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Keya Advani ’08 spent her summer interning with The Global Justice Center (GJC) in New York City, a unique non-governmental organization dedicated to enforcing the affirmative rights of women to political representation. Advani was one of 13 Hamilton students who received college funding to conduct a summer internship. While pursuing internships is an increasingly popular move for students, the realities pose certain problems. Most of the available positions are unpaid, requiring students to fund their own housing and living expenses as well as working for free, all in pursuit of the elusive resume-booster “work experience.”

The Hamilton community is observing the 5th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on America. The observance will include a time of reflection and prayer on the Library steps at 4 p.m. Flags representing each person who died in New York and Washington, in buildings and on airplanes, have been set up on the Main Quad, and a Reflection Wall will be set up to record thoughts, reflections and names of people affected by this national tragedy. Sponsored by Hamilton College Republicans and Hamilton College Democrats, the Chaplaincy and the President's Office.

Jamie King, head coach of women's tennis, has published a book chapter, "Language, Gender, and Sport: A Review of the Research," co-authored with Jeffrey O. Segrave (Skidmore College) and Katherine L. McDonald (SUNY Buffalo School of Law) in the book Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender (2006) by Palgrave MacMillan.

Associate Dean of Faculty and Associate Professor of Philosophy Kirk Pillow has published an essay, “Understanding Aestheticized,” in the volume Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant’s Critical Philosophy. Edited by Rebecca Kukla and published by Cambridge University Press, the volume contributors assess the relationship between Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory and his theory of knowledge. The collection features essays by major Kant scholars including Henry Allison, Béatrice Longuenesse, Paul Guyer and Rudolf Makkreel. Pillow’s essay argues that Kant’s thought opens the possibility of unsettling any sharp distinction between aesthetics and cognition, and as such prefigures important elements of contemporary American neo-pragmatist philosophy.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented an invited talk at the World Bank on Sept. 7. The talk was based on a paper co-authored with Assistant Professor of Economics Julio Videras titled "Culture and Public Goods:  The Case of Religion and the Voluntary Provision of Environmental Quality" which studied pro-environment behavior and attitudes of individuals in 14 countries.

Brian J. Glenn, visiting assistant professor of government, organized a short course titled "Studying Public Opinion before Polling" at the American Political Science Association conference in Philadelphia in August.  He also presented at a panel on his edited book project, "Conservatives and American Political Development."

Students in Hamilton's fall 2006 semester in Washington D.C. have established a blog, HC@DC, to describe their life in the nation's capital. HC@DC provides insight and ideas about politics, policy, culture and life inside the beltway. Visit the blog at http://hamcol.blogspot.com/

Catherine W. Phelan, professor and chair of Communication, presented a paper titled “Democracy in the Digital Age” at the Media Ecology Association Conference in Boston, during the summer. Material for this presentation was drawn from a larger manuscript she is currently working on which investigates how innovations in digital media challenge foundational concepts of American democracy. Phelan’s work with the Media Ecology Association also includes a forthcoming publication titled “Notions of Progress” which will appear in the journal Explorations in Media Ecology (v. 5, n. 2, 2006).

The College has announced the founding of the Alexander Hamilton Center (AHC), an organization inspired by Alexander Hamilton’s life and work. The AHC seeks to "promote excellence in scholarship through the study of freedom, democracy and capitalism as these ideas were developed and institutionalized in the United States and within the larger tradition of Western culture," according to the center's charter.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Chaise LaDousa published "The Discursive Malleability of an Identity: A Dialogic Approach to Language "Medium" Schooling in North India" in the latest issue of The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, the journal for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. The article is derived from LaDousa's ongoing research in Banaras and Delhi on the ways that the school provides an ethnographic site for exploring constructions of class, region and nation in contemporary India.