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Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu's paper "Well-Being Across America" (co-authored with Andrew Oswald, University of Warwick) has been published in the November 2011 issue of the Review of Economics and Statistics (volume 93, number 4, pages 1118-1134).

Minnie Bruce Pratt, professor of women’s & gender studies and writing & rhetoric at Syracuse University, will read from her book Inside the Money Machine, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 4 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ. The reading is sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center and is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Joana Sabadell-Nieto was an invited respondent and served as a member of the advisory committee at the International Association of Hispanic Women’s Literature and Culture conference (AILCFH) Oct. 19-21 at the University of Barcelona.

Issa Rae, a writer, director and editor of short films will present a lecture on Monday, Nov. 14, at 6 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The talk, sponsored by the Feminists of Color Collective, is free and open to the public.

Director of Visual Communications Catherine D. Brown was the guest speaker at a monthly meeting of the Upstate New York branch of AIGA, the professional association for design committed to advancing design as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.

In early November, students in the Hamilton Program in New York City gathered before the iconic red doors of the Bowery Mission for the second time this semester. The Bowery Mission, located on the outskirts of NoLIta (North of Little Italy), has been serving hungry and homeless New Yorkers since 1879.

Janet Simons, co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative, has been invited to serve on the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) Digital Humanities Council. 

Jacob Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University, will present a lecture titled “Winner Take All Politics” on Monday, Nov. 14, at 4:15 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture, which is part of the Levitt Center’s Inequality and Equity series, is free and open to the public.

“Race is not a thing that we have or we are, but rather race is an action that we do.  It is a system of processes that all of us are involved in on a daily basis,” explained Professor Paula Moya of Stanford University on Nov. 10.  Moya’s  Eight Conversations About Race lecture was sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center and the Diversity & Social Justice Project.

The Hamilton College Department of Dance and Movement Studies will present its Fall Dance Concert on Friday, Nov. 11, and Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall. The performance will feature student dancers and choreography by Hamilton College faculty Elaine Heekin, Sandra Stanton, Bruce Walczyk and Paris Wilcox.