Fall was a busy semester, and now that grades have been submitted we’re taking a moment to add some updates from the exciting conferences that some of our faculty members participated in.

Barry Stiefel appeared in a newspaper article by El Amaneser about the Sephardic Diaspora conference he attended in Germany. Dr. Stiefel tells us that the newspaper, produced in Turkey, is published in Judeo-Spanish (also called Ladino).

Here’s a shot of Ralph Muldrow at the Association for Preservation Technology international conference in Quebec, Canada.

Brittany Lavelle Tulla made it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation Past Forward conference in Savannah, Georgia and Christina Butler participated in an all day hands on moulding plane workshop in Pittsboro, North Carolina at the Woodwright’s School. Instructor Bill Anderson lectured about historic trim profiles and the hand planes used to create them, and attendees learned how to layout and cut complex moulding profiles.

A photograph of a circa 1750s plane owned and used by English Cabinetmaker Mr. Syms in the eighteenth century that Butler picked up for a deal at the workshop.