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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.

Vice President of Administration and Finance Karen L. Leach and Steven J. Bellona, associate vice president of facilities and planning, spoke at a Private Higher Education CFO Summit Meeting for the New York State Dormitory Authority in New York City on Sept. 25.

Hamilton's Program in Washington, D.C. students recently visited Michael Caudell-Feagan '81 at the Pew Center on the States. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Students participating in the program in Washington this semester are juniors Jenn Anderson, Megan Bumb, Caroline Canning, Max Currier, Emily Davaney-Graham, Tim Eismeier, David Foster, Mario Magana, Josh Meah, Helen Quigley, Ezra Rosenberg, Andy Sigler; Emrhan Slaton, and senior Andrew Watson.

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.

Dan Keplinger, freelance artist and subject of the Oscar-winning documentary film King Gimp, addressed a full crowd in the Fillius Events Barn on Sept. 22. At the start of the lecture, he asked the audience to consider whether the importance of art lies solely in the final product, or if the process of creating it is part of its value. After hearing Keplinger's story, the relevance of this question became clear.

The Hamilton Program in New York City students continue to explore the city that is their home for the fall 2008 semester. On Sept. 18 they toured the Tenement Museum, a New York City museum that tells the stories of immigrants who lived in 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan's Lower East Side. 

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.

Students in the College 220 course "Natural and Cultural Histories of the Adirondacks," taught by the Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Professor Robin Kinnel, traveled through the Adirondacks on Sept. 20. The group hiked in an old growth forest site along Powley Piseco Road in the Ferris Lake Wild Forest, visited the gravesite and cabin of abolitionist John Brown in North Elba and ascended Whiteface Mountain. They spent the night at Camp Wenonah as guests of James Schoff '68 and his wife Anne. The students included James Beslity'11, Jeff Chandler '11, Lindsay Getman '10, Cassidy Jay '11, Molly Kane '09, Leila Malcom '10, Andrew Pape '10, Kevin Rowe '10, Jen Santoro '11 and Travis Tomaselli '11.

Gretchen Gardner, a Hamilton College senior from McLean, Va., '09 penned an op-ed about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for the Utica Observer-Dispatch (9/21/08). In "Gov. Palin's nomination a cautious step forward," Gardner called John McCain's choice of Palin "a positive step forward for American women… I felt that the cause of women's equality took a step forward – although not, perhaps in the way that Sen. McCain intended." Gardner, who will be voting in her first presidential election this November, wrote "I felt shivers down my spine when I saw her nominated. Having said that, I have to say that some of the shivers...were a reaction to a set of policies that downright scare me. Gov. Palin has to be judged not simply as a woman, but as a woman who advocates a set of policies that have nothing to do with gender."