Faculty News

Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women’s studies, gave an invited lecture at the Center for Women’s Studies at Colgate University on Nov. 5. Barry’s talk, “Gender and Climate Change: Lessons from the Movement to End Mountaintop Removal,” was based on research from her 2012 book, Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal, as well as information she is currently gathering on the connections between gender and climate change.

Hamilton College has received $1.6 million from the estate of renowned New York State historian and Hamilton alumnus David Ellis and his wife Carolyn, which will support an endowed chair in their name.

Professor of Physics Emeritus Philip Pearle presented a mini-course at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and published a paper on his Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) theory of wave function collapse.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman and Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer will present “Pop-up Poetry” in separate events at Utica’s Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute.

The first lecture of Professor Brent Rodriguez-Plate’s new course, Religion in the Wild, took place far from its home base in Root Hall.

Lawrence Chua, postdoctoral fellow in Asian Studies and visiting assistant professor of art history, spoke on the architecture of utopia and globalization with artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeiffer at a salon in New York City on Oct. 28. It was organized by Art 21, the organization that produces the PBS television series, “Art in the 21st Century.”

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar participated on a panel titled "Politics of Religion: Patronage, Identity and Religious Centers in the Early Medieval India"' at the Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oct. 17-20.

A work by Ben Salzman '14 and Professor of Music Samuel Pellman, Selected Galaxies: Peculiar, was recently presented on a concert at the Understanding Visual Music 2013 conference, hosted by the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, in Buenos Aires.

Professor of French John C. O'Neal presented a paper at the conference “Consuming Passions: Economies of Desire in French Literature and Arts, 1100-1815,” held at Washington University, Oct. 3-5.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Max Majireck presented his postdoctoral research at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Northeastern Regional Meeting (NERM) on Oct. 25.