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Mbumwae Suba-Smith, founder of the Subayo Foundation for Women and Children, discussed the foundation and her role in changing the lives of African women and children on April 13 at Hamilton. She explained that the Subayo Foundation for Women and Children in Africa is a Non -Governmental Organization (NGO) that primarily works in Ghana, but is present in other African nations, including Zambia. The foundation finds teachers within communities to provide literacy, health and business classes.

Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Douglas Raybeck was interviewed for a Philadelphia Inquirer article,"Puncturing pols online," that appeared in the Sunday, April 13, issue of the paper. The piece addressed how members of the "proletariat," via Internet submissions, are helping define how a wide range of voters see the presidential candidates, in contrast to past campaigns during which opinions were formed via the quips and jokes of professional television pundits.

Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow of Philosophy, presented a paper on Intrinsic Explanation at the Sidney-Tilburg Conference on Reduction and the Special Sciences, in Tilburg, the Netherlands, on April 10. The Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) is devoted to the study of logic and philosophy of science in all its forms.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck has been accepted to a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute titled "The Medieval Mediterranean and the Origins of the West."" This four-week program is for college faculty who study the Middle Ages through the lens of the Mediterranean. It is limited to 24 college faculty members and will take place in July in Barcelona, Spain.

The Theatre Department will stage six performances of Charles L. Mee's Big Love beginning Thursday, April 17. The play, directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell, is a zany rehash of the ancient play, The Suppliant Women, where 50 sisters flee arranged marriages to their 50 cousins. Big Love will be staged on April 17-18 and April 23-26 at 8 p.m., as well as a matinee on Saturday, April 19, at 2 p.m. All performances are in Minor Theater. For reservations call 859-4057.

Melek Ortabasi, assistant professor of comparative literature, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held in Atlanta on April 3-6. She gave a talk titled "Teaching Children to Do Things With Words: Yanagita Kunio and the Postwar Education Debate," which dealt with the work of well known ethnologist Yanagita Kunio's work as chair of the editorial board on a series of language textbooks widely adopted in Japanese schools after WWII.

At a Washington, D.C. alumni event, Edward S. Walker, Jr., '62, former U.S. Ambassador and Hamilton's Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, lectured on U. S. relations with Iran on Thursday, April 10. In attendance in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill were current students attending the Washington, D.C. program as well as alumni.

A lecture by Trevor Field, the founder of National Government Organization (NGO) PlayPumps International, scheduled for Monday, April 14, in the Chapel, has been cancelled until further notice. HAVOC organizers received an e-mail from Field on April 11 explaining that he is ill and will be unable to fly to the States. He hopes to reschedule his visit before the end of the semester.

Thomas Wilson has presented three papers in March and April. He presented "Gods of the Analects" at the ASIANetwork conference in San Antonio on March 16. He gave an invited talk at the University of Michigan titled "Confucian Rites and the Reorienting of Modern Ritual Theory" on March 25 and a paper titled "A Confucian Theory of Gods" at the "Comparing Gods" panel at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Atlanta on April 4.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented "Is Free Trade Good for Your Health?" at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on Thursday, April 10. Discussants included Paul Wolfowitz, a visiting scholar at AEI, and Jeremiah Norris, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The moderator was Roger Bate, a resident fellow at AEI. Owen and Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu co-authored "Is Trade Good for Your Health?" which was published in the Review of International Economics.