Faculty and Staff Notes

Recorder and Baroque flute professor Michael Lynn participated in the 2019 ANIMUSIC Organological Congress in Belmonte, Portugal in September. The title of the 8th International Scientific Meeting for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies was "Instruments of culture and peace." Lynn presented a paper, “The flute of Pierre Gabriel Buffardin and his rebirth,” and performed the closing concert with Swiss historic flute specialist Jörg Fiedler. 

Oberlin Orchestras director Raphael Jimenez appears as the guest conductor of the Ashland Symphony Orchestra at Loudonville’s Historic Ohio Theatre on Sunday, October 27. The program of Bach, Telemann, Vaughan Williams, and Haydn also features the solo performance by Lisa Jelle, professor of flute at Capital University.

Professor of Mathematics Bob Bosch '83 was interviewed for the October 2019 issue of Mathematics Magazine in the piece “Dominos, Traveling Salespeople, and Art: An Interview with Bob Bosch,” written by Allison Henrich. The interview is accompanied by four examples of Bosch’s optimization-based mathematical artwork, and there are five additional examples of his work elsewhere in the issue.

Assistant Professor of Economics Martin Saavedra's paper, "A Machine Learning Approach to Improving Occupational Income Scores" has been accepted by the journal Explorations in Economic History.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch's paper, "The Buck Stops Where? Federalism, Uncertainty, and Investment in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector" has been accepted for publication in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Geoff Pingree's feature documentary film, The Return of Elder Pingree – Memoir of a Departed Mormon, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay & Music Festival in Boston on October 13, 2019.

The Grand Jury Prize awarded by the Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay & Music Festival consists of $118,000 of in-kind production support for the director's work, including one year of international film distribution; a dedicated custom page hosted on the festival’s website for twelve months, showcasing both the film and the filmmaker; and a targeted marketing campaign and showcase for the film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2020.

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca was invited to present, "Interest Rate, Regulation, and Tax Effects on Commercial Real Estate: Lessons from the Past Half Century" at the Commercial Real Estate Data Alliance (CREDA) Conference, Oct. 3 through 4, 2019 at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented, "Greener on the Other Side? Spatial Discontinuities in Property Tax Rates and Their Effects on Tax Morale" October 3, 2019 at the Macalester College Economics Department Research Seminar Series.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Stiliana Milkova publishes two translations from Italian: Alessandro Baricco's "The Boodman Syndrome" in the Arkansas International and Dario Voltolini's "At Obrycki's" in Michigan Quarterly Review.

Christopher Mirto, Oberlin Conservatory's assistant professor of opera theater,  makes his Cleveland directorial debut in Will Eno's play Wakey, Wakey at Cleveland Heights' Dobama Theatre. It opens Friday, October 18 and runs Thursdays through Sundays through November 10. Mirto describes the 80-minute production as "a smart show about life and death, silliness and simplicity, and it ends with quite a celebration of what it means to be human." In 2014, Dobama was designated as a Small Professional Theatre (SPT) level Equity House, only the third such theater in the region. Find information about tickets on their website.