Chiara Briganti, professor of English, delivered two papers: “The Spatial Turn and the Reclamation of the Everyday” was delivered at the Crossroads Conference in Tampere, Finland; “Thou Art Full of Stirs, a Tumultuous City” was delivered at the Literary London Conference at Goldsmiths College.

Deborah Appleman, the Class of 1944 Professor of Educational Studies and the Liberal Arts, was the keynote speaker for the Australian Literacy Educators Association National Conference. The title of her talk was “Reading and Resisting Ideology, or, What’s a Theory For?”

Deborah Gross, assistant professor of chemistry, presented a talk titled “Analysis of Individual Vehicle Emissions Particles with Real-Time Mass Spectrometry” at the American Chemical Society’s Great Lakes regional meeting. Co-authors on the paper presented were Bill Galush ’02, Julia Jarvis ’01, Amy Silverberg ’02 and Ellen Sukovich ’01. At the same meeting, Silverberg and Galush presented a poster titled “Mass Spectrometry of Individual Aerosol Particles: Correcting Size Bias Within ATOFMS Data” that was co-authored by Gross. Gross also was an invited lecturer in the aerosol and particle measurement short course for professionals offered by the University of Minnesota Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Jerome Levi, associate professor of anthropology, recently presented a paper he co-authored titled “The Cosmology of Coke and Other Tales: Fluid Signs of Commodity Fetishism” at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology in Toronto.

Joel Weisberg, professor of physics and astronomy, published an article titled “General Relativistic Geodetic Spin Precession in Binary Pulsar B1913+16: Mapping the Emission Beam in Two Dimensions” in the Sept. 10 edition of Astrophysical Journal.

Kimberly Baker, visiting assistant professor of biology, published a paper titled “PTEN Blocks Insulin-mediated ETS-2 Phosphorylation Through MAP Kinase, Independently of the Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Pathway” in the journal Human Molecular Genetics.

Mark McKone, professor of biology and director of Cowling Arboretum, and Stacey Halpern ’93 co-authored a paper titled “The Evolution of Androgenesis” that will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal American Naturalist.

Mary Louise Knutson, adjunct instructor in jazz piano, performed a solo piano concert at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. The three-part concert, titled “American Piano,” featured Knutson performing a retrospective of jazz pianists of the 1950s-1970s. Her program included compositions by Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Chick Corea and Dave Brubeck.

Maurice Clark, visiting assistant professor of physics, has had a paper titled “Asteroid Lightcurve Photometry from Goodsell Observatory” accepted for publication in the journal Minor Planet Bulletin. The paper deals with photometric observations Clark made during his summer research.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, associate professor of anthropology, presented a lecture in German titled “A Multidimensional Approach to Reproductive Insecurity” at the Ethnologisches Seminar at the University of Zürich in Switzerland, and presented papers on collective memory, generation and reproductive health at the Medicine, Culture, Power conference at the University of Minnesota. Feldman-Savelsberg also published a chapter titled “Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health Problem? An Emic View from the Grassfields of Cameroon” in the book “Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender and Reproductive Technologies.”