Six members of the Hamilton faculty were recognized for their research and creative successes with the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards, presented by Dean of Faculty Patrick Reynolds at Class & Charter Day on Friday, May 4. The Awards recognize individual accomplishments, but reflect a richness and depth of scholarship and creative activity across the entire faculty.  The awards were made in three categories: Career Achievement, Early Career Achievement and Notable Year Achievement.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a talk on “The Gardens of Japan” to the Rotary Club of Sherrill, N.Y. The meeting was held April 5 at Vernon Downs Hotel.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a lecture titled “History, Counter-Memory, and the Search for a Modern Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art” on March 20 at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga.

The lecture by performance artist Marina Abramovic has been moved from the Chapel to the Wellin Performance Hall.  “The Past, Present and Future of Performance Art” will be held Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 6:30 p.m. Please note both the time and venue changes. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood has named Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald an Academy Scholar for 2012. Each year the Academy chooses two scholars nationwide, awarding each a grant to pursue a research project.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald’s interview with filmmaker Pawel Wojtasik, “Perception as Transcendence,” has been published in the winter issue of Film Quarterly.

Professor of Art History Rand Carter was honored with a Distinguished Service/Lifetime Achievement Award by the Landmarks Society of Greater Utica at its annual meeting and banquet on Nov. 17.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg published an essay, “On the Contemporary Art of Chinese Calligraphy,” with André Kneib, a professor in the Chinese Department at the École des Langues Orientales in Paris. The essay appears in English and German in the exhibition catalog Bilder werden geschieban, The Art of Writing: Contemporary Art from Three Cultures.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a poster titled “Constraint interaction in the inscription of Chinese characters” on July 20 at the 33rd Annual Cognitive Science Conference in Boston. The poster was co-presented with his son Ariel Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology at Tufts University, during a workshop on “Optimality Theory as a General Cognitive Architecture.”