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Professional Activities
Santokh Tandon, Department of Chemistry, attended the 243th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, Calif., March 2012.
Denise Bedford, School of Library and Information Science, presented, “The Role of Knowledge Management in Creating Transformational Organizations and Transformational Leaders” at the 18th Annual International Deming Research Seminar in New York City, N.Y., Feb. 27-28, 2012. Summary: The paper suggests that we must move from business management to knowledge management in order to achieve Deming’s vision. It also proposes that knowledge management education will be the primary driver.
Rick Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, and Alex Mawyer, co-organized the session "Spatial Orientation and Representation in Oceania" at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania in Portland, Ore. on Feb. 7-11, 2012.
Rick Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, Cathleen Pyrek, Department of Anthropology, presented "The Vaeakau-Taumako Wind Compass and 'Navigational Toolkit'" at a working session of the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania in Portland, Ore. on Feb. 7-11, 2012.
Rick Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, presented "Conceptualizing Front and Back on Taumako Representations of Space" at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania in Portland, Ore. on Feb. 7-11, 2012.
Don A. Wicks, School of Library and Information Sciences, Douglas Goldsmith, School of Visual Communication Design, Darin Freeburg, College of Communication and Information, presented “Depictions of Religion in Children’s Picture Books” at the Second International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Feb. 20-22. The paper offers an exploratory study of how religion and spirituality are depicted in picture books for pre-schoolers and early primary-age children.
Publications
Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, Anuta: Polynesian Lifeways for the 21st Century, (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press), (2012).
Additional comments: This book presents the system of social and political relations on a remote Polynesian island, as well as the people's struggle to come to terms with political and economic changes in the world around them.
Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, authored the sidebar,"Black English in California Schools," in the textbook, The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, (2011): 310.