Pages 25-26: Must Read, Must See, Must Hear
Living Legacies: The Arts of the Americas
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Hall of the Americas
Elayne Zorn
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
The Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Hall of the Americas will be refurbished and completely reinstalled this spring for the first time since the mid-1960s. The first exhibit, entitled Living Legacies: The Arts of the Americas, has three thematic parts, including Threads of Time: Woven Histories of the Andes, which features more than 30 Andean textiles and related materials from the Museum’s holdings. This collection is considered one of the most important of its kind outside of South America. Dr. Elayne Zorn was the Consultant Ethnographer to the Museum for Andean textiles. Dr. Zorn has studied textiles and other aspects of native Andean society in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes for 25 years. She is also trilingual (English, Spanish and Quechua (Inca)).
The Sugar Island
and Some Realms I Owned (coming soon)
Ivonne Lamazares, Assistant Professor of English
The National Endowment for the Arts awarded UCF’s Ivonne Lamazares with a $20,000 grant to develop a novel in 2004, entitled Some Realms I Owned. This story explores the tensions between Cuban exiles returning to visit their country and those citizens who never left. For Dr. Lamazares’ fellowship application, she submitted excerpts from her novel The Sugar Island (published in 2000). The Sugar Island received numerous popular reviews from national and international media and has been translated into seven other languages.
Black Seminoles in the Bahamas
Rosalyn Howard
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
The majority of the Black Seminoles in contemporary Red Baysare descended directly from the original settlers. As part of her research, Howard lived for a year in this small community, recording its oral history and analyzing the ways in which that history informed the evolving identity of the people. Her treatment dispels the air of mystery surrounding the Black Seminoles of Andros and provides a foundation for further investigations.
Team Cognition:
Understanding the Factors That Drive Process and Performance
Eduardo Salas, co-editor, Trustee Chair, Professor of Psychology
Stephen M. Fiore, co-editor, Director of the Consortium for Research in Adaptive Distributed Learning Environments
During the past decade, cognitive science has substantially influenced the study of team performance and has helped develop the field of team cognition. The contributors to this volume describe the many ways in which team cognition is being used as an organizing framework to guide research into factors that affect team coordination.
André Michaux in Florida: An Eighteenth-Century Botanical Journey
Walter K. Taylor
Associate Chair of Biology
André Michaux (1746-1803), French Royal Botanist of King Louis XVI, spent 11 years in America studying and describing the flora and fauna. In the spring of 1788, Michaux visited Spanish East Florida. This book documents and retraces Michaux’s trips and encounters along the East Coast of Florida and on the St. Johns River.
La Utopía de María: A Mexican Historical Novel
Marcela del Río
Professor of Spanish
Marcela del Río’s historical novel tells the tale of a María, a woman who has rejected the role of woman-as-object, and who is struggling to understand her life. The story is set during the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution and the fall of the ruling aristocratic society. María, whose personal journey parallels the history of Mexico, is forced to reconcile memories of her grandfather, General Vélez (inspired by the historical General Bernardo Reyes, father of the famous writer, Alfonso Reyes), against her own thoughts about life, loyalty, and the absurdity of war.
Page 26: Calendar
Florida Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting
March 11-13, 2004, on the UCF Campus
floridaacademyofsciences.org
“War in Iraq: A Year Later” with the Honorable William S. Cohen, Former Secretary of Defense
March 24, 2004; 9:30-11:00 AM, at the UCF Student Union
www.ucfglobalperspectives.org
Brown, Black & White: A Community Reflects on Brown v. Board
with Prof. William E. Leuchtenburg, Premier Political Analyst
March 24, 2004; 7:00-9:00 PM, at the UCF Student Union
www.brownblackandwhite.org
Clowning Around: A Community Dialogue About Circus Artists Diamond Jim Parker and the Scott Family
March 27, 2004; 2:00-3:30 PM, at the University of South Florida
UCF Heritage Alliance
sfdm.ucf.edu/heritagealliance
The Impact of Watergate: A 30-Year Retrospective
with Bob Woodward
March 29 and 30, 2004 at the UCF Student Union
Lou Frey Institute
www.loufrey.org
“God’s Country“
April 1-4 and 14-18, 2004, at the UCF Conservatory Theatre
www.cas.ucf.edu/theatre
Brown, Black & White: A Community Reflects on Brown v. Board
with Stephen L. Carter, J.D., from Yale Law School
April 8, 2004; 7:00-9:00 PM at the UCF Student Union
www.brownblackandwhite.org
“Orlando Integrates Its Schools”
with Congressman Lou Frey part of the Brown, Black & White Celebration
April 9, 2004 on the UCF Campus
www.brownblackandwhite.org
“Women In Action: Woman Being and Herstory”
April 14, 2003; 12:00-6:00 PM at the UCF Student Union
www.cas.ucf.edu/gendergazette/womeninaction/
Political Reform in China
with Anne Thurston, from Johns Hopkins SAIS
April 15-17, 2004, 10:00-11:30 AM at the UCF Student Union
www.ucfglobalperspectives.org
“Smokey Joe’s Cafe”
June 10-20, 2004 at the Orlando Repertory Theatre
www.cas.ucf.edu/theatre
“Picnic“
June 24-July 3, 2004 at the Orlando Repertory Theatre
www.cas.ucf.edu/theatre
“Bedroom Farce”
July 8-18, 2004 at the Orlando Repertory Theatre
www.cas.ucf.edu/theatre
8th International Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering
August 2-5, 2004 on the UCF Campus
Department of Mathematics
www.math.ucf.edu
American Association of University of Women (AAUW) Grants & Fellowship Workshop with Joan Renauldi
September 2004 cas.ucf.edu/womensresearch
1st meeting of the SIAM Activity Group on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures
October 2-4, 2004
Department of Mathematics
siam.org/meetings/nw04
The Space Program: Peril or Promise?
October 4 and 5, 2004 at the UCF Student Union
Lou Frey Institute
www.loufrey.org
UCF 2004 Breast Cancer Update October 2004
cas.ucf.edu/womensresearch
Church and State: Partners or Opponents in a Secular World?
March 28 and 29, 2005 at the UCF Student Union
Lou Frey Institute
www.loufrey.org
National Women’s Studies Association Conference
June 9-12, 2005 at the Renaissance Orlando Resort at Seaworld
cas.ucf.edu/womensresearch
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