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Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, was the keynote speaker at the Bay Area Feminist Philosophy Seminar held at Mills College in Oakland.  She was invited by Libby Potter, a former Hamilton faculty member.

Hamilton College is conducting its first "Ham's Cram & Scram" from May 14-24. The project is designed to reduce the College's end-of-year waste by recycling and reusing items that would typically be thrown out at the end of the academic year.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the fifth triennial meeting of the Feminism and Classics Conference, "Bringing It All Back Home," at the University of Michigan on May 8-11. She presented a paper titled "The Meanings of Silence: Keeping Women Out and In."

Stewart G. Pollock '54, a retired New Jersey Supreme Court justice, will receive the New Jersey State Bar Foundation's highest award, the prestigious Medal of Honor, for his longtime commitment to New Jersey's legal legacy. The award, given each year to candidates who have made exemplary contributions to improving the justice system, will be presented at the foundation's annual Medal of Honor Awards Reception on Thursday, June 12, at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick.

Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico delivered the keynote address last week at a conference on public integrity in Lisbon sponsored by the European Union's anticorruption agency during the week of May 12.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented a paper, "Women for Sale on Attic Painted Pots," in a session she chaired titled "Out of the Margins: Women in Public Space" at "Bringing it All Back Home," the Feminism and Classics V conference, at the University of Michigan held May 8-11.

Students in Hamilton's Program in New York in April attended a performance of the New York Philharmonic. They heard Chinese pianist Lang Lang perform the world premiere of Tan Dun's "Piano Concerto" and Stravinsky's "The Firebird." The New York Philharmonic performance was one of several cultural activities sponsored by Kevin '70 and Karen Kennedy for the students participating in the Program in New York.

Carl A. Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics, together with Alicia Juarrero, the author of Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT Press, 1999), is the editor of a new book titled Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization: Precursors and Prototypes (ISCE Publishing, May 2008).

"No, no that's the horseradish." "Just leave the mint out for now. There's something else that goes there." "I have some more seeds for you, and Janet is bringing the lemon balm." Directions, suggestions and observations emanated from the 1812 Heritage Garden as students began planting the first rows of vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs on a recent sunny May afternoon. The garden is one of the centerpieces of this spring's "Food for Thought: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Food" course taught by Professor of Biology David Gapp and Associate Professor of Russian Frank Sciacca.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper titled "Politicizing the Past: State-Sponsored History in the Scotichronicon" at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies on May 10 in Kalamazoo, Mich. The paper discussed a lengthy 15th century Latin chronicle of world and Scottish history by Walter Bower, and analyzed Bower's proposal that the Scottish government should collaborate with historians in order to produce official histories capable of competing with English accounts of the past.