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The lecture by author Lorene Cary scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 13 has been cancelled.

Hamilton Performing Arts opens its season with a Classical Connections Concert featuring the Cavani String Quartet on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall. Winners of the 1989 Naumburg Award, the Cavanis are a delight to hear. This program will feature Bartok, Debussy and Schubert. Join the Cavani Quartet after the performance for an informal "Meet the Artist" in Cafe Opus, moderated by Hamilton orchestra conductor, Heather Buchman. Tickets are $10/fac. & staff and $5 students. To reserve tickets, call the box office at 859-4331.

The talk by Paula Rothenberg, director of the New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching, scheduled for today, Sept. 11, has been postponed.

Performance Artist Kate Bornstein will present "On Men, Women and the Rest of Us," on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 8 p.m., in Minor Theatre. Her appearance is sponsored by The Kirkland Project as part of its 2001-02 programming, "The Body in Question."

The department of German and Russian will sponsor a lecture, in English, by the young dramatist, translator and novelist John von Düffel on Monday, Sept. 10 at 4 p.m. in the Browsing Room, second floor of Christian Johnson Hall. Mr. Düffel's newest work, Ego, is set to appear this month.

The Kirkland Project 2001-02 series, The Body in Question, kicks off today with a Hamilton faculty panel discussion, "What the Body Knows," with moderator Chandra Mohanty, and panelists Carole Bellini-Sharp, Katheryn Doran, Sue Ann Miller, Susan Sanchez Casal, and Thomas Wilson. Today at 4 p.m. in the Emerson Gallery, followed by a reception.

Heidi M. Ravven, an associate professor in the Religious Studies department at Hamilton College, has been promoted to full professor.

Sociology Professor Mitchell Stevens, author of the new book, Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement,will be a guest on KUER radio (Salt Lake City) on Wednesday, Sept. 5, at noon. KUER is a public radio station operated by the University of Utah.The interview can be heard via KUER's Web site, www.kuer.org/listenlive.

The ACCESS Project at Hamilton College has received a $40,000 FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education) grant from the federal Department of Education, Office of Post-Secondary Education. The grant will be used for assessment and evaluation. Hamilton will participate with a network of 11 other colleges to design curriculum and develop strategies to teach the low-income parents who comprise the ACCESS Project.

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