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Presentations and Panels

James D. Vail III Professor of History Emeritus and Senior Advisor on Public Affairs Michael H. Ebner delivered a public lecture at the Chicago Architecture Foundation on October 24 entitled "Extremely Suburban America: Narratives from Naperville."  It was linked to the recent CAF exhibition, entitled "Me, Myself, and Infrastructure." The exhibition, in part, focused on Naperville, drawing upon Michael's current research.
 
On November 16 he also spoke at Congregation Solel in Highland Park, Illinois, on the topic, “A Suburban Jewish Congregation in a Historical Moment: International Conflict and Domestic Upheavals during the 1960s.” Members of this Reform synagogue marched in Washington, D.C., as civil rights advocates, hosted a speech in their pulpit by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., conducted a summer camp for children from Chicago, and sponsored a visit by members of the Chicago Seven Conspiracy. Michael's presentation was part of the congregation's commemoration of its 50th anniversary. 
 
On November 17, Michael addressed a combined session of local area chapters of the American Association of University Women in Meyer Auditorium on the subject "Chicago's Iconic Jane Addams:  Urbanist, Feminist, and Pacificist." 
 
Also in November, Michael served as a peer review panelist for the American Council of Learned Societies in its annual competition for research fellowships.


In November, Professor of Psychology Robert Glassman delivered a poster presentation in the “Teaching of Neuroscience” grouping, at the National Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego.  Undergraduate Marina Pinayeva, one of the coauthors, attended the meeting also. The first two pages of the presentation are now published online and in a CD in the Neuroscience Meeting Planner for 2007 (click on Annual Meeting and searching for Glassman or Pinayeva). Click here for the abstract. Several Lake Forest and high school students worked on the project, including Joanna Bovee '06, Elaine Bregman '05, Rachel Gottlieb '07, Katie Good, Leslie Modlin, Ilya Krutoyarskiy '08, Michael Wollar '06, Grace Kronauer, Andrea Hansen, Liz Birnbaum '08, Courtney Barry '07, Cory Querubin '08, and Brian Kinsman '08. 


Professor of Psychology Sergio Guglielmi completed a research project that was supported with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The hypothesis that native language (L1) proficiency promotes English acquisition and overall academic achievement, a key theoretical assumption underlying bilingual education, was tested using latent growth modeling of data from 899 limited English proficient 8th graders who were followed for 12 years in the National Education Longitudinal Study. A model in which L1 proficiency predicted English reading ability, which in turn predicted high school achievement and distal educational/occupational attainment, fit the data well, especially for the Hispanic subsample. In May, 2007, Professor Guglielmi presented the results of this research at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association and his article, "Native Language Proficiency, English Literacy, Academic Achievement, and Occupational Attainment in Limited English Proficient Students: A Latent Growth Modeling Perspective," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Educational Psychology.


Assistant Professor of Psychology Matthew Kelley presented, “Ironic effects of censorship: Generating censored lyrics enhances memory” at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in November in Long Beach, California. Four Lake Forest College students served as co-authors on the project: James Chambers '05, Emily Blegen ’07, Dustin Koch ’09, and Joanna Bovee ’06. Two experiments explored the generation effect — mnemonic advantage for self-generated information — in the applied setting of lyrical censorship. Results suggest that by omitting certain words from songs, censors might actually make those words more memorable than noncensored words.


Ernest H. Volwiler Professor of Mathematics Ed Packel gave a presentation last June entitled, “The Lambert W Function and Undergraduate Mathematics” at the 1st International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics in Athens, Greece.  A paper with the same title has been accepted for publication in the conference proceedings.


Assistant Professor of Education Rachel G. Ragland presented a session entitled, “Re-conceptualizing Teaching to Engage Students with Authentic Disciplinary Practices” at the SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Commons Conference in Statesboro, Georgia, in November 2007. The presentation described research done to assess the process of revising the teaching of a senior capstone course in education in order to better engage students and push them to critically examine their discipline and then apply this authentic disciplinary knowledge. 


Gorter Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Ahmad Sadri has had several media appearances. He was an invited panelist at Chicago’s Pritzker Military Library’s series: Front and Center with John Calloway, which was webcast live at www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org.  An hour version of the program appeared on November 9 on WYCC/PBS 20 in Chicago. There was an additional airing the following Wednesday at 5 a.m.

He also discussed the movie Half Moon for Iranian Film Festival premier on October 6; delivered a review of the movie 300 for National Public Radio's “All Things Considered” on April 14; was interviewed by BBC for the program “Ticket” to respond to the views of Zack Snyder, director of 300; and reviewed 300 for Chicago Public Radio's "Worldview."


In June, D. K. Pearson Professor of Politics Ghada Talhami attended the second annual meeting of the International Contemporary Iraqi Studies Association in Amman, Jordan, where she delivered a paper titled, "The Palestinians in Iraq." This was convened at Philadelphia University, just outside of Amman, and was attended by a large contingent of Iraqi scholars who came from Iraq.
 
On May 19, she delivered a talk at the Islamic Community Center in Northbrook, Illinois, titled, "The Loss of Islamic Rights in Jerusalem."
 
On August 17, she gave a long interview on Palestinian-Israeli relations to the Radio of the Eighth Day Center for Justice at Loyola University.

On October 21, she was the main speaker at the annual banquet of the Coptic Assembly of North America, where she addressed the issue of the future of the Coptic people of Egypt.


Lecturer in Politics and Philosophy Christopher Whidden gave a free public lecture on October 18 at Lake Forest College to help commemorate Constitution Day. The title of his talk was, “Is the U.S. Constitution Worth Defending?”


Assistant Professor of Communication Rachel Whidden presented “Good Parents Vaccinate: An Analysis of Merck’s Gardasil Campaign” at The Alta Conference on Argumentation in August. The paper was co-authored with Taylor Tuscherer '10, a Richter Scholar. The paper was selected to be published in the conference’s proceedings. 

She presented “Appealing to the Fairer Sex: The Rhetorical Strategy of Hume’s Woman-Appeal Essays” at the National Communication Association’s annual conference in November.


Professor of Mathematics David Yuen was invited as a distiguished visitor to Bucknell University to conduct mathematics research for a week. He gave two talks, "To form a more perfect union of cones"
and "Paramodular Forms."