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Associate Professor of Art Steve Goldberg was both chair and presenter at a plenary session titled "The Future of Asian Studies" at the annual meeting of the ASIANetwork. A consortium of over 150 liberal arts colleges, ASIANetwork is committed to strengthening the study of Asia on its campuses. Goldberg is also a member of the ASIANetwork board of directors.

This week over 40 students took the opportunity to listen to a filmmaker, a sculptor, and a painter describe how they navigated various channels of the art world and built successful careers. "Careers in Visual Arts," organized by the career center, received such a positive response from students as well as from alumni that it may be repeated in the near future.

Associate Professor of Economics Chris Georges published an article titled "An Efficiency Wage Model With Persistent Cycles" in Economics Bulletin, Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-6.

Steve Goldberg, associate professor of art and department chair, directed a National Endowment for the Humanities workshop titled “Representing Excellence: The Authoritative in South and East Asian Art and Literature” at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., April 11-14. He also presented "Art and Articulation: The Embodiment of Excellence and Authority in Asian Cultures" and "Images as Metaphors of Authority in Social Context: India and China" on April 11 and 12 respectively.

How much the Enron's collapse has affected our collective psyche was evident in the turnout for this week's presentation by Fortune Magazine's senior editor Joe Nocera titled "The Enron Collapse and Why It Could Be Good For Us." Speaking to a capacity crowd in the college's chapel, Nocera related the story of how Fortune Magazine's Bethany McLean first saw through the Enron financials, wrote an article in March 2001 exposing the company's grave weaknesses and held firm with Enron executives when they met with her prior to the publication of Fortune's "Is Enron Overpriced?"

Art History Professor Steve Goldberg discussed Chinese political scientists and historians as a member of a panel addressing "Chinese Historians in the United States: Dilemmas of Reform in 21st Century China.” The panel was held in April at the 2002 annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Washington, D.C.

A collection of 62 paintings by well-known American artists, most of which have rarely, if ever, been seen in public, opened on April 19 at the Emerson Gallery. As part of the anniversary celebration, former Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas Hoving delivered a keynote address at Hamilton College on Saturday, April 27, at 3 p.m.

If attendance is an indicator, the search for answers to everyday ethical problems is of high interest on campus. The KJ auditorium was at capacity for Tuesday’s presentation, “Virtue and Advice: A Roundtable Discussion of Everyday Ethical Problems.”

Robert Palusky, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Art, is one of several artists whose work is featured in a show titled "Exploring the Human Spirit in Glass" at the Habatat Galleries in Boca Raton, Fla. The show opens on Thursday, April 4, and closes on Tuesday, May 14.

Professor of Art Rand Carter will be honored by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) at a special reception this month at the society’s annual meeting in Richmond, Va. Preceding this meeting, Carter will attend the International Friends of Schinkel (FOS) meeting, also in Richmond. He is one of two founding members of FOS, an organization dedicated to the study of the 19th century neo-classicist designer, architect, and urbanist. Carter represented the FOS and gave the opening and closing addresses at an international congress at the faculty of architecture of the Universidad Pedro Enriquez de Urena in the Dominican Republic in November. He will speak at a FOS conference co-sponsored by the faculty of architecture of the University of Catania in Siracusa, Sicily, in June.