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John Adams, visiting professor of rhetoric and communication, published a paper, “Rhetoric’s Teaching and Multi-Modal Learning,” in Academic Exchange Quarterly. This paper broadly addresses the concept of multi-modal learning as it may be engaged in teaching rhetoric. It highlights an example drawn from Adams’ teaching experience—the creation of “vidblinks” with cell phones—as it explains how multi-modal learning is essential to a well-considered engagement of rhetoric’s teaching as far as it encompasses artistic and inartistic proof. Further, the paper explains how rhetoric itself is multi-modal as an architectonic practice drawing on, and substantively contributing to, the sum of the liberal arts.

Steven Hess, a Holocaust survivor, will speak about his childhood experiences during the war on Monday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. Hess' family was sent to the Dutch Transit Camp, Westerbork, and then the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. He and his twin sister are among the few children younger than 15-years-old who survived. Hess will talk about how he struggled to survive and how the experience impacted his life. The talk is sponsored by Hillel.

Rouben C. Cholakian, the Burgess Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, will present a talk titled "Marguerite de Navarre: The Making of a Biography," on Monday, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. in the Science Center room 3024. The talk will be about the life and times of Queen Marguerite de Navarre based on Cholakian's recent biography of her, co-authored with Patricia Francis Cholakian. Marguerite de Navarre was a renowned Renaissance humanist and author and the sister of King Francois of France.

Sharon Werning Rivera, assistant professor of government, and David W. Rivera, government department lecturer, published “The Russian Elite under Putin: Militocratic or Bourgeois?” in the April-June 2006 issue of Post-Soviet Affairs. The article investigated the widespread assumption that since Vladimir Putin took over the presidency from Boris Yeltsin on Jan. 1, 2000, large numbers of siloviki, those with experience in the military and security agencies, have been recruited into government service.

William R. Kenan Professor of Government Cheng Li was referenced in an article that appeared in Foreign Affairs magazines’s November/December issue in an article titled “China’s Leadership Gap.” Written by John L. Thornton, professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing and board chair of the Brookings Institution, the article referenced Li’s statistics and observations on the rising levels of education achieved by China’s political leaders. Li, who focuses his research on Chinese leadership, is also a senior scholar with the Brookings Institution and is a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and a member of The Academic Advisory Group of the Congressional U.S.-China Working Group.

Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large with the National Review Online, will present a lecture titled "The Case for Conservatism" on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The event is hosted by the Hamilton College Republicans.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, lectured at Columbia University on November 2 on “Representing Women: Feminist Post-Modern Theories of Identity and Experience.” Her audience included students from Columbia’s Graduate Schools of Social Work and Education and Union Theological Seminary. The talk was sponsored by the Feminist Caucus of Columbia University.

Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States, will give a free public lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. His lecture, “An Inconvenient Truth,” will be accompanied by a multi-media presentation on which his best-selling book and film by the same name are based. No tickets are necessary and the general public will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings presented at national conferences in October and November. He spoke at the National Whitewater Symposium in California, where he also participated in a panel discussion on "Decision-making by whitewater instructors and guides." In November he gave two presentations at the International Conference of the Association for Experiential Education in St. Paul, Minn. The topics were "New perspectives on leaders training" and "Teaching New dogs old tricks; how to teach new leaders to lead like old pros."

Lois Weis, distinguished professor of educational leadership and policy at the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, gave a lecture at Hamilton on Nov. 8 titled "Unequal Outcomes: how families and schools structure social and economic inequalities.” Weis, the author of numerous books on race, class and gender in American education, spoke about how families and schools structure economic inequalities in a way that limits the social mobility potential of education.