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Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema by Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.

President Joan Hinde Stewart presided over the annual Convocation ceremony that officially opened Hamilton’s 203rd year on Wednesday, Aug. 27. Members of the administration welcomed students and new faculty, and academic achievement prizes were awarded to 63 students.

Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi visited Hamilton and the department of psychology to meet with Assistant Professor of Psychology Jose M. Causadias on Sept 3. The purpose of the meeting with Brindisi, representative of the New York State Assembly's 119th District, was to discuss ways to better understand the experience of immigrant and refugee communities in Utica through research projects. The 119th district includes the city of Utica.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents a variety of performances by faculty and students during the fall 2014 semester in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free of charge, unless otherwise noted.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik was recently invited to join the board of review editors at The Medieval Review, a leading online journal published by the Medieval Studies Institute at Indiana University.

Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies Heather Merrill published an article in Acme: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. The article is titled "Post-Colonial Borderlands: Black Life-Worlds and Relational Place in Turin, Italy" (Volume 13 (2) 2014).

Associate Professor of Chemistry Myriam Cotten has been awarded a Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award.  The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences at undergraduate institutions. The award is based on accomplishment in scholarly research with undergraduates, as well as a compelling commitment to teaching, and provides an unrestricted research grant of $60,000. Cotten is one of seven national awardees and the first Hamilton faculty member to receive the award.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, published an article titled “Teaching Ancient Comedy: Joking about Race, Ethnicity, and Slavery” in From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom.

Under the name of France’s long-standing tradition of secularism, called laïcité, French law has restricted many Islamic religious practices in the last decade. These new laws, often dubbed Islamophobic by the international community, include banning the burqa and niqab in public spaces, forbidding headscarves in public schools and restricting public prayer. Victoria Lin ’15 examined the impact of these laws on Muslim identity through her Emerson Grant.

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Rivera taught a course at an international summer school on political linguistics sponsored by the Higher School of Economics in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.  The summer school, “Language and Power: The Linguistics of Migration,” was an intensive research program for advanced undergraduates and graduate students from Russia, Austria and Ukraine.