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Walter E. Williams spoke about “The Hypocrisy of Diversity: How Much Can Discrimination Explain?” before a full Chapel on Feb. 7. His talk was co-sponsored by the College Republicans and the Office of the President.

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller published, "Teaching the Silk Road," in Central Eurasian Studies Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter 2002). This is the inaugural issue of the journal of the Central Eurasian Studies Society.

In January, Lecturer in English Sharon Williams presented a workshop on challenges faced by new college writers for middle and high school faculty at the Clinton Central Schools. Williams is director of Hamilton's Writing Center.

At the 27th Annual Conference on Literature and Film at Florida State University, Talahassee, in January, Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English John O'Neill presented a paper titled "'One of Her Own Sex': Female Homosocial Relations in Jane Austen's Novels and Their Film Treatments."

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Henry Rubin delivered a paper titled "Exodus and Death: Metaphors and Models of Jewish Suburbanization in New Haven, Conn.," to the American Jewish Studies Conference in Washington. Rubin contributed a piece on date rape on the Hamilton campus to the newsletter of the Sexual Behaviors, Politics, and Communities Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. As SPBC division chair, Rubin is also organizing five panels for the annual meetings in Chicago this August.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in January where she presided over one panel (on "Gender in Latin Literature") and gave a paper at another panel on "Classics, Educational Institutions and Diversity." The paper was titled "From the Administrator's Swivelling Chair: What Can Classicists Contribute to Diversity?" These papers will be published in a special journal issue. Gold also held meetings of the editorial board and the associate editors of The American Journal of Philology, of which she is editor. In October, Gold attended the Fall meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, where she presided over and introduced a panel on "Doubleday Classicists;" these papers will also be published in a special journal issue. She is president-elect of this organization.

On Feb. 5 in the Events Barn, Vanessa Johnson told history by spinning stories. Johnson used song, movement and drumming to tell African folklore, revisit historical events and tell stories of endurance and hope. This event was sponsored by FebFest and the Student Assembly.

Lecturer in Music Lauralyn Kolb's new compact disc was released by New World Records, Inc. The CD, "Just-Spring: Art Songs of John Duke," with pianist Tina Toglia, is part of New World Records' Recorded Anthology of American Music.

Associate Professor of Art John McEnroe published a review of Louise A. Hitchcock's Minoan Architecture: A Contextual Analysis in the January issue of the American Journal of Archaeology.

In January, Associate Professor of Art John McEnroe gave a paper titled "Sir Arthur Evans and the Popular Press" at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia.