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A colloquium, "Perceptions of Self-Group Similarities: Social Projection or Self-Stereotyping?," will be held on Friday, Oct. 11 at 4:10 p.m. in Science 318. Special guest is Joachim Krueger, associate professor of psychology, Brown University. Sponsored by the Hamilton College chapter of Psi Chi and the psychology department. Reception at 2:45 p.m.

The Departments of Classics and Philosophy present the Winslow Lecture, featuring C. J. Rowe speaking on Men and Monsters: Plato and Socrates on Human Nature, on Monday, Oct. 14, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit. Christopher Rowe is professor of Greek at the University of Durham, England.

The Office of Personnel Services is coordinating a Flu Shot Clinic on campus again this year for employees and dependents over 18 years of age. The shots will be administered by the Oneida County Health Department on Wednesday, Dec. 4, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in Personnel Services, second floor of the Philip Spencer House, at a cost of $10 per person. Employees who would like to receive a shot should contact Julie Wagner at ext. 4302. Those who are unsure if they should receive a flu shot this year should contact their family physician.

Dr. Helen Small, Visiting Pembroke Scholar from Oxford University, will visit the Hamilton campus from October 8 through 18. Dr. Small, the author of Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865 (Clarendon Press) and the editor of The Public Intellectual (Blackwell Publishers), specializes in 19th century English literature and science. Dr. Small will give a lecture, "Chances Are: Thomas Hardy and the Individual at Risk," on Wednesday, October 9, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. The lecture is sponsored by the President's Office and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.

Maurice Isserman, the William R. Kenan Professor of History, was interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor for an article about college antiwar protests (Oct. 8, 2002). Isserman said today's dorm-room discussions about U.S. action in Iraq "are probably pretty much like those of 1964" - before President Johnson dramatically escalated the American presence in Vietnam. Isserman is author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s.

Stacey M. Boyd, a 1991 graduate of Hamilton College, is featured in a Washington Post article (Oct. 8, 2002) about young entrepreneurs. While in business school she founded a successful charter school and created a computerized way of aligning each student's lessons with state standards. She now has her own company in San Francisco, Project Achieve, which is involved in a $3.5 million, federally funded effort to place her lesson-tracking system throughout the country.

Darlene Clark Hine, the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University and a noted author, will give a lecture, “Black Professionals and Race Consciousness: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement 1890-1950," on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 8 p.m, in the Chapel at Hamilton College. This is the first lecture in the Christine Johnson Voices of Color Lecture Series, with sponsorship from the Africana Studies department and the President's Office. It is free and open to the public.

Former faculty member Lucy Ferriss will read from her recent fiction work on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Fillius Events barn. The reading is free, open to the public, and sponsored by the English Department as a part of its Fall 2002 Reading Series. Ferriss is a former Hamilton faculty member and the author of six volumes of fiction, most recently the novel, Nerves of the Heart, available now from the University of Tennessee Press. Ferriss is currently writer-in-residence at Trinity College.

Author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich will give the Winton Tolles Lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m. in the College Chapel. Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Metropolitan Books, 2001). The book was her response to the questions: “How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled? And how, in particular, were the 12 million women about to be booted into the labor market by welfare reform in 1998 going to make it on $6 or $7 an hour?”

David Scourfield, professor of classics and head of the classics department at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, will deliver the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, Oct. 7 at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson building. The lecture, titled "Love, Death and the Ancient Imagination," is free and open to the public.