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(Published in
@John Jay
on April 1, 2009)
Peer ReviewJohn Matteson
(English) is one of the judges of the 2009 Dashiell Hammett Prize,awarded annually for literary excellence in crime writing. Matteson also accepted aninvitation to give the Class Day address at the Columbia University School of GeneralStudies in May.
Presenting…Betsy Hegeman
(Anthropology) presented "Culture-Bound Syndromes and Diagnosis"to the Grand Rounds of Upstate Medical School Departments of Psychiatry andPsychology in Syracuse, NY, on March 26. She also met with the Psychoanalytic StudyGroup of Syracuse and presented "MPD and Spirit Possession: the Influence of Culture."
Kimora
(Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) presented a paper on"Methamphetamine Abuse and Treatment in Rural America" at the 2009 annual meetingof the Southern Rural Sociological Association in Atlanta, GA, on January 31-February 3.
Kwando M. Kinshasa
(African American Studies) was invited to Saginaw Valley StateUniversity in Michigan from February 16-19 as their 2009
 
King
-
Chavez-ParksVisiting
 
Scholar. As the visiting scholar, Kinshasa gave lectures on African Americanhistory, criminal justice, global migration policies, sociology and social policy. Healso presented a paper titled "History and One's Sociological Memory: A ContemporaryInteractive Perspective," in which he revisited and discussed the sociological andeconomic implications of the 1955-1956 Montgomery, AL, Bus Boycott.
Michael Pfeifer
(History) served as commentator on a panel titled "Race, the Courts, andPublic Spectacle in Louisiana" at the annual meeting of the Louisiana HistoricalAssociation in Monroe, LA, on March 19.
Klaus von Lampe
(Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was aninvited speaker at the 12th European Police Congress in Berlin on February 11. He spokeon "The European Dimensions of Organized Crime: Some Remarks from aCriminological Perspective."
M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos
(Government) presented a paper on the “UDHR and theMillennium Developmental Goals: Making the Three Generations of Rights a Reality”and was the discussant on a panel on Transitional Justice at the International StudiesAssociation annual convention in New York from February 15-18.
Jon-Christian Suggs
(English, emeritus) gave the keynote lecture, "
 Imperium in Imperio
: Double Consciousness, Double Citizenship and the Promise of the ObamaPresidency," for African-American History Month at Salisbury University in Salisbury,MD, on February 10. In April he will present a paper on race and "love" in Melville's"Billy Budd" at the American Society for Law, Culture, and the Humanities in Boston; inMay he will present two chapters of his novel-in-progress, "After Jubilee," at the
 
Working Group on Law and Slavery at the Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale, and in June hewill present a paper on Hannah Elias and the murder of the man who invented New York at the annual conference on New York State history.
Gloria Proni
and
Elise Champeil
(Sciences) presented a paper titled “Assessment of Students' Likeability of the ‘Clicker’ and ‘Wiley Plus’ Technologies in Organic Chemistry at the CUNY IT Conference on December 5, 2008.
Between the CoversGloria Proni
(Sciences) will have her articles "CD-sensitive Zn-porphyrin tweezer host-guest complexes. Part 1: MC/OPLS-2005 computational approach for predicting preferred interporphyrin helicity" and "CD-sensitive Zn-porphyrin tweezer host-guestcomplexes. Part 2: cis- and trans-3-hydroxy-4-aryl/alkyl-beta-lactams. A case study" published in a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal
Chirality
.
Simon Baatz
(History) is the author of the foreword to a new edition of ClarenceDarrow’s
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment 
published in the Kaplan Classics of Lawseries.
 
(Published in
@John Jay
on March 11, 2009)
PresentingMiriam Ehrenberg
(Psychology) gave an invited address at the annual conference of Globalisation for the Common Good, held in Melbourne, Australia. Her paper, “ApplyingPsychotherapy Techniques to Religious and Ethnic Conflict,” covered both western andIslamic psychotherapy approaches and the implications of each for conflict resolution.
Jeremy Travis
(President) was the keynote speaker at the Public Service Conference onthe Future of Community Justice in Wisconsin at Marquette Law School on February 20.His remarks focused on “Building Communities with Justice: Overcoming the Tyranny of the Funnel.”
George Andreopoulos
(Government) delivered a series of lectures on "The Evolution of International Human Rights Norms" at the University of Bologna in January. The lectureswere part of the university's graduate program in human rights and humanitarianintervention.
Peter Moskos
(Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was a panelistat the New York Academy of Medicine’s “Harm Reduction” conference on January 23.He was also a featured speaker at the annual conference of Students for Sensible DrugPolicy, held in College Park, MD, on November 23.
R. Terry Furst
(Anthropology) presented “A Qualitative Exploration of SuboxoneOpioid Maintenance in a Harm Reduction Setting in New York City,” a paper cowrittenwith Herman Joseph, and Sharon Stancliff, at the Columbia University Seminar Series in New York in December. Furst was also one of the authors, along with Stancliff andJoseph, of “Low Threshold Buprenorphine,” a paper presented by Stancliff at the 7th National Harm Reduction Conference in Miami last November.
Between the CoversPatrick Collins
(Communication & Theatre Arts) had two books released in January bySterling Publishers, a Barnes and Noble imprint.
 Negotiate to Win!
is a tactical guide toachieving success in negotiations, and features a unique chapter on cross-culturalnegotiation. The second book,
Speak with Power and Confidence,
is an updated andrevised edition of Collins’ comprehensive guide to maximizing public speaking skills,originally published in 1998. Both works attracted the attention of foreign publishers atthe Fall 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair.
Joseph King
(Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) published hisarticle "Policing after Peel: the Government Moves to Centralize” in theTurkish Journalof Police Studiesin 2008. His article “Police Problems: Labor Relations in the EarlyPolice Service of the United Kingdom” appeared in the January 2009 issue of 
 Police Forum
, published by the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
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