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Hamilton College Performing Arts announces an exciting season of music, theater and dance for the 2016-17 season in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. All performances are at 7:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

Martha Redmond ’18 spent this summer researching the differences in how people perceive ambiguous sentences, looking at variables such as gender, age and level of education.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg published an essay in One Hundred Hearts Cent cœurs, the catalogue to an exhibition of the art of André Kneib at China’s Chongqing Art Museum.

Hamilton's Department of Music begins the season with the annual Fall Faculty Concert on Friday, Sept. 2, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. The concert will feature Hamilton faculty artists performing solo and small ensemble pieces for voice, piano, woodwinds, strings and brass. 

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar recently presented a paper titled “Heritage and History-Making in Gaya Region” at the Heritage in Context: Balancing the Global with the Local conference in New Delhi, India. He also published an article in an edited volume titled Bodhgaya: Impressions within and Beyond.

In just another example of the interesting and unpredictable ways in which Hamilton students choose to spend their time away from the hill, Alex Witonsky ’17 used his summer to conduct research on changes within Chinese cinema and the concept of rhythm. His project, the result of an Emerson Summer Collaborative Research Award, flung Witonsky as far as Beijing and Shanghai, and was conducted under the academic supervision of Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang.

An article co-authored by Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz ’82 appears in the 2016 volume of the International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences. “More of Dedekind: His Series Test in Normed Spaces” was written with Michael M. Neumann of Mississippi State University.

Through an Emerson Summer Collaborative Research Award, Shaheen O’Malley ’18 helped create a training manual for Hamilton’s new Peer Counseling Program.

Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson is the author of To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement, published this month by the University of Chicago Press. The book chronicles the religious environmental movement and its commitment to promoting green religious traditions and creating a new environmental ethic.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury co-authored an article in the August issue of GSA Today, a publication of the Geological Society of America. “Geologic Training for America’s Astronauts” describes the rationale for changes over the past eight years in geology training for astronaut candidates and the focus for future geology training.