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Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology at Harvard University, will speak about "Masculinity, Tradition, and Marginalization in European Cultures," on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 4 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 109 on the Hamilton College campus. The lecture is part of The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton College 2002-2003 series "Masculinities." This lecture is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow the talk. It is co-sponsored by the departments of Anthropology and Classics.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Veronica Tichenor was invited to give a talk at Le Centre du Recherche Sur Les Liens Sociaux at the Sorbonne in Paris in October. She presented a talk titled "Unraveling Money, Gender, and Power: Issues and Conceptualizations." She also presented a paper at the American Sociological Association's Annual Meeting in August titled "Maintaining Men's Dominance: Gender and Power Performances in Couples Where She Earns More."

Lecturer in voice Lauralyn Kolb has released a CD Just Spring: Art Songs of John Duke (New World Records) that was reviewed in Journal of Singing (Sept-Oct.). The review notes "(Kolb) brings a bright and colorful soprano voice to the proceedings, along with crystal-clear diction and rock-solid musical instincts."

Professor of Classics Shelley Haley has been chosen Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Washington University (St. Louis). She will spend the week of Nov. 2-8 on the St. Louis campus, where she will lecture and meet with students and faculty. On Monday, Nov. 4, Haley will participate in a colloquium, "Was Dido a Blond(e)?" On Wednesday, Nov. 6, Haley will give a public lecture, titled "Against All Odds: Black American Women Classicists in the Nineteenth Century." Haley will conclude her visit with a faculty seminar, "Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Classics Classroom," on Thursday, Nov. 7. Known as the Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, the initiative is designed to support the future recruitment and retention of minority faculty and students at the university and to broaden the university's visibility in the minority community nationwide.

Ten Hamilton College seniors were elected this month to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are: Schuyler Chapman, Carter Cox, Takehiko Kaminogo, Alison Lin, Andrew Magyar, Bryan Pettigrew, Shauna Sweet, Sarah Taylor, Jessie Turner and Richard Waite, V.

Poet, essayist and political activist Martin Espada will visit Hamilton College in November. He will read from his work on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn, and will give a lecture, "Poetry and Politics," on Friday, Nov. 8, at 12 noon in the Red Pit. Both events are free and open to the public. Espada's visit is sponsored by the English department, Spanish department, Office of the President, The Levitt Center and La Vanguardia.

The Kirkland Project's series on Masculinities will repeat its panel, "What Makes a Man?: Intellectual Investigations into Manhood, Masculinities and Men," at Colgate University. Kris Paap (sociology), Nancy Rabinowitz (comparative literature), Dana Luciano (English) and Marianne Janack (philosophy) will be joined by Meika Loe, a faculty member in women's studies and sociology/anthropology at Colgate, for the panel discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m., Ho Lecture Room, 105 Lawrence Hall.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, is co-author of a Harvard University report about spoiled ballots in the 2000 election. The Civil Rights Project (CRP) at Harvard University released the report, "Democracy Spoiled," by Klinkner, Christopher Edley, co-director of CRP, and Jocelyn Benson and Vesla Weaver, CRP research assistants. Their research found that whether or not a vote is counted greatly depends on where it is cast, proving that ballot spoilage is a national problem that dilutes the voice of millions of Americans. In 2000, two million people who turned out to vote were disenfranchised, according to the report.

Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley attended the Classical Association of the Atlantic States conference in New Brunswick, NJ, in October, where she introduced the luncheon speaker, Martha Southgate. Southgate is a novelist who wrote The Fall of Rome, which features as one of three protagonists a black classicist at an elite prep school in New England.

Profesor of Anthropology Bonnie Urciuoli will be the next guest in the Faculty Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson. Urciuoli's talk is titled "The Referential Complexity of the Words 'Multiculturalism' and 'Diversity.'"