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Associate Professor of Government Robert Martin presented a paper at the Association for Political Theory conference on Oct. 13-16 at the University of Notre Dame. “Salutary ‘Collisions’ and Multiple Discourses: Dissent & the Radical Democratic Thought of the Late 1790s” was part of the conference’s American Political Thought panel.

An evening of performance celebrating the bicentennial of the founding of Hamilton College in 1812 and featuring Clinton Central School and Hamilton College students will be staged on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m., at the Clinton Central School performing arts complex. The event is free and open to the public.

Cynthia Mondesir '75, a pediatrician in Bethel, Alaska, returned to the Hill on Oct. 24 to describe the life journey that took her from Brooklyn to Haiti to Hamilton and finally Alaska.

Hamilton College hosted its 13th annual Gospel Choir Workshop, “The Storm is Passing Over,” on Saturday, Oct. 22.  Members of colleges, churches and communities from the Finger Lakes to the Mohawk Valley took part.

Ten Hamilton students traveled to Boston to participate in the Boston Area Model United Nations Conference hosted by Boston University.  The conference convened Oct. 20-23, and drew more than 200 delegates to fill a variety of panels.  Unlike many Model United Nations conferences, every committee functioned as a crisis committee in order to engage students and encourage them to find non-traditional solutions to pressing international crises.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman published four poems in the online journal Hamilton Stone Review.

The students on Hamilton’s NYC program attended a lecture at NYU’s Stern School of Business, hosted by David Backus ’75, a professor of economics at Stern. The lecture covered topics from foreign exchange to the European crisis to the current fiscal problems facing the United States.

Emily Greenwood, professor of classics at Yale University, will give a talk titled “Facebook, According to Plutarch,” on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium (G027). The event is sponsored by the Classics department and is free and open to the public.  

Professor of English and American Studies Catherine Gunther Kodat was invited to provide commentary on the work of four scholars showcasing their recent research at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, held in Baltimore Oct. 20-23.

Robert Kantrowitz ’82, professor and chair of mathematics, presented a talk titled  “Golf, tee ball, and triangles” at the fall 2011 meeting of the Seaway section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) on Oct. 15 at St. Bonaventure University.