{"id":344,"date":"2010-02-02T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=344"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:39:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:39:41","slug":"member-requests-help-with-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/02\/02\/member-requests-help-with-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Member requests help with research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/02\/rabbit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-345\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/02\/rabbit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a>Member Maria L. Mogford, an Instructor of English at Albright College who&#8217;s a doctoral student at Alvernia University, would like to use the first Society conference in October to launch her research. The conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of <em>Rabbit, Run<\/em>, and Maria is going to write her dissertation on the moral and spiritual leadership aspects present in <em>Rabbit, Run<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was thrilled to find out that Alvernia will be hosting the first John Updike Society Conference this October,&#8221; Maria writes.\u00a0She would like to set up and run a volunteer-only focus group consisting of Updike scholars to discuss the nature of leadership in <em>Rabbit, Run. <\/em>&#8220;The opportunity to work with experienced academics in John Updike&#8217;s hometown is very exciting. I would greatly appreciate the chance to use this focus group to explore my own ideas and perhaps crystallize and build upon those of others at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Updike scholars who are planning on attending the Society&#8217;s first conference in October and who would like to help Maria can contact her directly to express a willingness to be a part of her focus group. Here&#8217;s her email: mmogford@alb.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member Maria L. Mogford, an Instructor of English at Albright College who&#8217;s a doctoral student at Alvernia University, would like to use the first Society conference in October to launch her research. The conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/02\/02\/member-requests-help-with-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}