Le Moyne College

2013 Edition of The Salamander Now Available

The 2013 edition of Le Moyne’s student-edited literary and arts magazine "The Salamander" has just been published. Free copies are available at various locations around campus.
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Syracuse James Joyce Club 2013 Creative Writing Contest: Deadline May 29

The James Joyce 2013 Writing Contest awards will be presented during our 20th “Bloomsday,” Saturday, June 15, in Grewen Auditorium. “Bloomsday” is celebrated around the world with the reading of James Joyce's classic, "Ulysses," widely considered the major novel of the 20th Century. Our marathon reading event, from noon until 10 p.m., follows the format of a Dublin-style Bloomsday. A number of Syracuse community leaders in media, theatre, academia, literature, sports and political life, will each select and read a brief excerpt from Joyce's writings. As part of the Irish American Cultural Institute, the SJJC Bloomsday performances annually attract a wide and diverse audience. Through the generosity of Le Moyne College, the Joyce Club is offering $1000 in cash prizes, including two memorial awards, in acknowledging the extraordinary contribution to the Club since its founding by Nancy Duffy and Richard Long. Winners will also receive attractive Joyce award certificates. The writing contest is limited to Central New York students, with separate prizes for college students and high school seniors. Each applicant should electronically submit either: • a critical essay relating to Joyce: his life, his work, his influence, etc; or • a short story, to be preceded by a brief description of its pertinence to Joyce’s characters, settings or techniques. Entries should be sent as an attachment to an email to the Syracuse James Joyce Club (SJJC), in care of Professor Michael Loudis at loudismj@morrisville.edu The James Joyce Club Scholarship Awards are intended to recognize the intellectual curiosity of our young people, while promoting an awareness in our schools of Joyce’s contribution to modern literature. For further information (not submittals!), contact: Basil Dillon-Malone, Chair, James Joyce Contest 2013, 4083 Sweet Gum, Liverpool, N.Y. 13090 Phone: (315) 622-1132 email: dillon-malone.basil@arcomlabs.com Additional Contest Rules [1] The limit for the high school essay is 1000 words for high school seniors, 1500 words for college students. Short stories should not exceed 3000 words. [2] A separate title page must accompany the entry, with the following information only: Entry title; student name; address; phone; name of H.S. school or college currently enrolled-in (including location); number of words; student signature; date submitted. [3] The student’s name may not appear on the entry itself. The title must appear on the entry. [4] Entries should be received by Tuesday midnight, May 29, 2013.
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MacKendrick Publishes Article

An article by Professor of Philosophy Karmen MacKendrick, Ph.D., titled "The Shameful Mysteries: Carnal Remains" has been published in *Analecta Hermeneutica,* the journal of the International Institute for Hermeneutics. The article is part of a topical issue titled "Refiguring Divinity: Continental Philosophy of Religion."
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Craig Publishes Articles

David Craig, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, has published several articles including "Dynamical eigenfunctions and critical density in loop quantum gravity" in the journal "Classical and Quantum Gravity" [Class. Quantum Grav. 30 035010 (2013)], as well as two articles with LSU co-author P. Singh, “Consistent Probabilities in sLQC” in a refereed conference proceedings [J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 360 012028 (2012)], and "Consistent Histories in Quantum Cosmology" in the journal "Foundations of Physics" [Found. Phys. 41 371-379 (2011)].
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College Receives Grant from Arts & Cultural Research Fund

A cross-disciplinary team of faculty has received funding to conduct research on the consequences of various types of social capital for civic life in the arts community, as well as the financial return on investment of fostering a strong relationship between the arts community and other local banks of social capital. The $15,000 grant is derived from the Arts & Culture Research Fund, which includes contributions by the New York Community Trust, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York Council for the Humanities, and the John R. Oishei Foundation. Given the recent economic downturn and its effects on arts organizations state-wide, the researchers hope to find correlations that will help arts and cultural organizations to create long term sustainability models. The research team includes professors Matthew Loveland (Sociology), Travis Newton (Arts Administration), Delia Popescu (Political Science) and Frank Ridzi (Sociology). The team also includes Olive Sephuma, Director of Community Grantmaking at the Central New York Community Foundation. “We understand intuitively that cultural activities are essential for the health of the community,” says Le Moyne Provost Linda LeMura, “but research is imperative to gauge how the arts integrate with the economic interests of the city. Our team of interdisciplinary scholars bring their diverse talents to bear on this challenge.” Research findings will be disseminated in a number of ways, including a policy memo to be circulated online, via local community and arts organization list-servs, and through presentations to interested arts and cultural institutions. Team members will also tweet results periodically, using #SocietyAndArt.
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Makuja Participates in Religion and Foreign Policy Series

Darius Makuja, Ph.D.,religious studies, on Monday, May 20 participated in an On Record Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series on “Foreign Policy Begins at Home,” presented by Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), moderated by Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series seeks to engage religious and congregational leaders, scholars, and thinkers from across the country in cross-denominational conversations on global issues. Each call, led by a CFR expert or religious community leader, provides a nonpartisan forum for discussion on pressing, international issues.
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Michaelson and Kirby Present at A.P.S. Convention

Christina Michaelson, Ph.D., and Brenda J. Kirby, Ph.D., will present their research at the 25th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, D.C. , May 23-26, 2013 (Lesbians and Gay Men Teaching and Adopting Children: Comparative Morality Judgments by American Catholics vs. the General Public). The paper has also been accepted for publication in the Journal of Homosexuality. Kirby is also presenting her research on jury deliberation with 2013 graduate Marissa Goyden and 2012 graduates Carrie Jessen and James MacArthur (Lies, Damn Lies, and Confessions: Interrogation Practice and Jury Decision-Making).
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