Mehrzad Karimabadi had a proposal accepted to an international Social Anthropology Conference, “Visual Representations of Iran” June 13-16, 2008 at St. Andrews University in Scotland. The leading scholars of Iranian visual culture studies will be there, a prestigious group of researchers and artists.

Marco Torres' thesis "Sanctifying Queerdom: Religious Identity In New Queer Cinema" was selected as the 2007 Outstanding Thesis of the SJSU College of Humanities and the Arts.

Kavita Khurana and Jennifer Walsh will present papers at the 2008 Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference. The 2008 National PCA/ACA Conference will be held at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel from Wednesday, March 19, through Saturday, March 22.

Ling Zhang was accepted by four Ph.D programs (at UC San Diego, University of Washington, University of Minnesota and University of Chicago) and chose University of Chicago cinema studies program. Ling presented her paper, "The Demolition and Reconstruction of Masculine Space in Chinese Filmmaker Jia Zhangke's Still Life" at the Northeast MLA Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, March 1-4, 2007.
http://www.nemla.org/

Kavita Khurana presented her paper at the Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference in Boston, MA, April 2007.

Kathie Kratochvil was accepted to the Educational Leadership doctoral program at UC Santa Cruz. Kelly Hsieh was accepted as a Ph.D. student in Theatre Arts at National Taipei University of Arts in Taiwan.

Lara Sumera presented her paper “The Mask of Beauty: Masquerade Theory and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations February 8-11, 2006 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her paper is accepted for publication in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video - QRFV 26.1, to appear late in 2007.

Sarah Lougheed and Elizabeth Thies presented papers at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities sponsored by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. January 14-16, 2006. http://www.hichumanities.org/index.htm

Carol Fischer won "Outstanding Thesis" in the SJSU College of Humanities and the Arts. Carol presented her thesis research at UC Santa Barbara Graduate Student mini-conference on Saturday, March 5. In this annual event both faculty and graduate students present their work in progress with members of the interdisciplinary campus Research Focus Group in Performance Studies. Carol was also accepted into the doctoral program in Dramatic Arts at UCSB and is the recipient of a highly competitive UC Regents Fellowship.

Kerry DiLeonardo had another proposal accepted, "Building Bridges Within Communities: The Wond'rous Love Initiative, Oxford, Mississippi" this time with a co-presenter, Jimmyle Listenbee. (For National Dance Educators Organization conference, Oct. 2004.)

Kelly Hsieh presented her graduate research on Legislative Theatre in Taiwan as part of Theatre for Social Change Conference April 27th, 2004, in San Francisco.
http://www.batocollective.org/PNG/workshops.html

Carol Fischer presented two papers for the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities sponsored by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI: "The World of David Henry Hwang according to Quantum" and "The Mythology of Naomi Iizuka in her play, LANGUAGE OF ANGELS."