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Faculty News - Winter 2004



Anechiarico to Address U.S. Office of Government Ethics

February 28, 2004
Frank Anechiarico, Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, has been invited by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics to address its annual convention in New York City on March 2. In the past 10 years, Anechiarico has written books and articles about corruption control in government, targeted at the 500 federal ethics officers who will be at the conference.

Humphries-Brooks Interviewed by French News Agency

February 28, 2004
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Steve Humphries-Brooks was interviewed by Agence France Presse for an article titled "Jesus on the Silver Screen," which discussed films made about the life of Jesus. The article was published in the Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia), Mail and Guardian (S. Africa) and Utusan (Malaysia).  More ...

Chambliss Leads Think Tank on George W. Bush

February 27, 2004
Professor of Sociology Daniel Chambliss led a discussion titled "George W. Bush: Not At ALL A Conservative" as part of the Think Tank Brown Bag Lunch series on Feb. 27. Chambliss outlined the ways in which President Bush and his administration have strayed from the traditional conservative ideology of preserving the status quo, conserving resources, and restricting the power and reach of the federal government.  More ...

Walczyk Gives Faculty Lecture on Movement

February 27, 2004
Bruce Walczyk, associate professor of dance, gave the first spring faculty lecture. He gave a lecture "Function as Art and Art as Function: The Transformation of Martial Art and Pedestrian Movement into Traditional and Contemporary Choreography and the other way around," on Friday, Feb. 27. The lecture was sponsored by the Dean of Faculty's Office.  More ...

Rowe Interviewed by Newsday on Duke Ellington Scores Auction

February 26, 2004
Monk Rowe, Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, was interviewed for a story in Long Island's Newsday (2/26/04) about an auction of jazz legend Duke Ellington's original musical scores. The arrangements for brass and reeds were handwritten by Ellington in pencil. In the article Rowe said: "You can put him up there...If you're going to name American composers, you can name Aaron Copland, and you can name [Leonard] Bernstein, and you can name Duke Ellington and [George] Gershwin... Such scores let us 'see his thinking process,' Rowe said. 'Ellington was famous for writing for individuals, not just instruments.'"

Kodat Awarded Fulbright Grant to Hungary

February 26, 2004
Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat has been awarded a Fulbright lecturing post in the Department of American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, for the spring 2005 term. For more than 50 years, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) has helped administer the Fulbright Scholar Program, the U.S. government's flagship academic exchange effort, on behalf of the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Founded in 1947, CIES is a private organization. It is a division of the Institute of International Education (IIE). CIES annually recruits and sends nearly 800 U.S. faculty and professionals to 140 countries on its traditional program and brings 800 foreign faculty and professionals to the U.S.

Ravven Publishes Article in Interdisciplinary Science and Philosophy Journal

February 26, 2004
Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven has published an article in the interdisciplinary journal Consciousness & Emotion. Ravven's piece, "Spinoza's Anticipation of Contemporary Affective Neuroscience," appears in Volume 4 Number 2, 2003.  More ...

Friday Think Tank to Feature Chambliss

February 25, 2004
Professor of Sociology Daniel Chambliss will lead a discussion titled "George W. Bush: Not at ALL a Conservative," as the Think Tank guest speaker on Friday, Feb. 27 at 12 p.m. in KJ 221. Think Tank is an informal gathering of students and staff that meets weekly to discuss issues pertaining to Hamilton College. Lunches will be provided, or you can bring your own. Think Tanks usually last about an hour. Sponsored by the Levitt Center.  More ...

Cryer Awarded Grant from Puffin Foundation

February 25, 2004
Assistant Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer has been awarded a grant by The Puffin Foundation for his play 99 Things You've Always Wanted to Ask a Black Person. The Puffin Foundation makes grants that encourage emerging artists in the fields of art, music, theater and literature whose works, due to their genre and/or social philosophy, might have difficulty being aired.

Atmospheric Water Clusters Provide Evidence of Global Warming

February 24, 2004
Researchers at Hamilton College have identified several methods for successfully determining the structures and thermodynamic values for the formation of atmospheric water clusters, which scientists have speculated may accelerate global warming. The team's findings were published in the March 3 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.  More ...

Goldberg Delivers Lectures, Contributes Book Chapter

February 23, 2004
Professor of Art Stephen Goldberg will present several public lectures in the coming months, as well as contributing to a book. On April 3, Goldberg will present his paper titled "Teaching Confucianism Through Art" as part of a panel called "Using Asian Art to Study Asian Cultures" at the ASIANetwork Conference in Lisle, Ill. Later that month on April 16, Goldberg will present "Double Voicing and Sovereignty in Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture" at the Conference on Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture at SUNY Binghamton. On July 27, Goldberg will travel to Honolulu to deliver two lectures, titled "Chinese Art and Aesthetics" and "Japanese Art and Aesthetics" at the Institute on Infusing East Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum of the Asian Studies Development Program.  More ...

McKee Publishes in Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

February 18, 2004
Assistant Professor of Psychology Tara McKee has published an article titled "The Relation Between Parental Coping Styles and Parent-Child Interactions Before and After Treatment for Children with ADHD and Oppositional Behavior." The article appears in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Volume 33, No.1. McKee and her colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Eastern Connecticut State University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine sought to investigate the relationship between the coping styles of parents of ADHD children and their response to behavioral parent training programs that teach techniques for managing inappropriate behavior. McKee gave a talk at Bucknell University on Feb. 20 about this study as well as the research she is conducting with her students at Hamilton.  More ...

Woods' Composition Performed by Albany Symphony Orchestra

February 17, 2004
Associate Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods was commissioned to write a musical update of the spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" for the Albany Symphony Orchestra. The piece was performed as part of "The Spirituals Project" on Thursday, Feb. 19, at the Canfield Casino in Saratoga, N.Y., and again on Friday, Feb. 20, at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.  More ...

Performance of Cryer's 99 at Colgate in February

February 16, 2004
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance Mark Cryer's play, 99 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask a Black Person, was performed at Colgate University's Brehmer Theater in the Dana Arts Center on Saturday, Feb. 21. Cryer worked on the play with a student, Jared Johnson, who conducted interviews of people in New York City to arrive at the questions. Cryer calls the play "timely, interesting and entertaining, and an educational tool that is a positive answer to a problem that plagues our community and society as a whole."

Pearle and Collett Publish in Foundations of Physics

February 14, 2004
Professors of Physics Brian Collett and Phillip Pearle published an article titled "Wavefunction Collapse and Random Walk" in the journal Foundations of Physics, Vol. 33, No. 10 in October 2003.

Raybeck Serves as President of Society For Cross-Cultural Research

February 14, 2004
Douglas Raybeck, professor of anthropology, is serving as president of The Society for Cross-Cultural Research for this year. At the annual meeting of this society last February, Raybeck presented two papers, "Cross-Cultural Variation in Memory and Metamemory between American and Malaysian Populations" and "Children's Games and Adult Cognitive Capacities: A Systems Approach." At The Conference in Honor of Bernd Lambert at Cornell last April, Raybeck presented a paper titled "Dorothy Lee and the Myth of Trobriand Non-Lineality."

Omori Publishes Articles, Participates in Conferences

February 14, 2004
Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori has two forthcoming articles in journals on the study of Japanese literature. Her article, "Shinseinen, the Contract and Vernacular Modernism," will appear in Hermeneutical Strategies – Methods of Interpretation in the Study of Japanese Literature: The Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, and "The Shanghaied Man" will appear in Japan Modanizumu Anthology: Modernist Prose from Japan in the 1920s and 1930s.  More ...

Adair Publishes Letter to Editor in Utica Observer-Dispatch

February 12, 2004
Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, published a letter to the editor in the Utica Observer-Dispatch (Feb. 6, 2004) about Janet Jackson's breast-baring incident at the Super Bowl. Adair wrote: "The Super Bowl entertainment was obscene and dangerous; not because we were exposed to Jackons's breast, but because we watched and cheered as a man ripped a part of the blouse off of a woman..."

Ortabasi Lectures at University of Washington, Organizes MLA Panel

February 11, 2004
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi was invited to give a talk as part of the Japanese Humanities Lecture Series at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her lecture, given May 23, 2003, was "Ethnology and Dialect: Yanagita Kunio and the Authorship of National Language." Ortabasi also organized a panel on the topic of "Subversive Languages: Writing at the Margins of Modernity in 'Japan,' 1895-1945" for the Modern Languages Association's Annual Conference, held in San Diego on December 27-30. The paper she presented as part of that panel was "Yanagita Kunio's Reflections on Snails and the Role of Dialect in Authoring National Language."

Kodat Awarded Research Fellowship at University of Oxford

February 9, 2004
Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat has been awarded a visiting research fellowship for the fall 2004 semester at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. Kodat will continue work on her book, "Don't Act": The Cold War Politics of Art, an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between federal arts policies and cultural production in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s.  More ...

Cheng Li Gives Talk for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Conference

January 30, 2004
Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, participated in a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace conference, "The Future of Political Reform in China." Li gave a talk as part of a session on the changing communist party titled "Is the CCP Getting More Institutionalized?"  More ...

OSU Series, Edited by Peter Rabinowitz, Publishes Book

January 30, 2004
The Ohio State University Press series ("Theory and Interpretation of Narrative") that Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz co-edits with James Phelan has published a new book, Bloodscripts, by Elana Gomel. From the OSU Web site: "Bloodscripts is a stimulating, original and accessible account of the narrative construction of the violent subject. It proposes a narrative model that will be of interest to literary critics, cultural scholars, criminologists and anyone trying to understand the role of violence in postmodern culture."

Peter Rabinowitz Writes Program Notes for CD

January 29, 2004
Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz contributed the program notes for a CD of chamber music, Rhythmic Garlands and Other Pieces (Centaur Records) by Jay Reise, a 1972 graduate of Hamilton College and former faculty member.

Käthe Kollwitz: Famous in Her Own Time

January 28, 2004
Associate Professor of Art History Deborah Pokinski gave an exhibition tour and talk, Käthe Kollwitz: Famous in Her Own Time, on January 28 in the Emerson Gallery.  More ...

Owens-Manley Presents Poster on Bosnian Refugees

January 28, 2004
Judith Owens-Manley, associate director for community research, presented a poster titled "Surviving or Thriving: Adaptation of Bosnian Refugees in Upstate New York" at the 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research from January 16-18. In her research, Owens-Manley studied 20 Bosnian refugee families in Utica, NY, to determine how well these refugees had adapted in three areas: economic, psychological, and socio-cultural. The conference, which this year had the theme "Using Diverse Methods to Build Knowledge," was held in New Orleans.  More ...

Aronoff Attends International Society of Political Psychology Conference

January 28, 2004
Assistant Professor of Government Yael Aronoff participated in the governing council meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology. The conference took place January 16-18, in Claremont, Calif. Aronoff also served as a discussant for a panel titled "Intergroup Conflict" at the conference meeting.  More ...

Masterson Leads Colloquium at The Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis

January 28, 2004
Mark Masterson, visiting assistant professor of classics, led a one-day colloquium at The Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. This colloquium is an offering by the school for the continuing education of practicing psychoanalysts. He made a presentation of the sexual systems in the ancient world and the ways in which modern knowledge of them is limited by preconceptions and the nature of the evidence.

Hopkins Elected President of Barbershop Harmony Society

January 27, 2004
Associate Professor of Music Rob Hopkins has been elected president of SPEBSQSA, Inc., the Barbershop Harmony Society. Hopkins is a member of the Mohawk Valley chapter in the society's Seneca Land District. Before his election to president, Hopkins served the society for two years as executive vice president.He has been a member of the Society since 1976.  More ...

Boutin Publishes Paper in Congressus Numerantium

January 27, 2004
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin published a research article, "Convex Geometric Graphs with No Short Self-intersecting Paths," in Congressus Numerantium 160 (2003), pp. 205-214. Her research shows that a graph that can be drawn in the plane with no short self-intersecting paths is guaranteed to have a vertex of small degree and therefore have to have an edge set whose size is linear in the number of vertices.

Peter Rabinowitz Elected Organization President

January 26, 2004
Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz has been elected president of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature is an international nonprofit association of scholars dedicated to the investigation of narrative, its elements, techniques, and forms; its relations to other modes of discourse; its power and influence in cultures past and present.

Rosmaita Elected Treasurer of Society for Machines and Mentality

January 26, 2004
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Brian Rosmaita has been elected treasurer of the Society for Machines and Mentality. The Society for Machines and Mentality is an international scholarly organization whose purpose is to advance philosophical understanding of issues involving artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science. The Society is affiliated with the journal Minds and Machines, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Journal Edited by Gold Wins Association of American Publishers Award

January 23, 2004
An issue of the American Journal of Philology, edited by Professor of Classics Barbara Gold, with guest editor John Donahue, has won a national award from the Association of American Publishers. The quarterly journal, published by Johns Hopkins Press, was the winner in "Best Single Issue of a Journal" category. The special issue, Vol. 124, No. 3, on the topic of Roman dining, won in the 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards Competition. The award will be presented in Washington, D.C. in February.

Peter Rabinowitz on MLA "What's the Word" Radio Show

January 23, 2004
Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz taped an interview for the Modern Language Association radio show What's the Word?, which is broadcast widely. His segment was part of a program on "Best Sellers," where he talked about author Sue Grafton  (Q is for Quarry).  More ...

Goudsouzian Book on Sidney Poitier Receives Positive Review

January 22, 2004
A biography of actor Sidney Poitier by Visiting Assistant Professor of History Aram Goudsouzian received a postive review in Publishers' Weekly Reviews. In Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon (University of North Carolina), Goudsouzian " thoughtfully depicts the actor's efforts to handle both praise and damnation," according to the review. "Goudsouzian understands the dynamics behind Poitier's pictures, and carefully analyzes Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, A Patch of Blue and To Sir, with Love. Intense anecdotes highlighting Poitier's temper, occasional womanizing and insecurities keep him from appearing as a distant icon," the review notes.  More ...

Anwar Publishes Article Comparing Prophets

January 20, 2004
Etin Anwar, Freeman Fellow in Asian Studies, published an article, "Prophetic Models in Islamic and Christian Spirituality in the Thought of Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart," in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. This comparative study of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad in Christianity and Islam reveals common background, basic similarities and differences.  More ...

Reynolds Elected Officer of Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology

January 19, 2004
Associate Professor of Biology Patrick Reynolds has been elected divisional secretary of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology. He will serve a two-year term in the Division of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology.

Reynolds Appointed Editor of Invertebrate Biology

January 19, 2004
Associate Professor of Biology Patrick Reynolds has been appointed editor of the journal Invertebrate Biology, published by the American Microscopical Society, for a three-year term. The journal is one of the oldest biological journals in the United States, publishing continuously since 1879. Reynolds was named the 20th editor of the journal after serving six years as co-editor.  More ...

Keller Publishes Article in Central Asian Survey

January 14, 2004
Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller published an article, titled "The Central Asian Bureau": An Essential Tool in Governing Soviet Turkestan" in Central Asian Survey Vol. 22, No. 2-3 (2003):pp.281-297. The artice is about the establishment of a Soviet governing structure in Central Asia from 1920 to 1924 and how tenuous and chaotic Soviet control over the region actually was. Central Asian Survey is a London-based refereed journal that is the only established journal in the world concerned primarily with the history, politics and cultures of the Central Asian and Caucasian regions.

Tewksbury, Adair and Hirshfield Appointed to Endowed Chairs

January 9, 2004
Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart, in consultation with Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty David Paris, announced the following appointments to endowed chairs. Stephen Harper Kirner Professor of Geology Barbara Tewksbury will become the William R. Kenan Chair of Geology; Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Vivyan Adair will become the inaugural holder of the Elihu Root Peace Fund Chair; and Professor Stuart Hirshfield is now the Stephen Harper Kirner Chair of Computer Science.  More ...

Cryer Featured Artist in Onondaga County

January 8, 2004
Mark Cryer, assistant professor of theatre, was the January, 2004, featured artist for Onondaga County's (Syracuse, NY) Cultural Resources Council (CRC). CRC is Syracuse's only not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving and uniting all segments of the cultural community. Cryer will be performing his play, "99," at Colgate University on February 21 at 8 p.m. in the Brehmer Theatre in the Dana Arts Center. He also has performances booked at Alfred University, Union College, Syracuse University and LSU.

Kantrowitz Gives Lecture

January 5, 2004
Associate Professor of Mathematics Rob Kantrowitz gave a talk titled "Matrices and their square roots" at math department colloquia at The College of Wooster, SUNY Geneseo, and Bucknell University during the fall semester.

Jones Presents Papers At Comparative Economics Conference

January 3, 2004
Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented two papers at the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) session of the Allied Social Sciences Association's annual meeting in San Diego from Jan. 2-5. The panel Jones participated in was "Executive Compensation: International Evidence." This meeting also marks the end of Jones's term as president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies.  More ...

Ravven Publishes Paper in Journal Neuro-Psychoanalysis

December 30, 2003
Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven published a paper, "Spinoza and the Education of Desire" in the journal, Neuro-Psychoanalysis, vol. 5, issue 2, 2003, pp. 218 - 229. Ravven's paper contributes to an extended exchange among the neuroscientists, Jaak Panksepp, Douglas Watt, and Antonio Damasio and herself on Damasio's recent book, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. Following Ravven's paper is Damasio's response to it.

Sharpley-Whiting Leads Panel at MLA Conference

December 30, 2003
Professor of French and Africana Studies Tracy Sharpley-Whiting presided over a panel at the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, held Dec. 27-30 in San Diego. The panel, "The End of Affirmative Action? Preferences, Reverse Discrimination and the New University," explored issues of race and preferences pre- and post- the Supreme Court challenges to the Michigan case. Professor of Women's Studies Chandra Talpade Mohanty was a panel participant. Sharpley-Whiting also presented a paper on the panel, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Literature. Her paper was titled "Intersectionality or the Romancing of Diaspora Studies."

Ravven Gives Invited Paper at Association for Jewish Studies

December 29, 2003
Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven gave an invited paper at the Association for Jewish Studies annual meeting in Boston on December 23. The session was 'Jewish Virtue Ethics,' and her paper was titled "Spinoza on the Virtue of Therapy."

Gold Elected Vice President of American Philological Association

December 22, 2003
Professor of Classics Barbara Gold has been elected vice president for outreach of the American Philological Association (APA). Founded in 1869, the APA is the principal learned society for Classical Studies in North America. The Division of Outreach prepares materials of interest to an audience beyond the APA's core membership in order to promote a wider public understanding and appreciation of Classics.

Frechette Conducts Chinese Culture Workshop, Presents Paper

December 16, 2003
Ann Frechette, the Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies, conducted a workshop on Chinese culture in November in Foxboro, Mass., for families adopting children from China. At the workshop, Frechette lectured on "Chinese History," "Language, Nation, and Ethnic Relations" and "Families, Festivals and Food." She also presented a paper in December at Davidson College titled "Democracy and Democratization among the Tibetan Exiles."  More ...

Luciano Participates in Roundtable at ALA Symposium

December 15, 2003
Dana Luciano, assistant professor of English and visiting faculty fellow at the University of Utah, participated in a roundtable discussion, "Keywords for the Study of Untimely Sexualities," at the 2003 American Literature Association Symposium on Queer Theory in Cancún, Mexico, in December. Luciano's paper on the keyword "Brooding" discussed the temporality of the queer illness diary, focusing on the Diary of Alice James and the film Silverlake Life.

Elgren Awarded Two Grants

December 12, 2003
Associate Dean of the Faculty and Associate Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren has been awarded two grants. The Research Corporation has funded a proposal titled "Characterization of sol-gel encapsulated amine oxidase and chloroperoxidase" to support Elgren's continuing work to characterize the mechanism of action associated with these two metallo-enzymes. The award supports upgrading existing equipment, supplies and summer stipends for undergraduate collaborators. The Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society has funded a proposal titled "Characterization of Intermediates in the Catalytic Cycle of Amine Oxidases" to support half of Elgren's sabbatical leave in 2004-05. The research will be conducted at Montana State University in Bozeman.

Whiting Presents at Association for Career and Technical Education Conference

December 12, 2003
Gil Whiting, assistant visiting professor of Africana Studies, presented a lecture at the Association for Career and Technical Education annual conference in Orlando, Fla., in December. Whiting's topic was "African American Fathers: Pathways to Discovering Their Futures." The lecture presented an inside look at qualitative research with 50 young black fathers as they go through a nationally recognized fatherhood-training program. The Association for Career and Technical Education is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers.

Tewksbury Receives Teaching Award

December 9, 2003
Barbara Tewksbury, Stephen Harper Kirner Professor of Geology, was presented with the 2003 Neil Miner award from National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) by President Edward Geary at the 2003 annual national meeting of the Geologic Society of America in Seattle.  More ...

Wheatley Awarded NEH Fellowship for 2004-2005

December 8, 2003
Associate Professor of English Edward Wheatley has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2004-2005. Wheatley's project is a book he is writing titled Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: The Medieval Construction of a Disability. This cultural studies project will present the first comprehensive exploration of a disability in the Middle Ages, drawing upon literature, history, arts history and religious discourse.  More ...

Kodat Article Noted in Prestigious Times Literary Supplement

December 3, 2003
An article published by Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat in American Quarterly received a favorable notice in the November 7 edition of Times Literary Supplement, a prestigious British weekly journal that reviews writers' works. Kodat wrote an essay, "Conversing With Ourselves," for the March 3 edition of American Quarterly, the official publication of the American Studies Association.  More ...

Frechette Conducts China Cultural Workshop for Adopting Families

December 2, 2003
Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, conducted a China cultural workshop for families adopting from China in Foxboro, Mass, November 30. The workshop had 65 participants from throughout the United States. Frechette lectured on Chinese History; Language, Nation, and Ethnic Relations; and Families, Festivals, and Food. She also presented a paper at Davidson College, "Democracy and Democratization among the Tibetan Exiles," December 2.

Li Speaks At Asia Society Luncheon

December 2, 2003
Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, spoke at a luncheon held by the Asia Society in Hong Kong on November 27. The topic,  "China's Next Phase: Hu's New Deal?", was Professor Li's view of the new Chinese leadership under Hu Jintao, as discussed in his book China's Leaders: The New Generation. The Asia Society, sponsor of the event, is a national nonprofit educational organization dedicated to fostering understanding between America and the nations of the Asia-Pacific region.  More ...

Ravven Delivers Paper at American Academy of Religion

December 1, 2003
Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven gave an invited paper at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Atlanta, held November 22-25. The paper was titled "Spinoza's Deconstruction of Virtue Ethics" on the panel Jewish Virtue Ethics.

Bonta’s Studies in Italian Sacred and Instrumental Music in the 17th Century Published

December 1, 2003

Britain's Ashgate Publishing Limited released Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Music, emeritus, Stephen Bonta's Studies in Italian Sacred and Instrumental Music in the 17th Century, a collection of articles written by Stephen Bonta over the last 30 years. Fifteen articles, all individually published previously, have been gathered and re-printed in one collection.

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Naomi Guttman Poem in Southern Poetry Review

December 1, 2003
Professor of English Naomi Guttman's poem "The Mend" was published in the most recent issue of the journal Southern Poetry Review.

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