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MacDonald Lectures at UC Berkeley Pacific Film Archive

December 1, 2008
Scott MacDonald made four presentations in the Bay Area during the week of Nov. 17 in conjunction with his new book Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times. He lectured on Canyon Cinema and then presented films by filmmakers crucial to the 50-year-old Bay Area institution on Friday and Saturday evenings at Canyon Cinema's screening room in San Francisco, on Sunday evening at the San Francisco Cinematheque and on Tuesday evening at the Pacific Film Archive at the University of California at Berkeley.

Vaughan Presents Paper at Psychonomic Society Meeting

December 1, 2008
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Jonathan Vaughan presented a paper at the Psychonomic Society meeting on Nov. 15 in Chicago. The paper was titled "Planning Complex Limb Trajectories" and was based on research conducted at Hamilton. Co-authors included Hamilton students Julia Brandt '07, Drew Lindsey '08, Ann Dickson '09, and Deborah Barany, '11, all of whom participated in the research project during the academic year and summer months.  More ...

O'Neal Concludes Second Term as President of Regional Society

November 30, 2008
Professor of French John O'Neal recently concluded his second term as president of the Northeast American Society for 18th-Century Studies (NEASECS). He presided over the annual conference of the Society, held this year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Oct. 31-Nov. 1.  More ...

Sciacca Publishes Article on 1812 Garden

November 26, 2008
Frank Sciacca, associate professor of Russian, has written an article titled "Hamilton College Grows a Historical Cultural Revolution" that appears in the fall 2008 issue of The Snail, a slow Food USA magazine. The article described some of Hamilton's sustainability initiatives including the Community Farm Garden and the 1812 Garden.  More ...

O'Neal Gives Talk at French Lycée in New York City

November 25, 2008
At the invitation of the Lycée Français de New York, Professor of French John C. O'Neal presented a lecture on the age of the Enlightenment to an audience of 100 juniors and seniors in the school's auditorium on November 7. These high school students are currently studying this era, which is O'Neal's period of specialization. O'Neal illustrated his lecture with some 80 slides documenting the interdisciplinary nature of the 18th century in France.

Fallen Giants Recognized at Kendal Mountain Festival

November 24, 2008
The winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for 2008 was announced on Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Kendal Mountain Festival in England. Fallen Giants : A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, a book co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester Professor Stewart Weaver, was the second runner-up for the prize.  More ...

Murtaugh Lectures at SUNY Suffolk

November 24, 2008
Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh presented a visiting artist lecture at SUNY Suffolk on Long Island on November 12. She showed works that she conceived and created during the past 10 years. The discussion focused on the relationship of everyday experience with the world to her art making process.

O'Neill Presents on Spike Lee at Skidmore

November 20, 2008
Professor of English Patricia O'Neill lectured at Skidmore College on Tuesday, Nov. 18, as a presenter in the college's International Week program. O'Neill's talk was titled "Where Globalization and Localization Meet: The Films of Spike Lee" and was sponsored by Skidmore's Off-Campus Study and Exchanges and the Speakers Bureau.  More ...

Owen, Videras and Willemson Publish in Social Science Quarterly

November 20, 2008
Associate Professors of Economics Ann Owen and Julio Videras and Scholar in Residence Chris Willemsen have authored an article for the Social Science Quarterly (vol. 89, December 2008). In the article "Democracy, Participation, and Life Satisfaction," Owen, Videras, and Willemsen used data on life satisfaction for individuals in 46 countries.  More ...

Jones Speaks at Copenhagen Business School

November 19, 2008
Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, gave an invited talk titled " Econometric case studies - a review of evidence from the US, China, Spain and Finland," on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at Copenhagen Business School.  More ...

Oldfield Publishes Book

November 19, 2008
Anna Oldfield, visiting assistant professor of comparative literature and postdoctoral fellow in Asian Studies, recently published a book titled Azerbaijani Women Poet-Minstrels: Women Ashiqs from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.  More ...

Nathan Goodale Presents to MASA

November 19, 2008
Nathan Goodale, visiting instructor of anthropology, presented the keynote address at the 8th Annual Montana Anthropological Student Association Banquet on Nov. 15 at the University of Montana. The talk, "Cultural Transmission and the Production of Material Goods: Evolutionary Process through Morphometric Measures of Notched Points," focused on one of Goodale's current research projects that involves contributions from Hamilton students Lara Cueni '08, Lisa Fontes '09 and Matthew Eichenfield '09.  More ...

Nieves Presents Paper at African Studies Association Meeting

November 18, 2008
Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana Studies, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association held Nov. 13-16 in Chicago. The paper, titled "Sites of Memory and Narration on the World Wide Web: Building the Soweto '76 Digital Archive," focused on the development of a digital archive, Soweto '76, in collaboration with the Hector Pieterson Memorial & Museum (HPMM) in Johannesburg, South Africa.  More ...

Plate Participates in American Academy of Religion Meeting Panels

November 17, 2008
Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez Plate participated in several events at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting held Nov. 1-3 in Chicago. Plate organized and presided over one panel, "Re-enchantment and Re-connection: On the Relation of Religion and Contemporary Art," and was a panelist for another session on "Religion and Media."  More ...

Fallen Giants Chosen as Amazon "Editors' Pick"

November 17, 2008
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman, has been included on Amazon.com as one of the "Editors' Picks" top 10 outdoors and nature books for 2008.

Werner Presents at Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace

November 17, 2008
Rick Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, presented a paper, "The Right to Hope and the Ethics of Belief," at the 21st Annual Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace at SUNY Cortland, Oct. 30-Nov. 2.  More ...

Jones Publishes in Corporate Ownership & Control

November 14, 2008
Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, with Evis Sinani and Niels Mygind, has published an article in Corporate Ownership & Control (Volume 5, Issue 3, 2008). "Determinants of Firm-level Technical Efficiency: Evidence Using a Stochastic Frontier Approach" investigates the determinants and dynamics of firm efficiency using a representative sample of Estonian firms for the period 1993-1999.  More ...

Williams '54 Publishes Articles in Theosopical Encyclopedia

November 14, 2008
Jay G. Williams '54, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, has published five articles included in the Theosophical Encyclopedia. Although published in the Philippines in 2006, the volume has only recently been available in the United States. The encyclopedia entries written by Williams deal with Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism. Theravade Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism and Judaism. Some of the articles were expanded by an editor to include more information about Theosophy.

Fallen Giants Receives Banff Mountain Book Festival Award

November 13, 2008
The Banff Mountain Book Festival awarded Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes the 2008 Best Book — Mountaineering History award. The book, written by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, has also received an award for history/biography from the National Outdoor Book Awards and was reviewed by The Sunday Times (London) on Nov. 9.  More ...

Franklin Presents at The 16th Annual Meeting of The Alain Locke Society

November 13, 2008
A. Todd Franklin, associate professor of philosophy, presented a paper at this year's meeting of the Alain Locke Society held Nov. 7-8 at George Washington University. The paper, titled "Unlikely Allies: Nietzsche, Locke and the Counter-Hegemonic Force of Critical Consciousness," focused on the ways in which both philosophers function as Cultural Physicians. 
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Boutin Gives Invited Address

November 13, 2008
Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave an invited address at Discrete Mathematics Day at Bard College on Nov 8. In her talk, Boutin surveyed recent results about the determining set - a small set of nodes that captures all the symmetries of a network. Along with recent findings in various families of networks, Boutin highlighted work showing when minimal determining sets have minimum size, and gave new uses for determining sets in solving other network problems.

Haley Presents Plenary Address at International Conference

November 11, 2008
Professor of Classics Shelley Haley recently returned from a conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The AfroAsiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, where she gave a plenary address. Her paper was titled, "Excavating in the Dark: Critical Race Feminism and Black Athena."  More ...

Elgren Presents Talk at Association of American Colleges and Universities Conference

November 10, 2008
Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren spoke at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) conference "Engaging Science, Advancing Learning: General Education, Majors, and the New Global Century" on Nov. 8 in Providence, RI. Elgren's talk was titled "Teaching of Research: Research as Teaching." He also served on the Planning Committee for this conference.  More ...

Kuharic Exhibits at New York Academy of Art

November 7, 2008
Ultra-Concentrated Joy - Ecstatic Drawings by Contemporary Artists, an exhibition at the New York Academy of Art, includes work by Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin Kennedy Associate Professor of Art. The show, which was curated by Catherine Howe, opens on Tuesday, Nov. 11, with a reception from 6-8 p.m., and will close on Dec. 9.

Domack Speaks on Environmental Change and Larsen Ice Shelf at Invited Lectures

November 5, 2008
Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnsn Family Professor of Geosciences, recently presented two invited lectures. He spoke at the Department of Geology at the University of Nebraska on Friday Oct. 31 as part of the regular lecture series in that department. Domack also lectured at the New York State Science Teachers Association and National Earth Science Teachers Association at the annual meeting in Rochester on Nov. 2. Both talks were on environmental change and the Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica.

Atelier Four Exhibit at Cazenovia College Gallery

November 4, 2008
The Cazenovia College Art Gallery will host an exhibit of the work of Atelier Four, Hamilton College professors Bruce Muirhead, William Salzillo and alumni Amy Georgia Buchholz and Jake Muirhead, from Thursday, Nov. 6, through Friday, Dec. 5. An artists' lecture and reception will take place on Nov. 6, from 4 to 5:30 in the Gallery.  More ...

Rabinowitz Chairs Session at Empire Without End Conference

November 4, 2008
Nancy Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, chaired a session on the "Empire of Letters" at a conference titled "Empire Without End," at Duke University Oct. 31-Nov. 1. The conference was sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, Department of Classical Studies, Program in Women's Studies and the Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms. The keynote address was delivered by Wole Soyinka.

Klinkner Quoted in Buffalo News on Election

November 4, 2008
Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, was quoted extensively in a Nov. 4 article titled "With emotions running high, America votes" in the Buffalo News.  More ...

Owen Quoted by McClatchy News Service

November 3, 2008
In "Economists say Obama, McCain can't do much to close wealth gap," published by McClatchy Newspapers on Oct. 30, Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen commented that the current financial market crisis should help make the wealth gap smaller. The article appeared in papers around the country including the Fort Worth Star Telegram, The Miami Herald and The Seattle Times.

Hewitt Study Included in New York Times

November 3, 2008
"An article of faith among conservative critics of American universities has been that liberal professors politically indoctrinate their students." So begins a Nov. 2 New York Times article, "The New Professors' Liberalism Contagious? Maybe Not," highlighting several studies that conclude professors have virtually no impact on the political views and ideology of their students. Included in the article is a study written by Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt with Mack D. Mariani, a professor at Xavier University.  More ...

Owens-Manley and Simons Present at Technology in the Liberal Arts Conference

November 3, 2008
Associate Director for Community Research Judy Owens-Manley and Janet Simons, instructional technology specialist, presented at a National Institute of Technology in the Liberal Arts (NITLE) conference at Swarthmore College, Oct 24-26. Their presentation was titled "Focus on HOPE VI: The Demise of a Neighborhood."
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Chung Receives Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant

October 29, 2008
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung was awarded a grant-in-aid for scientific research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She is currently a Social Science Research Council and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow at the department of cultural anthropology at the University of Tokyo.  More ...

Carter Presents Paper at University of Iowa

October 29, 2008
Associate Professor of Africana Studies Donald Carter presented a paper titled "Navigating Diaspora: Shipwrecks, Identity and the Nation," at the University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology, in Iowa City on Oct. 17.  More ...

Goldberg Presents Paper at Asian Studies Conference

October 29, 2008
Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a paper at the 37th Annual Conference of Mid-Atlantic Region Association of Asian Studies on Oct. 25. The title of his presentation was "The Past Ain't What It Use to Be: Trauma, Counter-Memory, and Parody in the Art of Post-Mao China."  More ...

Anechiarico '71 Co-Chairs National Watchdog Conference

October 27, 2008
Frank Anechiarico '71, Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, was the co-organizer of the New York City National Watchdog Conference with New York City Investigations Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn. Anechiarico also co-chaired the conference, which was held on Friday, Oct. 24, at Gracie Mansion. He presented at several points during the day, delivering the opening remarks and the closing remarks along with the Commissioner and Colgate University Professor of Political Science Michael Johnston.  More ...

Rohrbach Presents Paper at Rutgers

October 26, 2008
Emily Rohrbach, visiting assistant professor of English, presented a paper at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society conference at Rutgers University, Oct. 23-25. Exploring the ethical implications of Romantic subjectivity and conceptions of time, her paper, titled "Romantic Surplus," characterized the Romantic sense of time as a teeming present that produces an excess of what can potentially be known, due in part to the way that knowledge of that present rests on an imagined, dark futurity.  More ...

Kamiya Presents Paper at Mediterranean Syntax Meeting

October 24, 2008
Masaaki Kamiya, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented his latest work at Mediterranean Syntax Meeting II, held at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. Kamiya, who collaborated on the paper with Akemi Matsuya of Takachiho University, argues that the ambiguous readings of Turkish wh-word such as universal quantifier and negative polarity item can be solved once Japanese indeterminate and negation systems are assumed.  More ...

Gold Attends Classical Association of Atlantic States Meeting

October 23, 2008
Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, recently attended the annual meeting in Princeton of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, of which she is a past president. She co-presided over a session on "Celebration and Sorrow in Greek Literary Texts," in which her Hamilton colleague James Wells presented a paper. Gold also led a session on "Integrating the Blackwell Companion to Catullus into Secondary and College Classrooms," and read a speech in Latin (an ovatio) honoring a friend and colleague for his service to the Classics profession.

Williams Publishes Essay on Web Site

October 23, 2008
Jay Williams, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religion, published an essay, "What is Wrong With The Church," on the Bible and Interpretation (bibleinterp.com) Web site. It is a radical restatement of what obedience to Jesus really teaches.

Economics Students Attend Federal Reserve Presentations in New York City

October 23, 2008
Students from Economics 346 - Monetary Policy attended a seminar at the New York Federal Reserve Bank on Tuesday, Oct. 14, with Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen. Students heard presentations by Federal Reserve officials on current economic conditions, the economics of the Federal Reserve's new lending facilities, the subprime crisis and the labor market.  More ...

Plate Attends Biennial Religion and Culture Conference, Publishes Article

October 23, 2008
S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies, recently returned from the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture biennial conference, held this year at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is on the international advisory board, and has been coordinating sessions in religion and film for the past four conferences. Plate worked with religious studies and films studies scholars throughout Europe, the UK and North America to develop four full sessions on the topic.  More ...

Morgan Presents Paper at French Studies Colloquium

October 22, 2008

Hill Chairs Panel, Presents Paper at World History Conference

October 22, 2008
Christopher Hill, visiting assistant professor of history, chaired a panel on religious history at the South East World History Association Conference in Little Rockin October. He introduced and commented upon a set of papers that dealt with incorporating aspects of local culture into larger studies in Islam. At the conference, Hill also presented a paper titled, "The Letter of the Law; Undergraduate Studies in Legal History," discussing how to use elements of world history in the teaching of Western legal development.

Isserman Lectures at Universities in China

October 22, 2008
Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, presented lectures at several institutions in China including Shanghai Normal University, Suzhou University, Beijing University (Beida) and the Academy of Marxism on "The History, Development and Future of the American Left" and "American Communism and Soviet Espionage: New Evidence and New Interpretations" during October.  More ...

Edna Rodriguez Plate Publishes Article in Screen

October 21, 2008
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Edna Rodriguez Plate has just published the article, "Fictual Factions: On the Emergence of a Documentary Style in Recent Cuban Films," for the prominent film studies journal Screen, published through Oxford University Press. Screen is about to celebrate its 50th year of publication, and has been one of the key journals for making film and media studies into a vital field of academic study across the Anglo-American world. Her article appears in the Autumn 2008 issue and deals with the variety of ways "Cuba" is presented by filmmakers from within and outside Cuba. 

Aguilar Lectures at Bryant University

October 21, 2008

MacDonald Presents at Portland Museum of Art and MOMA

October 20, 2008
Scott MacDonald was a featured guest of the Cinema Project in Portland, Ore., on October 15-17. He participated in a public interview with Todd Haynes (director of Far from Heaven, I'm Not There, Safe...) at the Portland Museum of Art, focusing on Haynes' roots in avant-garde and experimental cinema; and he presented two programs of films by the men and women who established Canyon Cinema, the exhibition/distribution organization that is the focus of MacDonald's recent book, Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times. 

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Barry Facilitates Book Discussion at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

October 17, 2008
Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women's studies, facilitated a book discussion at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica on Oct. 16. Barry led a conversation on Carolyn Merchant's Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture. This event was part of the Institute's current exhibit titled "Picturing Eden," which opened on Sept. 20. The book discussion included members of the Munson- Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, and focused on Merchant's examination of the connections between the Christian narrative of the fall from the Garden of Eden, and current environmental and feminist narratives in Western Culture.

Klinkner Comments on Local History in the Observer-Dispatch

October 16, 2008
The Observer-Dispatch's special section on the history of Oneida County quoted Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, in two stories, one about the history of Sherrill and another about a U.S. vice president from Utica, on Tuesday, Oct. 14.  More ...

Owen and Jensen Publish in International Review of Economics Education

October 14, 2008
An article written by Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen and Professor of Economics Elizabeth Jensen titled "Social Learning and Course Choice" was published in volume 7, issue 1, 2008 of the International Review of Economics Education (IREE). Owen and Jensen used a broad sample of students to examine the course selection process and to find evidence of social learning from peers.  More ...

Paris Quoted in InsideHigherEd

October 14, 2008
David Paris, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Government at Hamilton, was quoted in an InsideHigherEd article, "Spreading the Gospel on Student Learning," about a meeting of researchers, foundation leaders and association presidents who are true believers in the value of assessing the quality of student learning in liberal education.  More ...

Owens-Manley and Toledano '10 Present at Conference

October 14, 2008
Levitt Center Associate Director for Community Research Judy Owens-Manley and Moises Toledano '10, a student in Owens-Manley's Seminar in Program Evaluation course, presented a poster session at the Imagining America conference in Los Angeles Oct. 2 - 4.  More ...

Elgren Serves as Facilitator at NSF Undergraduate Research Workshop

October 13, 2008
Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren served as a facilitator at the Midwest Regional Workshop on Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research held at Hope College October 10-12. The workshop was funded by the National Science Foundation and coordinated by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). Eight institutional teams, consisting of faculty members and administrators, worked with facilitators to develop action plans for implementing sustainable undergraduate research programs on their campuses.  More ...

Omori Publishes Essay on North American Scholarship in Japanese Modernism

October 8, 2008
Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori published an essay titled "North American Research in Japanese Modernism" (in Japanese: "Hokubei ni okeru Nihon modanizumu kenkyu") in Showa Literary Studies (Showa bungaku kenkyu: Number 57, 2008). Until recently, only certain types of Japanese literary texts produced under the influence of Western high modernism were considered modanizumu bungaku (modernist literature).  More ...

Hamilton Participates in 5th International Workshop on Chinese Language Teaching

October 8, 2008
Hamilton College participated in the 5th International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21st Century (TCLT5) at the University of Macau in June. It was co-sponsored by the University of Macau and Hamilton's President's Office, Dean's Office and the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department.
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Larson Publishes Two Short Stories and Essay

October 8, 2008

Associate Professor of English Doran Larson recently published two stories and an essay. "Tango" appears in the current issue of Stone Canoe and "Cha Cha" was published in the current issue of New Madrid. An essay, "The Prison Industrial Literary Complex," appears in the current issue of The Minnesota Review, and serves to introduce three essays and one story from the men in Larson's class inside Attica prison.

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Owen Quoted in Christian Science Monitor

October 8, 2008
Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was quoted in a front page story in The Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday, Oct. 8. In "Fed makes boldest move yet," an article that discussed the Federal Reserve's decision to buy short-term debt directly from the largest U.S. corporations, Owen observed that if other economic indicators were looking more positive, the Fed would not be taking such dramatic steps.  More ...

Isserman Interviewed by Observer-Dispatch

October 7, 2008
"Write on: Maurice Isserman," an interview of history professor Maurice Isserman, appeared on the Viewpoints page of the Observer-Dispatch, on Sunday, Oct. 5. On the same day, The New York Times Book Review listed Fallen Giants, Isserman's new book, co-authored with University of Rochester history professor Stewart Weaver, as an "editors' pick" of the week.
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Murtaugh Exhibits in Georgia Gallery

October 7, 2008
Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh exhibited three pieces from the Sweetest Battle and Seeing Stars series in Beautiful Losers at the Gallery RFD in Swainsboro, Ga. The gallery is a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote economic enrichment in rural communities through the arts. The show was curated by the co-founders of shotgun-review.com, Joseph del Pesco and Scott Oliver, and ran from Sept. 11 through Oct. 4.

The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation WIns Book Award

October 6, 2008
A 2006 book to which Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of Faculty Pat Reynolds contributed a chapter, has been chosen as a winner of the Florida Publishers Association 2008 Book Awards. The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation was named in the best Adult Nonfiction category. Reynolds' chapter is on the class Scaphopoda, known as the tusk shell because of its hollow, curved, conical tube shape. 
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Rodriguez Plate Publishes Book Chapters

October 5, 2008
Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez Plate has had three book chapters published in the last month. The chapters include, "From Iconoclash to Iconomash," in Re-Enchantment, James Elkins and David Morgan, eds. The Art Seminar, vol. 7 (New York: Routledge, 2008); "Filmmaking and Worldmaking: Constructing Time and Space in Ritual, Myth, and Film," in Teaching Religion and Film, Greg Watkins, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008; part of the Teaching Religious Studies Series); and "Seeing Words, Reading Images: Allegory and Interpretation in Bak and Benjamin," in Representing the Irreparable: The Shoah, The Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak, Gary Philips, Danna Nolan Fewell, Yvonne Sherwood, eds. (Boston: Pucker Art Gallery, in conjunction with Syracuse University Press, 2008).

Cryer Performs "99" at University of Illinois

October 2, 2008
Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer performed his one-man show, 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask, at the University of Illinois at Springfield on Oct. 1.  Cryer created the play with a student, Jared Johnson '02, who conducted interviews of people in New York City to arrive at the questions.

Klinkner Speaks at Lake Forest College

October 2, 2008
James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner, who earned his undergraduate degree at Lake Forest College, returned to his alma mater on Tuesday, Sept. 30, to speak at the college's Lily Reid Hold Memorial Chapel about what the presidencies of Barack Obama and John McCain would look like.

Biology Classes Explore Marine Habitats Along Connecticut, Rhode Island Shores

October 1, 2008
The Marine Biology and Invertebrate Biology classes, taught by Professors Pat Reynolds and Ashleigh Smythe, respectively, explored the diversity and ecology of marine habitats along the Connecticut and Rhode Island shores during the weekend of Sept. 27 and 28.  More ...

Bradfield Discusses Economy on NBC Affiliate WKTV

October 1, 2008

James Bradfield, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics, appeared on a news segment on NBC affiliate WKTV on Tuesday, Sept. 30, in an interview on the current state of the economy. Bradfield said that he felt certain that the college's many economics graduates could look forward to bright futures in business despite current market turbulence.

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Students and Faculty Visit New England Center for Children

September 30, 2008
A group of Hamilton students and psychology professors Jean Burr and Lynn Evans took a trip to the New England Center for Children (NECC) in Southborough, Mass. on Friday, Sept. 26, to learn more about the center's programming. NECC is a community-based residential school for children and adults with autism, behavior disorders, mental retardation and other related developmental disabilities.  More ...

Brown Exhibits at Reynolds Gallery in Virginia

September 29, 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Jacqueline Brown is one of 13 artists participating in a group exhibition titled "Almost Famous" at the Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Va. The show will be open through October 11. "Almost Famous" features select graduates from the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University.  More ...

Cannavo Op-ed Appears in Providence Journal and Syracuse Post-Standard

September 29, 2008
An opinion piece written by Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo appeared in The Providence Journal on Saturday, Sept. 27, and in the Syracuse Post-Standard on Monday, Sept. 29, titled "Palins redefine paterfamilias" and "Palins shake up gender role debate" respectively.  More ...

Rohrbach Presents Paper at Oxford

September 28, 2008
Emily Rohrbach, visiting assistant professor of English, attended the "Victorian Literature and Culture: Bodies and Things" conference on Sept. 27 at Mansfield College, Oxford University, UK. Rohrbach gave a paper titled "Byron and the Future of the Museum," which explored the "aesthetics of history" in Byron's comic epic Don Juan in relation to the early 19th century rise of the modern museum as a form of historical knowledge. In Don Juan, Byron envisions a future in which an archaeological dig would uncover the body of George IV as a historical relic for a "new museum"; the comic image, she suggested, registers the poet's aversion to the politics of the burgeoning museum culture.  More ...

Domack Gives Invited Lecture at Ottawa's Logan Club

September 26, 2008
Eugene Domack, the J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, gave an invited talk at the Geological Survey of Canada for the Logan Club on Sept. 25, in Ottawa. His talk was titled "Environmental Change and the Larsen Ice Shelf." The Geological Survey of Canada was founded in 1842 by Sir William Logan. The Logan Club was founded in 1887 as a forum for the GSC staff to discuss earth science topics.

Isserman's Fallen Giants Reviewed by New York Times

September 26, 2008
Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, received a stream of accolades in a review that appears in the Friday, Sept. 26, edition of the International Herald Tribune and the Sunday, Sept. 28, issue of The New York Times Book Review. "Fallen Giants is the book of a lifetime for its authors, an awe-inspiring work of history and storytelling," wrote the reviewer.  More ...

Kuharic Lectures at Clark University

September 25, 2008
Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin Kennedy Associate Professor of Art, was a visiting art lecturer on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Kuharic discussed the evolution and direction of her work.

Hamilton Hosts N.Y. Conference on Asian Studies

September 24, 2008
On Friday, Sept. 26, and Saturday, Sept. 27, Hamilton will host the 2008 New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS). The conference will present panels, roundtable discussions, exhibitions, keynote address and a film screening on the theme, "Cultural Connections, Convergences, and Collisions: Past and Present." Registration is complimentary for interested Hamilton, Colgate, Utica College, and SUNY IT students and faculty.  More ...

Wilson Presents at International Symposium

September 24, 2008
Professor of History Thomas Wilson presented a paper titled, "'Sacrifice as living: Confucian Conceptions of Life and Death in Rites to Ancestors" at the International Symposium on Sacrifice: Between Life and Death at the Katholische Akademie in Weingarten, Germany. Fifteen scholars from Europe, Asia and the United States were invited to attend the conference organized by the Hermann and Marianne Straniak Foundation of Switzerland on Sept. 15.  More ...

Bradfield Discusses Economy in Observer-Dispatch Op-ed

September 23, 2008
An opinion piece written by James Bradfield, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics, appeared in the Sunday, Sept. 21, issue of the Utica Observer-Dispatch. In "Turbulence and the U.S. Economy," Bradfield explained that "In a free enterprise system, we probably cannot prevent all turbulence. Even if we could do so, the cost would almost certainly be foregoing the growth (with turbulence) of the economy that we have enjoyed since the founding of the republic."  More ...

Guttman and Krueger Present at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery

September 17, 2008
Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman and Burgess Professor of French Roberta L. Krueger presented a paper at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, from September 12-14. The theme for 2008 was "Vegetables," and their paper, "Utica Greens: Central New York's Italian-American Specialty," covered the cultural history of this local dish. Using cookbook research and interviews with home cooks and restaurant chefs, the paper examines the origins of what is now an almost obligatory item on local menus.  More ...

Goodale Publishes in Edited Volume

September 17, 2008
Nathan Goodale, visiting instructor of anthropology, published his paper titled "Lithic Core Reduction Techniques: Modeling Expected Diversity," with co-authors Ian Kuijt (University of Notre Dame), Shane Macfarlan (Washington State University), Curtis Osterhoudt (Los Alamos National Laboratory), and Bill Finlayson (Council for British Research in the Levant). The paper is published in a volume edited by William Andrefsky Jr. titled Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation.  More ...

Woods Receives ASCAP Award

September 16, 2008
Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods has been awarded funding from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for 2008-09. Woods received the award in the jazz and popular music division.

Murtaugh Exhibits "Seduction" at 1708 Gallery in Virginia

September 16, 2008
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Jaksch Presents Paper at Conference in India

September 16, 2008
Marla Jaksch, visiting assistant professor of women's studies, presented a paper at the "(In)Equality, Inclusion, & Human Development" conference in New Delhi, India. The conference, co-sponsored by the Human Development & Capability Association and the Institute for Human Development, brought together international scholars, activists, and policy makers to meet, explore, and strategize on the relationships between inequality, exclusion, and human development.  More ...

Chang Presents at NSF CCLI Conference

September 15, 2008
To promote informatics literacy, Hamilton was awarded with a NSF Class Curriculum & Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant to establish and to improve its bioinformatics curriculum. Assistant Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang presented Hamilton's
five years outcome and achievements at the conference, which was sponsored by AAAS and NSF. He joined other grant awardees from more than 200 U.S, colleges and shared the experience of teaching bioinformatics at small liberal arts institutions. The conference was held in August in Washington, D.C.

Isserman Offers Booksigning and Talk on Himalayan Mountaineering

September 15, 2008
Maurice Isserman, Hamilton College's James L. Ferguson Professor of History, will discuss Fallen Giants - A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 4:15 p.m. at the Glen House on Hamilton's campus. Isserman, who co-authored the book, will also sign copies. Published by Yale University Press last month, the book has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.  More ...

Boutin Gives Talk at Denmark Conference

September 11, 2008
Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented a talk titled "The Cost of 2-Distinguishing" at a graph theory conference at Sandbjerg Manor, Denmark. In her talk, Boutin described a set of vertices that can be used to disrupt all symmetries in a network and presented her results on how small these sets of vertices can be in some well-known network families.

Klinkner Analysis Appears on Huffington Post

September 10, 2008
"Media Myths: Palin and Women," an analysis of voter preferences and how they may have changed with the introduction of Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate, appeared on Huffingtonpost.com on Sept. 10. In writing the piece, Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, analyzed Gallup tracking poll numbers before and after the Palin announcement that revealed that McCain's surge came equally from men and women.  More ...

Marcus Leads AAPT Conference Workshop; Publishes Article in Facta Philosophica

September 8, 2008
Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy, led a  workshop at the 17th annual International Workshop/Conference on Teaching Philosophy, run by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT). The workshop was titled "Adjudicating the Objections and Replies: A Cooperative Lesson Using the Objections and Replies to Descartes's Meditations." Also, his article, "Structuralism, Indispensability and the Access Problem," was published in August in the Swiss journal Facta Philosophica.  More ...

Murtaugh Presents Lecture at Virginia Commonwealth

September 8, 2008
Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh presented a visiting artist lecture titled "Play" at Virginia Commonwealth University on Sept. 4. She discussed her artworks conceived and exhibited over the past seven years, including the new series "The Sweetest Battle." In her work, she used diverse formats and media to create works that are both intellectually and visually seductive, such as using Post-it Notes to transcend the use of everyday objects.  While at VCU she also visited with graduate students in the Craft and Material Studies Department, who sponsored the lecture.

Muirhead and Salzillo Exhibit at Delavan Gallery

September 6, 2008
"Five Years at Delavan," opens on Thursday, Sept. 11, at the Delevan Art Gallery featuring prints by the Atelier Four, a group which includes alumna Amy Georgia Buchholz '80, Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead, alumnus Jake Muirhead '86 and Professor of Art William Salzillo. A reception will be held on Thursday, Sept. 11, from 5 to 8 p.m. The gallery is located at 501 W. Fayette Street, Syracuse. The exhibition is open through Oct. 25.  More ...

Calvert-Minor Publishes Paper in the Journal Philosophia

September 4, 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Chris Calvert-Minor has published a paper, "Commonsense Realism and Triangulation," in the journal Philosophia. Calvert-Minor takes a pragmatist line of thought to defend commonsense realism. He supports the position through an interpretation and application of Donald Davidson's notion of triangulation, the triangle composed of two communicators coordinating and correcting their responses with a shared causal stimulus.

Domack Presents Keynote Lecture at 33rd Annual International Geological Congress

September 4, 2008
Eugene Domack, the J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, gave an invited keynote talk at the 33rd Annual International Geological Congress meeting in Oslo, Norway, in August. His talk was titled "Chronologic Constraints on Deglaciation of the Antarctic Continental Shelf, A Review of Radiocarbon Methods and Applications." For nine days 6,000 scientists from 113 countries took part in lively discussions within almost every conceivable aspect of geology. The abstract text of Domack's talk follows.
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Walker '62 Op-ed Appears in The Boston Globe

September 3, 2008
Edward S. Walker, Jr., '62, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates and Hamilton's Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, co-wrote an opinion piece in The Boston Globe on Tuesday, Sept. 2, titled "A US role in Syrian-Israeli peace."  More ...

Kantrowitz Lectures in Denmark

September 3, 2008
Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 was a speaker at the Conference on Banach Algebras and Local Spectral Theory held in August at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. Kantrowitz's talk, titled "Approximation by Operators that Preserve Disjointness," centered around bounded linear operators on Banach algebras of continuous functions, and the extent to which they are approximable by weighted composition operators.

Smythe Conducts Field Research in Panama

September 2, 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Ashleigh Smythe spent 10 days in August at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Bocas del Toro field station on the Caribbean coast of Panama. She collected tiny marine worms called nematodes, which are the focus of her research. Nematodes are found in all types of sediment, terrestrial and aquatic. 
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