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Josh Simpson ’72 was recently featured in an Associated Press article about his personal never-ending mission called the “Infinity Project.” Simpson, who blows glass in his own studio in western Massachusetts, places planet-like glass orbs with the infinity symbol, a sideways number eight, all over the world.

Judith Owens-Manley, associate director for community research for the Levitt Center, and Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan will participate in a panel discussion on the refugee experience hosted by the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (MWPAI) in Utica.

Nicholas Tampio, visiting assistant professor of government, presented a paper on “Kantian Encounters with Islam” at the 2006 Association for Political Theory Conference at Indiana University. The paper constructs a dialogue between John Rawls, Gilles Deleuze, and Tariq Ramadan to consider how Kantians and Muslims may interact politically. The paper is part of his book manuscript on Kant’s legacy in contemporary political theory.

The Hamilton College Department of Theatre presents the avant-garde masterpiece "The Water Hen" in Minor Theater in November. Performances run Thursday, Nov. 9 – Saturday, Nov. 11 and Wednesday, Nov. 15 – Saturday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. There is also a matinee on November 11 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for senior citizens and students. To reserve tickets, call the theater department box office at 859-4057.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin presented a workshop at the annual Wisconsin State Language Teachers Conference on Nov. 4. Her workshop, on Form-focused and Task-based Instruction, offered an opportunity for language teachers to explore effective classroom interaction through a combination of form-focused instruction and communicative tasks.

Rand Carter, professor of art history, spoke at the International Network for the Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism conference in Venice from Nov. 2 to 5.  The theme of the conference was "The Venice Charter Revisited.” 

Doug McAdam, professor of sociology at Stanford University, gave a lecture sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center in the Events Barn on Nov. 2. McAdam, a scholar of social movements and contentious political issues, spoke on the topic of “The Long-term Civic Impact of Youth Activism: The Curious Contrast Between Freedom Summer and Teach For America.” McAdam has recently completed a study on the civic effects of the Teach For America program on young people, and spoke about the contrast between those results and the results of his famous study on the Mississippi Freedom Summer.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Emily Rohrbach contributed an article, “Anna Barbauld’s History of the Future: A Deviant Way to Poetic Agency,” to European Romantic Review 17:2 (2006).

David Paris, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Government and senior fellow of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), presented a talk at an assessment conference titled “Closing the Loop: Using Findings for Improvement” sponsored by the New England Educational Assessment Network on Friday, Nov. 3, at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. Paris’ presentation, titled “The Assessment Loops: Lessons Learned from Hamilton College’s Assessment Project,” described Hamilton’s assessment project and some of the lessons learned about feedback loops. According to Paris, the key to successful feedback is constant focus on student perceptions and recognition of the several loops involved in assessment. Paris’ presentation will also connect Hamilton’s project with some undertaken by the AACU.

Brian Rosmaita, assistant professor of computer science, presented "Accessibility Now! Teaching Accessible Computing at the Introductory Level" at The Eighth International Association for Computing Machinery SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '06), held in Portland, Oregon, Oct. 22-25.