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Assistant Professor of Classics Amy Koenig presented an invited lecture at Bryn Mawr College as part of their Classics Colloquium series on Sept. 20.

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History Shoshana Keller presented an interactive website that she created, "Mapping the Peoples of Kazakhstan," at the annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, held at Syracuse University, Sept. 13 to 15.

Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript Contexts, a new book by Professor of History John Eldevik, was recently published by Arc-Humanities Press. It examines the legend of Prester John, a powerful Christian monarch believed to have ruled a vast empire in Asia during the Middle Ages.

Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus gave the 2024 presidential address at the American Association of Philosophy Teachers biennial conference in July at Otterbein University (Ohio). His talk "Collaboration and Serious Engagement in the Philosophy Classroom" marked the second and final year of his presidency. Marcus has been an AAPT board member or committee chair since 2010, and served as vice president in 2021-22.

“More Than You Can Know,” a film by Naomi Guttman, the Jane Watson Irwin Professor in the Humanities, was recently screened at the Manhattan Film Festival Expo and the Maine International Film Festival (Waterville). Guttman also participated in a filmmaker's panel at the Hamilton New York International Film Festival, where the film was screened.

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Claire Mouflard chaired a panel and presented a paper at the Council of European Studies conference in Lyon, France, in July. The theme of the conference was "Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation, and Reaction."

An article titled "The Master's Tools?: Towards a Politics of Reception," by Associate Professor and Chair of Classics Jesse Weiner has been published as the first chapter in the new book Classical Reception: New Challenges in a Changing World.

A report from a 2022 meeting held by Associate Professor of Geosciences Catherine “Cat” Beck in Nairobi was recently published, bringing Beck closer to approval for a project exploring evolution's impact on ecosystems and environments.

Debra Boutin, the Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics Emerita, gave an invited presentation entitled "Geochromatic Number in terms of Chromatic Number" in the Graph Colouring and Homomorphism Minisymposium at the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Discrete Math Conference in Spokane, Wash.

Major national and international media outlets and leading publications turned to Hamilton College faculty, staff, and alumni for their expertise and thought leadership on a broad range of topics during the 2023-2024 academic year.