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On the eve of the 16th Party Congress, Cheng Li, professor of government at Hamilton College and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, will provide an overview of China's 4th Generation leadership at a CNA Corporation press conference held at the National Press Club from 2-4 p.m. on Nov. 7.

Following last month's visit by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani - the latest in the Sacerdote Series Great Names at Hamilton - the Alumni Programs Office circulated an e-mail to the Hamilton community asking for ideas and suggestions for future speakers.

Professor of Government and Woodrow Wilson Fellow Cheng Li gave a speech in Paris to the Centre d'Études et de Reacherches Internationales, on Oct. 28. Li spoke on the leadership changes and institutional development in the China's 16th Party Congress meeting.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold had an article, "Accipe Divitias et Vatum Maximus Esto: Money, Poetry, Mendicancy and Patronage in Martial," published in Flavian Rome: Culture, Image and Text, edited A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik (Leiden: Brill, 2003) and released Nov. 2002. She is also president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and presided over the semi-annual meeting in New Brunswick, N.J., in October.

Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major and Tomasz Konopka '02 had a paper, "Observational Limits on Quantum Geometry Effects," published in the New Journal of Physics. (4 (2002) 57)

Associate Professor in Religious Studies Richard Seager participated in a panel discussion and delivered a paper, "Teaching Asian/American/Religions in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Setting," under the auspices of the Asian North American Religions, Culture, and Society Group at the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion in Toronto.

Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan Professor of History, was interviewed about the anti-war protest held in Washington, D.C. According to Voice of America, the estimated crowd of 100,000 is believed to be the largest protest of its kind since the Vietnam War era. Isserman said, "It was a very impressive turnout, especially given that the shooting hasn't started yet. By comparison with the 1960's, it wasn't until the war was going for two or three years before you saw as many as 100,000 people turn out for a single demonstration."

Associate Professor of Art Steve Goldberg gave a lecture titled "The Tacit Dimension of Classical Chinese Thought and Traditional Chinese Painting" at the National Endowment for Humanties-sponsored public lecture series held at the University of Alabama, Huntsville on Nov. 1. He also gave a lecture titled "Remapping Identities: Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture" at Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn.

"polarities undone," a collaborative piece created by Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant with Kyle Kyrnitszke, was on exhibit at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., as part of Exit Art's exhibition "Reactions." "Reactions" has become part of the permanent collection of The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Selections from "Reactions" were shown Sept. 7 - Oct. 26 in The Library of Congress' Great Hall exhibition, "Witness and Response: September 11th Acquisitions at The Library of Congress" in Washington, D.C.

Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan Professor of History, wrote an essay on Fort Ticonderoga, "The Vagaries of Memory" which was published in A Certain Somewhere: Writers on the Places They Remember (New York: Random House, 2002). The essay originally appeared in Preservation magazine, March/April 2000.