Provost's Sabbatical Luncheon
Tuesday, March 6
Phyllis Larson, Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies
Bruce Nordstrom-Loeb, Associate Professor of Sociology
On behalf of Jim May, Provost and Dean of the College,
CILA announces the Spring 2007 "Provost's Sabbatical Series" Luncheon.
Phyllis Larson's sabbatical work was in two parts. One was language
pedagogy, including a summer workshop on videogames at Middlebury
College, studying Chinese on her own in Northfield, and a month of study
with a tutor in Shanghai. The second part, a project called "China in
the Japanese Imagination," focused on the friendship of the Chinese
writer Lu Xun and the Japanese bookseller Uchiyama Kanzo in wartime
Shanghai.
The main theme of Bruce Nordstrom-Loeb's sabbatical work was on GLBT
issues. His primary focus was to plan a new course, GLBT Lives and
Issues (SoAn 246) , which he taught for the first time in Interim 2007.
He also presented a paper on connections between evangelical
Christianity and GLBT issues at the Midwest Sociology meeting in Omaha
in March. Bruce also took the opportunity to catch up on his reading,
including novels, much of which has fed into his various courses.
