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Lecturer in Voice Lauralyn Kolb was featured in the opening concert of the Utica Symphony Orchestra's 2002-2003 season. Joining the orchestra for Samuel Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," a work for soprano and orchestra, the concert also included a tribute to Richard Rogers which Kolb performed with baritone Richard White. Her latest compact disc "Just-spring: Art songs of John Duke" (New World Records) has been very favorably reviewed in the September/October issue of the Journal of Singing.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano's article, "Invalid Relations: Queer Kinship in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady," was published in the Henry James Review 23.2 (Spring 2002). Luciano also gave a paper, "Benito Cereno as Counter-Monumental Narrative," at the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature's conference in April.

Associate Professor of English and Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Edward Wheatley's essay "'Blind' Jews and Blind Christians: Metaphorics of Marginalization in Medieval Europe" appears in the Autumn 2002 issue of Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. It is the first published chapter of his cultural studies project on blindness in medieval Britain and France.

Members of the popular 1970s jazz ensemble, Soprano Summit, will reunite for a performance during Hamilton College’s Fallcoming Weekend, on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the Hamilton campus. The event is open to the public.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold gave a lecture at the Pacific Rim Latin Seminar titled "Martial and Money: Poetry, Begging and Patronage in Flavian Rome" at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand in June, 2002; she also chaired a session at the conference. At the Fall meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, of which she will serve as president for the next two meetings, she will preside over and be the facilitator for a workshop, "Editorial Workshop: Transforming an Oral Presentation into a Publishable Article" and the presidential roundtable on "Classical Studies Curricula Now and Then: Some Global and Local Perspectives." This roundtable will include classicists from South Africa, England, Ireland, New Zealand and Germany.

CAB Special Events presents "UFOs: A Hidden History,"a lecture by renowned UFO investigator Robert Hastings, on Monday, Sept. 30 at 8 p.m. in the Annex. He will attempt to prove the existence of UFOs and a vast government conspiracy to cover them up using recently unclassified documents from the CIA, FBI, U.S. Air Force, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. This lecture is funded by student assembly.

Philip A. Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, will present the season's first faculty lecture, "Is the Old Racism Really Dead? An Analysis of Anti-Miscegenation Referenda in South Carolina and Alabama," on Friday, Sept. 27 at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit at Kirner-Johnson. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series continues the Classical Connections Series with the famed chamber orchestra I Musici de Montréal playing a concert titled “Night Music,” on Saturday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall on the campus of Hamilton College.

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Vivyan Adair wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Sept. 22 edition of Newsday. "A Debate Around Morality" discusses welfare reform and the need to provide educational opportunities for welfare recipients.

The Hamilton College Kirkland Project “Masculinities” series will continue with a lecture by activist, poet and author Luis Rodriguez on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn on the Hamilton campus. The event is free and open to the public.