Faculty-Staff Achievements, Oct. 5, 2015
Activities
Yelena Biberman-Ocakli, assistant professor of government, presented her research on state outsourcing of violence to militias at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, India, and at the Center for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament at the Jawaharlal Nehru University this past August.
Reg Lilly, professor of philosophy,” gave a paper titled “Originary Trauma: When the Body Rules,” at July’s International Phenomenological Symposiy, Perugia, Italy. In April at SUNY Stony Brook, he gave a paper titled “Heidegger and Traumatology: On Death and Survivance.”
Christopher Mann, assistant professor of government, will be a panelist at an Oct. 16 conference at Yale about communication about climate change titled He will speak about the use of microtargeting to identify audiences for communication about climate change, discussing the use of "big data" about individuals across the US to determine their predispositions about climate change and how to most effectively communicate with them.
Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, gave a reading of his poetry at Old Songs in Voorheesville, Sept. 27. In July he conducted several pre-performance interviews with members of the New York City Ballet during their summer season at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, including ballet master in chief Peter Martins, principal dancer Sterling Hyltin, resident choreographer and soloist Justin Peck, and ballet master and former soloist Christine Redpath. The Peter Martins interview will be featured in an upcoming issue of Ballet Review.
Publications
Yelena Biberman-Ocakli, assistant professor of government,, published an article co-written with Feryaz Ocakli, assistant professor of government, titled “One Shield, Two Responses: Anti-U.S. Missile Defense Shield Protests in the Czech Republic and Poland” in , Vol. 43, No. 2, April 2015. She also recently co-wrote with Skidmore student Orr Genish ‘17 an article titled in the Small Wars Journal, September 2015.
Robert Boyers, professor of English, is the author of a new book, his 10th, published Sept. 8 by Columbia University Press in New York City. Titled The Fate of Ideas, the book is described by memoirist Phillip Lopate as "a brilliant, highly original, and delightful book that achieves a unique balance between criticism and personal essay." Among the "ideas" discussed in the book are authority, fidelity, pleasure, "the other," and among those who appear as characters in the book are Susan Sontag, Jamaica Kincaid, JM Coetzee and others drawn from all walks of life, including unfaithful husbands, psychoanalysts, terrorists and besotted beauty lovers. The book received a starred review from Publishers Weekly in August. .
David Cohen, assistant professor of Management and Business, is a co-author (with Meyer, C.R., Skaggs, B.C., and Nair, S.) of “Customer Interaction Uncertainty, Knowledge, and Service Firm Internationalization,” in Journal of International Management, Vol.21, No. 3, 2015. Cohen and collaborators looked at the means used by service firms to enter new national markets as a function of the characteristics that distinguish service firms from manufacturing firms. Their approach not only brings our literature into agreement with the international trade literature and recognizes entry modes available to service firms that are not available to manufacturing firms and thus have not received sufficient attention in the existing literature (e.g., bringing international customers to the home country or sending individual representatives to a new host country on a temporary basis).
Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, published several poems over the summer. “My Computer Reads Me a Poem” appeared in the annual Stone Canoe, No. 9 (2015); five poems (“Consumption,” “Legacy,” “The Little Black Boy,” “Sugar Skull,” and “Waking to the Enigma Variations”) in the British journal Stand, No. 205 (2015); and four poems from his forthcoming book, Enamel Eyes: A Fantasia on 1870 Paris (“Franz Gets a Lesson in Electromagnetism,” “Musing,” “The Paris Diet,” and “War of the Boulevardiers”) in Able Muse, No. 19 (Summer 2015).
This summer Rogoff once again reviewed dance events at the Saratoga Performing Arts
Center for The Saratogian, covering the New York City Ballet’s summer season and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
performance. In addition, “The Avant-Garde as Tradition at New York City Ballet,”
his essay-review of programs of Balanchine-Stravinsky works and dances by twenty-first
century choreographers, appeared in The Hopkins Review, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 2015), and “A Conversation with Wendy Whalen” in Ballet Review, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Summer 2015).
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