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On Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3 and 4, Untitled-at-Large will present SLOAN, a short satirical play about how God constantly manipulates humans for his own amusement. Cassie Magesis '07, the director and producer, chose the play because it was written and produced by her father when he was a college student. The production stars Rachel Bennek ’07, Will Flanagan ’07, Brittany Gross ’10, Abigail Miller ’07, Tori Nygren ’10, Chris Schimpf ’07, Amy Tannenbaum ’10, Eliza Timpson ’10, and Jenn Vano ’09. The play will be staged in List 104 at 8 p.m., and is free and open to the public

Hamilton's men's and women's rugby teams have both won state championships in Division III rugby and will now advance to regional play. The teams travelled to St. Lawrence for the New York State Championships on Oct. 28-29. The men's team finished the regular season with a record of 3-1 (having lost to Niagara University). The women's team finished 6-0, having outscored their opponents 223-7. In the semi-finals, the women's team hosted Canisius College and won 41-5; the team went on to beat St. Bonaventure for the state championship title. The men's team travelled up to Paul Smith's College and defeated Paul Smith's 22-12. These wins gave each team a shot at the state title. This is the first time since 1998 that both the men's and the women's teams have been crowned state champions.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori contributed essays to a new book, The Modern Murasaki: Selected Works by Women Writers of Meiji Japan, 1885-1912, (ed., Rebecca L. Copeland and Melek Ortabasi, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006). Omori wrote an introductory essay to Higuchi Ichiyô's journal entries (pp. 127-135) and English translation of several journal entries by Higuchi Ichiyô (pp.136-150).

Doug McAdam, professor of sociology at Stanford University, will speak at Hamilton College on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn on Hamilton’s campus. This event is part of the “Inequality and Equity” lecture series sponsored by the college’s Arthur Levitt Center. McAdam’s lecture is titled “The Civic Effects of Youth Service: The Surprising Case of Teach for America" and is based on his most recent writings on the subject.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Tiffany Ruby Patterson presented a paper titled “Knowledge, Method, and Race: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Takes on the Same Realities” at the Race and Pedagogy Conference at the University of Puget Sound in September. Research for the paper was funded by the Class of 1963 Faculty Fellowship, a grant that she has used to develop a course at Hamilton titled Knowledge and Method in Global African Studies which will be offered in the Africana Studies Program in the near future. Patterson’s paper was based on research for the course.

Assistant Professor of History Chad Williams presented a paper, "France, African American Military Service, and Diasporic Consciousness in the First World War," at an international conference titled "Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World," held at the University of Minnesota on Oct. 27. His paper examined how France during the war functioned as an ideological and geographic space where African Americans, and African American soldiers specifically, through the experience and symbolism of military service, developed a broadened international consciousness that was distinctly diasporic in scope. He gave particular attention to the nature of interactions between African American soldiers and African colonial soldiers in the French army. Williams is currently on leave as a fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.

Austin Briggs, Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, and lecturer in English, delivered a paper, "Asymmetrical Joyce," on the panel "Joycean Geometry" that he organized and chaired at the James Joyce Symposium held in June in Budapest, Hungary. In addition, he co-moderated three reading sessions on Ulysses. At the conference, the board of directors of the International James Joyce Foundation nominated him for a position to the board.

Professor of History Maurice Isserman and F.I.L.M Director Scott MacDonald will present three landmark films and discuss them with the audience on two afternoons this month in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. These programs are offered in conjunction with the current Emerson Gallery exhibition, “WPA Artists: Prints from the Amity Art Foundation.” On Wednesday, Nov. 1, Hands (1934) and The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) will be screened at 4:15 p.m. On Wednesday, Nov. 15, The River (1937) will be screened at 4:15 p.m.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold has published an article: "Classics, the Atom Bomb, and the Environment: Team-Teaching Multidisciplinary Courses from a Classics Point of View" in Classical Outlook (Summer 2006). This article arose out of a talk given at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association at the presidential panel on interdisciplinary teaching.

Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu published an article, "On Language Use in Teaching Classical Chinese in the CFL Context," in Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association ( Feb., 2006, vol. 41:11, pp 1-12). The study discusses the appropriate instructional language in teaching Classical Chinese in an English speaking environment.