University Of Delaware: For The Record

Press release from the University of Delaware:

Article by UDaily staff

June 11, 2021

University community reports presentations, publications, exhibitions, honors

For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent presentations, publications, exhibitions and honors include the following:

Presentations

Theodore Braun, professor emeritus of French and comparative literature, read two papers at the virtual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in March 2021: “Voltaire's Debt to Dryden? Consider the Case of The Indian Emperour and Alzire” and “What did Cyrano de Bergerac suggest to Voltaire, and did Voltaire follow up on this lead?”

Two faculty members from the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics were chosen to host a webinar for the American Accounting Association (AAA) on Friday, June 11. In this webinar, Jennifer Joe, Whitney Family Professor of Accounting, Cohen Family Lerner Director of Diversity and chief diversity advocate, and Anuradha Sivaraman, assistant professor of marketing and faculty director of assessment, provided an overview of their innovative course, “Race in Business.” The objective of this course is to allow students to make independent assessments of past practices and contributions to viable strategies aimed at an inclusive business community of the future. The course addresses, from a historical perspective, the impact of centuries of racist practices in business, like branding, promotional methods, entrepreneurial investment decisions, etc. AAA is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, and this webinar allowed attendees to earn 1.2 CPE credit hours.

Publications

Jennifer Van Horn, professor of art history and history, and Catharine Dann Roeber, Brock W. Jobe Associate Professor of Decorative Arts and Material Culture, co-edited a special issue of Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture. The first of a new series, this issue covers the rich connections between materiality and enslavement.

Exhibitions

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