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Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a talk on “The Gardens of Japan” to the Rotary Club of Sherrill, N.Y. The meeting was held April 5 at Vernon Downs Hotel.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department will present its Spring Theater Production, Orestes 2.0 by Charles Mee. Performances will run Thursday, April 12, through Saturday, April 14, at 8 p.m., and Wednesday, April 18, through Saturday, April 21, at 8 p.m. There is an additional performance at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 14. All performances will take place in Minor Theater.

Professor of English and American Studies Catherine Gunther Kodat was invited to supply the concluding "Afterword" to the latest issue of Philological Quarterly, a special number on the New Southern Studies and the New Modernist Studies.

Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer made her second appearance this year on NBC’s Today Show on Thursday, April 12. The topic of the segment focused on the college selection process - what students should consider after they are accepted to an institution.

Elly Field '13 presented a paper with Professor George Hobor of Colgate University at the annual conference of the Southern Sociological Society in New Orleans on March 22. The paper was co-authored with sociology students Amy Dow '12 and David Schwartz '13 and details the results of the group's summer research on the social and economic integration of Utica's Karen and Bantu refugee population.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper titled "Economic and Geopolitical Dimensions of the Crisis of the Eurozone" at the International Studies Association annual convention in San Diego.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Crystal Leigh Endsley was featured as the keynote performance for the 2012 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association conference hosted by George Mason University. This year’s conference was titled “Politics of Justice: New Visions of Culture and Society.”

Marta Segarra, professor of French literature and gender studies at the University of Barcelona, will present a lecture titled “Self-portrait as Fiction: Histories of Women Artists” on Thursday, April 12, at 8 p.m., in room 101 in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.  

On Saturday, April 7, a group of students enrolled in "The Classical Tradition in American Political Life: Cicero, Jefferson, and Hamilton," a course taught by Frank Anechiarico '71, Maynard Knox Professor of Government and Law, and Carl Rubino, Winslow Professor of Classics, traveled to New York City to visit the New York Historical Society and the Grange, the home that Alexander Hamilton built for himself and his family.

Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley presented a paper titled “Elizabethan Music in North Carolina: Paul Green’s Symphonic Drama, The Lost Colony (1937)” at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music held March 14-18 in Charlotte, N.C.