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Hamilton senior Eric Kuhn, in his role as a contributor to UWIRE, reported on the student reaction on and off campus to the first presidential debate held Friday, Sept. 26. The video which he produced is posted on The Washington Post's Youth "Vote '08" site and is part of a group of five videos produced by UWIRE reporters across the country.

Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, received a stream of accolades in a review that appears in the Friday, Sept. 26, edition of the International Herald Tribune and the Sunday, Sept. 28, issue of The New York Times Book Review. "Fallen Giants is the book of a lifetime for its authors, an awe-inspiring work of history and storytelling," wrote the reviewer.

Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin Kennedy Associate Professor of Art, was a visiting art lecturer on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Kuharic discussed the evolution and direction of her work.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson presented a paper titled, "'Sacrifice as living: Confucian Conceptions of Life and Death in Rites to Ancestors" at the International Symposium on Sacrifice: Between Life and Death at the Katholische Akademie in Weingarten, Germany. Fifteen scholars from Europe, Asia and the United States were invited to attend the conference organized by the Hermann and Marianne Straniak Foundation of Switzerland on Sept. 15.

On Friday, Sept. 26, and Saturday, Sept. 27, Hamilton will host the 2008 New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS). The conference will present panels, roundtable discussions, exhibitions, keynote address and a film screening on the theme, "Cultural Connections, Convergences, and Collisions: Past and Present." Registration is complimentary for interested Hamilton, Colgate, Utica College, and SUNY IT students and faculty.

An opinion piece written by James Bradfield, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics, appeared in the Sunday, Sept. 21, issue of the Utica Observer-Dispatch. In "Turbulence and the U.S. Economy," Bradfield explained that "In a free enterprise system, we probably cannot prevent all turbulence. Even if we could do so, the cost would almost certainly be foregoing the growth (with turbulence) of the economy that we have enjoyed since the founding of the republic."

Curator of Asian Art and Chief Curator at Cornell University's Johnson Art Museum Ellen Avril presented "Cherishing the Past: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art" on Sept. 17 in the Emerson Gallery. The talk was the first of three scheduled in conjunction with a trio of related exhibitions of Chinese art currently on view.

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in Congress to ease the offshore drilling ban, Eric Kuhn '09 spoke with Washington D.C. environmental lobbyist and summarized the interview in a Huffington Post article.

Maurice Isserman, Hamilton College's James L. Ferguson Professor of History, will discuss Fallen Giants - A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 4:15 p.m. at the Glen House on Hamilton's campus. Isserman, who co-authored the book, will also sign copies. Published by Yale University Press last month, the book has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

"Media Myths: Palin and Women," an analysis of voter preferences and how they may have changed with the introduction of Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate, appeared on Huffingtonpost.com on Sept. 10. In writing the piece, Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, analyzed Gallup tracking poll numbers before and after the Palin announcement that revealed that McCain's surge came equally from men and women.