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Neal Keating, assistant professor of anthropology at SUNY Brockport and former visiting assistant professor of religious studies at Hamilton, will speak on Monday, April 9, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Red Pit. Keating will discuss “Lost in Transition: Indigenous Rights and Transitional Justice in Cambodia, Canada, and Guatemala” and will preview his new book, Iroquois Art, Power, and History. The event is sponsored by the Religious Studies Department and is free and open to the public.  

In his Levitt Speaker Series lecture on April 5, Peter Demerath, a University of Minnesota professor of organizational leadership, policy and development, discussed educational inequality and the reproduction of class status. Demerath drew on four years of personal research experience at a public high school in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.

Fifteen Hamilton students and three faculty and staff members traveled to the New England Center for Children (NECC) in Southborough, Mass., on March 30.  Students who had expressed interest in pursuing internships and careers at the center were invited to tour the facility and meet members of the staff.

Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu chaired and was a discussant on a panel titled “The teaching and acquisition of Chinese vocabulary and characters-discussions in a modern context” on March 17 at the Annual Meeting of Association of Asian Studies (AAS) in Toronto.  

Seven members of the Hamilton College Cycling Club competed in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference’s Nittany Classic hosted by Penn State in State College, Pa., on March 31-April 1. Events included a rolling 9.5-mile team time trial and 21-mile loop road race on Saturday, as well as a criterium, or short technical loop which cyclists ride for a specific number of laps, on Sunday.

The “Theory and Interpretation of Narrative” series, published by the Ohio State University Press and co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, James Phelan and Robyn Warhol, recently published its 41st volume, Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.

Visiting Instructor of Hispanic Studies Alessandra Chiriboga presented “Differing Performances, Differing Modernities: Early Central American Experimental Theatre” on March 3 at the 20th Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures and Films at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla.

Austin Walker ’12 was selected to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University conference, March 30 – April 1 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin and Associate Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn published their joint work "Posets of Geometric Graphs" in Ars Mathematica Contemporanea.

Historian James Brewer Stewart will present a lecture titled “Abolishing Slavery in Lincoln’s Time and Ours: Toward the Development of a 21st Century Abolitionist Movement” on Friday, April 6, at 4:15 p.m., in the Red Pit. The lecture is free and open to the public.