Steve Macek, associate professor of speech communication and coordinator of urban and suburban studies, presented and chaired a five-person panel, “Moments of Danger: Media, Politics and Class in U.S. Communication History,” at the Union for Democratic Communications conference in State College, Pa., Oct. 14-16. Macek’s presentation was titled “The Citizen’s Committee on the Media and the Campaign for Media Democracy in Chicago.” The panel was hosted by Penn State University.

Martha Bohrer, associate professor of English, was part of a three-person panel, Voices Beyond the Pale: Women’s Discursive Tactics in 19th-Century, at the 56th annual Midwest Conference on British Studies Oct. 9 at Baldwin Wallace College. Her panel presentation was titled “Nature, Natural History and Provincial Voices in ‘Mary Barton.’”

Gregory H. Wolf, associate professor of German, was an active participant at the international conference of the German Studies Association in Oakland, Calif., in October. He organized a roundtable discussion on the topic “Advocating German in German Studies” and spoke about the role of language in cultural studies. He also presented the response paper “Writing Narratives: History, Identity and Voice in German Literature” in a session on 20th century German literature.