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Professor’s Film
Creates Splash
at SXSW Festival
Longtime film critic, arts teacher and
film programmer Gerald Peary has moved
to the other side of the camera to create the
documentary For the Love of Movies: The
Story of American Film Criticism.
The film had its world premier in
March at the South by Southwest Film
Festival, or SXSW, in Austin, Texas.
Peary, a professor of Communication
and Journalism and author of seven books
on cinema and innumerable articles, spent
seven years working on the film. It was
featured in SXSW’s prestigious Spotlight
section alongside Spike Lee’s Passing Strange
and Greg Mottola’s Superbad.
“To finally see the finished product feels
like a dream,” said Peary. “The biggest
reward was seeing people laughing and
applauding.”
Peary directed and wrote For the Love
of Movies, which was produced by his wife
Amy Geller and narrated by actress Patricia
Clarkson.
Peary and Geller interviewed many of
America’s best-known film critics, who
speak intimately and humorously on film
about how and why they became reviewers.
They weigh in about the rich, 100-year
history of American criticism and passionately discuss the sublime and unusual
movies that thrilled them and helped form
their aesthetic.
“There is a severe crisis in film criticism
right now,” said Peary, who, in addition to
teaching, is a longtime film critic for the
Boston Phoenix. “Reviewers everywhere are
losing their jobs. Maybe this documentary
can begin to turn things around.
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“Millionaire” Challenge
Mary Flaherty comes face to face with her televised image during the airing of her appearance
on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Full story, page 2. (Photo by John Gillooly)
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Every Bookplate Tells a Story
When her bookshelves began threatening to overwhelm her living space, Nina
Allen turned from repairing and amassing distressed books to collecting bookplates.
Bookplates are miniature works of art. Historically, they have been used for identifying ownership of a book. But contemporary bookmarks are more often traded among
aficionados.
Allen teaches American Literature in the English Department, and her personal
bookplates demonstrate the importance of literature and storytelling in her life.
As a collector, she has amassed about 1,000 bookplates. Some are assembled in a
book; others are framed and hung as artwork in her home.
“When you think of it, you can have these lovely works of art, and the investment
is minimal,” said Allen, who has found some of her bookplates in her own book
collection.
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Colleagues gather with Mary Flaherty in the coffee shop in the Stahl Center as her stint on “Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire” is aired. Flaherty kept mum about the outcome of the contest until it was
revealed in the broadcast. (Photo by John Gillooly)
Professor Enjoys “Millionaire” Bid
Mary Flaherty felt more like a student than a professor, answering questions
instead of asking them, when she recently
appeared as a contestant on “Who Wants to
Be a Millionaire.”
“It was a great and fun experience, but
quite nerve-wracking sitting in that hot
seat,” said Flaherty, director of the paralegal
studies program in the College of Arts and
Sciences. “The intensity became stronger
with each question.”
In the end, Flaherty was delighted to
walk away with $16,000. The question that
stumped her was: How many faces does an
icosahedron have?
“I called my brother (as one of four lifelines), and he was trying to Google it, but
he couldn’t type fast enough,” said Flaherty.
The correct answer: 20.
Flaherty has always been a trivia buff. A
graduate of the University of Chicago and
Chicago Kent Law School, she remembers
playing trivial pursuit with her fellow law
students in the cafeteria. In 1998, she was a
contestant on “Jeopardy,” finishing second
to a five-time champion.
“I have so much useless information in
my brain, it’s not funny,” said Flaherty.
In order to prepare for “Who Wants
to Be a Millionaire,” Flaherty took the
National Geographic test every day
and learned everything she could about
“American Idol” contestants.
“It was just a blast to be part of all this,”
she said. It was an exciting time for me and
my family. And Meredith Vieira (host of the
show) was as warm a person off camera as
she was on it. She even commented on my
glasses,” which are fire-engine red.
With her winnings, Flaherty plans to take
her daughter, Winnie, 17, on a trip to Finland
and buy her daughter, Gwendy, 10, a cat.
She also would like to do something
special for her fiancé, Edward Walsh, who
encouraged Flaherty to go on “Who Wants
to Be a Millionaire” in the first place.
“He’s the main reason why I went on the
show,” said Flaherty. “He was supportive of
my doing this right from the beginning.”
Flaherty had the opportunity to watch
herself when the show aired, joined by
colleagues and students in the café at 73
Tremont Street. Asked if she would have left
her job if she had won the million-dollar
prize, she responded without hesitation.
“No way,” she said. “I consider myself
very lucky to be paid to do something I
love.”
Conference on Law, Culture and the Humanities
The Law School hosted the Twelfth
Annual Conference for the Association
of the Study of Law, Culture and the
Humanities early this month.
James Carroll, Distinguished Scholar
in Residence at the College of Arts and
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Sciences, was the keynote speaker, and
Law Professors Eric Blumenson and Jeffrey
Lipshaw presented papers.
The Association for the Study of Law,
Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary,
humanistically oriented legal scholarship,
and the conference drew more than 200
scholars from around the world.
In his keynote address, Carroll reflected
on primitive societies’ penchant for solving
the problem of violence with more violence.
He argued that “structures of international
law are the only alternative to the worldending violence of new weapons.”
Blumenson and Lipshaw presented
papers on the panel “Responsibility and
Causation.”
Lipshaw’s paper, “Law’s Illusion:
Scientific Jurisprudence and the Struggle
with Judgment,” dealt with how “thinking
like a lawyer” fits into making difficult
decisions, with an emphasis on the business
context.
Blumenson’s paper, “The Case for
Marijuana Law Reform,” argued against the
criminalization of marijuana.
Jessica Silbey, associate professor of Law,
coordinated the conference.
Every Bookplate Tells a Story
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“Certain bookplates cost a fortune, but
I’ve never seen one on e-Bay for more than
three hundred dollars. Sometimes you
get lucky and find a bookplate worth one
hundred dollars or more, and you can get it
for five dollars.”
Allen usually trades with other collectors,
and there are bookplate societies all over the
world. They sponsor exhibits, publications,
journals and conventions. Boston was the
site of an international convention in 2000,
but, alas, that was before Allen had begun
collecting bookplates.
While mass-produced bookplates offer
a space for a bibliophile to sign his or her
name, the more interesting collectibles
have a name imprinted on them, and the
design usually reveals something about
the owner.
One of Allen’s finds— discovered
in a $2 book with the cover torn
off— is a bookplate depicting a sailing
ship and imprinted with the name
Samuel Eliot Morison. This Harvard
nautical historian retraced Christopher
Columbus’s voyages and won a Pulitzer
Prize for his biography of Columbus.
“I like to research the people who once
owned the bookplate,” said Allen, who
is particularly interested in bookplates
designed by and for women.
Her collection includes the bookplate
of research scientist Florence Reba Sabin,
which depicts a microscope with quote from
Leonardo DaVinci.
“The owners use quotes from someone
they identify with or who is associated with
their interests,” she said.
A German bookplate created for two
women academics in the early part of the
20th century tells an interesting story of
achievement at a time when there were not
many opportunities for women in academia.
“They were deported to a concentration
camp and never came back,” said Allen.
“You’re holding not only a piece of art, but
a piece of history, and I feel a connection to
the owners. Something may have happened,
but you still hold something of them in
your hand.”
Nina Allen displays Samuel Elliot Morrison’s
bookplate, one of many preserved in the book
she holds.
A Literary Life Translated Into Imagery
“Personal bookplates are a collaboration
between the artist and the client, said
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Nina Allen, who has worked with artists
Andy English and Marina Terauds to create her own distinctive designs.
For the black-and-white bookplate
she uses to identify her personal volumes,
Allen asked English to incorporate the
words “All goes onward and outward”
from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.
”
The image on the wood-engraved bookplate depicts Whitman’s departure at the end of the poem, and Allen sent English
some lines from the poem’s last stanza:
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
“Since these lines do not easily translate into a visual im-
One Nights. The image is a copper engraving created by
Terauds in shades of green.
The panel on the left depicts Scheherazade envisioning
the story that she is going to tell the sultan. The middle panel
age, I asked the designer to substitute Whitman’s slouch hat,
is a scene from her story “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The
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left behind as a remembrance of the departed poet, said Allen.
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panel on the right depicts Scheherazade and the sultan after
Allen trades her bookplate based on One Thousand and
she has told him the story.
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Potpourri
Communication and Journalism faculty
members Monika Raesch, David Reeder,
Gloria Boone, Nina Huntemann, Bruce
Butterfield, Dana Rosengard and Bob
Rosenthal spoke at this spring’s Media
and Democracy series co-sponsored by the
College of Arts and Sciences and the Boston
Athenaeum. Also participating were Suffolk
University alumnae Joan Vennochi and
Linda Gallant.
Lynda Field, Counseling Center, was
elected secretary of the National Latina/o
Psychological Association (NLPA). She
has presented “Hablo un poco Espanol:
Cultural Competency & Ethical Issues in
Supervision” and “Understanding Latina
Trainee and Supervisory Development
in a Cultural Context” at the National
Multicultural Conference and Summit
in New Orleans and “Top Ethical
Challenges Facing Latino/a Psychologists
and Those Who Work in the Latino
Community” at the National Latina/o
Psychological Association Conference
in Costa Mesa, Calif. In addition Field
and Counseling Center colleague Paul
Korn, presented “Treating Depression
as a Campus Community Issue” at the
National Conference of Student Affairs
Administrators Mental Health Conference,
which focused on Effective Interventions
for Student Mental Health on Campus:
Collaboration & Community.
The Legal Practice Skills department
hosted the 2008 regional conference of the
New England Consortium of Legal Writing
Teachers, “Teaching Through Technology.”
Featured were three interactive presentations by faculty members: Samantha A.
Moppett—the use of Wikis in the classroom; Shailini Jandial George—the use of
clickers in engaging and assessing students;
and Gabriel H. Teninbaum and Sabrina
DeFabritiis—the use of podcasts and
voice comments to supplement classroom
teaching. At the luncheon, Law Professor
Andrew Beckerman-Rodau spoke on the
Pedagogy of Teaching Through Technology.
Johanny Mejia of Mail Services and
Yeuris Mejia of Accounts Payable welcomed
a daughter to their family. Yariani Esmeralda
Mejia was born on February 19, 2009, and
weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces. She joins
3-year-old brother Javier Mejia at home.
Jimmy Mistry, Accounting,
received the Outstanding Paper Award
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Jiwoon Kim, Kyungsue Han, Francesca Little, Walter Johnson, Polievkt Perov
Thomas Trott on the Queen Mary with fellow scientists Michael Burrows, Scottish Association for
Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom; Anne Marboe, Ph.D. fellow,
Roskilde University in Denmark; Angela Mead, Ph.D. fellow, University of South Africa, Capetown;
Suzy Ryan, Education and Outreach, Census of Marine Life Gulf of Maine Area Project, Gulf of Maine
Research Institute; Anna Redden, Biology department and director, Acadia Centre for Estuarine
Research, Acadia University, Nova Scotia; and Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, Programa de Investigacion
en Botánica Marina, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico.
Yariani Esmeralda Mejia
at the recent IADIS International
Conference—Information Systems 2009 for
his paper “The Use of ERP-Based Exercises
in Management Curricula.”
Physics Department Chair Walter
Johnson and Assistant Professor Polievkt
Perov, students Kyungsue Han, Jiwoon
Kim, and Francesca Little, and alumni Jack
Driscoll and Natalia Perova conducted
a research project to develop a wireless
system for measuring methane concentration. The group worked on the project
at the University’s Sagan Research Lab,
the environmental engineering firm PID
Analyzers in Pembroke, and the Septic Test
Facility at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod.
They presented the work at the Pittcon09
scientific conference in Chicago in a poster
session “New Developments in Analytical
Instrumentation.”
Thomas Trott, Biology, convened the
History of the Nearshore Synthesis working
group aboard the Queen Mary at Long
Beach, Calif. at the Census of Marine Life
Writing Workshop, a gathering of approximately 200 scientists from around the world
who are part of this global program of
ocean discovery. Trott’s group will produce
a synthesis of Pan-Atlantic historical data to
reveal changes in coastal fauna and flora and
possible causes.
College of Arts and Sciences Dean
Sebastián Royo presented “Spain and the
European Context” for officials of the United
States government in Washington D.C. and
“Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism
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Modern Theatre Restoration Begins
Save
the Date
John Kineavy, Purchasing Services
Gidget Manning, Physics
Todd Stern, Law Career Development
Emmanuel Tellez, Juvenile Justice Center
Workers have begun brick-bybrick disassembly of the Modern
Theatre’s facade as part of the
University’s meticulous restoration of the historic movie house on
Washington Street.
Several thousand pieces of
marble, sandstone and brownstone
are being removed and sent off site
to a masonry restoration expert.
The University is photographing
and documenting the process, and
information will be updated regularly
at www.suffolk.edu/moderntheatre.
“There are a lot of fascinating
things about this project,” said Judith Worker separates stonework from building facade.
Selwyn of Preservation Technology
Associates, who is monitoring the masonry restoration process for the University. “This is
essentially two buildings, the post-Civil-War-era upper section, which is in good condition,
and the later Modern Theatre marble front, which is an entirely different type and style of
building.”
Selwyn said that, while the building’s structure had deteriorated to the point where
nothing was salvageable, the facade was largely intact. Most of the damage to the marble
facade was the result of alterations over the years, as marquees and signs were added to it.
“Those of us involved in this reconstruction feel that it’s a really dramatic and
interesting thing to do—to take down, restore and reassemble a facade,” said Selwyn.
“And there will be theater again on Washington Street. Without the efforts of Suffolk
University and Emerson College, what would that part of Washington Street be like?”
Potpourri
2009 Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees
Spring Fling
Thursday, May 21
4:45 – 8 p.m.
Details to Come
New Faces
Please welcome our newest employees:
Peter Cole, Information Technology
Services
Jeanie Fallon, Law Library
Elaine Garofoli, Sawyer Business School
Technology Management
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for Latin America” at the annual meeting of
the International Studies Association in New
York. In February he traveled to Webster
University in Vienna, Austria, as a member
of an accreditation team.
Nancy Stoll, vice president for Student
Affairs, served as a member of the New
England Association of Schools and
Colleges accreditation team to Franklin
Pierce University. She also was invited
to join the New England Student Affairs
Think Tank, a regional group of senior
student affairs professionals who discuss
best practices and research in student
affairs. The Think Tank is sponsored by
the New England Resource Center for
Higher Education at the University of
Massachusetts at Boston.
College of Arts and Sciences Associate
Dean Emeritus Joseph H. Strain was
inducted into Cambridge Who’s Who for his
leadership and excellence in teaching and
academic administration.
The Suffolk University Athletic Department will induct a coach, six athletes and
a baseball team into its Athletics Hall of Fame during an induction ceremony and dinner on
Thursday, May 7, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge.
The second class of the Athletics Hall of Fame includes:
• Joe Walsh, head baseball coach from 1982–1995. He led the Rams to a 218–167–1
record, with three ECAC tournament appearances. He also was head coach of the
women’s basketball and cross-country squads.
• Jack Resnick, one of the leading one-game scorers in college basketball history. He
scored 75 points for the Rams in a 1953 game against Burdett College.
• Christos Tsiotos, the only basketball player in University history to record both 1,000
points and rebounds.
• Kathleen Norton, the University’s all-time leading women’s basketball scorer with
1,516 points and the 2002 NCAA National Division III softball batting champion
with a .606 batting average.
• Fred Knox, a premier pitcher from 1958 to 1961.
• Brian Gruning, Suffolk’s second all-time hockey career scoring leader with 226 total
points (119 goals, 107 assists).
• Ernst Cleophat, who averaged a goal a game during his soccer career—highlighted by
his three-goal game in a 3-0 defeat of Division I Northeastern University. He now is
the University’s head women’s soccer coach.
• The 1984 Suffolk baseball team, the first Rams squad to qualify for Eastern College
Athletic Conference post-season play with a record of 15-9.
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Higginson Pursues Political Office
Ryan Higginson, assistant director
of Human Resources, has tossed his hat
into the political arena, seeking the Third
Suffolk District House seat formerly held by
Salvatore DiMasi.
“I’ve always been interested in politics and
feel this is the right time for me to pursue
this,” said Higginson, a University alumnus
who lives in the South End. “I’ve worked on
other campaigns, but this is my first time
running for office.”
DiMasi, the former House speaker and
a Law School alumnus, held the seat for 30
years before resigning earlier this year.
“I’m not going to be the new Sal,” said
Higginson. “I’m going to be myself.”
The May 19 primary will pit him against
Democrats Aaron Michlewitz of the North
Ryan Higginson
End, DiMasi’s former constituent services
director; Susan Passoni of the South End, a former research analyst
for an investment banking firm; and Lucy Rivera of Beacon Hill, a
public defender.
Higginson has been knocking on doors,
shaking hands and attending events throughout the district.
“It has been a lot of late nights and long
weekends, but it’s worth it,” said Higginson.
“People have questions, opinions and ideas,
and they haven’t been approached for a long
time. I like to keep people informed and
engaged in what needs to be done for progress
to be made.”
He is delighted about all the positive
reinforcement he has received from his
colleagues, many of whom attended his first
official fund-raising event at the Tremont 647
restaurant in the South End.
“He’s got a lot of great ideas and an
ability to approach a situation with an eye
for innovation,” said Liz Berman, assistant
director of Human Resources. “I think he’ll
carry that spirit through to his political career; not allowing the
status quo to drive his platform, but rather listening to the needs of
his constituents.”
Suffolk In the News
The University often is featured in local and national media.
The following offers a sampling of recent Suffolk University media
mentions. To view the complete list, visit the University’s Public
Affairs Web pages.
John Nucci and Anna Quadri of the Sawyer Business School with
2009 I Migliori Award
Also appeared in:
Post Gazette, March 20, 2009
New England Cable News
March 26, 2009
Adam Nelson, head basketball coach and assistant director of athletics, weighs in on NCAA action
Bay State Banner
March 12, 2009
Journalist Gwen Ifill received the 2009 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith
First Amendment Award presented by the Ford Hall Forum at
Suffolk University
Suffolk University/7NEWS poll of March 25, 2009
Frustrated Voters Turning on Patrick and State Government
WHDH-TV 7NEWS Boston—The Hiller Instinct
Boston Herald
Boston Globe
CNN Politics.com
WTEN Albany, NY
Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University
Law School poll of March 25, 2009
Voters Voice Concerns About Ethics in Mass. Government
WBUR
Somerville Journal
New England Cable News
March 23, 2009
Law Professor Carter Bishop on “Sidebar”—Is the AIG bonus tax
constitutional?
Boston Globe—The Names Blog
March 18, 2009
The Pirandello Lyceum to honor Vice President of External Affairs
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ABC News
March 12, 2009
Laurence Stybel, executive in residence, Sawyer Business School,
comments on layoff gossip
Starkville Daily News (Mississippi)
March 10, 2009
Suffolk University students volunteer at Habitat for Humanity
annual Spring Collegiate Challenge
Reuters
March 9, 2009
Vice President for Enrollment and International Programs
Marguerite Dennis knows the ins and outs of keeping an education
affordable, even in the current economic climate.
Also appeared in:
Centre Daily Times (Pennsylvania)
Forbes.com
The Earth Times
StreetInsider.com
Yahoo!Finance
Faculty Publications
Linda Brown, NESAD, has an exhibit,
Phenomen.illogical, at the Kingston Gallery
in Boston’s South End through April 25.
C. Gopinath, Strategy & International
Business, has published Strategize!
Experiential exercises in strategic management,
3ed, South-Western/Cengage Learning,
Mason, Ohio (with J. Siciliano).
Micky Lee, Communication and
Journalism, with co-author Anthony Fung
of Chinese University of Hong Kong, has
published a paper “Localizing a global
amusement park: Hong Kong’s Disneyland”
in the Continuum: Journal of Media and
Cultural Studies.
Raul de la Fuente Marcos and Carlos
de la Fuente Marcos of Physics, Madrid
Campus, had the article “MONS OT
J004240.69+405142.0: An orphan GRB
optical afterglow candidate in Andromeda?”
published in the peer-reviewed journal New
Astronomy, Volume 14, Issue 3, 2009 April
1, pp. 214-220. The article was co-authored
with K. McGoldrick, N. Chartofillis, G.
Gómez Díez and S. Píriz Bartivas, undergraduate students at Suffolk University.
Lydia Martin, NESAD, had an oil
painting, Patch, included in the Catharine
Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members’ Spring
Exhibition at the Broome Street Gallery
in SoHo, New York City. Her husband,
Linda Brown: Thinking Hat (2009)
Lydia Martin’s Patch
Chris Martin, who is an English professor
at Boston University and teaches classes in
Shakespeare, posed as the patch, a clown of
the Elizabethan court.
College of Arts and Sciences Associate
Dean Sebastián Royo has published
three journal articles: “The Politics of
Adjustment and Coordination at the
Regional Level: The Basque Country,”
in Mediterranean Quarterly; “The Fiesta
is Over: The Impact of the Worldwide
Financial Crisis in Spain” in South
European Society & Politics; and “Las Claves
del Exito,” a book review of Malcolm
Gladwell’s Outliers in the Spanish edition
of the journal FP (Foreign Policy).
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“We felt that if audiences could get familiar with the faces and
voices behind the bylines, they might actually read more criticism
and take it seriously.”
Roger Ebert, who was interviewed for the documentary,
responded to the film with a “thumbs up,” according to Peary.
Communication and Journalism media lab coordinator
Aleksandar Lekic was co-editor of the film.
“I learned so much working with a great group of talented people,”
he said. “We had more than 200 hours of raw footage to work with,
and the final product was both informative and entertaining.”
The South by Southwest screenings marked the beginning
of an extended festival run for Peary’s production. He and his
team have been invited to bring the 80-minute documentary
to festivals in Mexico, Colombia, Vancouver, Hong Kong, and
a number of domestic venues, including the San Francisco
International Festival.
For the Love of Movies will have its local premier at 7 p.m. April
27 at the Institute of Contemporary Art as a joint presentation of
the ICA and the Independent Film Festival of Boston.
Aleksandar Lekic, Amy Geller and Gerald Peary teamed up to create the
film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.
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Lincoln Bicentennial Tribute
The Social Law Library and Suffolk University Law School’s Macaronis
Institute celebrated the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth by
presenting The Rivalry, playwright Norman Corwin’s dramatization of the
Lincoln-Douglas debates, at the John Adams Courthouse. Actors Mary
Linda Rapelye, Christian Kauffmann and Peter Cormican join with President
David J. Sargent; the Hon. John Greaney, director of the Macaronis
Institute; and Trustees Chair Nicholas Macaronis after the performance.
(Photo by John Gillooly)
Tea, Trade and Colonialism
The Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies kicked off its spring 2009 visiting scholar series
with Professor Peter Perdue of Yale University discussing “From the Hills of the Salon White
House: Chinese Tea in the World Market. Perdue, second right, is joined by History Professor
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Yong Xue; Ron Suleski, the incoming director of the Rosenberg Institute; Lauri Umansky,
interim associate vice president for Academic Affairs; and Dean Kenneth Greenberg. (Photo by
John Gillooly)
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Freedom and
Responsibility
Law School alumnus Edward I. Masterman greets
two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis,
who spoke at the inaugural symposium of the
Masterman Institute on the First Amendment
and the Fourth Estate last month. Masterman
and his wife Sydell established the institute to
provide a forum for robust debate and exchange
of ideas on freedom of the press and its attendant
responsibilities. Law School Professor Karen M.
Blum is director of the Masterman Institute. (Photo
by John Gillooly)
Athletics Hall of Fame
Higginson in House Bid
Modern Theatre Work Begins
April 2009 • Vol. 35, No. 3
Professor’s Film
Creates Splash
at SXSW Festival
Longtime film critic, arts teacher and
film programmer Gerald Peary has moved
to the other side of the camera to create the
documentary For the Love of Movies: The
Story of American Film Criticism.
The film had its world premier in
March at the South by Southwest Film
Festival, or SXSW, in Austin, Texas.
Peary, a professor of Communication
and Journalism and author of seven books
on cinema and innumerable articles, spent
seven years working on the film. It was
featured in SXSW’s prestigious Spotlight
section alongside Spike Lee’s Passing Strange
and Greg Mottola’s Superbad.
“To finally see the finished product feels
like a dream,” said Peary. “The biggest
reward was seeing people laughing and
applauding.”
Peary directed and wrote For the Love
of Movies, which was produced by his wife
Amy Geller and narrated by actress Patricia
Clarkson.
Peary and Geller interviewed many of
America’s best-known film critics, who
speak intimately and humorously on film
about how and why they became reviewers.
They weigh in about the rich, 100-year
history of American criticism and passionately discuss the sublime and unusual
movies that thrilled them and helped form
their aesthetic.
“There is a severe crisis in film criticism
right now,” said Peary, who, in addition to
teaching, is a longtime film critic for the
Boston Phoenix. “Reviewers everywhere are
losing their jobs. Maybe this documentary
can begin to turn things around.
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“Millionaire” Challenge
Mary Flaherty comes face to face with her televised image during the airing of her appearance
on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Full story, page 2. (Photo by John Gillooly)
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Every Bookplate Tells a Story
When her bookshelves began threatening to overwhelm her living space, Nina
Allen turned from repairing and amassing distressed books to collecting bookplates.
Bookplates are miniature works of art. Historically, they have been used for identifying ownership of a book. But contemporary bookmarks are more often traded among
aficionados.
Allen teaches American Literature in the English Department, and her personal
bookplates demonstrate the importance of literature and storytelling in her life.
As a collector, she has amassed about 1,000 bookplates. Some are assembled in a
book; others are framed and hung as artwork in her home.
“When you think of it, you can have these lovely works of art, and the investment
is minimal,” said Allen, who has found some of her bookplates in her own book
collection.
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Colleagues gather with Mary Flaherty in the coffee shop in the Stahl Center as her stint on “Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire” is aired. Flaherty kept mum about the outcome of the contest until it was
revealed in the broadcast. (Photo by John Gillooly)
Professor Enjoys “Millionaire” Bid
Mary Flaherty felt more like a student than a professor, answering questions
instead of asking them, when she recently
appeared as a contestant on “Who Wants to
Be a Millionaire.”
“It was a great and fun experience, but
quite nerve-wracking sitting in that hot
seat,” said Flaherty, director of the paralegal
studies program in the College of Arts and
Sciences. “The intensity became stronger
with each question.”
In the end, Flaherty was delighted to
walk away with $16,000. The question that
stumped her was: How many faces does an
icosahedron have?
“I called my brother (as one of four lifelines), and he was trying to Google it, but
he couldn’t type fast enough,” said Flaherty.
The correct answer: 20.
Flaherty has always been a trivia buff. A
graduate of the University of Chicago and
Chicago Kent Law School, she remembers
playing trivial pursuit with her fellow law
students in the cafeteria. In 1998, she was a
contestant on “Jeopardy,” finishing second
to a five-time champion.
“I have so much useless information in
my brain, it’s not funny,” said Flaherty.
In order to prepare for “Who Wants
to Be a Millionaire,” Flaherty took the
National Geographic test every day
and learned everything she could about
“American Idol” contestants.
“It was just a blast to be part of all this,”
she said. It was an exciting time for me and
my family. And Meredith Vieira (host of the
show) was as warm a person off camera as
she was on it. She even commented on my
glasses,” which are fire-engine red.
With her winnings, Flaherty plans to take
her daughter, Winnie, 17, on a trip to Finland
and buy her daughter, Gwendy, 10, a cat.
She also would like to do something
special for her fiancé, Edward Walsh, who
encouraged Flaherty to go on “Who Wants
to Be a Millionaire” in the first place.
“He’s the main reason why I went on the
show,” said Flaherty. “He was supportive of
my doing this right from the beginning.”
Flaherty had the opportunity to watch
herself when the show aired, joined by
colleagues and students in the café at 73
Tremont Street. Asked if she would have left
her job if she had won the million-dollar
prize, she responded without hesitation.
“No way,” she said. “I consider myself
very lucky to be paid to do something I
love.”
Conference on Law, Culture and the Humanities
The Law School hosted the Twelfth
Annual Conference for the Association
of the Study of Law, Culture and the
Humanities early this month.
James Carroll, Distinguished Scholar
in Residence at the College of Arts and
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Sciences, was the keynote speaker, and
Law Professors Eric Blumenson and Jeffrey
Lipshaw presented papers.
The Association for the Study of Law,
Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary,
humanistically oriented legal scholarship,
and the conference drew more than 200
scholars from around the world.
In his keynote address, Carroll reflected
on primitive societies’ penchant for solving
the problem of violence with more violence.
He argued that “structures of international
law are the only alternative to the worldending violence of new weapons.”
Blumenson and Lipshaw presented
papers on the panel “Responsibility and
Causation.”
Lipshaw’s paper, “Law’s Illusion:
Scientific Jurisprudence and the Struggle
with Judgment,” dealt with how “thinking
like a lawyer” fits into making difficult
decisions, with an emphasis on the business
context.
Blumenson’s paper, “The Case for
Marijuana Law Reform,” argued against the
criminalization of marijuana.
Jessica Silbey, associate professor of Law,
coordinated the conference.
Every Bookplate Tells a Story
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“Certain bookplates cost a fortune, but
I’ve never seen one on e-Bay for more than
three hundred dollars. Sometimes you
get lucky and find a bookplate worth one
hundred dollars or more, and you can get it
for five dollars.”
Allen usually trades with other collectors,
and there are bookplate societies all over the
world. They sponsor exhibits, publications,
journals and conventions. Boston was the
site of an international convention in 2000,
but, alas, that was before Allen had begun
collecting bookplates.
While mass-produced bookplates offer
a space for a bibliophile to sign his or her
name, the more interesting collectibles
have a name imprinted on them, and the
design usually reveals something about
the owner.
One of Allen’s finds— discovered
in a $2 book with the cover torn
off— is a bookplate depicting a sailing
ship and imprinted with the name
Samuel Eliot Morison. This Harvard
nautical historian retraced Christopher
Columbus’s voyages and won a Pulitzer
Prize for his biography of Columbus.
“I like to research the people who once
owned the bookplate,” said Allen, who
is particularly interested in bookplates
designed by and for women.
Her collection includes the bookplate
of research scientist Florence Reba Sabin,
which depicts a microscope with quote from
Leonardo DaVinci.
“The owners use quotes from someone
they identify with or who is associated with
their interests,” she said.
A German bookplate created for two
women academics in the early part of the
20th century tells an interesting story of
achievement at a time when there were not
many opportunities for women in academia.
“They were deported to a concentration
camp and never came back,” said Allen.
“You’re holding not only a piece of art, but
a piece of history, and I feel a connection to
the owners. Something may have happened,
but you still hold something of them in
your hand.”
Nina Allen displays Samuel Elliot Morrison’s
bookplate, one of many preserved in the book
she holds.
A Literary Life Translated Into Imagery
“Personal bookplates are a collaboration
between the artist and the client, said
”
Nina Allen, who has worked with artists
Andy English and Marina Terauds to create her own distinctive designs.
For the black-and-white bookplate
she uses to identify her personal volumes,
Allen asked English to incorporate the
words “All goes onward and outward”
from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.
”
The image on the wood-engraved bookplate depicts Whitman’s departure at the end of the poem, and Allen sent English
some lines from the poem’s last stanza:
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
“Since these lines do not easily translate into a visual im-
One Nights. The image is a copper engraving created by
Terauds in shades of green.
The panel on the left depicts Scheherazade envisioning
the story that she is going to tell the sultan. The middle panel
age, I asked the designer to substitute Whitman’s slouch hat,
is a scene from her story “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The
”
left behind as a remembrance of the departed poet, said Allen.
”
panel on the right depicts Scheherazade and the sultan after
Allen trades her bookplate based on One Thousand and
she has told him the story.
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Potpourri
Communication and Journalism faculty
members Monika Raesch, David Reeder,
Gloria Boone, Nina Huntemann, Bruce
Butterfield, Dana Rosengard and Bob
Rosenthal spoke at this spring’s Media
and Democracy series co-sponsored by the
College of Arts and Sciences and the Boston
Athenaeum. Also participating were Suffolk
University alumnae Joan Vennochi and
Linda Gallant.
Lynda Field, Counseling Center, was
elected secretary of the National Latina/o
Psychological Association (NLPA). She
has presented “Hablo un poco Espanol:
Cultural Competency & Ethical Issues in
Supervision” and “Understanding Latina
Trainee and Supervisory Development
in a Cultural Context” at the National
Multicultural Conference and Summit
in New Orleans and “Top Ethical
Challenges Facing Latino/a Psychologists
and Those Who Work in the Latino
Community” at the National Latina/o
Psychological Association Conference
in Costa Mesa, Calif. In addition Field
and Counseling Center colleague Paul
Korn, presented “Treating Depression
as a Campus Community Issue” at the
National Conference of Student Affairs
Administrators Mental Health Conference,
which focused on Effective Interventions
for Student Mental Health on Campus:
Collaboration & Community.
The Legal Practice Skills department
hosted the 2008 regional conference of the
New England Consortium of Legal Writing
Teachers, “Teaching Through Technology.”
Featured were three interactive presentations by faculty members: Samantha A.
Moppett—the use of Wikis in the classroom; Shailini Jandial George—the use of
clickers in engaging and assessing students;
and Gabriel H. Teninbaum and Sabrina
DeFabritiis—the use of podcasts and
voice comments to supplement classroom
teaching. At the luncheon, Law Professor
Andrew Beckerman-Rodau spoke on the
Pedagogy of Teaching Through Technology.
Johanny Mejia of Mail Services and
Yeuris Mejia of Accounts Payable welcomed
a daughter to their family. Yariani Esmeralda
Mejia was born on February 19, 2009, and
weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces. She joins
3-year-old brother Javier Mejia at home.
Jimmy Mistry, Accounting,
received the Outstanding Paper Award
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Jiwoon Kim, Kyungsue Han, Francesca Little, Walter Johnson, Polievkt Perov
Thomas Trott on the Queen Mary with fellow scientists Michael Burrows, Scottish Association for
Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom; Anne Marboe, Ph.D. fellow,
Roskilde University in Denmark; Angela Mead, Ph.D. fellow, University of South Africa, Capetown;
Suzy Ryan, Education and Outreach, Census of Marine Life Gulf of Maine Area Project, Gulf of Maine
Research Institute; Anna Redden, Biology department and director, Acadia Centre for Estuarine
Research, Acadia University, Nova Scotia; and Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, Programa de Investigacion
en Botánica Marina, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico.
Yariani Esmeralda Mejia
at the recent IADIS International
Conference—Information Systems 2009 for
his paper “The Use of ERP-Based Exercises
in Management Curricula.”
Physics Department Chair Walter
Johnson and Assistant Professor Polievkt
Perov, students Kyungsue Han, Jiwoon
Kim, and Francesca Little, and alumni Jack
Driscoll and Natalia Perova conducted
a research project to develop a wireless
system for measuring methane concentration. The group worked on the project
at the University’s Sagan Research Lab,
the environmental engineering firm PID
Analyzers in Pembroke, and the Septic Test
Facility at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod.
They presented the work at the Pittcon09
scientific conference in Chicago in a poster
session “New Developments in Analytical
Instrumentation.”
Thomas Trott, Biology, convened the
History of the Nearshore Synthesis working
group aboard the Queen Mary at Long
Beach, Calif. at the Census of Marine Life
Writing Workshop, a gathering of approximately 200 scientists from around the world
who are part of this global program of
ocean discovery. Trott’s group will produce
a synthesis of Pan-Atlantic historical data to
reveal changes in coastal fauna and flora and
possible causes.
College of Arts and Sciences Dean
Sebastián Royo presented “Spain and the
European Context” for officials of the United
States government in Washington D.C. and
“Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism
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Modern Theatre Restoration Begins
Save
the Date
John Kineavy, Purchasing Services
Gidget Manning, Physics
Todd Stern, Law Career Development
Emmanuel Tellez, Juvenile Justice Center
Workers have begun brick-bybrick disassembly of the Modern
Theatre’s facade as part of the
University’s meticulous restoration of the historic movie house on
Washington Street.
Several thousand pieces of
marble, sandstone and brownstone
are being removed and sent off site
to a masonry restoration expert.
The University is photographing
and documenting the process, and
information will be updated regularly
at www.suffolk.edu/moderntheatre.
“There are a lot of fascinating
things about this project,” said Judith Worker separates stonework from building facade.
Selwyn of Preservation Technology
Associates, who is monitoring the masonry restoration process for the University. “This is
essentially two buildings, the post-Civil-War-era upper section, which is in good condition,
and the later Modern Theatre marble front, which is an entirely different type and style of
building.”
Selwyn said that, while the building’s structure had deteriorated to the point where
nothing was salvageable, the facade was largely intact. Most of the damage to the marble
facade was the result of alterations over the years, as marquees and signs were added to it.
“Those of us involved in this reconstruction feel that it’s a really dramatic and
interesting thing to do—to take down, restore and reassemble a facade,” said Selwyn.
“And there will be theater again on Washington Street. Without the efforts of Suffolk
University and Emerson College, what would that part of Washington Street be like?”
Potpourri
2009 Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees
Spring Fling
Thursday, May 21
4:45 – 8 p.m.
Details to Come
New Faces
Please welcome our newest employees:
Peter Cole, Information Technology
Services
Jeanie Fallon, Law Library
Elaine Garofoli, Sawyer Business School
Technology Management
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for Latin America” at the annual meeting of
the International Studies Association in New
York. In February he traveled to Webster
University in Vienna, Austria, as a member
of an accreditation team.
Nancy Stoll, vice president for Student
Affairs, served as a member of the New
England Association of Schools and
Colleges accreditation team to Franklin
Pierce University. She also was invited
to join the New England Student Affairs
Think Tank, a regional group of senior
student affairs professionals who discuss
best practices and research in student
affairs. The Think Tank is sponsored by
the New England Resource Center for
Higher Education at the University of
Massachusetts at Boston.
College of Arts and Sciences Associate
Dean Emeritus Joseph H. Strain was
inducted into Cambridge Who’s Who for his
leadership and excellence in teaching and
academic administration.
The Suffolk University Athletic Department will induct a coach, six athletes and
a baseball team into its Athletics Hall of Fame during an induction ceremony and dinner on
Thursday, May 7, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge.
The second class of the Athletics Hall of Fame includes:
• Joe Walsh, head baseball coach from 1982–1995. He led the Rams to a 218–167–1
record, with three ECAC tournament appearances. He also was head coach of the
women’s basketball and cross-country squads.
• Jack Resnick, one of the leading one-game scorers in college basketball history. He
scored 75 points for the Rams in a 1953 game against Burdett College.
• Christos Tsiotos, the only basketball player in University history to record both 1,000
points and rebounds.
• Kathleen Norton, the University’s all-time leading women’s basketball scorer with
1,516 points and the 2002 NCAA National Division III softball batting champion
with a .606 batting average.
• Fred Knox, a premier pitcher from 1958 to 1961.
• Brian Gruning, Suffolk’s second all-time hockey career scoring leader with 226 total
points (119 goals, 107 assists).
• Ernst Cleophat, who averaged a goal a game during his soccer career—highlighted by
his three-goal game in a 3-0 defeat of Division I Northeastern University. He now is
the University’s head women’s soccer coach.
• The 1984 Suffolk baseball team, the first Rams squad to qualify for Eastern College
Athletic Conference post-season play with a record of 15-9.
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Higginson Pursues Political Office
Ryan Higginson, assistant director
of Human Resources, has tossed his hat
into the political arena, seeking the Third
Suffolk District House seat formerly held by
Salvatore DiMasi.
“I’ve always been interested in politics and
feel this is the right time for me to pursue
this,” said Higginson, a University alumnus
who lives in the South End. “I’ve worked on
other campaigns, but this is my first time
running for office.”
DiMasi, the former House speaker and
a Law School alumnus, held the seat for 30
years before resigning earlier this year.
“I’m not going to be the new Sal,” said
Higginson. “I’m going to be myself.”
The May 19 primary will pit him against
Democrats Aaron Michlewitz of the North
Ryan Higginson
End, DiMasi’s former constituent services
director; Susan Passoni of the South End, a former research analyst
for an investment banking firm; and Lucy Rivera of Beacon Hill, a
public defender.
Higginson has been knocking on doors,
shaking hands and attending events throughout the district.
“It has been a lot of late nights and long
weekends, but it’s worth it,” said Higginson.
“People have questions, opinions and ideas,
and they haven’t been approached for a long
time. I like to keep people informed and
engaged in what needs to be done for progress
to be made.”
He is delighted about all the positive
reinforcement he has received from his
colleagues, many of whom attended his first
official fund-raising event at the Tremont 647
restaurant in the South End.
“He’s got a lot of great ideas and an
ability to approach a situation with an eye
for innovation,” said Liz Berman, assistant
director of Human Resources. “I think he’ll
carry that spirit through to his political career; not allowing the
status quo to drive his platform, but rather listening to the needs of
his constituents.”
Suffolk In the News
The University often is featured in local and national media.
The following offers a sampling of recent Suffolk University media
mentions. To view the complete list, visit the University’s Public
Affairs Web pages.
John Nucci and Anna Quadri of the Sawyer Business School with
2009 I Migliori Award
Also appeared in:
Post Gazette, March 20, 2009
New England Cable News
March 26, 2009
Adam Nelson, head basketball coach and assistant director of athletics, weighs in on NCAA action
Bay State Banner
March 12, 2009
Journalist Gwen Ifill received the 2009 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith
First Amendment Award presented by the Ford Hall Forum at
Suffolk University
Suffolk University/7NEWS poll of March 25, 2009
Frustrated Voters Turning on Patrick and State Government
WHDH-TV 7NEWS Boston—The Hiller Instinct
Boston Herald
Boston Globe
CNN Politics.com
WTEN Albany, NY
Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University
Law School poll of March 25, 2009
Voters Voice Concerns About Ethics in Mass. Government
WBUR
Somerville Journal
New England Cable News
March 23, 2009
Law Professor Carter Bishop on “Sidebar”—Is the AIG bonus tax
constitutional?
Boston Globe—The Names Blog
March 18, 2009
The Pirandello Lyceum to honor Vice President of External Affairs
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ABC News
March 12, 2009
Laurence Stybel, executive in residence, Sawyer Business School,
comments on layoff gossip
Starkville Daily News (Mississippi)
March 10, 2009
Suffolk University students volunteer at Habitat for Humanity
annual Spring Collegiate Challenge
Reuters
March 9, 2009
Vice President for Enrollment and International Programs
Marguerite Dennis knows the ins and outs of keeping an education
affordable, even in the current economic climate.
Also appeared in:
Centre Daily Times (Pennsylvania)
Forbes.com
The Earth Times
StreetInsider.com
Yahoo!Finance
Faculty Publications
Linda Brown, NESAD, has an exhibit,
Phenomen.illogical, at the Kingston Gallery
in Boston’s South End through April 25.
C. Gopinath, Strategy & International
Business, has published Strategize!
Experiential exercises in strategic management,
3ed, South-Western/Cengage Learning,
Mason, Ohio (with J. Siciliano).
Micky Lee, Communication and
Journalism, with co-author Anthony Fung
of Chinese University of Hong Kong, has
published a paper “Localizing a global
amusement park: Hong Kong’s Disneyland”
in the Continuum: Journal of Media and
Cultural Studies.
Raul de la Fuente Marcos and Carlos
de la Fuente Marcos of Physics, Madrid
Campus, had the article “MONS OT
J004240.69+405142.0: An orphan GRB
optical afterglow candidate in Andromeda?”
published in the peer-reviewed journal New
Astronomy, Volume 14, Issue 3, 2009 April
1, pp. 214-220. The article was co-authored
with K. McGoldrick, N. Chartofillis, G.
Gómez Díez and S. Píriz Bartivas, undergraduate students at Suffolk University.
Lydia Martin, NESAD, had an oil
painting, Patch, included in the Catharine
Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members’ Spring
Exhibition at the Broome Street Gallery
in SoHo, New York City. Her husband,
Linda Brown: Thinking Hat (2009)
Lydia Martin’s Patch
Chris Martin, who is an English professor
at Boston University and teaches classes in
Shakespeare, posed as the patch, a clown of
the Elizabethan court.
College of Arts and Sciences Associate
Dean Sebastián Royo has published
three journal articles: “The Politics of
Adjustment and Coordination at the
Regional Level: The Basque Country,”
in Mediterranean Quarterly; “The Fiesta
is Over: The Impact of the Worldwide
Financial Crisis in Spain” in South
European Society & Politics; and “Las Claves
del Exito,” a book review of Malcolm
Gladwell’s Outliers in the Spanish edition
of the journal FP (Foreign Policy).
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“We felt that if audiences could get familiar with the faces and
voices behind the bylines, they might actually read more criticism
and take it seriously.”
Roger Ebert, who was interviewed for the documentary,
responded to the film with a “thumbs up,” according to Peary.
Communication and Journalism media lab coordinator
Aleksandar Lekic was co-editor of the film.
“I learned so much working with a great group of talented people,”
he said. “We had more than 200 hours of raw footage to work with,
and the final product was both informative and entertaining.”
The South by Southwest screenings marked the beginning
of an extended festival run for Peary’s production. He and his
team have been invited to bring the 80-minute documentary
to festivals in Mexico, Colombia, Vancouver, Hong Kong, and
a number of domestic venues, including the San Francisco
International Festival.
For the Love of Movies will have its local premier at 7 p.m. April
27 at the Institute of Contemporary Art as a joint presentation of
the ICA and the Independent Film Festival of Boston.
Aleksandar Lekic, Amy Geller and Gerald Peary teamed up to create the
film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.
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Lincoln Bicentennial Tribute
The Social Law Library and Suffolk University Law School’s Macaronis
Institute celebrated the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth by
presenting The Rivalry, playwright Norman Corwin’s dramatization of the
Lincoln-Douglas debates, at the John Adams Courthouse. Actors Mary
Linda Rapelye, Christian Kauffmann and Peter Cormican join with President
David J. Sargent; the Hon. John Greaney, director of the Macaronis
Institute; and Trustees Chair Nicholas Macaronis after the performance.
(Photo by John Gillooly)
Tea, Trade and Colonialism
The Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies kicked off its spring 2009 visiting scholar series
with Professor Peter Perdue of Yale University discussing “From the Hills of the Salon White
House: Chinese Tea in the World Market. Perdue, second right, is joined by History Professor
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Yong Xue; Ron Suleski, the incoming director of the Rosenberg Institute; Lauri Umansky,
interim associate vice president for Academic Affairs; and Dean Kenneth Greenberg. (Photo by
John Gillooly)
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Freedom and
Responsibility
Law School alumnus Edward I. Masterman greets
two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis,
who spoke at the inaugural symposium of the
Masterman Institute on the First Amendment
and the Fourth Estate last month. Masterman
and his wife Sydell established the institute to
provide a forum for robust debate and exchange
of ideas on freedom of the press and its attendant
responsibilities. Law School Professor Karen M.
Blum is director of the Masterman Institute. (Photo
by John Gillooly)