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BRAVO! Stephen Katz (Sociology) gave the keynote address, Fashioning Agehood: Lifestyle Imagery and the Commercial Spirit of Seniors Culture, at a conference on Childhood and Agehood: Equals or Opposites, in Denmark, April 7-9. He gave a paper, The Making of the Gerontological Handbook: Textual Practices and the Sciences of Old Age, at a conference on Science and Culture: Metaphysical Reductionism and Professional Practice, at Trent May 9-11; an invited seminar, Women's Studies, Aging Studies and the Rise of Gerontological Knowledge: The Case of Charcot's Clinical Lectures, at the Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan, May 29; and a paper, Aging, Activity and the Management of Bodily Life, to the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, June 8-11 at Memorial University. At Surface Canada '97 in Sherbrooke last May, modelling applications graduate student Suresh Narine and physics professor Alan Slavin presented a paper, A High Resolution Quartz Microbalance for Studying Sub-Monolayer Deposits. Slavin and doctoral student Michael Robinson also presented a paper, Initial Oxidation of Ultrathin Indium Deposits on the Gold(111) Surface, and of Polycrystalline Indium. While in Peru as faculty adviser to the World University Service International Seminar, John Topic (Anthropology) presented a conferencia magistral, Las audiencias de Chan Chan y el desarrollo de la burocracia Chimu, at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de Trujillo, June 17. On July 8, he presented a paper, La guerra Mochica, to the International Congress of Americanists in Ecuador. Don McCaskill (Native Studies) has received a $49,783 grant from the provincial Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy to design and deliver five workshops on community-based evaluation to staff in aboriginal agencies. He will be working with Mark Dockstator (Native Studies). McCaskill received another $34,000 from the Canada Fund Vietnam to offer ethnic minority leadership training and curriculum development workshops over the next two years in northern Vietnam. Trent is working with Hanoi's Institute of Ethnography to offer the leadership training. Gordon Winocur (Psychology) gave an invited talk, Transgenic mice: A Potential Model for Alzheimer's Disease, at the International Conference on Behavioural Genetics in Toronto in July. He gave an invited paper, Psychosocial Influences on Cognitive Function in the Elderly, at the World Congress on Gerontology in Adelaide, Australia in August. Mark Neufeld (Political Studies) has been appointed chair of Committee Five (Public and Private Policy Studies) which adjudicates doctoral fellowships for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in its annual national competition. Stephen Bocking (Environmental and Resource Studies) presented a paper, Scientific Activity and Images of the Canadian Arctic, at a conference, Collective Memory and Heroic Science in Nordic Arctic Experience, in Oslo, Norway on Aug. 30, and an invited paper, Understanding Nature: Individuals, Institutions and Regions in the History of Ecology, at Umea University, Sweden, on Sept. 1. Geography professor Alan Brunger edited, with colleague Fred Helleiner, The Proceedings of CAGONT'96: The Annual Meeting of the Ontario Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers as occasional paper no. 16 in the Geography Department's series. Brunger presented a paper, The Great Flood: Interpreting Early Damage Claims from Public Works on the Trent Canal, and chaired a session on historical geography at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers at Memorial University in August. Peterborough MP and Trent professor Peter Adams has been elected chair of the parliamentary standing committee on procedure and house affairs, responsible for House of Commons matters and legislation such as the Elections Canada Act. He is also parliamentary secretary to the government house leader. Andrew Wernick (Cultural Studies) presented a paper, Globalization and Promotional Culture, at Michigan State University (East Lansing), organized by the Honor Society for International Scholars, the Centre for Advanced Study of International Development, and the Centre for International Business Education and Research on Sept. 9. He also presented a paper, Rayban Man, the Olympics and Globalization, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, as part of a special visit sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society on Sept. 11. Bravo! highlights professional achievements and associations of faculty, staff and students. Send details by e-mail to communications@trentu.ca. |
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