At a Glance

 

This column welcomes the submissions of all Concordia faculty and staff to promote and encourage individual and group activities in teaching and research, and to encourage work-related achievements.

At the 2004 Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, husband-and-wife team Nicholas and Sheila Pye, who are both in the MFA program, were given the award for Best Experimental Short for their film The Paper Wall. At the same event, Nicholas Roy, an attendee in the film production program, was awarded the Kodak Award for Best Cinematography in a Canadian Short, for Leo.

Suresh Goyal (Decision Sciences, MIS) had a paper accepted for publication in the International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management called “Electronic Procurement and its Role in Achieving Manufacturing Strategic Objectives.” He also had an article first published in 1993 published in a collection of seminal and much-cited papers. According to the 50th anniversary issue of Management Science, one of Goyal’s papers was the most cited paper published in that journal in 1974 in operations management. Goyal will also join the advisory panel of the bi-monthly Condex Times, a journal devoted to innovation management.

Benoit Léger (Études françaises) a publié aux éditions Triptyque à Montréal la première traduction française d'un recueil de nouvelles de Carol Shields, Miracles en série (Various Miracles).

Rural-Urban Footprints: Implications for Governance was the title of a conference held Oct. 14-16 in Tweed, Ont., by the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation, which has for 17 years pursued research and education on rural Canada. Concordia sociologist William Reimer is the principal researcher on federally funded NRE and NRE2 projects on rural governance, in partnership with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. More about the conference can found at www.crrf.ca.

Charles Ellison, associate professor of jazz studies in the Department of Music, will speak at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Nov. 17 at 6 p.m. about The Music of the Deco Era: From Ellington to Gershwin. The talk is in connection with the exhibition Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco.

On Oct. 18, Film Studies lecturer Donato Totaro gave a presentation entitled “The Generic Importance of the Modern Italian Horror Film” at Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y., as part of the Da Vinci Society’s “Italian Heritage Month.”

Congratulations to Gad Saad (Marketing), who was asked to join the Journal of Business Research editorial board (Buyer Behavior track). Of 40 journals ranked recently, JBR was ranked twelfth worldwide. This constitutes his second appointment to an editorial board, the first being a 2001 appointment to Psychology & Marketing.

Triant Flouris, director of the Aviation MBA program and an associate professor in Decision Sciences and MIS, has been appointed by ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Organization, as alternate permanent representative for the Republic of Cyprus ICAO post. ICAO is based in Montreal, and is a specialized agency of the United Nations comprising 188 contracting states around the world.

Steven H. Appelbaum (Management) was part of a panel discussion sponsored by several local hospitals on the management of stroke patients through collaboration. A paper on “The Impact of Motivation and Communication on Productivity” will be presented at the International Business and Technology Research conference, to be held in Las Vegas. Another paper, written with Barbara T. Shapiro and titled “The Effects of Communications and Culture Upon an NPO Merger,” will be presented at of the Economics & InternationalBusiness Research Conference, to be held in Miami.

John Parisella, a member of the Board of Governors, has published a book, Élections: Made in USA, a guide to the American electoral process on the eve of the Nov. 2 contest. It is written with Donald Cuccialetta and published by Les Éditions La Presse, with a preface is by journalist André Pratt.

David Ketterer (English, retired) has edited a book, Flashes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the War of the Worlds Centennial, 19th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, published by Greenwood Press. He is interviewed as a Poe scholar in the spring 2005 issue of The Edgar Allan Poe Review, and serves on the editorial board of that journal.

Karin Doerr published “The Thread of Language through History: From the Third Reich to the Present" in Language, Poetry, and Memory: Reflections on National Socialism, Harry H. Kahn Memorial Lectures (2000-2004), University of Vermont.

Congratulations to Larry English, Vice-President Finance, who has been elected president of the Canadian Association of University Business Officers. His photo appears on the cover of the latest issue of University Manager, and he is the subject of a feature article under the title “New CAUBO president stresses continual learning and sharing of knowledge.” English said he values the organization for the opportunity to consult with his peers.