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Emily Rohrbach, visiting assistant professor of English, presented a paper at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society conference at Rutgers University, Oct. 23-25. Exploring the ethical implications of Romantic subjectivity and conceptions of time, her paper, titled "Romantic Surplus," characterized the Romantic sense of time as a teeming present that produces an excess of what can potentially be known, due in part to the way that knowledge of that present rests on an imagined, dark futurity.

The Hamilton College Student Assembly's seventh annual Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, Oct. 26, from noon-4 p.m. on the Clinton Village Green. Fall Fest is an initiative that was started in 2002 by the Hamilton Class of 2005 to improve town/gown relations by uniting the Hamilton and Clinton communities for an afternoon of food, fun and entertainment. 

Erica Dressler '09 scored two goals to help lead Hamilton College to a 2-2 Liberty League tie against visiting Vassar College at rain-soaked Love Field on Oct. 25.

Muggles in the village of Clinton will have the rare opportunity to brandish their wands Oct. 24-25 while they tour the majestic Hogwarts Castle, brought to life by students at Hamilton College. "Hogwarts at Hamilton," an event sponsored by the College and organized by student actors and actresses, transforms Emerson Hall into a magical place of spells and potions. Admission is free to the public; however, any donations the club receives directly support the Kirkland Town Library.  For more information e-mail hogwarts@hamilton.edu.

Students in Hamilton's Program in New York attended a performance of the New York Philharmonic on Oct. 23. They heard Leonidas Kavakos perform the Bartók Violin Concerto #2, and the Brahms Symphony #3. The New York Philharmonic performance was one of several cultural activities sponsored by Kevin '70 and Karen Kennedy for the students participating in the Program in New York.

Masaaki Kamiya, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented his latest work at Mediterranean Syntax Meeting II, held at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. Kamiya, who collaborated on the paper with Akemi Matsuya of Takachiho University, argues that the ambiguous readings of Turkish wh-word such as universal quantifier and negative polarity item can be solved once Japanese indeterminate and negation systems are assumed. 

Visiting artist Catherine Murphy began her lecture Wednesday night by posing a series of rhetorical questions regarding abstraction and reality — in art, is one technique more prevalent than the other? Is it possible to separate the two? Do they even exist in the first place? 

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, recently attended the annual meeting in Princeton of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, of which she is a past president. She co-presided over a session on "Celebration and Sorrow in Greek Literary Texts," in which her Hamilton colleague James Wells presented a paper. Gold also led a session on "Integrating the Blackwell Companion to Catullus into Secondary and College Classrooms," and read a speech in Latin (an ovatio) honoring a friend and colleague for his service to the Classics profession.

S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies, recently returned from the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture biennial conference, held this year at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is on the international advisory board, and has been coordinating sessions in religion and film for the past four conferences. Plate worked with religious studies and films studies scholars throughout Europe, the UK and North America to develop four full sessions on the topic.

Students from Economics 346 - Monetary Policy attended a seminar at the New York Federal Reserve Bank on Tuesday, Oct. 14, with Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen. Students heard presentations by Federal Reserve officials on current economic conditions, the economics of the Federal Reserve's new lending facilities, the subprime crisis and the labor market.