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Yan Kit Pang ’10 returned to Hamilton to teach hip-hop in Associate Professor of Dance Elaine Heekin’s advanced contemporary dance and theory class on Oct. 11. Pang is involved with the Hamilton Center for the Arts, a multi-focus arts facility in Hamilton, N.Y., where he hopes to develop and build a dance department.

Peggy Piesche, visiting instructor in German and Russian presented a paper  at the German Studies Association convention, held in Oakland, Calif., on Oct.7-10. The paper discussed the interactive dynamics between the concepts of cosmopolitanism and education at the end of the 18th century and especially in Wieland’s oeuvre, which shows his fascinating contributions to contemporary political, philosophical and psychological debates with regard to education.

Heather Merrill,  the Jane Watson Irwin Distinguished Visiting Chair in Women's Studies, was the featured speaker at the annual Gamma Theta Upsilon, International Geographical Honor Society induction ceremony at Colgate University on  Oct.7. The title of her talk was "In Other Wor(l)ds: Place, 'Race,' Belonging and the African Diaspora in Italy."  

Ten Hamilton seniors were elected to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society, in October. The inductees are Taylor Adams, Deborah Barany, Matthew Breen, Kevin Graepel, Samuel Hincks, Daniel Kamenetsky, Emi Katsuta, Luke Maher, Mary Sheridan and Yuanxin Zhu.

Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, has published a review of two new books about Henry Hudson, Douglas Hunter’s Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World and Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson by Peter C. Mancall. Isserman’s article, “Dead Reckoning: The Mysterious Henry Hudson,” appears in the September issue of Reviews in American History.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury and Geosciences Technician Dave Tewksbury gave several presentations at the 6th Quadrennial Conference of the International Geoscience Educators Organisation (IGEO) held Aug. 30 – Sept. 3, at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

A new work by Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart – The Enlightenment of age: Women, letters and growing old in eighteenth-century France – has been published by the Voltaire Foundation of the University of Oxford.

Mother Nature cooperated and provided a glorious backdrop to a full weekend of Fallcoming events on the Hill. Highlights included the dedication of the Sadove Student Center at Emerson Hall, recognition of the Alumni All Stars Jazz Band as volunteers of the year, lectures, and musical performances.

An article co-authored by Associate Director of Instructional Technology Support Services Janet Simons was published online in EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine (Volume 33, Number 3, 2010). “The Media Scholarship Project: Strategic Thinking about Media and Multimodal Assignments in the Liberal Arts” presents the results of a study undertaken by Hamilton, Colgate University and St. Lawrence University to “take stock of the ways in which multimodal assignments were being used” on the campuses and to look at “the ways in which such assignments foster interdisciplinary collaboration.”

Carl A. Rubino, Winslow Professor of Classics, delivered a paper titled “Long Ago, But Not So Far Away: Star Wars and the Ancient World” at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, held in Newark on Oct. 8.  The paper was given at a panel he organized on “Getting In Touch With the Force: the Power of Classical Antiquity in Star Wars, Red River, and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock.”