Rachel Schell (Philosophy), an undergraduate philosophy major and student ambassador for the Las Vegas Philosophy for Children Initiative, gave a virtual presentation on her research on "selectively silent philosophical engagement among preschoolers" at the Second National Congress on Educational Research hosted by the Sierra Hildalguense Normal…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented his paper, “Truth and the Topology of Assertion” and gave a workshop presentation on the foundations of the logical graphs developed by Charles Sanders Peirce at the biennial conference on Diagrams hosted by the University of Münster in Germany. The former has been published in Diagrammatic Representation and…

Aldo Barrita, Shane Kraus, Rachael Robnett, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) and Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) recently published a paper titled, "The Illegal Threat": The Presumed Illigality Microaggressive Experience Scale in the journal of Translational Issues in Psychological Science. This research project aimed…

Barbara Roth (Anthropology) presented the plenary talk at the 22nd Annual Mogollon Archaeology Conference in Silver City, New Mexico on October 4. The talk, titled "Transformation, Resilience, and Connectivity" highlighted the contributions of several major projects to archaeologists' understanding of the Mogollon.  

Katherine Walker (English) gave an invited talk at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium titled "Ben Jonson's Supernatural Swindlers." 

The summer 2024 issue of Western American Literature contains a review of the dystopian-adventure novel "Hammer of the Dogs" (University of Nevada Press, 2023) by Jarret Keene (English): "Operating squarely in the purview of The Hunger Games and Divergent novels, with a bit of Harry Potter, 'Hammer of the Dogs' brings anarchistic glee to the post-…

Jarret Keene (English) will give a reading at the Clark Country Library Theater on Oct. 17 as a Las Vegas Writes series editor, in collaboration with Nevada Humanities. The reading will be from the just-published "Desert Superbloom: Las Vegas Writers on Scarcity and Abundance" (Huntington Press), a collection of original essays…

Douglas Unger (English) published a novel, "Dream City." The novel is an unconventional portrait and fictional history of Las Vegas during the boom years before the economic crash brought on by the Great Recession. Through stories of its industry executives on the make, ideologies of marketing and consumerism in the "casino economy of America" are…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) recently participated in a workshop hosted by the University of Bergen in Norway and the journal, Hegel Bulletin, on the occasion of the release of a special issue dedicated to racism and colonialism in Hegel’s philosophy. Beisecker’s article, “American Hegelianism and its Impact on Indian Boarding School Policy,” co-…

James Woodbridge (Philosophy) co-presented (with Bradley Armour-Garb) a talk titled "Sentential-Varable Deflationism and Adverbial Quantification" at the international conference, Truth: A Workshop on Truth, Definability and Quantification into Sentence Position, at the University of Vienna in Austria on September 28, 2024.

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented "Cervantes' Poetic Contributions to Philosophical Change" at the Cervantes Now/Ahora conference held in Albuquerque, NM on September 19-20. Byrne's paper situated the creative author's thought in the trajectory of historical intellectual developments that would create a foundation for later…

Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate student Maegan Nation (both Psychology) published a new paper in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, "Negative Affect as a Mediator Between Exposure to Fitspiration and Thinspiration and Disordered Eating Behaviors: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study." They found that, among young women with…