Five faculty members participated in the 115th annual Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Conference, held November 10-12 at Chaminade University of Honolulu. From English, Genevieve Brassard presented “‘Amazingly Interesting’: Students Seeing Contemporary Women Writers through the Lens of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own;” and Molly Hiro presented “Touching Slavery.” From international languages and cultures, Maria Echenique presented “Translation and the Assessment of Intercultural Competence in Higher Education;” Giannina Reyes-Giardiello presented “Mexican Lucha Libre’s Masks: Transnational Symbols of Identity;” and Matthew Warshawsky presented “Retribution and Redemption in Lamentaciones del profeta Jeremías, a New Jewish Poem of the New Christian João Pinto Delgado (1627).”
Barbara Braband, nursing, presented “An Interdisciplinary Interview and Photovoice Project: Enhancing Students’ Skills in Grief and Loss Interventions” (with Anissa Rogers, social work, and Rebecca Gaudino, theology) at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Baccalaureate Education Conference, Nov. 16-18, 2017, in Atlanta, Georgia.