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Associate Professor of Asian Art History Steve Goldberg presented a plenary lecture, "Chinese Calligraphy in an Age of Globalization," at Considering Asia: Indentity, Community, Ecology, sponsored by Asia Studies Development Program with the support of the Luce Foundation, held at Agness Scott. He also presented a paper, "On Chinese Calligraphy," at the Atlanta College of Art.

Brookings Institution Fellow Jia Qingguo presented, "The Improvement of Sino-American Relations after September 11: Is it Sustainable?" on March 13, at Hamilton.

Richard K. Betts spoke on "Problems and Opportunities in Counter-Terrorism," on March 12, in the Chapel at Hamilton College. Betts, who is the Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, is also director of Columbia's Program in International Security Policy and of the Institute of War and Peace Studies. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Hamilton's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

Judy Wolf, a freelance writer from Clinton, recently returned from an eight-month, around-the-world solo journey and is now bringing her vivid slideshow presentation to Hamilton College on Tuesday, March 12, at 8 p.m. The event, which will take place in the Red Pit (Kirner-Johnson building, room 109), is free and open to the public.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields brought five undergraduates with him to an international conference in quantum chemistry, in St. Augustine, Florida. The students, Jaime Skiba '02, Matthew Liptak '03, Lorena Hernandez '03, Chantelle Rein '03, and Emma Pokon '02, each gave a poster presentation of their research. In addition, Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellow Steve Feldgus made a presentation of his work with David Kelland '04.

Richard Rabinowitz, an early organizer of and principal consultant to the proposed National Underground Railroad and Freedom Center in Cincinnati, will present a lecture, "The Empty Gallery: Why American Museums Can't Interpret the History of Slavery," on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 4:15 p.m. in the Red Pit. The lecture, sponsored by the history department and the Levitt Public Affairs Center, is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Russian John Bartle published "An Annotated Bibliography of Dissertations on Russian Romanticism, 1995-1999" in the journal Romantic Russia vols. 3-5, 1999-2001.

Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner reviewed Pat Buchanan's book, The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization, in The Nation. According to Klinkner, The Death of the West harks back to the xenophobic jeremiads of the early 20th century, such as Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race, Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color, Houston Stewart Chamberlain's The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century and Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West.

Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck presented "The Quincunx of Kelantan: Values and Change over Thirty Years." (with Victor de Munck) at the 30th annual meeting of The Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Feb. 20-24, in Santa Fe, NM.

Library Systems Manager Ken Herold's 1994 research guide, "Tibet and the United States of America: An Annotated Chronology of Relations in the 20th Century," 2nd ed. has been republished on the Internet by Tibet Justice Center.