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Faculty News - Summer 2008Williams Publishes Book on ReligionJuly 8, 2008Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay G. Williams has published a book titled "Religion: What it has been and what it is" (Publishing Synthesis). The work, both historical and theoretical, offers an interpretation of the history of religions for both the beginning student and the scholar of religions. It is available through Amazon.com. Goodale and Lara Cueni '08 Present at the World Archaeological CongressJuly 4, 2008Visiting Instructor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale, recent Hamilton graduate Lara Cueni '08 and Curtis Osterhoudt of the Los Alamos National Laboratory presented their paper "Cultural Transmission and the Production of Material Goods: The Mathematical Expression of Identity in Notched Points" at the 6th World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland on July 3. More ... Haley Participates in AP Latin Grading, Presents Paper at Classics MeetingJuly 2, 2008Professor of Classics Shelley Haley spent two weeks in June in Kansas City, where she graded and collected samples for the AP Latin: Latin Literature and Vergil exams. Later in the month she participated in the program of the 85th annual meeting and 61st annual Institute of the American Classical League. She was a respondent to the plenary panel dealing with the College Board's decision to eliminate the AP Latin Literature exam option after the 2009 administration. Haley also presented a paper titled, "Fair Maiden, Fair Maiden" Skin Color Terminology in Roman Literature and Latin Inscriptions," and she reprised her role as Anna Julia Cooper for the vice-president's panel, "Representing Our Ancestors." Shields Publishes Seven PapersJune 30, 2008George Shields, the Winslow Professor of Chemistry, published seven papers, some with Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner and others with 14 current students and alumni during the 2007-08 academic year. More ... Austin Briggs Presents at Joyce ConferenceJune 30, 2008Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, attended the XXI International James Joyce Conference held at the Universite Francois-Rabelais in Tours, France, June 15-20. In addition to co-moderating two reading sessions he delivered a paper, "Joyce's Nymph of the Yews and the Controversy over the Nude in Painting and Sculpture," on the panel "Joycean Erotics" that he organized and chaired. At the conference, the tustees of the International James Joyce Foundation nominated Briggs for membership on the board. Collaboration Between Chemistry and Physics Departments is Topic of Elgren Lecture at CURJune 26, 2008At the National Conference of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) held in June 2008 at the College of St. Benedict's in Minnesota, Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren presented a lecture with Silvia Ronco, program officer at Research Corporation, titled "Success at the Department Level: Cultivating a Shared Vision." This talk highlighted the successful process undertaken by the Hamilton chemistry and physics departments to develop departmental plans that led to a $500,000 departmental development award from Research Corporation. Elgren is the past president of CUR and serves as the project director for the departmental development award. Eren Presents at Econometric Society MeetingJune 26, 2008Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Selcuk Eren presented a paper titled "How Well Do Individuals Predict the Selling Prices of their Homes?" in June at the 2008 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society hosted by the David A. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pa. More ... Kim Presents Paper at International CongressJune 25, 2008Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Alan Kim presented a paper titled "Function and Symbol in Marburg Philosophy of Science," in June at the International Society for the History of Philosophy Science (HOPOS) seventh international congress in Vancouver, Canada. Kim's paper examined the various senses of the technical term, "function-concept," in Paul Natorp and Ernst Cassirer's analysis of the presuppositions of the exact sciences, especially mathematical physics. Details may be found at: http://sts.arts.ubc.ca/program.html Rivera Quoted in Russian ProfileJune 25, 2008Sharon Werning Rivera was quoted in an April article in Russian Profile on the future of U.S.-Russian relations under Russia's newly elected president Dmitry Medvedev. Titled "Fighting for Equality," the article surveyed the views of numerous American specialists on Russian politics. More ... Murtaugh Exhibiting Work at Schweinfurth Art CenterJune 24, 2008Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is currently showing her work titled "To Mark a Significant Space in the Living Room" in the exhibition "Made in New York 2008" at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, N.Y. The show opened on June 21 and runs until August 23. Murtaugh will give a public talk on August 3 at 2 p.m. in the gallery. For more information please visit www.schweinfurthartcenter.org. More ... Goodale Collaborates on Research in Ireland's County GalwayJune 24, 2008Visiting Instructor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale is directing Hamilton's involvement in The Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast (CLIC), an interdisciplinary collaborative research and teaching project on the island of InisAirc in County Galway, Ireland. Collaborators on the project include students and faculty from Hamilton, the University of Notre Dame, Trinity College and University College Dublin. Broadly defined, the purpose of the project is to understand rural life-ways during prehistoric and historic times in west-central Ireland's County Galway. More ... Werner Presents at International Conference in AthensJune 24, 2008Richard Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, presented "Hope and the Ethics of Belief" at the Third International Conference on Philosophy, June 2-5, in Athens, Greece. The paper argues that when the stakes are high it is rational to hope for and consequently believe in the best outcome as long as that outcome has a nonzero probability of success and even if it is not the most likely or best-supported outcome by the evidence. The argument continues that present world problems present us with high stakes where the likelihood of success is less than optimal but where hope for success is nevertheless rational. Boutin Presents at SIAM ConferenceJune 23, 2008Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented a talk titled "Distinguishing Classes" at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Discrete Mathematics held at the University of Vermont, June 16-19. In her talk, Boutin described a set of vertices that can be used to remove all symmetries from a network and presented her results on how surprisingly small these sets of vertices can be in some well-known network families. Domack Discusses Polar Regions on Environmental Awareness ProgramJune 23, 2008Eugene Domack, the Joel Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies, will present "The Polar Regions: Climate of Extremes on a Changing Planet," Monday, June 23, at 6 p.m. at the Uptown Theater in Utica. Domack's presentation is the first of three free events scheduled to raise environmental awareness in the Mohawk Valley. More ... Cafruny's Book Europe at Bay Shortlisted for Annual Book PrizeJune 23, 2008Europe at Bay: In the Shadow of U.S. Hegemony, co-authored by Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny (with Magnus Ryner of Oxford University), has been shortlisted for the annual book prize of the International Political Economy Group of the British International Studies Association. The winner of the Award will be announced in December 2008. The IPEG Book Prize seeks to identify the best book published in political economy on an annual basis. More ... Isserman Featured on American Public Media InterviewJune 21, 2008"Weekend America," a nationally syndicated radio show produced and distributed by American Public Media via NPR, will feature an interview with Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, on the weekend of June 21. Part of an ongoing series titled "This Weekend in 1968," the interview includes Isserman's account of how on the night of his high school graduation in June 1968, he boarded a train for Washington, D.C. and joined a rally in support of the Poor People's Campaign. America Public Media is the nation's second-largest producer and distributor of public radio programs. More ... Klinkner Included in NPR InterviewJune 20, 2008In a National Public Radio segment titled "Obama Scapegoat Fears," James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner spoke about how the senator's candidacy brings out some conflicted feelings among African-Americans. "The concern expressed by African-Americans reminds me of after 1928. Al Smith was the first Catholic to run for president and lost. I'm sure a lot of Catholics after the crash, the Depression, said thank God he lost over Hoover, otherwise they'd blame us for it," said Klinkner. More ... Omori Presents at Université of Maine in Le Mans, FranceJune 19, 2008Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori presented a paper at the "Modernist Magazines and Politics, 1900-1939" Conference at Université of Maine in France on June 8. The talk was titled "Japanese Vernacular Modernism and New Youth Magazine." The paper discussed the Japanese magazine New Youth and its promotion of "vernacular modernism" among the emerging Japanese middle class. Through their advancement of modanizumu (or modernism) in the absurdist stories that portrayed mysteries found in urban everyday life, New Youth sought to intervene productively in the ongoing political debates of the time. Selections From Odamtten's Collection of Poetry Published in Ghana's Daily GraphicJune 18, 2008Selections from a forthcoming collection of poetry, Metsaka's Kente of Words, by Professor of English Vincent Odamtten was published in the national newspaper of Ghana, the Daily Graphic on June 7, 2008. The publication was part of a collaboration between the Daily Graphic and the Mbaasem Foundation to promote literature and arts in the West African nation. Odamtten has been researching the life of Togbui Sri II, a Paramount Chief of the Anlos in Southeastern Ghana, as well as the written literatures of Ghana. Isserman Pens Essay About Michael Harrington for The Chronicle of Higher EducationJune 17, 2008James L. Ferguson Professor of HistoryHistory Maurice Isserman contributed an essay titled"Will the Left Ever Learn to Communicate Across Generations" to the Chronicle of Higher Education (6/20/08). It is featured in The Chronicle Review in the special section "The Surprising Legacies of the 60s." In the piece, Isserman, a preeminent historian of the American left and expert on reform and radical movements, recounts the meeting between social activist Michael Harrington with then 20-year-old student Tom Hayden. Harrington unsuccessfully tried to recruit Hayden into the Young People's Socialist League, the youth affiliate of the Socialist Party, of which Harrington was a leader. Hayden went on to write the Port Huron Statement, the founding document of Students for a Democratic Society. More ... Bryden Considine '08 and Mike McCormick Present Research in BostonJune 16, 2008Bryden Considine '08 and Assistant Professor of Biology Mike McCormick presented their research at the national meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in Boston, June 1-5. Considine and McCormick presented a poster describing a novel technique they developed to search for biologically produced compounds that permit iron-reducing bacteria to respire iron oxides solids that are far from the bacteria. Support for this project was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy. Williams to Lead Nature Walk Through Utica Marsh on June 16June 16, 2008Professor of Biology Ernest Williams will lead a walk through the Utica Marsh as part of the Utica Monday Nite Walks & Talks Series on Monday, June 16, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The walk is titled "Observing Nature at the Utica Marsh." Williams also gave a presentation on monarch butterfly migration at the Visitor Center of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge on June 15. His talk was part of its 5th annual Wildflowers and Wine Festival. Finally, on Thursday, June 19, he will speak to all the Clinton third grade classes about butterflies. Lacsamana Presents at Class ConferenceJune 12, 2008Anne E. Lacsamana, assistant professor of women's studies, presented a paper titled "Empire on Trial: The Subic Rape Case and the Struggle for Philippine Women's Liberation" at the annual "How Class Works Works" conference held June 5-8 at SUNY-Stony Brook. Her paper examines the 2005 gang rape of a Filipino woman by four U.S. Marines. The Subic Rape Case, as it is widely known, is exceptional because it marks the first time a member of the U.S. military had ever been tried, convicted, and sentenced on Philippine soil. Although the case is currently under appeal, Lacsamana argues that the landmark verdict is the result of decades of organizing around militarized violence by members of the multi-sectoral Philippine nationalist feminist movement. Guttman's Wet Apples, White Blood Shares Adirondack Center's Best Book of Poetry AwardJune 10, 2008Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman's book of poetry, Wet Apples, White Blood, shared the best book of poetry award with The Origin of the Milky Way by Barbara Louise Ungar at the Adirondack Center for Writing's (ACW) third annual Adirondack Literary Awards. The awards were announced at Blue Mountain Center in Blue Mountain Lake on June 8. The Adirondack Literary Awards celebrate and acknowledge the books that were written by Adirondack authors or published in the region in the previous year. There were 37 entries this year. Wet Apples, White Blood was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2007. More ... Owens-Manley Presents at Bonner Leadership InstituteJune 9, 2008Levitt Center Associate Director of Community Research Judith Owens-Manley presented a workshop at the 2008 Summit on Political Engagement and Bonner Summer Leadership Institute that explored the themes of political and civic engagement. More ... Adair Lectures in Hawaii on The Missing Story of OurselvesJune 5, 2008Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, travelled to Hawaii in June where she presented a lecture and did program assessment on the Bridge to Hope program, modeled after Hamilton's ACCESS Project, for the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Adair was the founder of ACCESS at Hamilton College, a program dedicated to providing low-income, first-generation college-educated parents in central New York with all of the support necessary to thrive in an academic community. More ... Klinkner Quoted in Christian Science MonitorJune 4, 2008Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students, got the last word in a Christian Science Monitor article titled "In Sealing Nomination, Obama Makes History" published Wednesday, June 4. The article chronicled Barack Obama's route to securing the Democratic presidential nomination and analyzed its unconventional nature. Klinkner observed that never before had a candidate attracted such a diverse coalition of supporters. More ... Reciprocity Opens in Emerson Gallery June 5June 2, 2008Reciprocity, an exhibition featuring members of the studio art faculty paired with current students and recent graduates, will open in the Emerson Gallery on Thursday, June 5, and run through Sunday, August 10. In pairing faculty members and students with whom they have recently worked closely, Reciprocity celebrates the art department and the ways in which teachers and students influence and inspire one another. More ... O'Neal Receives Medal in Napoleonic Order at French EmbassyJune 2, 2008A year ago Professor of French John C. O'Neal learned he had been promoted from "chevalier" (or knight) to "officier" (officer) in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms), originally founded by Napoleon in 1808 to recognize meritorious achievements in teaching and research. On May 27, an awards ceremony was held at the French Embassy for Cultural Services in New York City to honor O'Neal and three others, each of whom received a medal from the French cultural counselor, Mme Kareen Rispal. In addition to some of O'Neal's family members and friends, several Hamilton community members were on hand for the event including John and Mary O'Neill, Ben and Laurie Madonia, John Lytle and Sarah Ziegler '05. |
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