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Ian Berry, consulting director for the Emerson Gallery, will present a talk on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 3 p.m. in the gallery. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will focus on Ai Weiwei's work titled Fairytale.

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."

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.

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.

An article titled "Private colleges try to counteract economy" in USA Today addressed the various strategies colleges and universities are employing in addressing the economic struggles students and families are experiencing. Hamilton was highlighted in the Oct. 22 article as having "poured $1 million more into its financial aid endowment and last week mailed prospective students a letter promising to meet demonstrated financial need for all admitted students."

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.

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. 

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.

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.

With the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize winners, Hamilton recalls two of its own alumni Nobel laureates. Elihu Root won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912, and Paul Greengard won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2000. Alumnus Jonathan Overpeck '79 was one of 33 lead authors on the report of the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Gore.