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Provost Melanie Stein invites us to celebrate the intellectual and creative accomplishments of our colleagues. Presenters will share from the research and/or creative activity they engaged in during their sabbatical. Light refreshments will be served.

Monday, November 7th, 4:00-5:30pm
Clark Lounge, Campus Center

Presenters:
Timothy Johnson, Department of Music Theory, History, & Composition
Title: Music and Baseball at the Hall of Fame: Public Music Theory

This presentation summarizes seven public music theory talks that I presented at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Topics include Charles Ives’s music, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” an IC Washington Seminar that I taught, Casey at the Bat for band and narrator, major league walk-up and entrance music, and branding ball clubs through music. My presentation describes ways to draw musical meaning from music analysis as a fulfilling way for music theorists to connect their work with public audiences.

Robert Sullivan, Department of Literatures in English
Title: Hieronymus Wolfius and the Development of the Renaissance Paratext

My fall 2022 sabbatical leave was dedicated to my ongoing scholarly project, a monograph reconstructing the lost techne rhetorike (technical handbook) of the Greek rhetorician Isocrates, in which one chapter describes the reception history of the Isocratean corpus. That reception was revolutionized during the Renaissance when humanists created printed editions, translations, and commentaries that presented Isocrates to readers in unprecedented ways. The key moment in this reimagining was the publication in 1570 of Hieronymus Wolfius’ enormous Greco-Latin folio, ΙΣΟΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ ΑΠΑΝΤΑ/ISOCRATIS SCRIPTA, with its prolix notation, extensive introductions, scholarly apparatuses, and complete translation into Latin. Wolf’s powerful paratext not only created a new, “modern,” Isocrates that continues to shape, often inaccurately, our understanding of that author, but had profound impacts on subsequent Humanist scholarship and bookmaking.

Jack Wang, Department of Writing
Title:  The Riveter: A Novel

The Riveter is about a Chinese Canadian who serves in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during the Second World War in an effort to earn citizenship and the franchise. The presentation will consist of a discussion of the project and a reading from the work.

Facilitator: Cyndy Scheibe, Dana Professor, Psychology
Organized and supported by the Center for Faculty Excellence