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The Society of Empirical Ethics, a component of the American Philosophical Association, along with the department of Religious Studies at Hamilton College and the Institute for Applied Ethics at Utica College will hold a colloquium, “Science and the Foundation of Ethics,” on Oct. 25-27 at the Century House in Cazenovia. The colloquium will examine the connections between modern empirical science and philosophical inquiry into the foundation of ethics.

Kevin Danaher, co-founder of The Global Exchange, will be the next guest in the Levitt Center Globalization series. He will give a lecture, "Globalize This! Why You Should be out in the Street Protesting the World Bank and IMF," on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Sponsored by the Globalization Seminar Series.

Stuart Scott '61, chairman of the Hamilton College Board of Trustees, announced the members of the Presidential Search Committee. The committee will be chaired by Drew S. Days III '63 and Patricia Smalley, charter trustees of the College.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, traveled to Buffalo with AV Director Tim Hicks to interview two prominent jazz musicians, pianist Al Tinney and saxophonist Bobby Militello. Tinney, who is 82 years old, played an active role in the formation of bebop jazz. He was the house pianist at Monroe's Cafe in New York City, where much of the experimentation by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie took place. Tinney also appeared as a child actor in the original production of Porgy and Bess. Bobby Militello is currently playing saxophone with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. He is also the owner of the Tralfamadore Cafe, Buffalo's hottest jazz club and was able to offer a unique perspective on the current jazz scene.

Dr. James Cobey, a 1965 graduate of Hamilton College and an orthopaedic surgeon at Washington Hospital Center, has received a $50,000 Frank Annunzio Award in the Arts/Humanities/ Humanitarian field from the Christopher Columbus Foundation for his efforts to help victims with devastating injuries due to landmines and his work to ban landmines.

Bob Simon (Philosophy) was one of three speakers at a conference held at Trinity College, titled "The Game of Life and the Liberal Arts College." The conference examined the claims of the widely discussed book The Game of Life, about the effects of intercollegiate athletics on academics at selective liberal arts colleges.

The Office of Multicultural Affairs, Opportunity Programs, and the Chaplaincy are sponsoring a Gospel Workshop on November 14-16. If you are interested in attending this workshop, please reserve a space by forwarding an Email to mdavid@hamilton.edu.

Last summer Craig Latrell (Theatre and Dance) chaired two panels and presented three papers on intercultural theatre and teaching Asian theatre at the annual conferences of the Association for Asian Performance and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. At the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, he chaired a panel called "Performing the State: Images of State Power and National Identity in Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Pacific." For that panel, he presented a paper on Singapore's new performing arts center as an image of the state. A portion of Latrell's article "After Appropriation" appears in Richard Schechner's new book Performance Studies: An Introduction, published by Routledge. Latrell was also elected by the Association for Asian Performance, the national association for Asian performance scholars, to serve a second term as president. In addition, Latrell's review of Robert Yeo's Singapore Trilogy appears in the current issue ofAsian Theatre Journal.

The Jazz Archive, located in the lower level of McEwen will be open during the following hours for the rest of the fall semester. Monday & Wednesday 4-8 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Appointments may also be made with Monk Rowe at ext. 4071.

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Vivyan Adair will deliver a lecture at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 4:30 p.m. at Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick. Her talk is titled "Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America." The lecture is open to the public. For more information call the IRW at Phone: 732-932-9072, or e-mail irw@rci.rutgers.edu·