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China’s new leadership, according to China watcher David Shambaugh, is the right leadership to address China’s current problems.  Shambaugh gave a lecture, “China’s Communist Party: Survival or Collapse?” to a large crowd in the Dwight Lounge of Bristol Campus Center as this year’s Edwin B. Lee Lecturer in Asian Studies.  His lecture informed the Hamilton audience of the current challenges faced by China’s Communist Party (CCP). 

Director of Library Information Systems Ken Herold has published a paper, "An Information Continuum Conjecture," in the current issue of Minds and Machines. This work speculates on the connections between the earliest advent of the collaborative computing environment in the 1940s and theories of information systems and services within the nascent library and information sciences. Herold's history-of-ideas contribution appears in a special issue of the journal dedicated to the philosophy of information.

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, gave a lecture titled "Education, Art, and Politics: American Influence on China’s Peaceful Evolution," as one of the activities during Hamilton's presidential inauguration. Li's lecture was also part of the Faculty Lecture Series sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Mark Masterson has published a review of a collection of essays, The Sleep of Reason (Chicago 2002), in the current issue of the American Journal of Philology. This collection surveys the interface between sexuality and philosophy in the ancient world. Masterson was chosen to review this book because a major focus of his research agenda is sex and gender in the ancient world.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano presented two papers at interdisciplinary conferences. At the Western Humanities Alliance conference held at the University of Utah, Luciano presented "Voicing Removal: Mourning (as) History in Hope Leslie" on October 18. At the American Studies Association convention in Hartford, Conn., she presented another paper, "Desiring-Time: Feminist Utopian Fiction and the Difference a Queer Narrator Makes." Luciano also presented  "Voicing Removal: Mourning (as) History in Hope Leslie" at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers convention in Fort Worth in September.

Advances in computer technology lie at the interface of biology and computational technology: bioinformatics, an approach that has revolutionized the way we study biology. To enhance "Bioinformatic Technology in Biology Education," Hamilton has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to establish the Biology Computing Facility.  This $256,586 project will be housed in Phase I of Hamilton’s New Science Center, (expected to be completed in the Spring ’04.)  The collaborative effort by biology Professors Ken Bart, Steve Festin, Jinnie Garrett, Herm Lehman and Patrick Reynolds will infuse bioinformatics technology into the biology curriculum.

Michael Leff, professor of communication at the University of Memphis, will give a lecture at Hamilton College, "Out of the Cave: Isocrates, Tradition, and Humanistic Rhetoric," on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 4:15-5:15 p.m. in the Physics Auditorium of the Science building. His talk is sponsored by the department of rhetoric and communication and is free and open to the public.

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, will give a lecture, "Education, Art and Politics: American Influence on China's Peaceful Evolution," on Friday, Oct. 17 at 4 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium. Li's talk is part of the activities planned for Hamilton's presidential inauguration and is the second lecture in the 2003-04 Faculty Lecture Series sponsored by The Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.  

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government, is scheduled to participate in a live World Today BBC program on Sunday, Oct. 12, starting at 6:30 p.m. Li will discuss the prospect of Chinese democracy. Check your local NPR station for times or click on <A class="" href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/world_today_vote.shtml?configfile=vote2.xml> BBC World Service </a> to listen via the Web.

Dallas Burtraw, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, gave a lecture, "Applying science and economics to the study of air pollution in the Adirondacks," on October 8 at Hamilton College. The lecture was part of the Levitt Public Affairs Center series, "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility."