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Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper titled "Economic and Geopolitical Dimensions of the Crisis of the Eurozone" at the International Studies Association annual convention in San Diego.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Crystal Leigh Endsley was featured as the keynote performance for the 2012 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association conference hosted by George Mason University. This year’s conference was titled “Politics of Justice: New Visions of Culture and Society.”
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Marta Segarra, professor of French literature and gender studies at the University of Barcelona, will present a lecture titled “Self-portrait as Fiction: Histories of Women Artists” on Thursday, April 12, at 8 p.m., in room 101 in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Saturday, April 7, a group of students enrolled in "The Classical Tradition in American Political Life: Cicero, Jefferson, and Hamilton," a course taught by Frank Anechiarico '71, Maynard Knox Professor of Government and Law, and Carl Rubino, Winslow Professor of Classics, traveled to New York City to visit the New York Historical Society and the Grange, the home that Alexander Hamilton built for himself and his family.
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Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley presented a paper titled “Elizabethan Music in North Carolina: Paul Green’s Symphonic Drama, The Lost Colony (1937)” at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music held March 14-18 in Charlotte, N.C.
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A group of Hamilton students volunteered at the Rome Art and Community Center’s annual Easter Bunny Trail on April 7. The students, who dressed in costume, distributed candy and posed for pictures with local children.
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Professor of English Steven Yao will chair a panel discussion on “Translating Victor Segalen’s Stèles” on Thursday, April 12, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium. First published in 1912, Stèles is an original collection of prose poems – or stèle-poems – in French and Chinese. Segalen’s title comes from the inscribed stone monuments, scattered around China in temple courtyards, tombs, and along roads.
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Hamilton College is mourning the death of recent graduate Joshua “Jicks” Hicks ’09. In an email to the Hamilton community, President Joan Hinde Stewart wrote in part, “It is with immense sadness that I write with news of the death on Friday, April 6, of Joshua ‘Jicks’ Hicks '09, who was a student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. A wonderful young man of great personal warmth and a talented singer, he came to Hamilton with Boston Posse 4, majored in religious studies and was a member of the Buffers, the choir and ELS."
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Author Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will give a lecture titled “Triumph of the City,” on Wednesday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m., in the chapel. The lecture, based on his 2011 book of the same name, is free and open to the public.
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Lucas Harris ’12 has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Finland. He will spend the 2012-13 academic year working under Dr. Miska Luoto at the University of Helsinki, studying how individual plant species in subarctic Finland will react to climate change.
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