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The Hamilton College Student Assembly's seventh annual Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, Oct. 26, from noon-4 p.m. on the Clinton Village Green. Fall Fest is an initiative that was started in 2002 by the Hamilton Class of 2005 to improve town/gown relations by uniting the Hamilton and Clinton communities for an afternoon of food, fun and entertainment. 

Students in Hamilton's Program in New York attended a performance of the New York Philharmonic on Oct. 23. They heard Leonidas Kavakos perform the Bartók Violin Concerto #2, and the Brahms Symphony #3. 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.

Masaaki Kamiya, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented his latest work at Mediterranean Syntax Meeting II, held at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. Kamiya, who collaborated on the paper with Akemi Matsuya of Takachiho University, argues that the ambiguous readings of Turkish wh-word such as universal quantifier and negative polarity item can be solved once Japanese indeterminate and negation systems are assumed. 

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, recently attended the annual meeting in Princeton of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, of which she is a past president. She co-presided over a session on "Celebration and Sorrow in Greek Literary Texts," in which her Hamilton colleague James Wells presented a paper. Gold also led a session on "Integrating the Blackwell Companion to Catullus into Secondary and College Classrooms," and read a speech in Latin (an ovatio) honoring a friend and colleague for his service to the Classics profession.

S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies, recently returned from the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture biennial conference, held this year at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is on the international advisory board, and has been coordinating sessions in religion and film for the past four conferences. Plate worked with religious studies and films studies scholars throughout Europe, the UK and North America to develop four full sessions on the topic.

Cheryl Morgan, associate professor of French, delivered a talk at the 34th annual 19th century French Studies Colloquium held Oct. 16-18 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Morgan was one of three presenters on the panel, "Bringing the Exotic Back Home: Women Re-write the Other." Her paper "Tragic Muse? Delphine Gay de Girardin Re-writes Judith and Cleopatra" examines the ways in which this quintessential Parisian woman used these stories of foreign, passionate and murderous women. The paper examines the stakes in play when Girardin turned to tragedy within the context of French Romantic exoticism and "egyptomania."   

Five Hamilton students working on Oneida Lake research with Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, attended the 2008 Oneida Lake Watershed Conference on Oct. 21 at the Lake Shore Yacht and Country Club in Cicero. The students included Sander Doucette '09, Megan Fung '10, Mike Hannan '09, Julia Houlden '09 and Allie Mandel '09. Domack, who is on the Watershed Advisory Council Board of Directors, spoke at the conference on Natural Variability and Recent Trends in Sediment Transport in Eastern Oneida Lake

Naomi Norman, director of the University of Georgia excavations at Carthage and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology, will present the Classics Department's Winslow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium (Science Center G027). Her talk, Dead Men Do Tell Tales, The Yasmina Cemetery at Carthage (Tunisia), is free and open to the public.

Delia Aguilar, the Jane Watson Irwin Chair and visiting associate professor of women's studies, gave a guest lecture at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I.  on Oct. 16.  Her lecture, "Revisiting Feminism: Who's Afraid of the F word," was part of the school's women's studies speaker series.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Edna Rodriguez Plate has just published the article, "Fictual Factions: On the Emergence of a Documentary Style in Recent Cuban Films," for the prominent film studies journal Screen, published through Oxford University Press. Screen is about to celebrate its 50th year of publication, and has been one of the key journals for making film and media studies into a vital field of academic study across the Anglo-American world. Her article appears in the Autumn 2008 issue and deals with the variety of ways "Cuba" is presented by filmmakers from within and outside Cuba.