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Associate Professor of Government Robert Martin presented “Secret Plodders: Anti-Federalism, Anonymity, and the Struggle for Democratic Dissent” at the annual Association for Political Theory Conference on Saturday, Oct. 24. The three-day event conference was held at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at Texas A&M University.

The New York State Political Science Association (NYSPSA) awards committee selected papers written by two recent Hamilton graduates for the 2009 Best Student Papers honors. Blake Hulnick ’09 wrote “The Politics of State-Based Electoral College Reform” and Deanna Edwards ’09 wrote “Outsourcing the Military: Blackwater, Halliburton-KBR, and a New Military-Industrial Complex.”

Scott MacDonald’s discussion of filmmaker Andrew Noren’s recent films, to be featured in a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art later this month, appears in the current issue of Artforum. His interview with nature filmmakers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou (Microcosmos, Genesis) appears in the current issue of Natural History, published by the Museum of Natural History in New York.

Shelley Haley, professor of classics and Africana studies, and director of the Africana studies program, published an essay in Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies. The essay is titled "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies." The book was edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza of the Harvard Divinity School and was published by Fortress Press, an imprint of Ausberg Fortress.

On Friday, Oct. 23 in the Kennedy Auditorium, eight Bristol and Schambach Scholars -- students who have demonstrated outstanding academic prowess and have each been awarded a $3,500 stipend for research -- presented their respective projects.

Students in Hamilton's Program in New York City visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Oct. 21. This semester's NYC program theme is International Political Economy. The program is directed by Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs.

A discussion on “The Future of Liberal Arts Education” featuring three panelists will take place on Monday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Panelists include Roger Kimball, author and co-editor of The New Criterion, Manhattan Institute scholar James Piereson, and Adam Kissel, director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). The panel, sponsored by the Hamilton College History Department and the Alexander Hamilton Institute, is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of English Tina Hall participated in the &Now Conference of Innovative Writing and the Literary Arts on Oct. 14-17 in Buffalo. She presented a video titled "Instructions for Contacting the Dead."

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, gave a keynote speech at the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Second Faculty Conference on Chinese Studies on Oct. 16 at Spelman College. Her talk was titled " A New Chinese Studies Model in a Changing World: The Hamilton and ACC Experience."

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana Studies, received national recognition at the 2009 Nebraska Digital Workshop on Oct. 3 for his work on Soweto ’76: A Living Digital Archive, from The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.