Poetry by Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman is on display as part of “Dream Weavings: Interpretations through Collaborations,” an exhibition at the Tychman-Shapiro Gallery in Minneapolis.

A film produced by Erica Kowsz ’11 and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale, along with Irish filmmaker Kieran Concannon and University of Notre Dame Professor of Anthropology Ian Kuijt, was published by The Archaeology Channel.  Silent Stones of Inishark: Memories, Archaeology, Landscape was featured in a January “Video News” segment.

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the meeting of the American Philological Association (APA) Jan. 3-6 in Seattle. The annual gathering of educators and scholars is the main meeting for classicists.

An opinion piece titled “Something to Celebrate on Religious Freedom Day” and written by Visiting Assistant Professor of History John Ragosta appeared on the Washington Post website as well as the Religious News Service. The essay was published on Religious Freedom Day, Jan. 16, which is defined as a day to celebrate the adoption of Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Erich Fox Tree presented two co-authored papers on Native American sign languages during the annual winter meetings of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, which took place in Boston on Jan. 3-6.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive and lecturer in music performance, was an invited presenter at the Jazz Education Network annual conference Jan. 2-5 in Atlanta. Rowe hosted a screening of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive’s film Joe Williams: A Portrait in Song.

After 28 years as a professor of archaeology at Hamilton College, most people would be content with taking some time off. Not Charlotte Beck. “Just because I’ve retired from teaching doesn’t mean I’ve retired from archaeology,” she said. Beck is currently on sabbatical before officially retiring at the end of the 2012-13 academic year, and is living in Taos, New Mexico, where she is finalizing an upcoming monograph that she has co-authored with her husband, Leavenworth Professor of Anthropology Tom Jones.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson was an invited speaker and panelist at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Conference on Accompaniment and the Criminal Justice System in Chicago, Jan. 2-4.

Professor of Music Samuel Pellman attended the 2012 International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology at the National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan. His composition “NGC 6357,” with video by Miranda Raimondi ’08, was featured in the opening concert on Nov. 30.

Works by Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight is on display at Gallery Kayafas in Boston. A solo exhibition, Rated G will be on view Jan. 11 - Feb. 16.