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The Hamilton Antarctica 2001 Expedition passed through the Straits of Magellan and turned south along the east coast of Tierra del Fuego. Tierra del Fuego, "Land of Fire" was named for the many campfires seen by Magellan during his explorations between 1519 and 1522.

Government Professor Cheng Li gave a speech at the Naval Anaylsis Center in Washington, D.C. on Chinese leadership sucession on Dec. 3. More than 100 officials from various U.S. government agencies, as well as academics, attended the talk titled, "Poised to Take the Helm: Rising Stars and the Transistion to the Fourth Generation."

Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, presented a paper at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in December. The paper, "The Concept of Democracy among Tibetans in Exile," was part of a panel on "Cultural Representations East and West." The paper is based on research Frechette conducted among Tibetans in India in 1994 and Nepal in 1995.

Douglas Raybeck, professor of anthropology, presented a paper at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in December. The paper is titled, "Reclaiming the Whole: Systems Theory, Levels of Analysis and Process."

Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay Williams published an article, "The Sheng Ren and the Nabi," in the November 2001 edition of The Theosophist(India). This was originally given as a paper at the New York State Asian Studies Association.

Assistant Professor of History Kevin Grant presented a paper, "The Imperial Origins of International Labour Law," at the North American Conference on British Studies, in Toronto, November, 2001.

Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major published two articles in the Nov. 17 issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity. The articles are titled, "On the Universality of the Entropy-Area Relation," and "Gravitational Statistical Mechanics: A model." Major's co-author was Kevin Setter who did research as a summer science student at Hamilton and is currently a senior at Swarthmore College.

Karen Pogonowski '02 will present her research, "Welfare Reform, the Working Poor and Planning for the Future in Oneida County," on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 4:15 p.m in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium.

Radical abolitionist John Brown comes alive again on Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. A prophet for racial justice, and organizer of the 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, which led to his execution and fed the fires of rising tension between the North and South, John Brown is resurrected by the veteran actor, Norman Thomas Marshall. Marshall does a one-man performance, “Trumpet of Freedom: The Saga of John Brown.”

Jay Vest, visiting associate professor of religious studies, authored "Dawn Bringer and the Christ Bearer: Mythography and the Columbian Impact upon Native America" in Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam, edited by V. Patea and M. Eugenia Díaz (University of Salamanca Press, 2001: 53-64).