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Faculty News - Summer 2007Purdy Gives Paper at The Future of Naturalism ConferenceSeptember 28, 2007Laura Purdy, the Alan McCullough Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy, gave a paper titled "What Religious Ethics Can Teach Us About Sex," at the opening session of a conference, "The Future of Naturalism," held in Buffalo in September. The conference was sponsored by the Center for Inquiry Transnational and the Philosophy Department of the State University of N.Y. at Buffalo. Chambliss Publishes Article at LiberalArtsOnline Web SiteSeptember 28, 2007Daniel F. Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, has recently published an article "A Neglected Necessity in Liberal Arts Assessment: The Student as the Unit of Analysis" at LiberalArtsOnline, a web journal published by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College. In the paper, Chambliss argues that gathering information from students - not from departments, programs, chairs or deans - produces a dramatically different understanding of how higher education accomplishes its goals. More ... Williams Curates Exhibitions at Haverford CollegeSeptember 28, 2007Jay G. Williams '54, Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, will curate an exhibition and give a lecture at the "From Slavery to Freedom: The Formation of African American and American Identity" symposium at Haverford College. The conference will address the history, culture, and military and literary expression of African American feeling and thought in pre and post Civil War America. Williams will also curate an exhibition titled "Emancipation and Denigration: Thomas Nast and his Colleagues Picture Black America." Two other exhibitions, "Unsung Heroes" and "A Journey Towards Hope" will run simultaneously. The exhibitions open Saturday, Sept. 29 and run through Oct. 28. Williams will also speak at the Haverford symposium on Saturday, Oct. 27. Jaksch Presents Workshop at Tanzania ConferenceSeptember 27, 2007Marla L. Jaksch, visiting assistant professor of women's studies, presented a research methods workshop at the "Gender, Democracy, and Development: African Feminist Struggles in the Context of Globalization" conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in September. The conference, co-sponsored by a collective of women's organizations and the University of Dar es Salaam, brought together more than 500 scholars, activists, artists and rural organizers from all over Tanzania, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Europe and the U.S. to meet, reflect and strategize on the progress made in feminist struggles for gender equity and equality, social transformation and participatory democracy in Tanzania. More ... Seager Named to Board of Editors of Cambridge University Press VolumesSeptember 27, 2007Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager has been named to the board of editors of the Cambridge University Press three-volume Cambridge History of Religions in America (CHRA). The CHRA will include some 120 essays by leading historians of religion in a number of specializations and will treat a wide range of topics from the colonial era to the present. Other board members include Dennis C. Dickerson (Vanderbilt University), R. Marie Griffith (Princeton University), Jonathan Sarna (Brandeis University) and Jace Weaver (University of Georgia). Stephen J. Stein (Indiana University, Bloomington) is general editor. Jin Appointed to College Board's AP Chinese Development CommitteeSeptember 27, 2007Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin has been appointed by the College Board to its AP Chinese Development Committee. This is a seven-member committee consisting of four college and university professors and three high school teachers, selected nationally. The committee is charged with developing guidelines and providing advice for the AP Chinese course and AP Chinese test administered yearly. Jin is currently in New York to attend her first committee meeting. Chung Lectures at University of South CarolinaSeptember 26, 2007Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Sachiko Chung gave two lectures for the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. On September 20, she gave a talk on her book chapter "Mizu-shoubai and the Sex Industries in Japan" from the forthcoming edited volume Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society. Chung discussed the legal categories of the sex industries in Japan by focusing on the legal term "fuuzoku" (folkways) and its applications to the industries. More ... Mockus Presents Paper at Music, Justice, and Gender ConferenceSeptember 25, 2007Martha Mockus, Irwin Chair and visiting assistant professor of women's studies, presented a paper at the "Music, Justice, and Gender" conference at Syracuse University in September. This event brought together scholars, performers and activists from the worlds of women's studies, performance, composition, historical musicology and ethnomusicology with faculty and students from the universities involved in the newly instituted Upstate New York Humanities Corridor – the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester), Syracuse University and Cornell University. More ... Williams' Op-ed on Global Warming Effects Appears in Observer-DispatchSeptember 24, 2007In an opinion piece that appeared on Saturday, Sept. 22, in Utica's Observer-Dispatch titled "Warmer world could mean shorter winters for region," Professor of Biology Ernest Williams explained what the economic effects of global warming might mean for central New York. More ... Mason and Reynolds Present at National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education ConferenceSeptember 24, 2007Nikki Reynolds, director of Instructional Technology Support Services, and Susan Mason, director of the Oral Communication Center and of the Education Studies Program, presented at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education Conference in September at Middlebury College. Their presentation, "Seeding a TaLC: Hamilton College's Collaborative Initiatives in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," addressed Hamilton's approach to the integration of academic resources offered by Instructional Technology, the reference librarians and the Oral Communication Center and Lab. More ... Rivera Paper Appears in Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs PublicationSeptember 21, 2007Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera published "Unikal'nyi put' Rossii? Obzor politicheskikh elit" ["A Unique Path for Russia? A Survey of Political Elites"], in A. D. Shutov, Uchenye zapiski 2006 (Moscow: Nauchnaya kniga, 2006), which is a publication of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In it, she presents data from an original survey of Russian elites to show that despite the public rhetoric about Russia's uniqueness, a substantial number of Russian leaders are willing to borrow from foreign experience, particularly from models of European welfare capitalism. More ... Isserman Interviewed by Minnesota Public RadioSeptember 20, 2007Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, was interviewed for a Minnesota Public Radio look back at the "Summer of Love," the summer of 1967. "Midmorning" host Kerri Miller spoke with both Isserman and San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joel Selvin about the music, protests, social upheaval, the influence of earlier events in the '50s and '60s and the fusion of black and white culture during that summer. More ... Bedient and Cockburn Give Talk on Hamilton's Math Senior SeminarSeptember 20, 2007Mathematics professors Dick Bedient and Sally Cockburn presented a talk titled "The Hamilton College Senior Seminar" at the summer meetings of the Mathematical Association of America in San Jose. The talk was part of a session called "Getting Students to Discuss and Write about Mathematics." They described the department's senior seminar program where the goals are to provide students with an opportunity to work on problems of interest, present work orally, learn about the writing of mathematics and learn some mathematics. The experiment has proved remarkably successful. The department is now averaging about 40 concentrators per year. In an evaluation of the seminar experience one student commented "It was the most thought provoking class I've ever taken." Mason Develops Two Organizational Communication SeminarsSeptember 19, 2007Susan Mason, director of the Oral Communication Center and director of the Education Studies Program, has recently developed two education programs for the American Management Association International: "Developing Emotional Intelligence" and "Women in Business." The American Management Association is a not-for-profit, educational institution recognized by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. Mason's work will be disseminated through the AMA worldwide network in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe and in Japan, China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Rivera Presents Paper at American Political Science Assoc. MeetingSeptember 19, 2007Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera chaired a panel titled "Political Elites, Hybrid Regimes, and Democratization" at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago from August 30 to September 2. She also presented a paper titled "Structure versus Agency in the Postcommunist Transitions: Quantifying the Impact of Leadership," which she co-authored with David W. Rivera, Hamilton government department lecturer. More ... Goldberg Presented Two Lectures in ChinaSeptember 18, 2007Associate Professor of Art Stephen J. Goldberg presented two lectures in the People's Republic of China in conjunction with the second Chinese Calligraphy Workshop organized by the Calligraphy Education Group of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. More ... Owen Quoted in The Christian Science MonitorSeptember 18, 2007Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was interviewed by The Christian Science Monitor for an article titled "Fed Expected to Cut Interest Rates Tuesday." The article pointed out that many economists have expected the Fed to reduce the federal funds rate, the rate that banks loan one another their excess reserves at the Fed, by a quarter of a percentage point. "It's already priced into the market, and if they don't do it, there will be a negative reaction," said Owen, a former economist at the Fed. Cannavò Publishes Essay in the Journal, Political TheorySeptember 17, 2007Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter F. Cannavò has published a review essay in the October 2007 issue of Political Theory, a leading political philosophy journal. Titled, "Confronting Postmodern Uncertainty: Political Insights from Cultural Practice," the essay reviews four recent books on cultural politics: Gay Hawkins, The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate Today to Rubbish; Marcie Franks, How to be an Intellectual in the Age of TV; Mary Caputi, A Kinder, Gentler America: Melancholia and the Mythical 1950s; and Helen Liggett, Urban Encounters. More ... Orvis Speaks at U.S. State Dept. Conference on KenyaSeptember 13, 2007Professor of Government Stephen Orvis spoke on the current situation in Kenya at the Conference on East Africa, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the National Intelligence Council, on Thursday, Sept. 13. The conference, which was unclassified and off the record, was held in honor of the new State Department Director of the East Africa Bureau, James Knight. Orvis also spoke at a similar conference, the Conference on Conflict in the Horn of Africa hosted by the U.S. Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State, last September. More ... Article Co-Authored by Snyder Honored as One of Top 50 Most-Cited by Carbohydrate ResearchSeptember 13, 2007Nicole L. Snyder, assistant professor of chemistry, recently received an award for her contributions as co-author of one of the "Top 50 Most-Cited Articles" published in Carbohydrate Research between the years of 2004 and 2007. The article, titled "Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Reactivity of a D-Xylose Based Oxepine," appeared in April 28, 2004 edition of Carbohydrate Research and has been cited in several peer reviewed articles and books since its publication. The authors and co-authors of all 50 papers were honored at a reception in celebration of their paper's achievement at the 2007 EuroCarb Meeting in Lubeck, Germany, in September. Guttman To Give Reading at the Bowery Poetry ClubSeptember 12, 2007Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman will read from her recent work at The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, on Sunday, Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. Other readers will be poets Tom Sleigh, Joshua Weiner, and Victoria Redel. The reading is hosted by Martha Rhodes, Editor of Four Way Books. For more information and directions, go to: http://www.bowerypoetry.com/ Cannavò Presents Book and Paper at American Political Science Association Annual MeetingSeptember 12, 2007Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavò participated in two panels at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago, held August 30-Sept. 2. As part of a panel on environmentalism and civic republicanism that he organized, Cannavò presented a paper titled, "'To the Thousandth Generation': Timelessness and the Pastoral Nexus between Green Politics and Republicanism." Cannavò also presented his book, The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place (The MIT Press, 2007) as part of a panel titled "New Books in Green Politics and Theory." More ... Xu Gives Plenary Talks at Three Summer ConferencesSeptember 12, 2007Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu joined the ACC (Associated Colleges in China) Internship Program during the summer of 2007. It is supported by the Department of Education of the U.S. and administered by the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department at Hamilton Colleges. During his trip to China, he was invited to give plenary talks at three conferences on Chinese education organized by the Education and Science Society, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., and several Chinese normal universities. Xu's talk was titled The Relationship between Classical Chinese Learning and One's Ability in Modern Chinese Reading and Writing. More ... McConnell Presents at Latin American Studies Association ConferenceSeptember 12, 2007Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell attended the Latin American Studies Association conference in Montreal, Canada, where she presented a paper on Sept. 6. As a member of a panel titled "Multilateralism and the 'New' Challenges to Democracy in Latin America," McConnell presented "Can the Inter-American Democratic Charter Work? The 2004-2005 Constitutional Crisis in Nicaragua." More ...Outdoor Leadership Director Takes First in "The 90-miler"September 11, 2007Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings snagged first place in another long distance canoe and kayak race. Although not quite as arduous at the 460-mile Yukon River Quest Jillings won last June, "The 90-Miler" still offered Jillings and his partner a challenge. The 25th anniversary canoe and kayak race from Old Forge to Saranac Lake was held from Sept. 7 to 9. More ... Williams Publishes Column in News of the Lepidopterists' SocietySeptember 11, 2007Professor of Biology Ernest Williams published a column about monarch butterflies in News of the Lepidopterists' Society (March, 2007). The column, "Status of the Monarch Sanctuaries in Mexico," resulted from his visit in January to the Mexican sanctuaries, when he joined a research team of Dr. Lincoln Brower, the foremost authority on monarch butterflies. Dr. Brower was co-author on the column, and five of Williams' photographs, including the cover photo, were used in this issue. In this article, they describe the current status and threats to the monarch over-wintering sites and recommend several conservation actions. Urgo Contributes Chapter to Book in Willa Cather SeriesSeptember 7, 2007Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo contributed a chapter to Willa Cather as Cultural Icon, the 7th volume in the Cather Studies series. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a renowned author known for portraying U.S. lifestyles. Her famous novels include O Pioneers! and My Ántonia. Urgo's chapter is titled "Cather's Secular Humanism: Writing Anacoluthon and Shooting Out into the Eternities." In the book Urgo describes Cather as "a great American liberator, an author who truly understood the potential of American secular and humanistic pluralism to serve art and to advance the human condition by lifitng it above the denominational. Elgren Presents Workshop About Undergraduate Research at Rhode Island College ConsortiumSeptember 6, 2007Tim Elgren, professor of chemistry, presented a workshop at the University of Rhode Island on August 10 on "Conducting Sustainable Research at Undergraduate Institutions." The workshop was conducted for a National Institutes of Health funded consortium of Rhode Island colleges and universities. Members of the consortium include University of Rhode Island, Brown University, Rhode Island College, Providence College, Roger Williams College and Salve Regina University. This particular workshop was directed at junior faculty members and administrators. Elgren is the former president of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) and recently co-edited a book for CUR titled Developing and Sustaining a Research-Supportive Curriculum: A Compendium of Successful Practices (www.cur.org). Hamilton to Host 2006 & 2008 Elections DiscussionSeptember 5, 2007Hamilton is presenting a conversation about the 2006 and 2008 elections with Hamilton alumni Alicia Davis '97, and Marc Elias '90. Davis was regional political director at the Republican National Committee before joining Targetpoint Consulting, and Elias is a partner in the Perkins Coie law firm who served as general counsel for the Kerry-Edwards campaign and counsel for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Chapel on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 7:30 p.m. More ... Larson Publishes Story in Alaska QuarterlySeptember 4, 2007Associate Professor of English Doran Larson's story, "Samba," appears in the currrent issue of Alaska Quarterly Review. He has also recently delivered papers at two international conferences: "Writing the Prison: Reflections on a Creative Writing Course Taught at Attica Correctional Facility," at the New Directions in the Humanities Conference in Paris; and, "Fantastic Sexualities: Djuna Barnes and James Baldwin Imagining the Third Sex," at the International Association for the Study of the Fantastic in the Arts Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Isserman Quoted on Vietnam War and Possible Grade InflationSeptember 4, 2007In an article titled "Grade inflation traced to Vietnam War" in Boulder, Colorado's Daily Camera, Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, was quoted on what he views as a possible "tenuous connection" between grade inflation to the Vietnam War. More ... Owen and Wu Publish in Review of International EconomicsSeptember 4, 2007Associate Professors of Economics Ann Owen and Steve Wu published "Is trade good for your health?" in the Review of International Economics. The article investigates the link between increased openness to international trade and health outcomes such as life expectancy and infant mortality. More ... O'Neal Publishes Essay on his Experience as a Scholar in 18th-Centuries StudiesSeptember 2, 2007In "The Eighteenth Century: An Entire Other World," Professor of French John C. O'Neal recounts his experience in the field of eighteenth-century studies research, tracing the threads that have tied together his scholarship over the past three decades. Solicited by the editor of the volume, Carol Blum, this article appears in Etre dix-huitiémiste II, published by the Centre International d'Etude du XVIII Siècle in Ferney-Voltaire, France in 2007. Phelan Contributes to the International Encyclopedia of CommunicationAugust 31, 2007Professor of Communication Catherine W. Phelan has completed an entry on "museum as communication" for the International Encyclopedia of Communication. The Encyclopedia is a joint project of Blackwell Publishing and the International Communication Association and its content draws on the expertise of scholars worldwide. The Encyclopedia will give more space to areas related to public and mediated communication but include other communication forms and phenomena as well, since they represent basic elements of the human communication processes. The 10 volumes are scheduled to be published in December 2007. Murtaugh Has Work Published in Shamenet MagazineAugust 30, 2007Rebecca Murtaugh, assistant professor of art, has photographs of three installations published in the September 2007 issue of Shamenet Magazine in a piece authored by writer and designer Yuval Saar. Shamenet is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based publication of contemporary culture. Works include "To Mark A Significant Space in the Living Room #1" (2007), and "To Mark A Significant Space in the Bedroom, #1" (2003) comprised of rooms covered in Post-it Notes. O'Neal Serves on NEH Panel in Washington, DCAugust 29, 2007Professor of French John C. O'Neal traveled to Washington, D.C. in August to serve on the Romance Studies panel of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). College and university professors as well as independent scholars compete for the fellowships program funded by NEH. The Endowment received some 1400 fellowship applications for the 37 different panels this year. Currently, 12-month fellowships provide $50,400 in support for research projects. The panel in Romance Studies on which O'Neal served consisted of five members, four of whom came from large research universities. They reviewed a total of 44 proposals. NEH estimates that one out of every 10 proposals will ultimately receive funding. Gant Exhibits Work at Light WorkAugust 29, 2007Work created by Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant is on exhibit now through October 23 at Light Work, an arts center focused on the mediums of photography and digital imaging. As a recipient of one of the 33rd Annual Light Work Grants in Photography, Gant is exhibiting her work with two other recipients, Brantley Carroll and David Moore. A gallery reception will be held on Thursday, Sept. 6, from 5 – 8 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. More ... De Swaan Photos Featured in Signs of LifeAugust 28, 2007Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan is among the invited artists exhibiting photographs in the Cazenovia College Art Gallery Exhibition, Signs of Life, which opens on Thursday, Sept. 6. An artist's lecture and reception will be held on Sept. 6 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the gallery. The exhibition, lecture and reception are free and open to the public. The show will close on Sept. 27. More ... Owen and Videras Publish Paper in Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementAugust 27, 2007Economics professors Ann Owen and Julio Videras published "Culture and Public Goods: The Case of Religion and the Voluntary Provision of Environmental Quality" in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management in the September 2007 issue. The paper uses new statistical methods to characterize religious beliefs and concludes that culture does play a role in determining pro-environment behavior. Owen and Videras' research was supported by the Levitt Center's Sustainability Program via a grant from the Blue Moon Fund. Pragyan Pradhan '08 was a research assistant on the project. More ... Klinkner Quoted in USA Today ArticleAugust 23, 2007Philip Klinkner, associate professor of government and associate dean of students, was quoted in a USA Today article on Wednesday, Aug. 23, titled "Few Dems show for 'Prez on the Rez.'" The article focused on the anticipated absence of top-tier candidates — U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois and former U.S. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina — from Thursday's "Prez on the Rez" debate at the Morongo Band of Mission Indians' reservation in Southern California. More ... Arthur Delivers Two Papers on Curricular ChangeAugust 23, 2007Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association held in New York City Aug. 11-14. Her paper was titled "Learning the Nexus: Networks, Neoinstitutionalism, and Diffusion as Explanation for Curricular Change." She is secretary-treasurer of the History of Sociology section of this organization. More ... Boutin Presents Work at International ConferenceAugust 22, 2007Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented her work "The Determining Number of a Cartesian Product" at a special session on Product Graphs at the 6th Slovenian International Conference on Graph Theory at Lake Bled, Slovenia. Boutin's recent work focuses on finding a smallest set of nodes that captures all the symmetries in a network. In this talk Boutin surveyed work in the area, gave her recent results, and suggested a new topic for research. Vasantkumar Delivers Paper at Tibetologist SeminarAugust 20, 2007Luce Junior Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies Chris Vasantkumar delivered a paper titled "Tibet as Incidental to Tibetan Studies?: Views From Various Margins" at a plenary session of the First International Seminar of Yung Tibetologists held at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies from August 9 to 13. The seminar's participants hailed from China, India, the United States and various European countries. More ... Yao Publishes Article in RepresentationsAugust 20, 2007An article by Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives Steven Yao appears in the latest issue of the journal Representations (Summer, 2007). Yao's article, "Toward a Prehistory of Asian American Verse: Pound, Cathay, and the Poetics of Chineseness," examines the various terms -- tonal, rhetorical, thematic and formal -- by which Ezra Pound sought to present Chinese poetic culture and identity in his renowned collection of translations. This article is part of Yao's current book project, "Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse and the Counter-Poetics of Difference in the U.S., 1910-Present." Representations is a publication of the University of California Press. More ... Chang and Campbell Present at Bioinformatics Retreat at BatesAugust 17, 2007Assistant Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang and Associate Professor of Computer Science Alistair Campbell presented at a Bioinformatics retreat held at Bates College in July. They joined colleagues from 11 other liberal colleges and discussed progress made on building bioinformatics curricula. Bioinformatics is a rising interdisciplinary field which involves the use of computer programs and computation algorithms to solve biological problems. More ... Isserman Quoted in TIME MagazineAugust 14, 2007Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History and co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, was quoted in an Aug. 9 TIME magazine article titled "The Return of SDS to Campus." In another look back at the '60s, Isserman, with co-author Michael Kazin of Georgetown University, penned an opinion piece that appeared in the Sunday, Aug. 12, edition of Newsday titled "Summer of love beats cynicism of today." More ... Terrell Presents Paper at University of WalesAugust 13, 2007Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper at an interdisciplinary conference on "Cultural Histories and Vocabularies of the Fragment in Text and Image" held at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in June. The paper, titled "Decentering 'gret auctorite': the Chaucerian Aesthetics of the Fragment," discusses the fragmentary nature of much of Chaucer's work, arguing that the fragment, as a powerful metaphor for the dismantling of narrative authority, underlies Chaucer's construction of narrative. Owen Presents Paper at Conference on Macroeconomic Research at Liberal Arts CollegesAugust 9, 2007Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented a paper at the Conference on Macroeconomic Research at Liberal Arts Colleges held at Smith College in August. The paper, "Do all countries follow the same growth process?," was co-authored with Lewis Davis at Union College and Julio Videras at Hamilton. Owen said the paper uses a novel methodology to explore the extent to which growth occurs in the same way in different countries. At the same conference, she also led a discussion session on teaching economic growth to undergraduate students. More ... Ortabasi Publishes Article in Translatology JournalAugust 7, 2007Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi wrote an article for the journal Perspectives: Studies in Translatology (vol. 14:4, 2006). The article, "Indexing the past: Visual Language and Translatability in Kon Satoshi's Millennium Actress," discusses how traditional subtitling practices have overlooked the visual aspect of film. Bayolo Conducts at Second Annual Capital Fringe FestivalAugust 1, 2007Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo conducted the Great Noise Ensemble in three performances during the second annual Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D.C. in July. The Great Noise Ensemble, founded by Bayolo in 2005, is a group of 18 musicians specializing in contemporary music. The performances included previews of Bayolo's Chamber Symphony, "Illusory Airs," a work which he wrote while in residence at Hamilton in the fall of 2006 and inspired, in part, by research conducted during his fall, 2006, class on the history of the symphony. The Chamber Symphony, which will also have preview performances this fall in Syracuse and Clinton by the Society for New Music, will have its official premiere in May, 2008, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. O'Neal Presents Paper at Meeting of Rousseau AssociationAugust 1, 2007John C. O'Neal, professor of French, presented a paper in French on the question of the soul in the writings of Rousseau and the philosophes at the biennial meeting of the Rousseau association in Lyon, France in June. This was the same colloquium O'Neal hosted at Hamilton in June of 2005. One of the highlights of the France meeting was an excursion to Chambery and the home of Mme de Warens, who had a tremendous influence on Rousseau's life. Rousseau spent some of his happiest moments at Les Charmettes in Chambéry with Mme de Warens, which he describes in detail in his Confessions. Ortabasi Presents at Yanagita Study GroupJuly 31, 2007Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi presented at the annual meeting of the Yanagita Kunio no kai (Yanagita Kunio Study Group), held at Otani University in Kyoto, Japan, on July 28. This is a society of scholars who are experts on Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), the founder of "native ethnology" and folklore studies in Japan. She gave a talk titled "Yanagita Kunio to Nihon no kindaika: _Tôno monogatari_ kara sengo no kyôkasho made" (Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Modernity: from _Tales of Tôno_ to Post-WWII Textbooks), which presented the general outline of her book manuscript on this topic. Oerlemans Delivers Paper at British Romanticism ConferenceJuly 30, 2007Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans delivered a paper at the British Association for Romanticism Studies/ North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference (BARS/NASSR) in Bristol, England, on July 29. His paper was titled "Romantic Origins of the Lyric of Animal Encounter," and was part of the panel, "Animal Subjects in the Age of Revolution." Oerlemans' paper tries to trace the genealogy of a genre of poem that helps to mediate animal being in human culture. Hamilton Artists Selected for Juried ExhibitionJuly 24, 2007Prints by three artists associated with Hamilton College, Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead, Jake Muirhead '86, and Dan Wittenberg '07, have been selected for the juried Washington Printmakers National Small Works 2007 Exhibition. Of the nearly 500 images submitted, juror Greg Jecmen, associate curator of old prints at the National Gallery of Art, selected 27 works. The exhibition runs from July 31 to August 26. More ... Toegel Participates in International ConferenceJuly 24, 2007Associate Professor of German Edith Toegel participated in an international conference, "The New Europe at the Crossroads" at York St. John University, England in July. Her paper, "'Heimat' Redefined: Women and Multiculturalism in Barbara Frischmuth's novels" discussed the writer's concern for racial tensions in her homeland, Austria, in particular with regard to the large number of Turkish immigrants since 1989. More ... Walker Op-Ed Appears in Providence JournalJuly 23, 2007An opinion piece written by Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Global Political Theory Edward Walker '62, appeared on Friday, July 20, in The Providence Journal (R.I.). Titled "A war with Iran would be madness," Walker's op-ed suggested that the recent leaks from the White House intimating a possible major military strike against Iran are really about two combatants posturing for different audiences — Iranian President Ahmedinijad for support in Iran and the Middle East and Vice President Cheney for Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Kahmeni. Walker, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt under previous administrations, warns that the U.S. should not sacrifice any hope of stabilizing the region by launching an ill-advised strike against Iran. More ... Cafruny Publishes ArticleJuly 23, 2007Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, is co-author of an article "Monetary Union and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of Europe's Crisis" with Magnus Ryner. It was published in New Political Economy 12, 2 (June, 2007). Cannavò Authors Book, The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of PlaceJuly 23, 2007In his new book, The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place (MIT Press, July, 2007), Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter F. Cannavò focuses on the displacement and transformation of our landscape, the "crisis of place facing the United States." He points out that "rampant development, unsustainable exploitation of resources, environmental degradation, and the commodification of places are ruining built and natural landscapes, disconnecting people from their surroundings and threatening individuals' fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stance that rejects virtually any change in the landscape." More ... Williams Participates in "River Summer" Program of Hudson Valley ConsortiumJuly 20, 2007Jay Williams, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, participated in "River Summer," a program of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities, of which Hamilton College is a member. He spent five days in July living on a boat and studying the ecology and history of the Hudson River from Pierpont Point to Newburg. The group took many water samples, studying the salinity, density, and temperature of the water of the Hudson as well as various lakes, marshes and brooks of the area. They also were introduced to archaeological sites, historic homes, and problems of city planning along the river. Hagstrom Quoted in Reader's DigestJuly 20, 2007Although the Reader's Digest's story, "Second Chance City - A wave of refugees is bringing new life to a dying American town" paints Utica as a city that has plunged into an "economic meltdown," Hamilton's Associate Professor of Economics Paul Hagstrom offers some hope. His research, which is referenced in this article, focuses on the economic impact of refugee resettlement and the refugees' effect on local labor markets on the central New York community. More ... Norton Authors Book, Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet StarJuly 19, 2007Associate Professor of Dance Leslie Norton is the author of a new book, Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star (McFarland & Company, July, 2007). Franklin is one of the greatest ballet dancers of the twentieth century and is still performing at the age of 93, dancing principal roles for American Ballet Theatre. In writing the book, Norton conducted more than 60 hours of taped interviews with Franklin and his most noteworthy colleagues More ... Norton Speaks at Jacob's Pillow Dance FestivalJuly 18, 2007Associate Professor of Dance Leslie Norton spoke at Jacob's Pillow, Mass., on July 14 about her new book, Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star, which has just been released by McFarland & Co., Inc. Franklin, one of the greatest ballet dancers of the twentieth century, joined Norton for the talk, which is part of the festival's "Pillow Talk" series. Jacob's Pillow hosts an internationally renowned dance festival each summer, presenting the works of some of the world's finest dance companies, dancers and choreographers. More ... Adair Publishes Article, Book Chapter and Book Review in JuneJuly 17, 2007Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, published an article, a book review and a book chapter during the month of June. The book chapter, "Of Homemakers and Home-Breakers: The Deserving and the Undeserving Poor Mother in Depression Era Literature," was published in The Literary Mother: Representations of Maternity and Child Care, edited by Susan Staub (McFarland Press, June 2007). Adair's book review, "Unsung heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream, by Ruth Sidel," appeared in Gender and Society, June 2007, vol. 21, no. 3. The article, titled "Poverty and Story Telling in Higher Education," and written with ACCESS students Paulette Brown, Rose Perez, Nolita Clark and Shannon Stanfield, was published in Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies, volume 3, number 2, May-August 2007. Rebecca Murtaugh Exhibits Artwork in ClevelandJuly 13, 2007Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is exhibiting artwork in "Toxic Color" at Exit (a gallery space), in Cleveland. This exhibition features the work of 25 national artists and resonates with the artist's perspective of how color is mediated by technology and media. Martin Ball, artist and associate professor of painting at Kent State University, curated the exhibition. The show opened July 13 and runs through August 17. For more information visit www.exitgallery.com Keller Publishes Essay in New Anthology, Everyday Life in Central AsiaJuly 10, 2007Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller has published an essay titled "Going to School in Uzbekistan," in a new anthology, Everyday Life in Central Asia (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007), pp. 248-265. The article discusses school life in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods and is based on library work and interviews done in Uzbekistan in 2003. More ... Kirschner Co-Authors Paper in Journal of Chemical EducationJuly 10, 2007Karl Kirschner, co-director of the Center for Molecular Design, published a paper in the July issue of the Journal of Chemical Education. The paper is titled "Calculating Interaction Energies Using First Principle Theories: Consideration of Basis Set Superposition Error and Fragment Relaxation" and is coauthored by Phillip Bowen (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Jennifer Sorensen (Seattle University). More ... Klinkner Article Published by Cambridge University PressJuly 9, 2007An article co-authored by Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students Philip A. Klinkner titled "Measuring the Difference between White Voting and Polling on Interracial Marriage" was published by the Cambridge University Press Online Journal on May 10. The article had previously been published in print in the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race in September 2006. Micah Altman, senior research scientist at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, was Klinkner's co-author. More ... Urgo Leads Students on Trip to Willa Cather Conference in FranceJuly 9, 2007Dean of Faculty and Professor of English Joseph Urgo took four students to the 11th International Willa Cather Seminar in France, June 24-July 1, where he presented a lecture. The seminar, "Willa Cather: A Writer's Worlds," took place in Paris and the Abbey St. Michel de Frigolet in Provence. The trip was an optional, culminating event to a senior seminar on Willa Cather that Urgo offered last spring. The students who attended were Leah Babb-Rosenfeld '07, Christine Mays '07, Laura Hartz '07 and Ashley DeMaio-Zacharek '08. The conference attracted 150 attendees. More ... Janack Gives Paper at National Women's Studies ConferenceJuly 6, 2007Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer, Jr. Associate Professor of Philosophy, attended the National Women's Studies Association conference in July in Chicago, where she was on a panel on future directions in feminist epistemology. Her paper was called "Truth Talk and Realism." Nutting Presents at Western Economic Association ConferenceJuly 6, 2007Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Andrew Nutting presented a paper "To the Slimmer Go the Spoils: Heterogeneous Responses to Bodyweight Incentives in Olympic Weightlifting Tournaments" at the Western Economic Association 82nd Annual Conference in Seattle on July 2. The paper has been accepted for publication by the Eastern Economic Journal. More ... Georges Presents at Two ConferencesJuly 3, 2007Professor of Economics Christophre Georges presented a paper, "Staggered Updating in an Artificial Financial Market" at two conferences in June: Computation in Economics and Finance, in Montreal, and Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, in Washington, D.C. The paper studies the effect of learning on price volatility in an agent-based market model. Keller Invited to Arab-Israeli Conflict WorkshopJuly 3, 2007Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller has just returned from a two-week intensive workshop on the Arab-Israeli conflict, sponsored by Tel Aviv University. The 19 participants from seven different countries travelled to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Jewish settlement in the West Bank, the Golan Heights, Haifa, and other locations, listening to people from all parts of the political spectrum and making connections with Israeli and Arab academics. De Swaan Selected for "Made in NY 2007"July 2, 2007A photograph by Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan was selected for "Made in NY 2007," an annual juried exhibit that features New York state artists. The show, which opened on June 30, includes 84 contemporary works of art by 68 artists. Cornell University's art department chair Buzz Spector and Michael A. Sickler, who has been a professor of art and art history at Syracuse University for 35 years, were the jurors. The exhibition at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St., Auburn, is open through August 25. More ... Li Speaks at Aspen Ideas FestivalJuly 2, 2007Some of the world's most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers, and leaders are gathered at the third annual Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado from July 2 to July 8. Hamilton's William R. Kenan Professor of Government Cheng Li, one of the featured festival speakers in the global dynamics track, is joined by more than 250 other speakers who include President Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, David Gergen, Walter Isaacson, General Colin Powell, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, Jim Lehrer and Karl Rove. Speakers are divided into four program tracks: global dynamics, arts and culture, American experience and media and community. More ... Briggs Gives Paper at James Joyce ConferenceJuly 2, 2007Austin Briggs, Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, and lecturer in English, attended the North American James Joyce Conference held at the University of Texas at Austin in June. In addition to delivering a paper—"Is Bella Cohen Jewish?—on the panel "Nomen Est Omen: Names and Naming in Joyce" that he organized and chaired, he co-moderated two reading sessions on Ulysses at the conference. Odamtten Edits Book About Ghanian Writer Amma DarkoJune 29, 2007Broadening the Horizon: Critical Introductions to Amma Darko, edited by Professor of English Vincent O. Odamtten, has been published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited, Banbury Oxfordshire, UK. This collection of essays from nearly a dozen respected academics and practitioners in the field brings a number of critical perspectives to focus on the work of Amma Darko, a 21st century Ghanaian writer. More ... Outdoor Leadership Director Wins World's Longest Kayak/Canoe RaceJune 28, 2007Hamilton's Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings finished first in the single male kayak division and sixth overall in the 2007 Yukon River Quest, the world's longest annual canoe and kayak race. Based on results posted on the official race Web site last updated today at 3:45 EDT on Saturday, June 30, Jillings reached Dawson City behind one tandem kayak and four voyageur canoes, each with six to eight rowers. He had never participated in a kayak race before clinching the single male kayak title. More ... Artwork by Rebecca Murtaugh Featured in New York TimesJune 28, 2007Artwork by Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is featured in the June 28, 2007, edition of The New York Times. The artwork, titled "To Mark A Significant Space in the Living Room #1," appears on the front page of the House and Home section. The article is titled "While You Were Out, The Post-it Went Home" and is authored by Penelope Green. Latrell Gives Paper at Bangkok ConferenceJune 28, 2007Associate Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell delivered a paper in Bangkok at a conference titled "Cartographies of Culture, Religion and Thought." The conference focused on place and place-making in contemporary Asia -- the distribution of communities, cultures, religions and manners of thought. Latrell's paper, titled "Performance and Place-making at Sarawak Cultural Village," centered on the remapping of Sarawak's cultural identity and the role of performance in that remapping. The conference, held at Assumption University, was also coordinated by La Trobe University in Melbourne and Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines. Nguyen T.T. Nguyen '08 Presents Poster With Silversmith at Dynamical Process ConferenceJune 27, 2007Nguyen T.T. Nguyen '08 and Professor of Physics Ann Silversmith presented a poster at the 16th International Conference on Dynamical Processes in Excited States of Solids, held June 17-22 in Segovia, Spain. Their poster was titled "Rare-Earth Ion Distribution in Sol-Gel Glasses Co-Doped With Al3+." Hamessley Presents Paper at 9th Biennial Feminist Theory and Music ConferenceJune 26, 2007Associate Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley presented a paper titled "From Beijing to Appalachia: Abigail Washburn's Song of the Traveling Daughter" at the 9th biennial Feminist Theory and Music conference, held at McGill University in Montreal on June 6-10. Washburn is an old-time banjo player who blends Appalachian style music with Mandarin lyrics (which she writes) and eastern musical elements. This paper explores how this fusion of styles works, why she is interested in creating this musical synthesis, and finally how her music (in particular the banjo) is emblematic of her larger struggle to reconcile her American identity with her desire to find a place within Chinese culture. Ortabasi Publishes Film Review in Education About AsiaJune 18, 2007Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi wrote a review of the 2002 animated film Millennium Actress, titled "Teaching Modern Japanese History with Animation: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress." The article, which has appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Education About Asia, is written for instructors who wish to make more use of contemporary Asian media such as anime in their history and culture courses. Education About Asia is published by the Association for Asian Studies. Mockus Gives Paper at Feminist Theory and Music ConferenceJune 15, 2007Martha Mockus, the Jane Watson Irwin Chair and visiting assistant professor of women's studies, presented a paper at the Feminist Theory and Music conference at McGill University in Montreal, June 6-10. The paper was titled "Carla Lucero's Wuornos: Feminism, Violence, and Lesbian Redemption." More ... Boutin Gives Talk at Graph Theory ConferenceJune 15, 2007Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented a talk titled "Measuring Graph Symmetry with Determining Sets" at the 1st Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Boutin's work focuses on finding a smallest set of nodes that captures all the symmetries in a network. In this talk Boutin gave upper and lower bounds on the size of such a set when the network is presented with a particular decomposition. Bailey Organizes Grant Program for Faculty of High Minority Enrollment InstitutionsJune 12, 2007Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey is managing a program for faculty from colleges with high minority enrollments. The program supports travel for faculty to attend one of 17 research conferences being held in San Diego in June as part of the Association for Computing Machinery's Federated Computing Research Conference (see http://www.acm.org/fcrc). Bailey secured funding for the program from a grant from the National Science Foundation with matching money from various special interest groups with the Association for Computing Machinery. More ... Rosenstein and May Graduates Griffith, Parkhurst and McKee Attend National Organic SymposiumJune 12, 2007Associate Professor of Chemistry Ian Rosenstein and three students participated in the 40th National Organic Symposium, sponsored by the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society at Duke University, June 3-7. The students, Daniel Griffith, Silas McKee and Rebecca Parkhurst, all graduated from Hamilton in May. The three students made four poster presentations. Griffith was a co-author on two posters, one with Rosenstein and the other co-authored with Associate Professor of Biology Herm Lehman. McKee's poster was co-authored by Greg Nizialek '08 and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones and Rosenstein. Parkhurst and Rosenstein were the authors on her poster. More ... Omori Awarded FellowshipsJune 12, 2007Kyoko Omori, assistant professor of Japanese, has been awarded an SSRC/JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct year-long research at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. She will be working on her book project titled "Detecting Modanizumu: New Youth Magazine, Tantei Shôsetsu [Mystery Fiction], and The Culture of Japanese Vernacular Modernism, 1920-1950." Omori was also awarded a Japan Foundation Research Fellowship for next year. Trivedi Publishes New Book, Clothing Gandhi’s NationJune 11, 2007Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi is the author of a new book, Clothing Gandhi's Nation: Homespun and Modern India (Indiana University Press). The book explores the making of one of modern India's most enduring political symbols, khadi: a homespun, home-woven cloth. According to the publisher's Web site, "The image of Mohandas K. Gandhi clothed simply in a loincloth and plying a spinning wheel is familiar around the world, as is the sight of Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and other political leaders dressed in 'Gandhi caps' and khadi shirts. Less widely understood is how these images associate the wearers with the swadeshi movement—which advocated the exclusive consumption of indigenous goods to establish India's autonomy from Great Britain—or how khadi was used to create a visual expression of national identity after Independence. Trivedi brings together social history and the study of visual culture to account for khadi as both symbol and commodity. Written in a clear narrative style, the book provides a cultural history of important and distinctive aspects of modern Indian history." More ... Hamessley Gives Paper at Music & The Moving Image ConferenceJune 8, 2007Associate Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley presented a paper titled "Commercial Folk: Dow Chemical's 'Human Element' Campaign" at the Music & The Moving Image conference, held at New York University on May 18-20. Her paper examined Dow Chemical's $20 million advertising campaign, "The Human Element" (2006). More ... Urgo is Co-Editor of Two New Books on William FaulknerJune 7, 2007Dean of the Faculty Joe Urgo is the editor of two new books on William Faulkner, published by University Press of Mississippi. Both are co-edited with Ann J. Abadie, associate director of Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. The books -- Faulkner and Material Culture and Faulkner's Inheritance -- are collections of essays originally presented at the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conferences in Mississippi. More ... Li Presents to U.S.-China Business Council BoardJune 6, 2007Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and Brookings Institution Fellow, gave a presentation on the leadership of China and the upcoming 17th Party Congress on June 6, in Washington D.C. at the board meeting of the U.S.-China Business Council. Attending members included Citibank CEO William Rhodes, New York Life International CEO Joseph Gilmour, former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hill and William Cohen, former U.S. Secretary of Defense. More ... Keller Publishes Article in Slavic ReviewJune 1, 2007Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller has published an article titled "Story, Time and Dependent Nationhood in the Uzbek History Curriculum," in _Slavic Review_ Vol. 66, No. 2 (Summer 2007. Slavic Review is a leading interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies. Xu Publishes Second Edition of Generative Phonology-Theory and UsageJune 1, 2007Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu published a second edition of his book, Generative Phonology-Theory and Usage, (China Social Sciences Publishing House, Beijing, 2007). The book covers the up-to-date theories and researches in generative phonology with the illustration of the data across Chinese dialects. More ... Haley Honored With American Classical League's Merita AwardJune 1, 2007Professor of Classics Shelley Haley has been selected to receive the American Classical League's Merita Award. The award is presented annually to classicists in recognition of their sustained and distinguished service to ACL and the profession at large. Haley will be presented with the award at the League's annual meeting in June in Nashville. The American Classical League was founded in 1919 for the purpose of fostering the study of classical languages in the United States and Canada. More ... |
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