshops will be held. Faculty members who are completing a book manuscript and are interested in receiving feedback on it can contact Lynn Mather, director of the Baldy Center, at 645-5541 or lmather@buffalo.edu.
Baldy Center to host workshop on economic and social right in Canada, U.S.
The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy will host a workshop tomorrow through Sunday on how Canada and the U.S. meet international standards in economic and social right.
Titled "Sleeping Under Bridges: Economic and Social Rights in Canada and the U.S.," the workshop will look at issues that include trade union rights, homelessness, economic rights in American foreign policy, Aboriginal/Indian rights, welfare racism and the rights of the disabled and economic migrants.
Workshop organizers are Claude Welch, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Canada Research Chair in Global Studies and Political Science in the Global Studies Program at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.
The workshop is intended to address distrust in the international human-rights community of �the West� for not paying attention to its own deviations from international human-rights law. The workshop will look at abuses of economic human rights inherent in developed capitalist societies, including the problem of class distinctions. At the same time, by comparing the U.S., Canada and Western Europe, the workshop will explore the differences among various Western societies in terms of their economic and social rights.
For more information, call the Baldy Center at 645-2102 or go to http://www. law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/ecosoc03.html.
CFA to present Beijing Opera troupe
The Center for the Arts will present the Beijing Opera Monkey Troupe from the International Center of Beijing Opera in "Excerpts from The China Beijing Opera 'The Monkey Knows No Walls'" at 8 p.m. on Oct. 17 in the Drama Theatre in the CFA, North Campus.
This adaptation of "The Monkey Knows No Walls" is a short tribute to the many art forms that comprise Chinese opera: music, song, stylized dance and posture, facial expression, martial arts and mystical stories of the immortals of heaven.
"The Monkey Knows No Walls" is centered on "Monkey King" the famous hero of "Journey to the West." The handsome monkey knows his destiny, so fears nothing. "Knowing no walls," even as a little monkey, he soon became the king of the land of fruits and flowers. He traveled all the continents looking for the immortal master and found him. Even though the master would teach no one, he taught the monkey the secrets of transformation. The story then continues when the Monkey King meets the Turtle, Dragon King of the Easter Ocean, the Heavenly Maiden, the Heavenly Warriors, Green Dragon and White Tiger.
The performance is split into two parts. Part one consists of a review of the tradition, techniques and characters of the Beijing Opera, which will include a lecture and demonstration with some audience participation. Part two consists of the performance of "The Monkey Knows No Walls." A question-and-answer session will be held at the end of the performance.
The Beijing Opera Monkey Troupe's version also incorporates traditional-style shadow puppetry not found in the Chinese stage performances. This troupe, true to form, portrays all the characters in masks that mimic the traditional face-paint makeup of Chinese opera.
Ticket holders for this performance also will be admitted to a special reception and advance viewing of the "Chinese Maximalism" exhibition in the UB Art Gallery in the CFA. The reception will begin at 7 p.m. (See story on page for more details about the "Chinese Maximalism" exhibition.)
Tickets for "Excerpts from The China Beijing Opera 'The Monkey Knows No Walls'" are $10 for the general public and $5 for UB students. They are available at the CFA box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations
For more information, call 645-ARTS.
Three receive student Fulbrights
A UB graduate student and two 2003 graduates have received Fulbright grants, all to Canada, for 2003-04, a new UB record, Mark Ashwill, director of the World Languages Program and UB's Fulbright Program adviser, has reported.
They are:
Debra Kolodczak, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Media Study.
Based at Carleton University in Ottawa, Kolodczak's research will examine the canoe's association with native peoples leading to an investigation of its role in Canada's frontier settlement and tourism industry. She also plans to explore the use of the canoe through the lenses of work, play, symbol, and show; look at two unexamined artifacts of the canoe's manufacture, and raise awareness in the U.S. and Canada of native peoples' many contributions to the nation's identity.
Casey O'Hara, who graduated cum laude in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in geography and a minor in French. O'Hara's Fulbright project is entitled "Location Based Services in the United States and Canada: A Comparative Study of Trends in the Commercial GIS Sector." He is based at the Universit� Laval in Quebec City.
Gary Winston, who graduated in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in geography and French. Winston, also based at the Universit� Laval, is working on a project entitled "Study in Economics and International Trade in Canada: NAFTA and the FTAA."
Four UB students were named Fulbright alternates. The students and their fields of study and Fulbright bases are Beverly Andrews (installation art, Canada), Marcus Marenda (philosophy, Germany), Joshua McMurray (law, Japan) and Carter Williams (music, Sweden).
Bonnie Bullough lecture set
Geraldine "Polly" Bednash, executive director of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, will deliver the Seventh Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 16 in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Bednash will speak on "Rediscovering Nursing: The Societal Imperative to Evolve."
The Seventh Annual Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching also will be awarded at the Bullough Lecture. The award, established by current dean Mecca Cranley, recognizes the importance of teaching to the mission of the School of Nursing.
The lecture is free of charge and open to the public. While there is no fee to attend the lecture, reservations are required and should be made by end of business today by calling 829-2533 or emailing sams@buffalo.edu.
Bednash has been the executive director of the AACN, which represents 550 schools of nursing at public and private universities and senior colleges nationwide, since 1989. She serves as the vice president for nursing for the Health Professions Education Council of the Association of Academic Health Centers and is a member of the editorial boards of several leading nursing publications. This past August she was included on the list of the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" by Modern HealthCare Magazine.
The Bullough Lecture was created by Vern Bullough in memory of his wife and colleague, Bonnie, dean of the School of Nursing from 1980-91 and a professor on the nursing faculty until 1993. The endowed lecture fund is used to bring nationally prominent figures in the field to speak to the School of Nursing community. The lecturers address topics relevant to the profession of nursing that benefit students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the School of Nursing, as well as other health professionals in the greater Buffalo community.
First World Series to be topic of reading
Louis P. Masur, author of "Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series," will give a reading from his book at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Allen Hall Theatre, South Campus.
The reading is part of the "Meet the Author" series presented by WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate.
WBFO music director Bert Gambini will be the host.
The event is free and open to the public; a reception and book-signing will take place following the reading, which also will be broadcast live on WBFO. Copies of "Autumn Glory" will be available for purchase at the event, courtesy of Talking Leaves bookstore.
A post-season series of games to establish supremacy in the major leagues was not inevitable in the baseball world. But in 1903, the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates challenged the Boston Americans to a play-off, which he was sure his team would win. It didn't—and that wasn't the only surprise during what became the first World Series. In "Autumn Glory," Masur tells the story of two agonizing weeks in which the stars blew it, unknown players stole the show, hysterical fans got into the act and umpires had to hold on for dear life.
Professor of history at City College of New York and editor of "Reviews in Amercan History," Masur also is the author of "1831: Year of Eclipse."
Kolb to deliver Rustgi lecture
Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb, founding head of the NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Group at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, will speak on "The Quantum and the Cosmos" during the 11th annual Moti Lal Rustgi Memorial Lecture, to be held at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in 114 Hochstetter Hall, North Campus.
KOLB
The Rustgi lecture, presented by the Department of Physics, will be free of charge and open to the public.
A native of New Orleans, Kolb received a doctorate in physics from the University of Texas and performed postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was the J. Robert Oppenheimer Research Fellow. He has served on the editorial boards of several international scientific journals, as well as Astronomy magazine.
A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society, Kolb was the recipient of the 2003 Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the 1993 Quantrell Prize for teaching excellence at the University of Chicago. His book for the general public, "Blind Watchers of the Sky," received the 1996 Emme Award of the American Aeronautical Society.
The field of Kolb's research is the application of elementary-particle physics to the very early universe. In addition to more than 200 scientific papers, he is a co-author of "The Early Universe," the standard textbook on particle physics and cosmology.
He also teaches cosmology to non-science majors at the University of Chicago and participates in Fermilab's Saturday Morning Physics Program for high-school students and the Department of Energy's high-school physics program for gifted students,
For further information on the Rustgi lecture, contact the Department of Physics at 645-2017, email Michael Fuda at fuda@buffalo.edu, or go to the Department of Physics Web site at http://www.physics.buffalo.edu .
Theatre and Dance to present "Forum"
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present a student production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" Oct. 16-19 and Oct. 23-26 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Shows are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
Media sponsor for this production is WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by UB.
The production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is based on the book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gilbert, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It is directed by Lynne Kurdziel-Formato, assistant professor of theatre and dance.
The story, which takes place in ancient Rome, is set in motion when a middle-aged couple, Senex, and Domina, leave for vacation. Their slave-in-chief, Hysterium, is left to take care of the household while their only son, Hero, is in charge of their other slave, Pseudolus.
The plot revolves around Pseudolus, who will do almost anything to gain his freedom. When Pseudolus is left in the care of his owner's young son, who has fallen madly in love with a beautiful courtesan, the fun begins. The young boy promises Pseudolus his freedom if he can arrange a marriage before his father returns. Pseudolus, of course, agrees. But not even the conniving slave can foresee the tangled web that he is about to weave.
Tickets for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" are $15 for the general public and $6 for UB students. Tickets are available at the CFA box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster locations.
For more information, call 645-ARTS.
CFA to present Gov't Mule
The Center for the Arts will present Gov't Mule, with special guest Chris Robinson & New Earth Mud, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Mainstage theater in the CFA, North Campus.
This show is sponsored by the Student Association; media sponsor is WBUF-FM.
Gov't Mule was formed in 1994 by guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody, both from the Allman Brothers Band, along with drummer Matt Abts. The influence of the Allman Brothers Band is apparent in their music, as well as the incorporation of the psychedelic, bluesy power-trio feel of the band Cream.
The band's self-titled debut album reached no. 5 on the Billboard album charts. In 1998, they released their major label debut, "Dose," under Capricorn Records, with a follow-up double live release in 1999, "Live…With a Little Help From Our Friends."
Since 1994, Gov't Mule has toured relentlessly, gaining fan bases around the world. The band has toured with Dave Matthews Band, Black Crowes, Blues Traveler, Widespread Panic, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jethro Tull and Steve Miller.
Woody died unexpectedly in August 2000, and the band's future was uncertain. Rather than replace Woody, the surviving members elected to gather many of their favorite bassists and those who had the most influence on Woody to collaborate together on their next two albums, "The Deep End Volume I" and "The Deep End Volume II."
Gov't Mule since has added keyboardist Danny Louis to its full-time lineup. A replacement bassist is expected to be announced soon.
Former Black Crowes lead singer Chris Robinson and his band, New Earth Mud, will open the concert. After reaching great success with the Black Crowes in the 1990s, Robinson began to feel burned out as a result of conflict and constant touring, and started to work on his own. In 2002, he teamed up with guitarist Paul Stacey and he completed his solo debut album, titled "New Earth Mud."
Tickets for Gov't Mule, with special guest Chris Robinson and New Earth Mud, are $27. Tickets are available at the CFA box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and at all Ticketmaster locations.
For more information, call 645-ARTS.
Lecture to examine good, bad and ugly aspects of digital capitalism
Distinguished communications historian Daniel Schiller, of the University of Illinois—the scholar who coined the term "digital capitalism"—will speak at UB on Oct. 16 on an issue that experts say is of increasing importance for democratic societies.
It is the economy-wide network developed to support a growing range of intracorporate and intercorporate business processes—a network that Schiller says is of utmost importance to the architects of global capitalism. Schiller says the pursuit of this goal has produced a flagrant crisis in the communications sector that is the result of in an orgy of speculative and highly irresponsible network building brought about by what he calls a "sweeping metamorphosis of the structure and policy of existing telecommunications."
Schiller's talk, "Digital Capitalism: The Corporate Commonwealth of Communications and Information," will take place at the 7 p.m. in the University Archives, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus. It is open to the public and free of charge, and will be preceded at 6 p.m. by a public reception.
The School of Informatics, the UB Libraries' Archives and Poetry/Rare Book Collection, and other campus groups will sponsor the event.