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With this issue of Around the Hill, we're launching a new feature that each month will spotlight a different department on the Hamilton campus. We're kicking it off with a visit to Philip Spencer House and the business office.

Hamilton College will commemorate Black History Month by celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk with lectures by two scholars. Thadious Davis, the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University will give a lecture, “Raced Space and the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois’s New World Social Geography,” on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Adolph Reed, author and professor of political science at the New School for Social Research, will discuss, “W. E. B. Du Bois and the *Souls of Black Folk* 100 Years Later: Race and Politics in Post-Jim Crow America,” on Monday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Poet Philip Memmer will read from his work on Friday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton College, as a guest in The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture “Masculinities” series. The reading is free and open to the public.

Baby Boy, directed by John Singleton will be the next film shown in The Kirkland Project “Masculinities” series, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 109 (Red Pit). Screenings are free and open to the public.

The Presidential Lecture Series for Endowed Chairs presented a lecture by Professor Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs titled, "Vassals, Tributaries and Barbarians: The American Empire in the 21st Century," on Feb. 6.

The Hamilton College Department of Classics will welcome The Curio Theatre Company for a presentation of The Iliad, on Thursday, Feb. 6, at 4 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel. This event is open to the public, free of charge. Refreshments will be served.

Poet Mark Doty will present a lecture and reading at Hamilton College as the Kirkland Project 2003 artist-in-residence. Doty will give a lecture on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in Kirner-Johnson 109 (the Red Pit), and he will read from his poetry and prose on Friday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activities Village.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin presented a paper on "Empirical Evidence on Processing and Learning Strategies in Multimedia Chinese Reading Tasks" at the Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy at the University of Chicago, October 11-13. She also gave two lectures to graduate students at the Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, in November: "Chinese Character Processing Strategies in Multimedia Word Recognition Tasks," and "Acquisition Process of Children with Language Disorders.”

Volunteers from the Hamilton College community visited 12 sites on Saturday, Jan. 25, for the 5th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Service Project. Individual students, staff, and student organizations participated in the day-long projects at non-profit organizations around Utica. More than 200 people participated. All of the sites this year were in Utica (Children's Museum, Hope House, Emmaus House, Thea Bowman House, Salvation Army, the Cosmo Center, Elder Life, the Loretto Center, Martin Luther Homes, JCTOD, Boys and Girls Club, United Cerebral Palsy, and a tutorial on campus for around 50 students from Donovan Middle and Proctor High School).

The Hamilton College Alumni Council has established an award that will honor a College employee. The Distinguished Service Award will "recognize an employee who has substantially contributed to Hamilton through distinguished performance in his or her position and through involvement in student, alumni or other activities in the College community." Active employees in all departments will be eligible for the award. Employees can be nominated for the award by The Alumni Council's Nominations Committee.