ON CAMPUS: COMMUNITY UPDATE RESCHEDULED, CAMPBELL COLLABORATION WEB SITE, BLOOD DRIVE, MARKSON RECEPTION, DINSHAW TALK

Community Update Rescheduled —The first set of Community Updates initiated by President Nancy J. Vickers has been rescheduled. The town-hall meetings, at which Vickers will discuss and answer questions on an issue brief titled "Looking Ahead: Directions for Bryn Mawr," will be held a week later than originally scheduled. Vickers will meet with faculty on Monday, Sept. 27, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in the Ely Room; the meeting with staff will take place Tuesday, Sept. 28, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in Thomas Great Hall.

BMC Hosts Site for International Social-Welfare Research Group — The Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research is now hosting a Web site for the Social Welfare Coordinating Group of the Campbell Collaboration, an international nonprofit organization founded in 2000 to gather and evaluate evidence of the effectiveness of various social interventions. Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Research Julia Littell, who is a member of the International Steering Group and co-chair of the Social Welfare Coordinating Group of the Campbell Collaboration, brought the site to a Bryn Mawr server; undergraduate AnnaLisa Allegretti '05 did the Web design.

Blood Drive Set for Sept. 23 — Bryn Mawr will host its annual blood drive on Thursday, Sept. 23. Donors can recline and contemplate the beautiful Lockwood De Forest-designed stenciled ceiling of Thomas Great Hall, where the drive will go on from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. To make an appointment to give, visit this Red Cross scheduling page and register. The Athletics and Physical Education Department will tally the number of pints donated by each undergraduate class and by the denizens of each administrative or classroom building; a plaque in the Bern Schwartz Gymnasium will recognize the donation leaders in each category. For information about eligiblity, visit the Red Cross "Give Life" Web site or contact Jody Law ( jlaw@brynmawr.edu or x7309).

Reception to Honor Retiring Art & Archaeology Librarian — On Thursday, Sept. 23, at 4 p.m. in Wyndham, Chief Information Officer and Constance A. Jones Director of Libraries Elliott Shore will host a reception to honor Eileen Markson, a 31-year veteran of Bryn Mawr's Art and Archaeology Library and the winner of the McPherson Award for Excellence and Service, on her retirement from the College. Markson has led the staff of the Art and Archaeology Library since 1973, when she came to Bryn Mawr from the Archaeological Institute of America. Generations of students, scholars and colleagues have benefited from Markson's research skills, broad knowledge of the subjects of her collections, and eagerness to help others.

Bryn Mawr Alumna Carolyn Dinshaw to Speak, Give Faculty Workshop — Carolyn Dinshaw '78, a medievalist who is the director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality and professor of English at New York University, will visit the Bi-College community to give a public lecture and a faculty workshop next week. Dinshaw's work has been instrumental in introducing both feminist and queer perspectives to medieval studies; her Chaucer's Sexual Poetics, published in 1989, has been called "one of the most widely influential books in Chaucer studies."

Dinshaw's talk, "How Soon Is Now: The Times of Margery Kempe," is drawn from her current scholarly work on the late medieval mystic, pilgrim, and "born-again virgin" Margery Kempe and ends, she promises, "with a rumination on my doing archival work at Bryn Mawr." It will take place in Gest 101, on the Haverford campus, at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 23.

Bryn Mawr Feminist and Gender Studies Program Coordinator Anne Dalke invites faculty members of both colleges who are interested in discussing the teaching of gender and sexuality to a working session with Dinshaw on Friday, Sept. 24, at a time and location to be announced. For more information, contact Dalke at adalke@brynmawr.edu or x5308. Check the Feminist and Gender Studies Web site next week for details.

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