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Nathan Rauscher ’03 presented a paper at the Geology Society of America meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 27-29. Rauscher’s presentation, "Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Kimberlite Dikes from Central News York," summarized his chemical analysis of sedimentary rocks in central New York. His current research will help clarify the origin and evolution of these unusual rocks. Associate Professor of Geology David Bailey is Rauscher’s advisor.

Assistant professor of English Gillian Gane presented a paper, "Libraries, Black Writers, and Fire" at the meeting of the African Literature Association held in the Bibliotheka Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, in March. Gane also published two articles, "Mixed-Up, Jumble-Aya, and English: 'How Newness Enters the World' in Salman's Rushdie's 'The Courter'" appeared in a long-delayed issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 32, no. 4 (cover date October 2001): 47-68 and "Achebe, Soyinka, and Other-Languagedness," appeared in The Creative Circle: Artist, Critic, and Translator in African Literature, edited by Angelina E. Overvold, Richard K. Priebe, and Louis Tremaine (Africa World Press, 2003): 131-49.

Associate Professor of English Doran Larson delivered a paper, "Amnesiac Recollections of the War to Come: Fascist Ideology in Djuna Barnes' NIGHTWOOD," at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

James L. Ferguson Professor of Economics Erol Balkan recently participated in the Third World Social Forum in Port Alegre, Brazil. Balkan served as a panelist for a session titled "Lessons of the Turkish Economic and Political Crisis" that incorporated his research on speculative short-term capital, "hot money," and its relationship to financial crisis in developing countries. Balkan was one of the delegates affiliated with the Independent Social Scientists Association of Turkey.

Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert presented a paper, "Magicians: The Mexican Middle Class and the Economic Crisis," at the annual meetings of the Latin American Studies Association in March 2003.

Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies Ann Frechette reviewed Michael Hutt's Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan, for the Journal of Refugee Studies, March, 2003.

Ken Herold, director of library information systems, presented a paper on collaborative digital objects as special intellectual artifacts at the First European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Scotland. The conjecture stems from Turing's 1947 notion of "cultural search" and how such a concept might be implemented in networked systems.

Professors of History Maurice Isserman and Esther Kanipe traveled to France and Belgium with the students of the College's Sophomore Seminar on World War II, "The Politics and History of World War II." The group traveled around some of the most important sites in the European theatre of the war.  The trip included tours of Omaha Beach, Barquette Loch, German cemeteries in Normandy, Bastogne, and the site of the Battle of the Bulge. Students honored Waldron Moser Polgreen, Hamilton College ’31, by laying a wreath at his grave.

Cheng Li, professor of government, was quoted in this Newsweek article which focused China's prime minister Wen Jiabao. Li said Jiabao survived China's power politics because his technical expertise in so many areas makes him indispensable. "He's a classic technocrat-brainy but not political. He doesn't belong to anyone," he said.

Professor of Government Cheng Li was quoted in this biographical article about Wen Jiabao, who was elected Premier by the National People's Congress in March. This article appeared on Forbes.com.