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Visiting Instructor of Religious Studies Scott Seay presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Nov. 16-20. His paper was titled "Rapists and Arsonists: Racial Stereotypes and Capital Crime in Colonial New England." It explored how eighteenth-century New England ministers reflected and reinforced popular stereotypes of race and crime in sermons that were delivered immediately prior to public executions.

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Rabinowitz presented a paper at the 13th Annual Barnard Feminist Art History Conference, held Nov. 10-11. She participated in the panel, Representing Classical Women, with a paper titled "Doing Gender with Clothes on Fifth Century Vase Painting."

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin participated in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual convention in November. She chaired a panel on psycholinguistic approaches to course design, presentation and engagement. Her paper was titled "Evidence of Interlanguage Studies and Target Structure Selection."

Original compositions by 13 students in MUS 277, Music for Contemporary Media, at Hamilton College can be heard on-line at http://academics.hamilton.edu/music/spellman/studio/archives The students are members of a class taught by Professor of Music Samuel Pellman, who also serves as director of the Studio for Contemporary Music. The class provides experience with the aesthetics and techniques of the modern recording studio, including the use of sound synthesizers, digital samplers and MIDI. These compositions are encoded as Standard MIDI Files and can be played on any PC that has a sound card or any Mac that has the Quicktime Musical Instruments installed (in the System Folder).

"Biological Weapons - a terror that will not go away" will be the theme of Think Tank on Friday, Nov. 16 at noon in KJ 222. Biology Professor Jinnie Garrett and students enrolled in Bio448: Seminar in Molecular Genetics, will discuss the potential for the development and use of genetically modified organisms as new agents of bioterrorism.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present several music concerts in November at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The annual Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society concert will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 8 p.m. and the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble rounds out the month on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 9 p.m.

Madeleine Albright, secretary of state under former President Bill Clinton, gave a free public lecture at Hamilton College on Wednesday, March 6th in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Her visit was part of the Sacerdote Series Great Names at Hamilton, named in recognition of a significant gift from the family of Alex Sacerdote, a 1994 Hamilton graduate.

Mark Hertsgaard, journalist, author, broadcaster and activist, will visit Hamilton College for a lecture on Monday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson building. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Carole Bellini-Sharp, professor of theatre, and Deborah Pokinski, associate professor of art, will discuss "Body Sites: The Body in the Arts," on Thursday, Nov. 15, at noon in the KJ Aud. for the Kirkland Project Brown Bag series. They will address "the body" in art by presenting some of the ways in which the body has served and continues to serve as subject, site, and/or instrument in art. Deborah will cover the "still" and Carole the "moving." Brown Bag gatherings are informal. Please bring your lunch and join us for discussion. For more information, please call the Kirkland Project office at x-4288.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold recently published an article in the Greek newspaper "Kathimerini." The daily paper devoted an entire issue to the importance of classical studies, with articles by experts in the field from all over the world. Gold, with two colleagues from the University of Georgia, wrote the article on "Feminist Studies and Classical Philology."