Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, will be an invited panelist at The New York Times 2013 Energy For Tomorrow Conference on April 25 in New York City. The theme of the conference is Building Sustainable Cities. The conference will be opened with an address by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, the conference will convene thought leaders, public policy makers, government urbanists and C-suite level executives from the energy, technology, automotive
Professor Manisha Sinha of Afro-American Studies is scheduled to give a keynote address on April 27 at “Maine in the Civil War,” a public symposium at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.
Comparative Literature professor Catherine Portuges and Peter Hames are the editors of “Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989,” published by Temple University Press.
Patrizio Ceccagnoli, lecturer in Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, is the co-editor and translator of “Theme of Farewell and After-Poems: A Bilingual Edition” by Milo de Angelis, published this month by the University of Chicago Press.
The editorship of the Comparative Education Review will be transferred to the School of Education’s Center for International Education as of July 1 for an initial five-year term.