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Former Hamilton College History Professor Philip Uninsky will present a lecture "A Second Mouse's Agenda: A Model for Changing Local Governance and Promoting Positive Youth Development" on Thursday, Jan. 24, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center, room 3024.

"You don't tame the lion and leave the jungle unchanged." So argues Malcolm X in Jeff Stetson's thought-provoking play The Meeting, presented at Hamilton as part of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day events on Monday, Jan. 21 and Tuesday Jan. 22. Through an intense philosophical debate over violent and non-violent resistance, this taut drama attempts to show the audience what might have happened if Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had ever met.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson presented a paper titled "A Confucian Theory of Gods" at the Fifth International Conference on History, sponsored by the Athens Institute for Education and Research in Greece, in December. The Institute was established in 1995 as an independent academic organization with the mission to become a forum where academics and researchers from all over the world could meet in Athens and exchange ideas on their research and discuss the future developments of their discipline.

Amy Goldstein '11 is featured in The Wall Street Journal's Personal Journal section in an article titled "More students head overseas in freshman year" (1/22/08). Hamilton is one of several schools mentioned in the article "which admit a small group of students in the spring semester, (and) often encourage those students to go abroad in the fall before they start." Goldstein was one of 31 Hamilton students who chose to go to London before matriculating in the spring 2008 semester. 

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori was elected as a delegate to the MLA Assembly in the 2007 election. Her term of office as a Less-Taught Languages special-interest delegate covers from January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2010.

Digital Politics, a government class taught by Ted Eismeier, has launched HamTech, a blog about how the networked information environment is changing society, culture, politics and markets. HamTech will offer news and commentary about issues ranging from the internet and politics, to social networking and privacy, to copyright (including the 20,000 lawsuits the Recording Industry Association of America has brought largely against college students). Visit the site at: http://hamcolltech.blogspot.com/

Melissa Kong '08 wrote a review of Basic Black: The Essential Guide to Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) by Cathie Black, that was posted on TIME staff-writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's blog. Kong, a former intern at Time, Inc., reviewed the part-autobiography, part-career manual by Black, the president of Hearst Magazine.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, in its Jan. 25 issue, featured an article,"In One Writing Course, Freshmen Take After Lewis and Clark," about Hamilton's "Adventure Writing" course taught by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman last semester.

In a recent Gannett News Service wire story, "Demystifying the presidential nomination process," Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students, was interviewed as part of a comprehensive explanation of the process by which the nation's two major parties select their presidential nominees.

Twenty-seven Hamilton employees are spending Martin Luther King Jr. Day doing volunteer work at non-profit agencies in Utica. This is the second year that the College has commemorated Dr. King's legacy with the employee volunteer effort. Staff and faculty are working at United Cerebral Palsy, Jesus Christ Tabernacle of David (JCTOD), Hope House, the Loretto Center and Sculpture Space.