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Professor of French John O'Neal is the author of a new book, Changing Minds, The Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth Century France, published by University of Delaware Press. According to the publisher's Web site, "In this study of the epistemological underpinnings of cultural changes in the French Enlightenment, O’Neal shows how many of the cultural changes brought about by eighteenth-century French thinkers arise from the different forms of knowledge and experiences they pursued. They derived these different forms of knowledge and experience from a new view of sensibility, which in turn depended on humans’ perceived proximity to or distance from nature and the categories normally associated with this concept."

Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens appeared in a news segment about homeschooling that aired on Channel One News. Channel One News is a daily 12-minute newscast that is beamed via satellite to 12,000 U.S. middle schools and high schools. Stevens spoke on camera with news anchor Errol Barnet. Stevens is the author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (Princeton University Press, 2001).

James A. Bradfield, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics, will present a lecture, "On Economic Consequences of a War with Iraq," on Monday Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m., in the KJ Red Pit. The talk is sponsored by the Alpha Delta Phi Lecture Series. Free to all members of the Hamilton Community.

Associate Professor of Music and bassist Michael "Doc" Woods played in a jam session at New York City's famed Blue Note Jazz Club on November 8 and 9. Woods had attended a performance at the club, then joined an open jam session when the host group asked for a volunteer bass player.

Mitchell Stevens, Associate Professor of Sociology, will discuss "Community and Bureaucracy at Hamilton," as the next speaker in the Faculty Lecture Series, on Friday, Nov. 15, at 4:10 p.m., in the Red Pit at Kirner-Johnson. Stevens explains, "'Community'" is the wrong referent image for organizational life at Hamilton. The frequent invocation of "'community'" in organizational discourse abets rather than diminishes campus problems. The College is better understood as a bureaucracy," says Stevens. "Once relieved of its unsavory affective baggage, bureaucracy is a useful lens for assessing some of the College's chronic troubles and greatest strengths." The lecture is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. A reception will follow at Café Opus.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, has been invited to deliver the Swarthmore College annual Charles E. Gilbert Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 14. The Gilbert Lecture is sponsored by the Center for Social and Policy Studies and the Department of Political Science. Klinkner's topic is "Is the Old Racism Really Dead? An Analysis of Anti-Miscegenation Referenda in Alabama and South Carolina." Previous lecturers include Charles O. Jones of the University of Wisconsin and Theda Skocpol and Robert Putnam of Harvard University. All are past presidents of the American Political Science Association.

Hamilton College Professor of Africana Studies and French Tracy Sharpley-Whiting was interviewed for a Toronto Star article about racial profiling in popular movies.

Assistant Professor of English Gillian Gane has published an article titled "Unspeakable Injuries in Disgrace and David's Story" in a special double issue, "South Africa: Post-Apartheid," of Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing (Vol. XXIV, Nos. 1 & 2 [2002]: 101-13).

A panel discussion, "Challenges and Rewards of Resettlement," will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m. in the KJ Red Pit. The panel is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center as part of the speaker series on "Immigration and Global Citizenship." Panelists include: Alan Cafruny, professor of government and president of the board of the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees (MVRCR) ; Peter D. Vogelaar, executive director, Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees (MVRCR); Alma Adilagic Lukovac, Citizenship Services, MVRCR; and Isaac Padiet, Employment Services, MVRCR.

Greg Doyle '82 has been recognized by Business Insurance magazine as one of the industry's 35 Rising Stars. Honorees were selected by the editors of Business Insurance in recognition of their achievements in the commercial insurance industry at a relatively young age. Doyle is executive vice president at Guy Carpenter in New York City.