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Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, spoke with a class of Hamilton students prior to his public lecture on Monday, Sept. 23. Giuliani addressed questions on topics including the "war on terrorism," U.S. strategy toward Iraq and immigration policy.

Speaking at Hamilton less than two weeks after the first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said, “Don’t let [the terrorist acts of September 11] stop you from leading your life.” In his talk as part of the Sacerdote Series, Great Names at Hamilton, Giuliani said, “Do start thinking about courage a bit differently. Courage is not absence of fear in a dangerous situation. The opposite is true. Courage is managing your fear in order to do what has to be done.”

Professor of Government Cheng Li appeared live on C-SPAN on September 23. He was speaking at a hearing by the U.S.-China Commission on the "Chinese Leadership Succession and Its Implications." Li is in Washington, D.C, this year as a Wilson Center fellow.

Yale University Professor of Law and alumnus Drew S. Days III '63, and Hamilton College Assistant Professor of History Peter Hinks are participating in a conference at Yale Law School, "Yale, New Haven, and American Slavery," Sept. 26-28. Days will participate in a session on "Reparations, Reconciliation and Repair: Present Remedies for Past Wrongs." Hinks is giving a paper in a session on "The Edwardsian Tradition and Post-Revolutionary Yale."

Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies Ann Frechette presented a paper titled "State Building without a State" at an International Institute for Asian Studies conference on "Revisiting the Asian State," Leiden University, The Netherlands, June 28-30, 2002. In addition Frechette was asked to serve on the selection committee for the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program (IDRF) in September.

Members of the Hamilton community gathered for a debate titled "Can the Left and the Right Find Anything to Agree on About the Sixties?" Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan Professor of History and co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, and David Horowitz, conservative activist and co-author of Destructive Generation, Second Thoughts about the Sixties, debated the legitimacy and legacy of the radical movements of the 1960s. Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs David Paris introduced the speakers and moderated a question and answer follow-up session.

Professor of Government Cheng Li gave a talk at the Woodrow Wilson Center as part of a discussion on "The 16th Communist Party Congress and Leadership Transition in China." Li was selected as a 2002-2003 Wilson Center fellow and will spend the year in Washington, D.C.

Professor of Government and China expert Cheng Li was quoted in a Reuters article about the change in Chinese leadership and the relationship between Zeng Quighong and Hu Jintao. Speculation surrounds Zeng, the head of the Organisation Department, on whether he will become a member of the small but powerful Politburo Standing Committee. Hu is not part of Jiang’s personal network. “Evidence suggests that Hu and Zeng have formed a relationship that is both competitive and cooperative,” Li said.

George Borjas an economist from Harvard and the author of numerous books and articles on immigration was the opening speaker, September 12, in the Levitt Center’s series on “Immigration and Global Citizenship.”

William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, will lecture on Monday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. in the Hamilton Chapel. His talk, "Roots of Racial Tensions: Immigration and the Realities of Today's Urban Ethnic Neighborhoods" is one in the series sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.