PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
SPONSORED BY THE CENTER IN AY 2001-2002 I. Funding for Teaching and Research Enriching Classroom Teaching: Conferences Total Spent: $2,194.30
Funds were awarded to Dan Schlapbach, Fine Arts, to attend the 2002 National Society for Photographic Education Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Enriching Classroom Teaching: Materials Total Spent: $ 964.97
Funds were provided for the Dept. of Classics to replace stolen camera equipment. Purchased were a Single Lens Reflex camera with two lenses—a 50mm lens for making copy-slides for classes on the department copy stand and a 28-105mm lens to be used on-site and in museums to take new slides for classes.
Sponsor: Martha Taylor, Classics Department. Faculty Publication Costs Total Spent: $3,786.35
Funds were distributed to nine different faculty members for costs incurred related to publication. The faculty members, and the publications, are as follows:
1. John Marciari , Fine Arts, “Girolamo Muziano and the Dialogue of Drawings in Cinquento Rome” in Master Drawings , Spring 2002, Vol 40.2
2. Brennan O’Donnell, English, “The ‘Invention’ of a Meter” in JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology
3. Kathleen Forni, English, The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Counterfeit Canon
4. Gary Scott, Philosophy, Does Socrates Have a Message?
5. Vigen Guroian, Theology, Incarnate Love, editor
6. Graham McAleer, Philosophy,
7. Jean Cole, English, The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity
8. Ron Tanner, Communication, Toying with Culture
9. Janet Headley Paper translated for international conference in Strasbourg Faculty Publication Library Total Spent: $ 509.93
Funds were distributed to three faculty members for the purchase of their recently published books to be distributed to other members of the faculty.
1. Gary Scott, Philosophy, Plato’s Socrates as Educator
2. Brennan O’Donnell, English, “The ‘Invention’ of a Meter” in JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology
3. Joe Walsh, Classics, Were They Wise Men or Kings? Junior Faculty Sabbaticals and Expenses
The Center reimbursed the college for one semester’s salary plus a portion of benefits for three junior faculty members granted junior faculty sabbaticals. Additional funds were distributed to cover costs related to the sabbaticals. The faculty members, and the titles of the research projects, are as follows: 1. Nicholas Miller, English, “Irish Independents: Cinema, Partition and the New Ireland”
2. Matthew Mulcahy, History, “Melancholy and Fatal Calamities: Natural Disasters and Colonial Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1781”
3. Daniel Schlapbach, Fine Arts, “Victorian Virtual Reality: A Contemporary Reinterpretation”
Awards Total Spent: $11,311.93
- Funding was provided for the Nachbahr award and related events (lecture, reception and dinner). This year’s award was granted to Dr. Stephen Fowl, Dept. of Theology. His talk was “Generosity and Wisdom: Jesuit Higher Education and the Life of the Mind.”
- Up to $1,000 in funding was provided for each of the eight departments in the Humanities for the distribution of student writing awards.
Student Summer Fellowships Total Spent: $13,690.33
Funding was provided for three student summer research fellowships, including stipends for their faculty mentors. - Jennifer Aversa with Katherine Brennan, History, “Absolute Motherhood: Queenship and Political Materialism in the Reign on Elizabeth I of England”
- Kathleen Barker with Robert Miola, English, “Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s The Roaring Girl: Editing a Renaissance Play”
- Charlotte Zogby with Angela Leonard, History,“Between the Lines: A Newspaper Analysis of the Montogomery Bus Boycott”
Student Research Assistant Program
Total Spent: $ 2,125.33
Funding was provided for 15 student assistants to work with different faculty members. Summer 2001
Sharon Haskell with Phil McCaffrey, English Department
Gemma Bridges with Judy Dobler, Communication Department
Debra Anderson with Janet Headley, Fine Arts Department
Karla Jenkins with Angela Leonard, History Department Fall 2001
Sarah Sandoski with Lia Purpura, Communication
Karla Jenkins with Angela Leonard, History
Gemma Bridges with Judith Dobler, Communication
Michelle Backes with Phil McCaffrey, English
Christopher Ryan with Tom McCreight, Classics
Randy Beeler with Cheri Wilson, History
Natania Barron with Jane Satterfield, Communication Spring 2002
Gemma Bridges with Judith Dobler, Communication
Sarah Sandowski with Lia Purpura, Communication Summer Study Grants for Adjunct Faculty Total Spent: $12,000.00
Four grants of $3,000 were given for the summer of 2001
The faculty recipients of these grants are as follows: Summer of 2001
1. Angela O’Donnell, English, “The Sense of Place: Geography and the Literary Imagination”
2. Willie Young, Theology, “Friendship and Disciplines of Reflection: The Case of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy.”
3. Jane Satterfield, Communication, “Great Hungers: Language, History and Desire”
4. William MacLehose, History, “The Significance of the Child in Twelfth-and Thirteenth-Century French and English Culture” Cardin Chair Total Spent: $ 495.49
Expenses were incurred in conducting a search for the Cardin Chair for the AY 2002-2003.
Team-Teaching Grants Total Spent $ 7,999.99
Janet Headley, Fine Arts Department, Brennan O’Donnell, English Department, and Ronald Pearl, Fine Arts Department were granted a team-teaching grant to teach a course called “Romanticism in Art, Literature, and Music” in the fall of 2001.
II. Funding for Lectures, Performances, and Other Public Events
The Humanities Symposium: Total Spent: $20,966.33
Text: Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pear Earring
Theme: “Crossing Boundaries”
Funding and other support was provided for the following events: - “Less is More: Turning Vermeer into a Novel” Keynote lecture by Tracy Chevalier, author of the symposium text.
- Modern Masters Reading Series with Tracy Chevalier read from her latest novel Falling Angels
- “Crossing Musical Boundaries” A concert by the DaCamera Singers and Players, Earnest Liotti Director with pianists Nancy Roldan and Alejandro Cremaschi. The music included pieces by William Billings, Alexander Borodin, Charles Ives, and Carlos Guastavino.
- Screening and discussion of the film, The King of Masks, Tian-Ming Wu, director. China, 1996
Departmentally sponsored lectures on Chevalier’s Girl with a Pear Earring and related themes: - “The Uses of Maps in Seventeenth-Century Europe” Professor Richard Kagan, History Department, Johns Hopkins University Co-sponsored by the History Department
- “Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind” Professor Arthur G. Zajonc, Physics Department, Amherst College Co-sponsored by the Physics Department
- “From Vesuivius to Vermeer: Roman Painting and Later European Art” Professor Debbie Felton, Classics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Co-sponsored by the Classics Department - "How Historians Read a Historical Novel” Panel discussion with Professors Katherine Stern Brennan, Bill Donovan, and Kelly DeVries of Loyola College Co-sponsored by the History Department
- “Vermeer and the (Psycho)analysis of Paintings” Professor H. Perry Chapman, Art History Department, University
Co-sponsored by the Fine Arts Department
Lectures, Performances, and Series:
Modern Masters Reading Series: Total Spent: $16,569.57
This series was comprised of readings and other events, such as master-classes on craft or class visitations, involving the following distinguished authors and poets: Michael Collier. Professor of English at University of Maryland, College Park. Named Maryland’s 2001 Poet Laureate. Author of several volumes of poetry including The Clasp and Other Poems; The Folded Heart; and The Neighbor; and The Ledge. Judith Kitchen. Author of Distance and Correction; Only the Dance: Essays on Time and Memory and many others. Winner of several wards including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. Stephen Dunn. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his recent collection, Different Hours. Dunn is a Trustee Fellow in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. E. Ethelbert Miller. Chair of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. He has been the
director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University since 1974. He is the author of Andromeda; Migrant Worker, First Light and many others. Tracy Chevalier. Her first novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, became a New York Times Bestseller. Gregroy Djanikian. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he is the author of four collections of poetry and his poems have appeared in many journals and reviews. He directs the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania. Margot Livesey. Born and raised in Scotland, she has published four novels, most recently, Eva Moves the Furniture . She is currently a writer in residence at Emerson College in Boston. Marita Golden. The author of many novels. Her novel Long Distance Life, a best-seller, was cited as Best Book of the year by the Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley. Since 1990 she has headed the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, which presents the nation’s only fiction award for college writers of African descent. F.X. Toole. Toole has worked as an actor, a bullfighter, a boxing trainer and a writer of fiction. A a recent winner of the Anisfiel-Wolf Book Award.
Shenandoah Shakespeare Express Total Spent: $ 6,200.00
The traveling theater company presented three plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, and the Alchemist .
Faculty Sponsors: Bryan Crockett and Bob Miola, Dept. of English
Voice Master Class Series Total Spent: $3,536.56
This series focused on the different styles required in contemporary American vocal music and the practical ramifications upon the vocal health of the singer who hope to perform it as professionals. The performers who led the classes were Marni Nixon, the voice of Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, of Natalie Wood in West Side Story and of Deborah Kerr in The King and I , and by William Riley, a long time voice trainer for theater and opera singers.
Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Hart, Dept. of Fine Arts
Theology Dept. Lecture Series Total Spent: $3,623.36
Text: Epistle of James with the theme of Righteousness and Justice. The theology department brought two speakers to campus: Professor Robert Wall of Seattle Pacific University gave a lecture, “Acquire Wisdom, Accumulate Wealth? The Epistle of St. James for Today.” Beverly Gaventa, Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminar gave a lecture, “Faith/Deed: How does faith work in the epistle of James?” Sponsor: Stephen Fowl, Theology Annual Colloquium on Language Literature and Society Total Spent: $ 6,684.32
“The Orient Through Different Lenses”
Speakers were Roberto Campo, Charles M. Sennott, Col. Wm. J. Taylor
Co-Sponsored with the Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, Education for Life, and Multicultural Affairs.
Sponsors: Gisele Child-Olmsted and Ursula Beitter
Open Ears, Open Minds
Contemporary Chamber Music at Loyola
Three concerts were presented with music written within the last ten to fifteen years by Thomas Ades, James Marshall, D.J. Sparr, Jeffrey Mumford, Daniel Asia, Anna Larsen, Allan Schindler, Elizabeth Vercoe and Steve Antosca.
Sponsor: Anthony Villa, Fine Arts
Individual Lectures and Performances Total Spent: $33,181.85
- The Seventeenth Annual Jerome S. Cardin Lecture, Supported by the generosity of the Jerome S. Cardin Family. Keynote Speaker Peter Steinfels, Columnist, The New York Times “Anger and Indifference: The Doubtful Future of Catholic-Jewish Dialogue” Commentaries by Judith H. Banki, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding and The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, O.S.M., Professor of Social Ethics and Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program Catholic Theological Union
Sponsor: Ron Tanner, Communication - Conference on Newman’s The Idea of a University
Speakers included L. Gregory Jones, Michael Buckley, S.J., and Ian Kerr
Co-sponsored with Lily Fellows Program
Sponsor: Angela Christman, Theology - Lecture by Patricia Williams on “Seeing a Color-blind Future: The Paradox of Race”
Sponsor: Dale Snow and Judith Dobler, Gender Studies - "The Wrath of Achilles” performed by the Aquila Theater Company
Co-sponsored by the Honors Program.
Sponsor: Martha Taylor, Classics Department - Lecture and reading by Patricia Hampl “Catholic Autobiography” based on her memoir Virgin Time. Co-sponsored by the Theology Department, Catholic Studies, the Dean of Freshmen, the Communication Department, and the Women’s Center.
Sponsor: Arthur Sutherland, Theology - Lecture by Abraham Malherbe on “Hospitality and the Formation of Early Christian Communities”
Sponsor: Arthur Sutherland, Theology - Compositions of Anthony Villa featured performances of the Jazz/Chamber composition of Anthony Villa.
Sponsor: Janet Headley - Film showing and lecture by the director, Doug Wolens, of his film Butterfly
Sponsor: Mark Osteen - Lecture by Debbie Felton on “From Vesuvius to Vermeer: Roman Painting and Alter European Art”
Sponsor: Tom McCreight, Classics - Lecture by Marcicarmen Margenot on “Southern Spain’s Mark of Identity: Seville and its Holy Week”
Sponsor: Tom Ward, Modern Languages and Literatures - Lecture and classes by Michael Budde on “Christianity as a Religious Preference: The Nature and Significance of a Bad Idea”
Sponsor: Steve Fowl, Theology - Lecture and Film Screening by Robert Gardner of his film: Islam: Empire of Faith
Sponsor: Mark Osteen, English - Next Year in Jerusalem: An Instructed Passover
Sponsor: Angela Christman, Theology Department - 7th Annual Faculty Retreat
Sponsor: Angela Christman, Theology Department - Lecture by James Baxter on “New Zealand Poetry and Catholicism”
Sponsor: June Ellis, English - Reading by V. Penelope Pelizzon from her collection of poems Nostos .
Sponsors: Jane Satterfield and Ron Tanner, Communication - The 18th Annual Sr. Cleophas Costello Lecture: Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimes: On (Not) Getting by in America
Co-sponsor with the Mount Saint Agnes College Alumnae Association.
College Sponsor: Brian Bowden, Director of Alumni Relations.
Miscellaneous
- Viviana Holmes cataloging of the Mexican objects in Loyola’s Collection
Sponsor: Janet Headley, Fine Arts - Funds to clean and wax Polish bronze commemorative medallions in the Loyola College permanent collection by Stanley Nij.
Sponsor: Janet Headley, Fine Arts - Faculty Friday
A monthly social gathering of faculty across the college intended to foster interaction of faculty across the disciplines.
Sponsor: Janet Maher, Fine Arts
III. Honors Program Total Spent: $41,500.44
The Honors Program receives half of its funding from the College’s regular operating budget and half from the Center for the Humanities. The Center pays for expenses related to the Honors Experience, as outlined below, as well as for the certain administrative costs associated with running the program (Programs Coordinator salary; photocopying; postage). Student-Faculty Colloquia
The following is a sampling of student-faculty colloquia held throughout the year, in addition to those colloquia that built on other performances and lectures around campus.
Visit the Medieval World: Guided Tour of the Cloister’s Museum
Great 20th Century Painting: Guided Tour of the Cone Collection
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol : A Discussion
Discussion of William Blatty's The Exorcist
Viewing and discussion of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgosie a film by Luis Bunuel (France, 1972 )
Classical Guitar Recital: Eduardo Fernandez
Performances and Exhibits
Students were given the opportunity to attend the following performances and exhibits
Plays - The Pajama Game Book by George Abbott & Richard Bissell, music & lyrics by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross;
- A Raisin in the Sun By Lorraine Hansberry
- Three Tall Women By Edward Albee
- A Winter's Tale By William Shakespeare
- Blithe Spirit By Noel Coward
Museum Tours
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Cloisters
Concerts:
Six different concerts performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Film Series
- M, Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany
- Children of Heaven, Majid Majidi, 1997, Iran
- East is East, Damien O’Donnell, United Kingdom, 1999
- The Sweet Hereafter, Atom Egoyan, 1997, Canada
- Open City, Roberto Rossellini, 1945, Italy
- The King of Masks, Tian-Ming Wu, China, 1996 Co-sponsored with the Humanities Symposium
- In the Mood for Love, Kar-wai Wong, 2000, Hong Kong
- Dreamlife of Angels, Erick Zonca, 1999, France
Social Gatherings The Center funded a picnic and Christmas party for honors students, as well as a wine tasting for senior honors students with wine critic and Political Science professor, Michael Franz. Miscellaneous Each Professor teaching in the program received $500 to fund course-related extra curricular activities with students (e.g., attendance at Walters Art Gallery exhibits, admission to the BMA, etc.)
Attendance at the National Collegiate Honors Council by the director of the program and four students;
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