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Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context

Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context

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(October 2008)
Professors of Government Carol Drogus and Stephen Orvis have written a textbook, Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context, that has been published by CQ Press. More ...

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
(February 2008)
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, has published a new book titled Greek Tragedy (Wiley and Blackwell). More ...

Sinographies: Writing China

Sinographies: Writing China

by Steven Yao
(January 2008)
Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives Steven Yao, has co-edited a volume of essays titled Sinographies: Writing China, published by the University of Minnesota Press. The volume includes an essay by Yao titled "Transplantation and Modernity: The Chinese/American Poems of Angel Island." It discusses the poetry inscribed upon the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station Detention building in San Francisco Bay, the site of entry for the vast majority of the 175,000 Chinese immigrants to the U.S. between 1910 and 1940. The book was co-edited with Eric Hayot, associate professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University and Haun Saussy, Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. More ...

Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality

Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality

by Martha Mockus
(November 2007)
Martha Mockus, the Jane Watson Irwin Chair and visiting assistant professor of women’s studies, has published a book, Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality (Routledge, Nov. 2007). This book theorizes the notion of “lesbian musicality” in the musical career of avant-garde composer, accordionist and author Pauline Oliveros, whose radical innovations of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s have redefined the aesthetic and formal parameters of American experimental music. More ...

Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather

Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather

by Joseph Urgo
(October 2007)
Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo and Merrill Maguire Skaggs are co-editors of Violence, the Arts and Willa Cather. Urgo also wrote the introduction to the book, which contains essays from the 2005 International Willa Cather Seminar of the same name. More ...

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Delegation of Hamilton Students Attend NOW New York State Convention

A delegation of Hamilton students traveled to Seneca Falls to take part in the National Organization for Women's N.Y. State Annual Convention, Nov. 7-9. Susan Stanton '09 spoke on a panel with three other young feminists from other institutions about how to mobilize young women around feminist issues.

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Kuhn Interview with Earthjustice President in Huffington Post
Senior Eric Kuhn interviewed Trip Van Noppen, president of Earthjustice, recently and wrote a summary of their conversation for The Huffington Post. Earthjustice is one of the largest non-profit public interest law firms "dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment." More ...

Peter Singer, center, with New York program students on Oct. 29.
Author, Bioethicist Peter Singer Meets With New York Program Students
Hamilton students in the New York City program met with Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, on Oct. 29. Singer is the author of One World, and The Ethics of What We Eat, two centerpiece works students in the program read this semester.