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An essay by Visiting Assistant Professor of English Scott MacDonald serves as the concluding essay in a new book of 16 essays on experimental filmmaking by women. Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks, published by Duke University Press and edited by Mt. Holyoke Associate Professor of Film Studies Robin Blaetz, includes MacDonald's essay "Women's Experimental Cinema--Some Pedagogical Challenges."

Associate Professor of Physics Seth Major traveled to the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada, for the workshop "Experimental Signatures of Quantum Gravity." Among some 25 attendees invited from around the world, Major presented a talk, "Discrete Geometry Phenomenology: New models, possible tests."

A mild fall extended this year's construction season thus enabling renovations of the Kirner-Johnson Building to continue at a good pace.

The Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center has received another architectural award and is slated to receive another construction award in December, bringing the total design and construction awards received to five since its dedication in 2006. On Friday, Nov. 9, in San Francisco, the facility received the National Award of Excellence from the Society of American Registered Architects (SARA). In December, the center will be recognized by McGraw Hill Construction publications as the "Sports Facility Project of the Year." 

Marca Bristo, an internationally acclaimed leader in the disability rights movement, will give a lecture titled "Disability Policy in the Post-ADA Era" on Monday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. It is free and open to the public.

Gary E. Knell, president and CEO of the Sesame Workshop, will give a lecture titled "Muppet Diplomacy: How Sesame Street is Working to Change our World" on Monday, Nov. 12, at 4:15 p.m. in the Chapel. The Sesame Workshop is a non-profit educational organization that strives to create innovative, engaging content that maximizes the educational power of all media to help children reach their highest potential.  Knell will explain how the Sesame Workshop achieves these goals and helps to promote child development. The lecture is free and open to the public and is hosted by the Psychology Department and Dean of Faculty.

Catherine Gunther Kodat, associate professor of English & American Studies, has published an essay in the winter 2007 issue of American Literary History (ALH), a quarterly journal of U.S. literary and cultural studies published by Oxford University Press. "Making Camp: Go Down, Moses," offers a reading of William Faulkner's 1942 novel that questions commonplace assumptions about the intersections of race and sexuality in the author's work, an area of research that has seen a great deal of activity in the past 20 years.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Chaise LaDousa published two articles recently. "Liberalisation, Privatisation, Modernisation, and Schooling in India: An Interview with Krishna Kumar" appeared in Globalisation, Societies, and Education (vol. 5, no. 2: pp. 137-52). It offers a contextualizing essay and interview with Delhi University Professor Krishna Kumar, director of the National Council for Educational Research and Training, India's highest post in primary and secondary education.

Professor Eric Lane from the Hofstra University School of Law spoke to Hamilton students and faculty about the role of the United States Constitution on Thursday, Nov. 8. Lane pointed to the problems created in the current political climate by a lack of respect for a "Constitutional conscience," and suggested a set of lessons from the Constitution that can inform modern U.S. discourse.

A fourth edition of The Individual and the Political Order (Rowman & Littlefield), co-authored by Robert Simon, was published in October. Simon, the Marjorie and Robert McEwen Professor of Philosophy, wrote the book with Norman Bowie, the Elmer L Andersen Chair in Corporate Responsibility at the University of Minnesota.