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Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, co-organized and co-directed a seminar at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco on January 7.  The seminar was titled "Responses to Homer's Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present"; it was by advance registration only and had 25 participants.

Hamilton's Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature were awarded the Professional Equity Award by the Women’s Classical Caucus of the Society for Classical Studies at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco on Jan. 6.

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz ’82 recently presented a talk titled “Further variations on the theme of completeness” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America in Seattle.

Tonight (Wednesday, Jan. 13) at 9 p.m., James S. Sherman Professor of Government will present a webcast titled “Continued Struggles in American Race Relations” on the General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR) of the Methodist Church website. The presentation is part of the GCORR “Vital Conversations” series.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran chaired a session titled “Advice for Job Candidates: The Teaching Demo” on Jan. 7 at the American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division meeting in Washington, D.C.

Hamilton College will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a lecture and dinner on Monday, Jan. 18, beginning at 5 p.m. in the Tolles Pavilion.  Jennicet Gutiérrez, trans Latina leader with FAMILIA TQLM, will discuss how her activism concerning trans liberation is inspired by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event is free for Hamilton students, faculty and staff but registration is required.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Andrew Rippeon presented a paper at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 7-10, in Austin, Texas. Rippeon’s paper, “‘Well, it was a few lines 15 minutes ago’: Larry Eigner, Jonathan Williams, and Epistolary Post-Projectivism,” was part of a panel on letter-writing in post-1945 American poetry.

A group of Hamilton’s international students enjoyed a winter outing at ski area Greek Peak on Jan. 9. The winter retreat was sponsored by the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium (Colgate, Hamilton, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Skidmore, St. Lawrence University and Union).

The Hamilton Model EU team brought 10 students to the 29th annual Euro-Sim event, held at Antwerp University in Belgium  from Jan. 3-7. Hamilton student participants were Dumitru (Dima) Kaigorodov ’16,  Annie Berman ’18, Daniel Berrick ’18,  Victoria Bulivant ’18, Kevin Roback ’17, Hallie Skripak Gordon ’16, Charlotte Carstens ’16, Nicolas Yardas ’18, Hristina (Tina) Mangelova ’16 and Alex Hollister ’17.  The students were accompanied by their advisor Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Ivan Rasmussen.

Jessica Gordon-Burroughs, visiting assistant professor of Hispanic studies, presented “Straight Pins, Gauze, and Linotypes: The Cuban Artists’ Book of the 1990s” on Jan. 9 at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference in Austin, Texas.