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Chris Hedges’ April 5 lecture encompassed a large range of topics, from the United States’ political system to the economic crisis to global warming. He spoke within the context of large corporations’ overwhelming power over nearly every aspect of culture and society. At times, Hedges’ speech was nearly apocalyptic. And yet, it seems somehow fitting that he began with a description of Michael Jackson’s funeral.

Professor of Communication Catherine Waite Phelan published four poems in the July 2009 issue of Et Cetera: A Review of General Semantics. Her poems, “The Tree’s Song,” “The Implicit Conversation,” “The Source of Words” and “A Child Struggling with Language,” explore the nexus of language and thought. Et Cetera is an interdisciplinary journal published quarterly by the Institute of General Semantics.

Jan Boxill, director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina, will speak on “The Moral Significance of Sport” on Wednesday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Dwight Lounge in the Bristol Campus Center at Hamilton College. The talk is free and open to the public.

Samuel Pellman, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, presented a work  at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York as part of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in late March. The piece, m45, includes video by Miranda Raimondi '08 and is part of the Selected Nebulae suite of works being shown in the Emerson Gallery until April 18. The program in New York also included a piece, Anagoge, by one of Pellman's former students, Andrew Babcock '99. Babcock is currently completing graduate studies at SUNY Buffalo.

Kevin Rowe '10 presented a poster at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco on April 1. The poster was a summary of his government thesis, titled "Community and the Cosmopolis: Planning the American City After Modernism." The trip was funded by the Class of 1979 Travel Award.

Cecile Dolisane-Ebossé, a professor at Cameroon’s University of Yaoundé and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Emory University, will present a lecture titled “Cultural Identity and Political Violence in African Literature” on Tuesday, April 6, at 8 p.m. in the Red Pit. Presented by the French Department, the lecture is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty Office and is free and open to the public.

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten chaired a panel on "A Reevaluation of Ghanaian Literature and Globalization" at the 36th Annual African Literature Association conference hosted by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on March 10-14. He also presented a paper titled "Aidoo, 'The Eagle and the Chickens' and Questions of Being in the World."

As a member of the board of directors of the American Society of the French Academic Palms, Professor of French John C. O'Neal was invited to attend the United Nations' celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first event recognizing the importance of the Francophone world. Some 400 people were on hand to listen to speeches, live or recorded, by the secretary general of the United Nations and a number of other dignitaries. The event was held on March 26 at the Manhattan Center in New York City.

Chris Hedges, senior fellow at The Nation Institute and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, will lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. His lecture is part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center 2009-10 Speaker Series "Crisis: Danger and Opportunity" and is free and open to the public.

De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese, gave an invited talk on technology and foreign language teaching at a workshop for language teachers organized by SUNY Binghamton on March 19. His topic was "CALL Study and Technology-based Foreign Language Teaching." In his talk, Xu reviewed the historical development of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) study, software, and the future of CALL study with the practice of technology-based foreign language teaching.