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Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, recently attended the annual meeting in Princeton of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, of which she is a past president. She co-presided over a session on "Celebration and Sorrow in Greek Literary Texts," in which her Hamilton colleague James Wells presented a paper. Gold also led a session on "Integrating the Blackwell Companion to Catullus into Secondary and College Classrooms," and read a speech in Latin (an ovatio) honoring a friend and colleague for his service to the Classics profession.

S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies, recently returned from the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture biennial conference, held this year at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is on the international advisory board, and has been coordinating sessions in religion and film for the past four conferences. Plate worked with religious studies and films studies scholars throughout Europe, the UK and North America to develop four full sessions on the topic.

Cheryl Morgan, associate professor of French, delivered a talk at the 34th annual 19th century French Studies Colloquium held Oct. 16-18 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Morgan was one of three presenters on the panel, "Bringing the Exotic Back Home: Women Re-write the Other." Her paper "Tragic Muse? Delphine Gay de Girardin Re-writes Judith and Cleopatra" examines the ways in which this quintessential Parisian woman used these stories of foreign, passionate and murderous women. The paper examines the stakes in play when Girardin turned to tragedy within the context of French Romantic exoticism and "egyptomania."   

Five Hamilton students working on Oneida Lake research with Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, attended the 2008 Oneida Lake Watershed Conference on Oct. 21 at the Lake Shore Yacht and Country Club in Cicero. The students included Sander Doucette '09, Megan Fung '10, Mike Hannan '09, Julia Houlden '09 and Allie Mandel '09. Domack, who is on the Watershed Advisory Council Board of Directors, spoke at the conference on Natural Variability and Recent Trends in Sediment Transport in Eastern Oneida Lake

Naomi Norman, director of the University of Georgia excavations at Carthage and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology, will present the Classics Department's Winslow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium (Science Center G027). Her talk, Dead Men Do Tell Tales, The Yasmina Cemetery at Carthage (Tunisia), is free and open to the public.

Delia Aguilar, the Jane Watson Irwin Chair and visiting associate professor of women's studies, gave a guest lecture at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I.  on Oct. 16.  Her lecture, "Revisiting Feminism: Who's Afraid of the F word," was part of the school's women's studies speaker series.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Edna Rodriguez Plate has just published the article, "Fictual Factions: On the Emergence of a Documentary Style in Recent Cuban Films," for the prominent film studies journal Screen, published through Oxford University Press. Screen is about to celebrate its 50th year of publication, and has been one of the key journals for making film and media studies into a vital field of academic study across the Anglo-American world. Her article appears in the Autumn 2008 issue and deals with the variety of ways "Cuba" is presented by filmmakers from within and outside Cuba. 

The Levitt Center will present a faculty panel, The Financial Crisis, on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center G027. Panelists will include Erol Balkan, economics; James Bradfield, economics; Alan Cafruny, government; and Ann Owen, economics.  Director of the Levitt Center Jeff Pliskin, economics, will serve as moderator.  The discussion will be streamed live on the Web and the event is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College English Department Fall Reading series will welcome poets Philip Memmer and Georgia Popoff, on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.

Catherine Murphy, an observation painter and faculty member at Yale University, will lecture at Hamilton on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 4:15 p.m in the Kirner-Johnson Building, room 125. It is free and open to the public.