James Forrest of Macquarie University in Australia has released a new review of Race, Ethnicity and Place in a Changing America, edited by Binghamton University professors John W. Frazier and Eugene L. Tettey-Fio. The review is included in an article entitled "Race, Ethnicity and Place in American and Pacific Rim Countries", appearing in Australian Geographer, Vol. 39, No. 1, March 2008. Describing the work as having "significant contributions to our understanding of race, ethnicity and place in America," Forrest outlines the major points of the text and their nuanced additions to ethnic studies in the geographical discipline. To see the review in its entirety click here.

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University invites papers for Venus and the Venereal: Interpretations and Representations from Classical Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century, a conference to be held on the Binghamton University campus, April 25-26, 2008. Selected papers from this conference are to appear in Acta, a journal of CEMERS, to be published at a future date by Global Academic Publishing. More information can be found on CEMERS website at http://cemers.binghamton.edu/.

Binghamton University Professor Pamela Stewart Fahs, co-editor of Conversations in the Disciplines: Sustaining Rural Populations, presented a paper at the Charting New Frontiers in Rural Women's Health Conference, presented by The Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. The paper, titled "Promoting Heart Health in Rural Women: The Half-way Perspective on an Intervention Study", was delivered by Pamela Stewart Fahs and doctoral student Margaret Pribulick and was given on behalf of the Women's Health Care Partnership of Binghamton University. This conference was held in August in Washington, D.C.

Professor Sandro Sticca, editor of Mediaevalia, will be receiving a guest scholar to Binghamton on October 9th for a 10-day visit. During his stay, Professor Luciano Pizziconi, a leading Italian poet, will be conferred an Honorary Citizenship of the Town of Vestal by Vestal Supervisor Peter Andreason on October 13, and the same honor for the City of Binghamton by Mayor Matthew T. Ryan on October 15. Following these important events, on October 19 Professor Pizziconi will lecture and then give Official Recognition with certificates and plaques to faculty of Binghamton University's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. These faculty members are Professors Antonio Sobejano-Moran, Rosamaria LaValva, Dana Stewart, Dora Polachek and Carroll Coates. This event will take place in the Academic B Conference Room, room AB-347. A reception will follow.

Binghamton University Professor and Mediaevalia editor Sandro Sticca will speak at an event presented by The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Lecture Series. The title of his talk is "The Comic Between Sacred and Profane in Medieval and Renaissance Art." This event will be hend in the CEMERS Seminar Room, LN 1128, on Wednesday, September 19 at 12:00 noon.

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