Humanities Newsletter
2012
Upcoming Events
February 27 - The Sam B. Hall Jr. Lecture Series Banquet - Contact Humanities at 903.923.2083 or humanitas@etbu.edu
April 18 - Humanities Academic Awards Program
April 25 - Humanities Student Research Forum
October 26-27 - East Texas Christian Writers Conference - campus - Contact Humanities for information at 903.923.2083 or humanitas@etbu.edu; website updating at http://www.etbu.edu/News/CWC/
Activities and Notices
February 2012
Dr. Annemarie Whaley, Professor of English, has a new article in publication: "I could teach you how to Choose Right: Using Holocaust Memoir to Teach Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice," in Changing English, 18:4, December 2011.
Dr. Carolyn Rester, Professor of Communication, has had an article accepted for publication in the June, 2012, issue of the International Journal of Listening. The title of the paper is "Bonnie's Problem: Using Effective Listening Responses."
Dr. Rester and Dr. Cole Franklin, Professor of Communication, have had an artilce published in the October, 2011, issue of Texas Speech Communication Journal Online. The article is entitled "Classroom Strategies for Engaging Students with Physical Disabilities: A Case Study. The article can be accessed at http://www.etsca.com/tscjonline/0911-disabilities/
Congratulations to Alicia Ethridge, ETBU senior, majoring in communication and psychology, who has had her honors project paper accepted for presentation at the Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference of the Southern States Communication Association convention, in April, 2012. The title of her project is "The Relationship between Self-Esteem and Interpretation of Nonverbal Immediacy."
Congratulations to graduating senior Caleb Stokes (BSE History) who begins the M.A. History program this fall at the University of Alabama - Birmingham.
2011
Upcoming Events
Coming in October 2011 -- the East Texas Christian Writers' Conference
Coming February 28, 2011 -- The Hall Lectureship and Banquet, with Lecturer Kenneth Winston Starr, President, Baylor University ~ Contact humanitas@etbu.edu or 903.923-2083
Activities and Notices
February 2011
11: Dr. Jeanna White - to the Southern Conference on African American Studies, Dallas, with alumna and UNO graduate student Lynn Wartberg, who is presenting.
18-20: Dr. Jerry B. Hopkins - to the World History Association of Texas, St. Edward's University, Austin, to deliver a paper, "Historical Novels and World History"
18-21: ETBU Debate Team to the Intercollegiate Speech and Debate Tournament, BPPSE, Bossier City
24: The Bennett Speech Contest for Seniors and spring graduates
March 2011
23-27: The Communication faculty will present papers at the Southern States Communication Association, Little Rock: Dr. Cole Franklin, Dr. Carolyn Rester, Dr. Darrell Roe, Ms Brenda Allums.