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Phil Klinkner, associate professor of government, will be the next speaker in the Kirkland Project Brown Bag series on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at noon in the Red Pit at KJ. His talk is titled "Whose Vote Doesn't Count?: An Analysis of Spoiled Ballots in the Florida 2000 Presidential Election."

Twenty local middle school girls participated in Girls Speak Out: Conference on Individuality and Group Identity, held on Nov. 17 at Hamilton College. The conference was organized by Hamilton Senior Jessica Ambrose, who started a group at Clinton Middle School to give middle school girls a comfortable environment in which they could talk and write about issues important to them. This year she received a grant from the Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation of Central New York to expand the program to other schools.

Professor Zillah Eisteinstein from the Politics department of Ithaca College will deliver a lecture, "Feminisms and September 11's Aftermath," on Monday, Nov. 26, at 6 p.m. in KJ Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

Ben Moore, a 1982 graduate of Hamilton, is receiving acclaim for both his artistic and musical composition skills. Tenor Robert White sang an Irish ballad composed by Moore at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 21st Century Commissions concert on Saturday, Nov. 17. White called Moore's work "one of the most beautiful Irish ballads I could want to sing. It made me choke up." Moore's paintings "Fort Tryone Park -- Morning," "Coxcombs," and "14th Street" provide the cover art for the latest CDs (Hyperion) of world renowned pianist Stephen Hough.

Former Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Multicultural Affairs Karen Green will return to the Hamilton campus for a Gospel Music Jubilee on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. The performance will feature Kirk Hatcher of Montgomery, AL, Edward Menafee of Atlanta, GA, Dean Karen Green and students from Wells College and Hamilton students who are in the process of forming a gospel choir.

The Hamilton Humane Organization's Third Annual Silent Auction will be held on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 12-7 p.m. at the Kirkland Arts Center. Bid on a wide variety of different items and help a great cause. Items include local artwork, restaurant gift certificates, music, autographed celebrity posters, massages, haircuts, tanning sessions and concert tickets. All proceeds benefit local animal shelters. The Humane Organization will accept donations for the auction until noon on Saturday. Contact Liz Evans to contribute x2990.

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Rabinowitz presented a paper at the 13th Annual Barnard Feminist Art History Conference, held Nov. 10-11. She participated in the panel, Representing Classical Women, with a paper titled "Doing Gender with Clothes on Fifth Century Vase Painting."

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin participated in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual convention in November. She chaired a panel on psycholinguistic approaches to course design, presentation and engagement. Her paper was titled "Evidence of Interlanguage Studies and Target Structure Selection."

Original compositions by 13 students in MUS 277, Music for Contemporary Media, at Hamilton College can be heard on-line at http://academics.hamilton.edu/music/spellman/studio/archives The students are members of a class taught by Professor of Music Samuel Pellman, who also serves as director of the Studio for Contemporary Music. The class provides experience with the aesthetics and techniques of the modern recording studio, including the use of sound synthesizers, digital samplers and MIDI. These compositions are encoded as Standard MIDI Files and can be played on any PC that has a sound card or any Mac that has the Quicktime Musical Instruments installed (in the System Folder).

The Campus Activities Board will welcome comedian Keith Robinson on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.