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Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus published a book review in The APA Newsletters (Fall 2010). Marcus reviewed The Ontological Argument from Descartes to Hegel, by Kevin J. Harrelson (Amherst NY: Humanity Books, 2009).

“A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhov’s ‘The Lady with the Dog,’” by Corinne Bancroft ’10 and Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, has been published in Digressions in European Literature: From Cervantes to Sebald, edited by Alexis Gromann and Caragh Wells and published by Palgrave/Macmillan.

Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali presented “What Would It Take to Bring an End to the Congo Holocaust?” at the 2010 Achebe African Colloquium held Dec. 3-4, in Providence, R.I. He was a member of a panel titled “Congo-Why the Resolution of the Congo Crisis Must Be Regional.” His talk was focused on three areas: truth and resolution, democracy and strategies to achieve durable peace. Mwantuali suggested that the resolution of the Congo crisis should be international as well as regional.

Associate Professor of Music Heather Buchman performed with the trombone section of the Rochester Philharmonic in a trombone quartet and organ holiday concert on Dec. 12. The program, held at the United Church of Phelps (N.Y.), included works by Gabrieli as well as arrangements of both traditional and contemporary holiday music.

The Levitt Center under the umbrella of Rust to Green, Utica, has received a grant for $21,200 from the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Inc., to support a research group to study the refugee population in Utica and its unique potential to be a driver of economic development. Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart accepted a check on behalf of the College on Dec. 14 at the Green Century Building in downtown Utica.

“The LARsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica, LARISSA a Model for Antarctic Integrated System Science (AISS) Investigations using Marine Platforms,” was presented at the American Geophysical Union fall conference in San Francisco on Dec.14. Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, was the poster’s first author.

Members of the Young People’s Project hosted the third semi-annual “Math Bash” on Saturday, Dec. 11, in the Annex.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cynthia Tower engaged a few students in a project to transform the snow-covered tables in the KJ/McEwen courtyard into a confectionery illusion. Artists included Andrew Quinney '11, Andrea Wrobel '13, Rem Myers ’11, Julia Wilber '11, Amanda Pichardo '14 and Michael Arroyo '14.

Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender, and the Self  includes the essay "The Politics and the Metaphysics of Experience," written by Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy.  The book is edited by Charlotte Witt of the University of New Hampshire and published by Springer Press.