Below are a variety of items about upcoming events and other news notes on the campus of Youngstown State University.

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Monday, Sept. 22, to Friday, Sept. 26. YSU marks Safe Sex Week with a variety of programs, including an HIV/AIDS testing clinic and a showing of the movie Sex and the City. For a full schedule of events, visit http://www.ysu.edu/reccenter/.

Tuesday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m. Steve Greenhouse, labor reporter for the New York Times, speaks in the Presidential Suite of Kilcawley Center as part of the YSU Center for Working–Class Studies Lecture Series. A press conference featuring Greenhouse is set for 11:45 a.m. at the Center for Working–Class Studies in Smith Hall on Fifth Avenue. Greenhouse also will talk with YSU journalism students 12:30 p.m. in Room 358 of DeBartolo Hall. 

Wednesday, Sept. 24, 12:15 p.m. Music at Noon concert at the Butler Institute of American Art features Dana School of Music jazz combos. Free.

Thursday, Sept. 25, 1 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. Billy Siegenfeld, founder, artistic director, principal choreographer, and ensemble performing member of Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, conducts two workshops in Beeghly Center. See News Brief below.ﾠ 

Friday, Sept. 26, 4 to 6 p.m. YSU students who completed a three–week study tour across China last spring release a book they created as part of the trip at the McDonough Museum of Art on the YSU campus. See News Brief below.

Friday, Sept. 26, 4 p.m. YSU soccer team takes on Detroit in Stambaugh Stadium.

Friday, Sept. 26. Award–winning author and prize–winning journalist Ted Gup is the featured guest at an event sponsored by WYSU–FM and the James Dale Ethics Center at YSU. The event at The Youngstown Club in downtown Youngstown begins with a reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26 and 27. YSU’s Ward Beecher Planetarium kicks off its fall season this weekend. At 8 p.m. Friday, “Skywatch: Moon Maps and Planet Finders” will be featured. On Saturday, “The Explorers of Mauna Kea” will be featured at 1 and 2:30 p.m. and “Skywatch” will be shown at 8 p.m. For more details, visit http://www.cc.ysu.edu/physics–astro/sked2008.html. 
 

Football Saturday

Saturday, Sept. 27, 6 p.m. YSU Penguins host Liberty University at Stambaugh Stadium. All fans receive a YSU stadium cup. The third annual Family Fun Day will begin at 3 p.m. in the tailgate lot. The YSU Marching Pride “Ice Breaker” pre–game pep rally begins at 4:30 p.m. in Beeghly Center. Stadium gates open at 4:30 p.m. Ticket office hours at Stambaugh Stadium are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to kick–off on game day.


YSU students release book on China study tour

Ten Youngstown State University students who completed a three–week study tour across China last spring are ready to celebrate the publication and release of a book they created to document their experience.

A reception and book–signing are set for 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26 at the McDonough Museum on the YSU campus to mark the release of 2008 Art in China, a 96–page, full–color volume. The book features essays and photographs reflecting the students’ first impressions of contemporary China, with a focus on Chinese visual arts.

The students designed and published the book to culminate a three credit–hour undergraduate communications course, “Visual Arts of China: Intercultural Communication through Chinese Art and Architecture,” that YSU offered in partnership with William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J. Eighteen art students from William Paterson also took the course and helped create the book.

Faculty representatives participating in the study tour were: George McCloud, a YSU professor of communications and vice president for university advancement with 22 years of experience traveling throughout China; Cong Zhiyuan, a professor of painting and print–making at William Paterson and a native of China; and Allan Lazarus, chair of the William Paterson art department.

McCloud said students were writing, taking photographs and planning the design of the book from the start of the tour, based on the premise that they would learn more working actively on a project than they would with a more traditional, lecture/test–taking course format.

“We were working 14–hour days, seven days a week. If the students weren’t touring or eating, they were writing,” he said. “It was hard work. Our goal was to get all the writing done before we left China, and we met that goal.”

The reception and book signing will include brief comments by two of the student authors, Tony Angnardo and Shaunda Yancey, and Cong will be recognized as a special guest.ﾠ

Other YSU students who participated in the course and co–authored the book are: Arica Angelo, Sarah Cammarata, Benjamin Chell, Jennifer Fitzgerald, Courtlynne Peterson, Jennifer Ramsey, Thomas Sebulsky and Nina Stanislav.

Copies of 2008 Art in China will be available for sale at the reception and at the YSU Bookstore for $20.ﾠ McCloud said all proceeds will be used to promote future international study projects involving China. 

YSU hosts Shakespeare conference Oct. 2 to 5

Shakespearean scholars from across the world will present their research and discuss the works and impact of the Bard as Youngstown State University hosts the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference Oct. 2 to 5.

Nearly 50 professors, graduate and undergraduate students from as far away as England, California and Arizona will attend the conference, which will be held in Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus.

The theme of the conference is “Working Shakespeares” and focuses on issues of labor and market, class and status, civic and public in both the works of Shakespeare and the profession at large, said Tim Francisco, YSU professor of English and coordinator of the conference.

The conference features plenary sessions by Paul Yachnin and Sharon O’Dair. O’Dair is professor of English at the University of Alabama and director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies. She is the author of Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars. Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies and chair of the English department at McGill University. He is co–director of the Shakespeare and Performance Research Team and director of the Making Publics project.

For more information, visit the conference website at www.marietta.edu/~engl/OVSC/. 

Here is the conference schedule:

Thursday, Oct. 2 
2:15 to 3:30 p.m. Shakespeare On Film, Cochran Room: Melodie Provencher, Youngstown State University, “The Subjugation of Tricky Dick: Cultural and Political Agendas in Film Adaptations of Richard III”; Lisa Ward Bolding, University of Georgia, “Average Joe: Shakespeare’s Dialogue Meets Fifties Noir in Joe Macbeth”; Allison Lenhardt, University of Georgia, “Visual and Verbal Text in Loncraine’s Richard III and Bedford’s Street King”.

3:45 to 5 p.m. Marriage and Prostitution, Kilcawley 2068: Sophia Walsh, Urbana University: “Money and Marriage Arrangements in Four Plays”; Byron Nelson, West Virginia University: “Marina, Isabella and Shakespeare’s Sex Workers”; David George, Urbana University, “Shakespeare, Marriage and the Catechisms”.

3:45 to 5 p.m. Town, Gown and The Market, Cochran Room: James Casey, High Point University, “The Market and the MLA”; Peggy Russo, Pennsylvania State University, “Page to Stage: A Shakespearian Seduction”; Kate Birdsall, The University of Akron, “Performance and Surveillance: The Cultural Narratives of Shakespeare in Prison”.

Friday, Oct. 3
9 to 10:15 a.m. Cultural Work, Cochran Room: Sarah Olive, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, “The Supersizers Go Elizabethan: Cultural Values for Shakespeare in Infotainment”; Emily Burden, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, “Culture and Car Parks: Economic Theory and the Cultural Value of Shakespeare”; Byron Bailey, “Contemporary Relevance as Cultural Work: The Short, Happy, Production History of Troilus and Cressida”.

9 to 10:15 a.m. Roundtable Discussion, How Shakespeare Works with Working Students, Jones Room: Russell Bodi, Owens College; Sandra Logan, Michigan State University; Joseph Sullivan, Marietta College; Mary Jane Chaffee, Campbellsville University.

10:30 a.m. Plenary Address: Paul Yachnin, McGill University, “Working Language,” President's Suite.

2:15 to 3:30 p.m. Rhetorical and Philosophical Economies, Gallery: Jonathan Kamholtz, University of Cincinnati, “Economics and Anger”; Gabriel Reiger, Concord University, “‘We are arrant knaves all’: Economies of Degradation in Hamlet”; Galena Hashhozheva, Harvard University, “Poverty and Cynic autarkeia in Timon of Athens”.

2:15 to 3:30 p.m. Race, Gender and Post Colonialism, Jones Room: Dolores V. Sisco, Youngstown State University, “Aaron the Moor: N**** With An Attitude”; David Boyles, Arizona State University, “Othello, Race and Cultural Memory on Cheers”; Yanira Figueroa, California State University, San Bernardino, “The Rhetoric of Rape: A Postcolonial View of Two Gentlemen of Verona”.

3:45 to 5 p.m. Meeting Shakespeare, Cochran Room: Trillion McCarty, Youngstown State University, “I May Not Know Shakespeare But I Undoubtedly Know Mel Gibson”; Austin Mc Intyre, Marietta College, “Shakespeare at Home in The Ohio Valley?”; Elizabeth Modarelli, The University of Akron, “Teachers, Students, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears (and Your Eyes and Your Minds): Issues of Power and Politics in One Textbook’s Version of Julius Caesar.”

3:45 to 5:00 p.m. Labor, Leisure and Culture, President’s Suite: Krishna Wright, Marshall University, “Two Minds, One World: Cultural Materialism and Words of War in the Works of Queen Elizabeth and William Shakespeare”; Unhae Langis, Slippery Rock University, “ ‘Tis Sweating Labor/ To bear such idleness so near the heart”: Idleness and Labor, Leisure and Laziness in Shakespearean Drama”; Nicholas Jones, Oberlin College, “Labor and Leisure in Michael Hoffman’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

5:15 to 6:30 p.m. Criticism, Culture and Language, Jones Room: David Tach, Youngstown State University, “Is Politics Paramount? Roman Plays and Critical Reception”; Adam Miller, Ohio University: Nourishing ‘The Cockle of Rebellion:’ Agriculture and Parable in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus; Robert F. Fleissner, Emeritus, Central State University, “William Shakespeare’s Linguistic Use of ‘will’ Re–examined.”

Saturday, Oct. 13
9 to 10:15 a.m. Feminine Spaces, President’s Suite: Melissa Parlin, Ohio University, “Viewing the Impact of Shakespeare: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographic Depictions of Shakespeare’s Plays”; Joseph B. Wagner, Professor Emeritus, Kent State University–Stark, “ ‘A Poor Physician’s Daughter’”: Honor, Class and Work in All’s Well That Ends Well”; M.G. Aune, California University of Pennsylvania, “Female Space and Reception in Shakespeare Films”. 

9 to 10:15 a.m. Constructing Character, Gallery: Megan Marie Johnson, Urbana University, “The Very Cause of Hamlet’s Lunacy”; Julia Wise, The University of Akron, “The Angel and Her Shadow: Portia’s Dark Side”; Maribeth Hamel, The University of Akron, Dogberry, Community and the Preservation of Comedy in Much Ado About Nothing.

10:30 a.m. Plenary Address, Chestnut Room: Sharon O’Dair, University of Alabama: “Working My Way Back To You: Shakespeare and Labor.” 

2 to 3:15 p.m. Capital, Culture and Canon, President’s Suite: Hillary Nunn, The University of Akron, Founding a Prison Civilization: King Lear in the Hanoi Hilton”; Barbara Burgess–Van Aken, Case Western Reserve University, “Beyond Canonization: How Marketing Makes the Bard”; Michael Drew, Ohio University, “Cultural Persuasion in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet”.

2 to 3:15 p.m. Soldiering, Servitude and Subjugation, Jones Room: James Schramer, Youngstown State University, “Body Politics in Antony and Cleopatra”; Michael Quirk, “The Meaner Sort: Servants and Servitude in The Taming of the Shrew”; Michael W. Young, LaRoche College, “Shakespeare’s Grunts”.

3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Jonson and Appropriation, Cochran Room: Thomas Pittman, Youngstown State University, “Jonson’s Urinetown: Cats, Cladwell and Carnivale”; Keira Hambrick, Marietta College, “Chivalry versus Comedy: A Comparative Examination of Class–Status Representations in Works by Sir Thomas Malory and Ben Jonson”; Donhall C. Godfrey, Marietta College, “Alchemy and Larceny: Shared Archetypes in Ben Jonson and Guy Ritchie.”

3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Foreign Film Appropriations, Room 2068: Timothy Francisco, Youngstown State University, ‘Poor Tom’s Not That Cold’: Russian Lear and the Expectational Critical Text”; Melissa Smith, Youngstown State University, Hamlet in Russia.

Noted choreographer holds workshops at YSU

Billy Siegenfeld, founder, artistic director, principal choreographer, and ensemble performing member of Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, will conduct two workshops in Youngstown State University’s Beeghly Center on Thursday, Sept. 25

The workshops, presented by the department of Theater and Dance, are free and open to the public to anyone age 14 and older. No advance registration is necessary and participants need not have dance experience.

The workshops are 1 p.m. in Room 329 (the long deck) and 4:15 p.m. in Room 119.

The Jump Rhythm Jazz Project is the Emmy Award–winning dance company of rhythm–driven performers and teachers that celebrates the timeless core of jazz performance — dancing and singing in high–energy bursts of rhythm to the beat–driven sounds of swinging, funk–based and world music.

In 2007, Siegenfeld received an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Achievement for Individual Excellence On Camera/Performer for his work in the multiple Emmy Award–winning documentary Jump Rhythm Jazz Project:  Getting There, produced by HMS Media for public television. He is the 2006 recipient of Chicago’s most prestigious dance honor, the Ruth Page Award. In 2005, the U.S. Fulbright Commission made him a Fulbright Senior Scholar, an honor that took him to Finland where he introduced the theory and practice of Jump Rhythm Technique to the Arts Academy of Turku University of Applied Sciences. Also in 2005, he received the Jazz Dance World Congress Award for making major contributions to the art of jazz dance.  Other honors include the National Performance Network Creation Award in 2003, the 1997 Ruth Page Dance Achievement Award for Outstanding Choreography, and the 1994 Jazz Dance World Congress Gold Leo Award for Outstanding Choreography.  He is also a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University.

For more information, contact Christine Cobb at 330–941–1896 or at ccobb@ysu.edu.

Trumpeter featured in YSU Centennial concert

Sean Jones, a 2000 graduate of Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music and lead trumpeter of the Jazz and Lincoln Center Orchestra, will perform with his quintet Thursday, Oct. 9 at Stambaugh Auditorium in a concert celebrating the university’s Centennial.

Local band Redline will open the concert at 6:30 in Stambaugh’s ballroom, where a dessert and coffee buffet will begin the evening. The Sean Jones Quintet will perform at 8 p.m. in the upstairs concert hall.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children 12 and under, and free for YSU students with a valid YSU ID. Tickets may be purchased through the University Theater Box Office or the night of the event. The box office in Bliss Hall is open Mondays through Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

A native of Warren, Jones has excelled as a professional jazz musician and is a lead trumpeter of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in New York. He is also a professor of jazz studies at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, having earned a master’s degree from Rutgers University. He has worked with jazz professionals as diverse as Harry Connick, Jr., Joe Lovano, Charles Fambrough, the Louis Armstrong Legacy Band, and the International Jazz Quintet. He also leads his own groups and has released four albums on Mack Avenue Records: Eternal Journey, Gemini, Roots and Kaleidoscope. He is a featured soloist on Nancy Wilson’s Turned Blue CD release and, since 2005, has been named in the Rising Star Trumpet category by Downbeat magazine, as well as being named in the Rising Jazz Artist category in 2007.

For more information on the concert, call 330–941–3105  

YSU business grads participate in London internships

Youngstown State University alumni Dustin Kudler of New Middletown and Robert Bole of Youngstown, are participating in the Mountbatten Internship Programme in London.

In the past two years, six YSU graduates have participated in the one–year internship program that gives young professionals practical business experience, while also developing social and cultural awareness and understanding.

Representatives from the Mountbatten Internship Programme will be on the YSU campus 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, at the Fall Job Expo in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center. They also will be in the Cope Suite in Williamson Hall from 4 to 6 p.m. the same day.

Kudler and Bole learned about the Mountbatten Programme during recent study tours to England organized by Atty. Larry Zielke and Dr. Peter Reday. “The Mountbatten Programme offers a unique opportunity to live, work and study abroad while building a world class resume,” Zielke said. “The experience will change a student’s life.”

Kudler, who earned a master’s degree in business administration from YSU this year, is an intern with Northern Trust, a leading provider of investment management, asset/fund administration, and fiduciary/banking solutions for corporations and institutions worldwide.

Bole, who earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from YSU this year, will work for Deutsche Bank as a finance analyst.

Both students inquired about the internship opportunity during their visit to London this past January as part of the Williamson College of Business Administration’s International Study Tour.

The sponsor companies for the internship vary from large multinational organizations to small businesses and reflect different fields including financial services, accounting, human resources, information technology, communications services, marketing, and law. The one–year experience in London combines full–time work with seminars, journals, and projects leading to a Certificate in International Business Practice.

Kudler and Bole will receive a monthly salary to cover the cost of transportation and food. Free housing is provided. The students will share apartments with other college graduates participating in the program from universities across the United State.

The Mountbatten Programme, founded in 1984, is named in honor of the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a noted supporter of international education and training.

 

Prize–winning journalist featured at Sept. 26 event

Award–winning author and prize–winning journalist Ted Gup is the featured guest at an event Sept. 26 sponsored by WYSU–FM and the James Dale Ethics Center at Youngstown State University.

The event will be at The Youngstown Club in downtown Youngstown, and begins with a reception at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be at 7:30 p.m., followed by the main program. After the event, Gup will be available to autograph copies of his books.

Gup is the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism at Case Western Reserve University and author of both The Book of Honor: Covert Lives And Classified Deaths At The CIA, and Nation of Secrets: The Threat To Democracy And The American Way Of Life. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, the Gerald Loeb Award, and the Book–of–the–Year Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He was a Fulbright Scholar to China (1985–1986), a grantee of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a Fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. Gup is a former staff writer for the Washington Post and Time magazine.

Tickets are $50 for WYSU members and $60 for non–members. Tickets for the pre–event reception are $75 and includes admission to the dinner.

Make reservations by calling 330–941–3363, or online at www.wysu.org

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