DEBORAH VESS
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Programs
CUNY-College of Staten Island
2800 Victory Blvd. Staten Island (NYC), New York 10314
office: 718-982-2558
e-mail: deborah.vess[REMOVE THIS]@csi.cuny.edu
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:"The Emperor Hath no Clothes: Film and Revolution in 20th century Mali," presented to the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Haifa, Israel, August 1998.
"Interactive Multimedia and the Primary Source: Creating Original Courseware for the World Civ Sequence," presented to the Georgia Association of Historians, April 1998.
"Maximum interactivity: Multimedia and the World Wide Web," presented to the League for Innovation's Conference on Information Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1997.
"Transforming the Curriculum," panel presentation to the Association for Integrative Studies, Boone, South Carolina, October 1997.
"Socrates On-line: Multimedia as a Critical Thinking Tool," presented to the National Conference on College and University Teaching, Jacksonville, Florida, April 1997.
"Technology and the Global Curriculum: Using Multimedia to Teach World Civilization," presented to the American Council on International/Intercultural Education, Anaheim, California, April 1997.
"Multimedia as a Tool for the Development of Critical Thought," to the League for Innovation's Conference on Information Technology, Phoenix, Arizona, November 1996.
"Multimedia and the Liberal Arts," presented to the Mid-Atlantic Association for Computers and Writing, October 1996.
"Creative Writing and the Historian: An Active Learning Model for Teaching the Craft of History," to the Society for History Education, Long Beach, Ca., June 1996.
"The Role of Benedictine Women Before the Gregorian Reform" and "Research Problems in Benedictine Women's History" presented to Beyond Convent Walls: Conference on the History of Women Religious, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in June 1995.
"Abelard on Women: Ideals and Reality," presented to the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May 1995.
"Peter Abelard: Rhetoric, Language and Reality," presented to the International Conference on Global and Multi-cultural Issues In Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in Binghamton, New York, in October 1994.
"The Mudfish and the European: Africa and the West in the Age of Discovery," presented to the Southeastern World History Association in Atlanta, Georgia, in October 1994.
"Editorial and Research Problems in Benedictine Women's Studies" presented to the communities of Mount Angel Abbey and Queen of Angels Priory, St. Benedict, Oregon, in August 1994.
"Medieval Subversions of Gender: Women as Tempters and Mentors" presented at the National Women's Studies Association in Ames, Iowa, in June 1994.
"Multi-cultural Materials for the Middle Ages" presented to the Georgia Association of Historians in Marietta, Georgia, in April 1994.
"Women in the Middle Ages: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Sources and Gender Issues in Medieval Europe, Byzantium and Japan" presented to the Conference on Cultural Diversity in Atlanta, Georgia, in March 1994.
"The Continuing Legacy of St. Thomas More: The Glow-Worm Light of Dame Gertrude More and the Recusants on the Continent in the Seventeenth Century" presented to the Sixteenth Century Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, in December 1993.
"The English Eremitical Tradition: Thomas More and the Cloister of the Soul" presented to the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May 1993.
"The Benedictine Rule in the Sixteenth Century: Thomas More and the Monastic Ideal" presented to the International Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1992.
"On the Frontiers of the Modern World: Christian Humanism, Thomas More's Utopia and the Mind of the Middle Ages" presented to the Central Renaissance Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska, April 1992.
"Women, Monasticism and the Twelfth Century Renaissance" presented to the Women's Caucus of the Southwestern Social Sciences Association in Austin, Texas, March 1992.
"The Desert in the Thirteenth Century: Hagiography and the Cloister of the Soul" presented to the Mid-America Medieval Association in Kansas City, Missouri, February 1992.
"Abelard and Luther: Ethical Nominalism and the Evolution of Abelard's Twelfth Century Humanism" presented to the Mid America-Texas Medieval Association in Denton, Texas, February 1992.
"From Abelard to Luther: Nominalism and the Growth of Reformation Ideology" presented to the University of Texas Historical Symposium in Austin, Texas, October 1991.
"The Heresy of Peter Abelard: Nominalism and the Medieval Church" presented to the Phi Alpha Theta regional conference in Stephenville, Texas, April 1991.
"Rhetoric, Philosophy and the Mystics: Eckhart and the Renaissance in the North" presented to the Central Renaissance Conference in Columbia, Missouri, April 1991.
"Plotinus, Porphyry, and the Role of Heterodoxy in Augustine and Anselm" presented to the Southwestern Social Sciences Association in San Antonio, Texas, March 1991.
"English Scholars and Their Schools" presented to the Southwestern Social Sciences Association in Fort Worth, Texas, March 1990.
"Italy and England Before Lanfranc" presented to the Mid-America Medieval Association in Wichita, Kansas, March 1990.
"Continuity and Conservatism in the Schools of the Twelfth Century: The So-Called Intellectual Revolution of the Twelfth Century Reexamined" presented to the Southeastern Medieval Association in Houston, Texas, October 1989.
"Bede and the New Israel: Anxiety and Interpretation in the Eighth Century North" presented at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1989.
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