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Zhuoyi Wang, assistant professor of Chinese, recently presented a talk at the Asian Cultural Forum, held at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China.

Christopher Russell, visiting assistant professor of art, is exhibiting work in a group show at Kinkead Contemporary in Los Angeles that was reviewed in The Los Angeles Times (8/13/10). Taking its cues from the game commonly called “Telephone” or “Stille Post,” this exhibition asked each curator to choose an artist who then chose a curator who chose an artist in succession until seven artists and seven curators were selected.

Adirondack Adventure (AA), Hamilton's eight-day outdoor program for incoming students, and its sister program Urban Service Experience (USE), will welcome members of the class of 2014 on Aug. 13 for pre-orientation.

A group of Hamilton students, alumni and Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer are taking their show on the road as they prepare to perform Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, by August Wilson, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Aug. 11-22. The cast performed Ma Rainey for Hamilton’s annual Martin Luther King Day celebration in January. Follow the group's trip and performances at their blog.

Professor of English Doran Larson's essay, "Toward a Prison Poetics," appears in the current edition of College Literature (Summer, 2010). The essay is based on Larson's research in global prison writing; it proposes that prison writing presents a genre united not only by comparable contexts and author experience, but by recurrent formal tropes.

The Utica Observer-Dispatch recalled the friendship between the Rev. Samuel Kirkland, founder of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy, and Skenandoa, chief of the Oneida Indians, in an editorial titled “We must not forget our first allies” (8/6/10). This day marks the 233rd anniversary of the Battle of Oriskany, one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson published an essay “Writing Behind the Wall” in The Chronicle of Higher Education (8/1/10). The piece details Larson’s experiences in teaching creative writing at a maximum security prison and the related class he teaches at Hamilton, “20th Century American Prison Writing.”

De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese, was invited to give a plenary speech at the 2010 International Conference on Chinese Education held at Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China, in July. The title of his talk was "Classics Reading and the Development of One's Power of Expression."

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold and Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino traveled to Tunisia (North Africa) in July where they visited an NEH seminar on "Augustine and Perpetua: Autobiography in its Roman Context."

Megan Brousseau '08 recently received Teach for America's Sue Lehmann award for excellence in teaching high school science. Brousseau teaches 9th grade biology at the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics in New York City.