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Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald’s interview with filmmaker Pawel Wojtasik, “Perception as Transcendence,” has been published in the winter issue of Film Quarterly.  

A Chilean movie co-subtitled by Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Virginia Gutierrez-Berner premiered Jan. 20 at the Sundance Film Festival. Joven y alocada (Young and Wild) is director Marialy Rivas’ first feature film and will also be shown at the Berlin Film Festival in February.  

Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer joined New York Times    education senior editor Jacques Steinberg, on The Today Show to discuss issues related to financial aid on Friday, January 20. Video of this segment can be found on the Times’ admission website, The Choice.

Robert Kantrowitz ’82, professor and chair of mathematics, was a speaker at the Joint Mathematics Meetings held Jan. 4-7, 2012, in Boston.   

Hamilton’s co-ed a capella group Duelly Noted completed its second annual concert tour over the college’s winter break. Three of the performances on the four-day tri-state tour were held in the hometowns of current Duelly Noted members: Queensbury, N.Y., home of Madison Malone Kircher ’14; Newtown, Conn., home of Andrew Nichols ’14; and Kinnelon, N.J., home of Mackenzie Leavenworth ’15. The group also performed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.

Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu published the article “The Evaluation of Web Participatory Learning Tools and the Criteria for Selecting Virtual Classroom Software” in Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, Vol. 2, No. 2, December 2011, P. 1-22.

The M-Theatre production of The Last Minstrel Show by John D. Davidson concludes its run tonight with another sold-out performance.  The dinner-theatre show is a musical treatment of the 1920 lynchings of three black circus workers in Duluth. This 5th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day production is aimed at promoting diversity and serving as an entertaining way to educate on culture and history.

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz chaired a workshop titled “Classics in Action” at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association Jan. 5-8 in Philadelphia. The session as a whole raised the question of how Classics as a discipline engages with the wider society.

Carl A. Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, was in Havana, Cuba, from Jan. 8 to 13 to participate in the 6th Biennial International Congress on the Philosophical, Epistemological, and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory.  The theme of this year's conference was "Complexity in the Social and  Natural Sciences: Morphogenesis, Ontogenesis, and Intentionality."

In December, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Ashleigh Smythe joined nine other scientists for two weeks of field research on the Pacific coast of Panama. The team was based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s marine research laboratory on Naos Island in Panama Bay on the outskirts of Panama City and near the entrance to the Panama Canal.