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Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, contributed an article to Stone Canoe Journal from Syracuse University. His article, "Long As the Music Plays" deals with jazz and race. Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York, is published annually, each spring, by University College of Syracuse University. Robert Colley '66 is the founder and editor of the journal and John von Bergen '63 is also featured in this issue.

Jana Natya Mach, also known as Janam (People's Theatre Group) a street theatre group from India, will visit Hamilton College for several events on Thursday and Friday, March 29 and 30. The events, sponsored by the Edwin Lee Fund at Hamilton College, the Program in Asian Studies at Hamilton, and the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, are free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley has published a chapter, "Peggy Seeger: From Traditional Folksinger to Contemporary Songwriter," in Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music, Ray Allen & Ellie M. Hisama, eds. (University of Rochester Press, 2007).

Randy Albelda, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, will speak about "Gender Inequality in the Labor Market" on March 29. This lecture is part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series titled “Inequality and Equity” and is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans has seen two essays appear in print this month. "A Defense of Anthropomorphism: Comparing Coetzee and Gowdy" appears in "Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature," and "Romanticism and the City: Toward a Green Architecture" is published in "Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice" (University of Georgia Press). The first essay compares strategies for the representation of animals in novels by J.M. Coetzee and Barbara Gowdy, while the second examines attitudes towards urban landscape in British Romantic writing.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman has published a book of poetry, Wet Apples, White Blood (McGill-Queen's University Press).

Yale psychology professor Valerie Purdie-Vaughns will give a lecture, "Stereotype Threat: Power Influences on Achievement, Motivation and Social Well-Being" on Wednesday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Hamilton College’s Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. It is free and open to the public.

Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley was invited by Harvard Divinity School to present a paper at its Race and Ethnicity in New Testament and Early Christian Studies Symposium on March 23-25. She also participated in the opening panel, "Race, Gender, Ethnicity: Modern Categories of Analysis and Ancient Texts." Haley's paper was titled "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies." The papers and responses will be published in a forthcoming volume.

Visiting Instructor of East Asian Lauguages and Literatures Minae Yamamoto Savas wrote an article for Asian Theatre Journal (vol. 24, Spring 2007). The article, "Oko Sako (Oko and Sako): Wawashii Woman in the Kyôgen Oko and Sako” was edited by Jonah Salz and Julie Lezzi, University of Hawai’i Press.

Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields presented a seminar to the chemistry department at Brown University on March 22. The title of his talk was "Working with Undergraduates on Research: Cancer Drug Design and Modeling Atmospheric Chemistry Processes with Computational Methods." His lecture highlighted the work that he and Karl Kirschner, co-director of the Center for Molecular Design, have carried out with Hamilton students over the past few years.