{"id":236,"date":"2023-04-12T04:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/wgs\/?p=236"},"modified":"2023-04-20T19:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T00:04:03","slug":"faculty-accomplishments-and-current-projects-2022-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/wgs\/2023\/04\/12\/faculty-accomplishments-and-current-projects-2022-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Accomplishments and Current Projects 2022-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hsiao-Lan Hu<\/strong> (pronouns: ze\/hir\/hir), Director of the WGS Program and Professor of Religious Studies, led a committee of international scholars to evaluate and organize the program for the 18<sup>th<\/sup> Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women, to be held in Seoul, Korea in June 2023. Upon the request of a board director of the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions, ze is organizing a panel on &#8220;The Global Ethic and the Challenging Path to Full Ordination for Buddhist Women&#8221; for the 9<sup>th<\/sup> meeting of The Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions, to be held in Chicago in August 2023, and is invited to be a panelist on \u201cMulti-Religious Perspectives on the Parliament\u2019s Global Ethic\u201d at the same meeting. Dr. Hu was a roundtable panelist on \u201cTranscending and Transforming Catastrophes: Women of Color and Strategies for Survival\u201d at the American Academy of Religion 2022 Annual Meetings, and will present on the roundtable panel on \u201cIndigenous Feminism between India and China\u201d at the 2023 Annual Meetings. On campus, ze served as a panelist on \u201cFaith, Hope, and Love: Faith Through the LGBTQ+ Lens\u2014An Interfaith Panel Discussion of Faith and Identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allegra Pitera<\/strong>, Professor of Architecture and Community Development, will collaborate with retired WGS faculty Professor Libby Blume to research under-represented architects and designers, mostly focusing on women.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gail Presbey<\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy, published \u201cGandhi\u2019s Encounter with the British Suffrage Movement: Lessons Learned,\u201d in <em>Gandhi&#8217;s Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges<\/em>, ed. Veena Howard (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023), 87-106, and \u201cWisdom from Women in Africa\u201d and two of the appendices in\u00a0<em>Rethinking African Sage Philosophy:\u00a0Interdisciplinary Perspectives on and Beyond H. Odera Oruka<\/em>, eds. Kai Kresse and Oriare Nyarwath (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023), 99-122. She also published a blogpost \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sistersofmercy.org%2Fbrave-women-border%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Chhu%40udmercy.edu%7C01ca7c8eda3c418c0f2008db120ae5db%7Cc8a4c2d8bd6840bab8b67522be9a7171%7C0%7C0%7C638123610232160064%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Cl0%2Bb8%2FP6TikxGKLhHIHKaFKk7VD%2BphWFZpOax5WiHE%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><em>The Work of Brave Women at the El Paso-Juarez Border<\/em><\/a>\u201d on the Sisters of Mercy website on June 23, 2022.\u00a0\u00a0Her journal article \u201cHow Nonviolent Movements in the Caribbean Influenced Pan-Africanism\u201d will be published in\u00a0<em>Peace &amp; Change: A Journal of Peace Research<\/em>, 48\/2 (2023).\u00a0Professor Presbey presented a paper, \u201cCatholics Supporting the Cuban Revolution: Dorothy Day in 1962, Betty Campbell and Peter Hinde in 1989\u201d at a conference on \u201cConstruction of socialism in theory and practice\u201d at Havana University Institute of Philosophy and Martin Luther King Center in Cuba in June 2022.\u00a0She also organized the Bioneers conference hosted by Detroit Mercy in October 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hsiao-Lan Hu (pronouns: ze\/hir\/hir), Director of the WGS Program and Professor of Religious Studies, led a committee of international scholars to evaluate and organize the program for the 18th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women, to be held in Seoul, Korea in June 2023. 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