Kathleen Ryor, associate professor of art history, presented a paper titled “Wen and Wu in Ming Dynasty Art Patronage, Practice and Collecting” at the international conference, Military Culture in Imperial China, at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Phillip Rhodes, composer-in-residence and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, released a CD titled “With a Mountain View,” a collection of works derived from sources in the traditional music of the Appalachian South. This collection also features performances by other outstanding musicians from the Carleton faculty including the Veblen Quartet, Hector Valdivia, associate professor of music and the S. Eugene Bailey Director of the Orchestra, and Anne Mayer, the Dye Family Professor Emerita of Music.

Qiguang Zhao, professor of Chinese, recently published an article in China Daily, China’s major English newspaper, titled “Boosting Cultural Exchanges.”

Roger Paas, professor of German, recently published volume 7 of his broadsheet edition “The German Political Broadsheet 1600-1700.” This volume contains material from 1633-1648.

Timothy Raylor, professor of English, has published an article titled “Reading Machiavelli; Writing Cromwell: Edmund Waller’s Copy of ‘The Prince’ and Its Draft Towards ‘A Panegyrick to my Lord Protector’” in The Turnbull Library Record.

Yumiko Oshima-Ryan, assistant professor of music, gave a lecture recital titled “Contemporary Piano Music from Japan” and a Master class at Dequesne University in Pittsburgh. Oshima-Ryan also gave a fundrasing concert at Tokyo Children’s Library in Japan, and is releasing a CD, “From Afar.”

Chérif Keïta, professor of French, published an article titled “La Musique des Chasseurs: Moule de l’Identité Artistique de Salif Keita” in ‘La Chasse Traditionnelle en Afrique de l’Ouest, d’Heir à Aujourd’hui.’ In addition, Keita gave a seminar on “Tradition and Modernity in the Music of Salif Keita” and a media studies lecture on “The Epic Tradition in West African Cinema” at various universities.

Jim McDonnell, professor of English, presented a paper titled “Visionary Truth and Shakespeare Absurdity in William Trevor’s ‘The Story of Lucy Gault’” at the Mid-West Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies.

Sam Demas, college librarian and senior lecturer, presented on “Library as Place” at a symposium on “The Role of the Library Building in the 21st Century.”

Mark Hansell, associate professor of Chinese, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, a national organization that publishes journals, holds annual conferences and supports research into language pedagogy.