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The seven students in the pilot class of College 350, Ethnography of Learning, experienced many approaches to learning this summer: classroom, online and through internships. The one credit class, taught by Director of Education Studies Program Susan Mason, is aimed at teaching leadership in organizations.

Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences Doran Larson delivered a paper titled "Prisoners Write the Rights-Bearing Person: Extrapolations from the American Archive," at the 2015 meeting of the Critical Legal Studies Conference in Wroclaw, Poland.

Social media was abuzz this summer when Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew announced that Alexander Hamilton’s spot on the $10 bill would be given to a woman. While most agree that women, and other underrepresented groups, should be prominent on our currency, there is a major disagreement on how to make that happen.  Two Hamilton faculty members are among many Hamiltonians who have spoken publicly and for the media on the topic.

Associate Professor of Literature Katherine H. Terrell recently presented a paper titled "Transmitting the Past: Genealogy and Textuality in Medieval Scottish Historiography" at a symposium on "Knowledge and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland" at the Freie Universitat Berlin.

“Amish Farmhouse” by Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead received first prize in printmaking at the national American Landscapes exhibition sponsored by the Maryland Federation of Art (MFA). The show is on display through Sept. 13 at the MFA’s Circle Gallery in Annapolis, Md.

Professor of Economics Elizabeth Jensen contributed an invited chapter to a newly published book examining education at small liberal arts colleges. The Best Kind of College: An Insiders’ Guide to America’s Small Liberal Arts Colleges is edited by Susan McWilliams and John E. Seery and published by SUNY Press. It includes chapters by 30 award-winning professors across the country.

ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal of Asian Studies for the Liberal Arts, co-edited by Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi, is now available through the Open Library of the Humanities (OHL). Trivedi co-edits the semi-annual, double-blind peer reviewed journal with Erin McCarthy of St. Lawrence University.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate recently participated in the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) World Congress in Erfurt, Germany, and co-edited a special issue of the journal CrossCurrents.

On two gorgeous late summer nights, Hamilton student theatre group Bare Naked theatre presented Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, unveiling the Kennedy Center Amphitheatre.

“Contents Under Pressure,” a one-person exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Jane Fine, will be on display at Pierogi in Brooklyn from Sept. 11 through Oct. 11. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, Sept. 11, from 7 to 9 p.m.