03/08 - Time: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Interdisciplinary Faculty Research Conference

"The Wake of Memory"

The 10th Annual University-wide, Interdisciplinary Faculty Research Conference at SCSU

"The Wake of Memory" will be our 10th annual university-wide, interdisciplinary faculty research conference. Our primary objective is to foster a culture of research and scholarship among faculty at SCSU. The conference is also designed to continue a dialogue between our diverse range of departments and disciplines. This conference will again involve faculty from five academic schools and at least 12 departments, including Computer Science, Economics and Finance, Education, Educational Leadership, English, Foreign Languages, History, Management/MIS, Philosophy, Psychology, Public Health and Social Work. Our colleagues will consider the ways their research and teaching engage the theme of "memory." Their presentations will address both theoretical and practical questions. In addition to the valuable sharing of research that will occur, we also hope to encourage curricular collaborations.

Our keynote speaker -- Catherine Filloux (left) -- will evoke a range of associations with commemoration, memorialization and remembrance; modes crucial for individual and collective mourning and witnessing. Ms. Filloux is an award-winning playwright who has been writing about genocide, human rights, and social justice for the past twenty years.  Her plays have been produced in New York and around the world. For example, in 2007, her play Lemkin's House, was performed in Sarajevo and Brussels. The Breach, a collaboration with playwrights Tarell McCraney and Joe Sutton about Hurricane Katrina was commissioned and produced in 2007 in New Orleans. She also wrote the libretto for the Cambodian-American rock opera Where Elephants Weep (Composer Him Sophy) that previewed in Lowell, Massachusetts, 2007; and will premiere in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in2008.   Ms. Filloux's many awards include the PeaceWriting Award (Omni Center for Peace), Roger L. Stevens Award (Kennedy Center), Eric Kocher Playwrights Award (O'Neill), and the Callaway Award (New Dramatists). She has been Fulbright Senior Specialist (Cambodia and Morocco), William Inge Center for the Arts Playwright-In-Residence, and Thurber Playwright-In-Residence. She is a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders, a volunteer organization engaged in international theater exchange.

Our conference offers an excellent opportunity to meet colleagues from across the university and to learn about their research. Moreover, it offers a rare opportunity to recognize and nurture our intellectual pursuits as such. Our gathering offers a space in which we can appreciate those ineffable moments that -- while difficult to address or assess in quantifiable terms -- are indispensable to our scholarly and pedagogical pursuits.

Click here for the conference schedule (opens as a PDF document).

Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs
and supported by
the Office of Faculty Development

Please RSVP to  David Pettigrew at x26778 or Pina Palma at x26753,
(or to pettigrewd1@southernct.edu)

Location: Engleman Hall A120

Contact Information: David Pettigrew, (203) 392-6778 , pettigrewd1@southernct.edu