All News

Students from Economics 346 - Monetary Policy attended a seminar at the New York Federal Reserve Bank on Tuesday, Oct. 14, with Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen. Students heard presentations by Federal Reserve officials on current economic conditions, the economics of the Federal Reserve's new lending facilities, the subprime crisis and the labor market.

Jay Williams, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religion, published an essay, "What is Wrong With The Church," on the Bible and Interpretation (bibleinterp.com) Web site. It is a radical restatement of what obedience to Jesus really teaches.

Five Hamilton students working on Oneida Lake research with Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, attended the 2008 Oneida Lake Watershed Conference on Oct. 21 at the Lake Shore Yacht and Country Club in Cicero. The students included Sander Doucette '09, Megan Fung '10, Mike Hannan '09, Julia Houlden '09 and Allie Mandel '09. Domack, who is on the Watershed Advisory Council Board of Directors, spoke at the conference on Natural Variability and Recent Trends in Sediment Transport in Eastern Oneida Lake

An article titled "Private colleges try to counteract economy" in USA Today addressed the various strategies colleges and universities are employing in addressing the economic struggles students and families are experiencing. Hamilton was highlighted in the Oct. 22 article as having "poured $1 million more into its financial aid endowment and last week mailed prospective students a letter promising to meet demonstrated financial need for all admitted students."

Christopher Hill, visiting assistant professor of history, chaired a panel on religious history at the South East World History Association Conference in Little Rockin October. He introduced and commented upon a set of papers that dealt with incorporating aspects of local culture into larger studies in Islam. At the conference, Hill also presented a paper titled, "The Letter of the Law; Undergraduate Studies in Legal History," discussing how to use elements of world history in the teaching of Western legal development.

Cheryl Morgan, associate professor of French, delivered a talk at the 34th annual 19th century French Studies Colloquium held Oct. 16-18 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Morgan was one of three presenters on the panel, "Bringing the Exotic Back Home: Women Re-write the Other." Her paper "Tragic Muse? Delphine Gay de Girardin Re-writes Judith and Cleopatra" examines the ways in which this quintessential Parisian woman used these stories of foreign, passionate and murderous women. The paper examines the stakes in play when Girardin turned to tragedy within the context of French Romantic exoticism and "egyptomania."   

Naomi Norman, director of the University of Georgia excavations at Carthage and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology, will present the Classics Department's Winslow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium (Science Center G027). Her talk, Dead Men Do Tell Tales, The Yasmina Cemetery at Carthage (Tunisia), is free and open to the public.

Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, presented lectures at several institutions in China including Shanghai Normal University, Suzhou University, Beijing University (Beida) and the Academy of Marxism on "The History, Development and Future of the American Left" and "American Communism and Soviet Espionage: New Evidence and New Interpretations" during October.

SUNY Morrisville edged visiting Hamilton College in five sets in a non-conference match played at Morrisville's Student Activities Building on Oct. 21.

The Levitt Center will present a faculty panel, The Financial Crisis, on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center G027. Panelists will include Erol Balkan, economics; James Bradfield, economics; Alan Cafruny, government; and Ann Owen, economics.  Director of the Levitt Center Jeff Pliskin, economics, will serve as moderator.  The discussion will be streamed live on the Web and the event is free and open to the public.