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The Illinois Associated Press has honored the WGLT News Department for Journalistic Excellence for the seventh consecutive year. For the third straight year, no downstate radio station won more awards than GLT. WGLT won five awards in this year’s contest, three first place honors and two second. The first place awards were Best Reporter (Willis Kern), Best Newswriter (Charlie Schlenker), and Best Newscast (3:54 P.M. GLT News). The second place awards went to Kern in the Best Newswriter category and to the GLT News team of Kern, Schlenker and Jim Browne for Outstanding News Operation.
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Joan Brehm
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The Illinois State University and Illinois Wesleyan chapters of Sigma Xi will host a seminar featuring Joan Brehm, who will present “Enhancing Lake Management Efforts Through the Nexus of Place Attachment and Behavior” on Thursday, March 27 at 5:30 p.m. in Room 369 of the ISU College of Business Building. Brehm is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her research analyzes the interactions among place attachment, place meanings and willingness to support or engage in environmentally responsible behaviors.
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, was founded in 1886 as an honor society for scientists and engineers to foster interaction among science, technology and society; encourage appreciation and support of original work in science and technology; and honor scientific accomplishments.
The presentation is free and open to the public. For more information about the science seminar, contact Renee Tobin at rmtobin@ilstu.edu or Marjorie Jones at majone3@istu.edu
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Conference Attendees
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On March 19 nine outstanding speakers with expertise on the effects of various forms of gender-based violence (including rape, domestic abuse, political and structural forms of violence, forced migration, psychological abuse, detainment, and torture) participated in a conference sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program, the Department of English Diversity Committee, the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program, the College of Arts and Sciences, and Diversity Advocacy, Dean of Students (MECCPAC). Participants in this conference work with African American, Latino/a, and refugee communities in Chicago, as well as numerous communities globally in places such as Rwanda, Sudan, Argentina, Guatemala, and Kurdistan. The conference was organized by Rebecca Saunders, associate professor of English.
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Something of the Sacred
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Kristin Dykstra, assistant professor of English, recently published a bilingual edition of poetry by Cuban poet Omar Pérez, Algo del lo sagrado / Something of the Sacred (Factory School, New York). Originally printed in 1995 on the island, Algo del lo sagrado is routinely described by Cuban critics and writers as one of the most significant poetry collections produced on the island in the 1990s, and many of its poems appear in anthologies representing the period. Professor Dykstra worked with Pérez to translate the book over the course of several years. She drew on that experience to write the book's concluding essay, which provides context about the poet, the book, and issues that arose during the process of its translation into English. Five poems in this bilingual edition were translated by poet and translator Roberto Tejada, who has worked with Dykstra and Pérez on other projects in the past. In her essay, Dykstra notes that “Omar Pérez Lopez (1964) was born in the city of Havana and has lived most of his life to date in Cuba.”
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Shushan Avagyan
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Shushan Avagyan, a doctoral student in the English Department and one of the three authors of an experimental book of prose in three languages (An)daratsutian Mej or In the (Un)Space, presented on February 19 at a panel discussion entitled “Finding Language: Armenian Women Writing Across Translation” with Nancy Agabian and Lara Aharonian at the Graduate Center of CUNY’s Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center. Challenging traditional perception of translation as a barren act of imitation, the authors discussed translation as the principle of their book, the processes of writing from different geographical and cultural locations, and the materialization of translation in a collaborative act simultaneously involving three languages: Armenian, French and English. The discussants reflected on how each text, vastly different in style and content, echoes questions raised by the other two authors on literature, identity and cross-cultural perspectives on post-Soviet and diasporan reality.
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Julie Webber
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Professor Julie Webber, Department of Politics and Government and Women's and Gender Studies, received her PhD in Political Science from Purdue University in 2000 and joined the ISU faculty in 2001. She is the author or co-editor of four books, with two in progress. She has published several book chapters and articles in such journals as Educational Theory and Workplace. Her research interests include political theory, international relations theory, conflict and educational violence, and gender studies. Her next book, The Civic Gospel: Fundamentalist Politics in 21st Century America (co-authored with William M. Reynolds of Georgia Southern University) is in press. The book reflects on recent political shifts toward religion in the Midwest and south. The book will appear in the series Transgressions produced by SENSE Publishers, which makes books available free of charge and online to institutions in developing countries as identified by the World Bank.
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