Research Roundtable

Organized by our Research Task Force members Jérôme Cornette, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez, and Kristin Swenson, the Research Roundtable is an opportunity for faculty to present research in progress with interested faculty, students and community members. Past presentations have included:

December 5, 2005
Darren Aversa, Instructor of Spanish
"The Scene of Writ(h)ing: (De)Scriptive Sex at the Origin in Yo el Supremo."

January 6, 2006
Dr. Cliff Edwards, Professor of Religious Studies
“The Night Café: An attempt to solve the mystery of this unusual painting of a café after midnight in 1888 by the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh”

March 6, 2006
Dr. Bernardo Piciché, Assistant Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies
“The Unknown Source of Caravaggio’s Painting The Calling of Saint Matthew”

April 6, 2006
Dr. Christina Turner, Associate Professor of Anthropology
“Textile Tradition and National Identity in Paraguay : a Tangled Thread”

December 2006
The Refusal of Visual Mastery: Buñuel's Él (The Strange Passion) (1952) and the Rearticulation of Jacques Lacan's Concept of the Gaze in Film Theory.