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Professor of Government and Woodrow Wilson Fellow Cheng Li gave a speech in Paris to the Centre d'Études et de Reacherches Internationales, on Oct. 28. Li spoke on the leadership changes and institutional development in the China's 16th Party Congress meeting.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold had an article, "Accipe Divitias et Vatum Maximus Esto: Money, Poetry, Mendicancy and Patronage in Martial," published in Flavian Rome: Culture, Image and Text, edited A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik (Leiden: Brill, 2003) and released Nov. 2002. She is also president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and presided over the semi-annual meeting in New Brunswick, N.J., in October.

Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major and Tomasz Konopka '02 had a paper, "Observational Limits on Quantum Geometry Effects," published in the New Journal of Physics. (4 (2002) 57)

Associate Professor in Religious Studies Richard Seager participated in a panel discussion and delivered a paper, "Teaching Asian/American/Religions in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Setting," under the auspices of the Asian North American Religions, Culture, and Society Group at the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion in Toronto.

Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan Professor of History, was interviewed about the anti-war protest held in Washington, D.C. According to Voice of America, the estimated crowd of 100,000 is believed to be the largest protest of its kind since the Vietnam War era. Isserman said, "It was a very impressive turnout, especially given that the shooting hasn't started yet. By comparison with the 1960's, it wasn't until the war was going for two or three years before you saw as many as 100,000 people turn out for a single demonstration."

Associate Professor of Art Steve Goldberg gave a lecture titled "The Tacit Dimension of Classical Chinese Thought and Traditional Chinese Painting" at the National Endowment for Humanties-sponsored public lecture series held at the University of Alabama, Huntsville on Nov. 1. He also gave a lecture titled "Remapping Identities: Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture" at Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn.

"polarities undone," a collaborative piece created by Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant with Kyle Kyrnitszke, was on exhibit at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., as part of Exit Art's exhibition "Reactions." "Reactions" has become part of the permanent collection of The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Selections from "Reactions" were shown Sept. 7 - Oct. 26 in The Library of Congress' Great Hall exhibition, "Witness and Response: September 11th Acquisitions at The Library of Congress" in Washington, D.C.

Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan Professor of History, wrote an essay on Fort Ticonderoga, "The Vagaries of Memory" which was published in A Certain Somewhere: Writers on the Places They Remember (New York: Random House, 2002). The essay originally appeared in Preservation magazine, March/April 2000.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, is quoted in a Los Angeles Times article titled "The New Age of the Grown-Ups," in which he cautions against making too much of age as an asset. "It didn't help Bob Dole," he notes of the GOP presidential candidate who, at 73, was handily defeated by President Clinton in 1996.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano and Assistant Professor of Sociology Kris Paap, with Marianne Janack, and Meika Lowe of Colgate University, served on a panel at Colgate titled "What Makes a Man? Intellectual Investigations into Manhood, Masculinities, and Men." This panel was a repeat of the Kirkland Project's opening panel, given at Hamilton on Sep. 5 and also featured Gil Whiting.