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Assistant Professor of English Naomi Guttman's poem "Wind" appeared in the November issue of Catskill Mountain Region Guide, a publication of the Catskill Mountain Foundation. The journal is sponsoring a series of publications and readings by teachers and their students. "This Woman's Greatest Love Affair," a poem by Karlen Chase ('00), appears in the same issue. See online:Catskill Mountain Region Guide.

On Nov. 15, Government Professor Cheng Li gave a speech at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies titled, "China's Road Ahead: Will the Upcoming Leaders Make a Difference?"

Jay Williams, Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, published an article in the Nov. 2001 edition of The Theosophist (India). The article titled, "The Sheng Ren and the Nabi" was originally given as a paper at the New York State Asian Studies Association.

Professor of Art Rand Carter, participated in a conference sponsored by the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena in Santo Domingo. He gave both the opening and concluding lectures at this conference.

Anthropology Professor Douglas Raybeck was interviewed for an Orlando Sentinel article (Nov. 13) about Americans' diminished expectations following the events of September 11. "No matter what happens, from here on out, nothing will exceed what we went through on September 11," said Raybeck. "Before, we had innocence. That has been replaced with anxiety and suspicion and foreboding and other not-so-nice words."

Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, has been in the U.K. since September, where he is the first Hamilton College exchange fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford University. He has delivered a talk, "'Papers of a Dangerous Tendency': New Revelations about Soviet Espionage and American Espionage," at the American Institute at Oxford, and at Lancaster University, Sheffield University, Cambridge University, and Glasgow University.

Sue Ann Miller, professor of biology, is on the board of directors of Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society, and is a member of their audit committee. As the first elected director of the Baccalaureate College Constituency Group, she facilitated discussions among representatives of peer colleges during the annual meeting. She also participated in the forum, "Science, the arts and the humanities: connections & collisions."

Patricia O'Neill, professor of English, presented a paper, "Mani Ratnam's 'Dil Se': Terrorism and Indian National Identity," at the Emerging Forms Conference on Film and Media, University of Washington, Seattle, on November 8.

On Nov. 5, Matthieu Dalle, visiting instructor of French, participated in a roundtable titled, "Naissance et éclosion des radios libres, de 1977 à 1981," ("Birth and Development of Free Radio [in France] from 1977 to 1981") at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.

Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, conducted a two-day workshop on Chinese culture for 120 families who are adopting children from China. She gave five lectures: 4000 Years of Chinese Civilization; China's Modern History; The Chinese Language; Language, Nation, and Ethnic Relations; and Families, Festivals, and Food. She also showed the movie "To Live." She organized the workshop in conjunction with China Adoption with Love, one of the largest China-US adoption agencies in the country, with whom she is also collaborating on her second book project, "The Invisible Red Thread: Concepts of the Family in an Interconnected World."