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Hamilton College was ranked 15th in total citations in a survey of economic scholarship among top liberal arts colleges published in the fall 2003 issue of the Journal of Economic Education. 

Hamilton College's Department of Religious Studies and the Dean of Students for Multicultural Affairs are sponsoring a lecture titled  "Ramadan and Its Meaning for American Muslims" on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 4 p.m. on the first floor of the ESL Building.  The lecture will be presented by Yusuf Harfer, M.D., a local Muslim leader from Norwich.  His presentation will include an explanation of the spiritual meaning of Ramadan as well as the health effects of following Ramadan's restrictions on eating and drinking.  The program is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College’s Emerson Gallery presents the art of Käthe Kollwitz, a German woman and mother who offered the world a unique perspective on war. While her male contemporaries, two of whom are included in this exhibition, were illustrating the horrors of the World War I battlefields, Kollwitz illuminated the agony of the home front and the anxiety of a soldier’s mother. Open through February 15, the exhibition includes more than 30 Kollwitz lithographs and woodcuts along side the works of two male artists, Felix Vallotton and George Bellows.

Hamilton College’s Emerson Gallery’s 1968: "You Say You Want A Revolution," which opened on December 5, focuses on a year that was the epicenter of a decade’s major culture-altering political and social events.  The exhibition, curated by 14 student participants in a seminar on the era’s cultural consequences, includes hundreds of artifacts including posters, paintings, music, audio and video tracks, furniture, cartoons, clothing, books, newspapers, buttons, magazines, toys and other representative cultural icons of the era. 

The photographic essay, Memorabilia, created by Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan, is featured in exposure (Vol 36:2, 2003), The Society for Photographic Education magazine. One of de Swaan’s photographs was also selected as the magazine’s cover image. 

Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny was a panelist this month at The Bingham McCutchen International Law Symposium presented by The Connecticut Journal of International Law of the University of Connecticut School of Law.  The conference title was "The New American Hegemony?" and the topic of Cafruny’s panel was "Europe and the New American Hegemony."

Associate Professor of Economics Jeffrey Pliskin has co-edited a volume titled “The Determinants of the Incidence and the Effects of Participatory Organizations – Theory and International Comparisons” (with T. Kato).  This volume is part of a series titled “Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms” edited by Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones. 

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, is co-editor of A Ruined Fortress?: Neoliberal Hegemony and Transformation in Europe, a collection of essays addressing governance issues in Europe. The book was published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.

Hamilton College’s Emerson Gallery presents "Hamilton Collects Photography - The First One Hundred Years," a comprehensive historical survey of photography from the emergence of the daguerreotype in the 1840s to the height of the modern period during the first half of the 20th century.  Opening on Monday, Aug. 25, and closing on Sunday, Nov. 23, the exhibition includes works by many well known photographers among them Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston, Alfred Steiglitz, Eadweard Muybridge, Thomas Eakins, Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget and Ansel Adams.

Professor of Art Rand Carter delivered the opening lecture at the Friends of Schinkel Triennial II in Berlin.  His presentation was titled "Schinkel and the Pompeian Style" and was part of the "Schinkel and Italien" session.  In July, Carter traveled to Peru with members of the Society of Architectural Historians.  Their itinerary focused on the study of architecture and urbanism including Pre-Columbian times representing a constellation of Pre-Inca cultures and the Inca Empire; the Spanish Colonial Period; and the Republican Period following independence from Spain to present day.