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Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi, and St. Lawrence University Professor of Philosophy Erin McCarthy, co-editors of ASIANetwork Exchange: a Journal of Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, have published their first online issue of the journal. 

An article by Professor of French John C. O’Neal titled “L’âme chez Rousseau: au carrefour des philosophes, de la psychologie et du romantisme” has appeared in the special issue Rousseau et le Romantisme, published by La Société internationale des Amis du Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Montmorency, France.

Ronald Pressman ’80, a Hamilton College charter trustee, has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of TIAA-CREF, a leading financial services provider.  Pressman is a 32-year veteran of General Electric, where he most recently served as president and CEO of GE Capital Real Estate and as director of the GE Capital Services and GE Capital Corporation boards. He will begin his new duties on January 30 and will be based in New York City.

The Winslow Lecture by Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas, scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 26, has been cancelled due to illness. Organizers hope to reschedule at a later date.

An op-ed written by Peter Maher ’13 was published on Jan. 22 by The Tribune Papers of Asheville, N.C. The piece, titled “The Lone Wolf: Why singular terrorists pose the greatest threat,” was written as an assignment in a fall semester Government class, Global Challenges, taught by Ambassador Edward “Ned”  Walker Jr. ’62. Maher then submitted it to the paper for consideration.

Eighteen students returned a week early to campus over winter break to take part in week one of a two-week pilot leadership program through the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.  The program, called the Levitt Leadership Institute (LLI), was designed and led by Ambassador Prudence Bushnell with the assistance of Christine Powers and was intended to provide strong leadership training for students interested in working in public service. This program was made possible by a very generous gift from Arthur Levitt Jr.

Mary B. O’Neill, director of the Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning (QSR) Center, was a member of a panel titled “Quantitative Support Centers: Common Themes” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) on Jan. 4 in Boston. The panel brought together directors of Quantitative Support Centers (QSCs) from a variety of institutions including St. Lawrence University, Bates College, Smith College and the University of Connecticut.

Terrance Hayes, acclaimed poet and professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University, will conduct a workshop and present a reading at Hamilton. Hayes is the spring 2012 writer-in-residence.  The workshop, Reading to Write, will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 25., at 4 p.m., in the Days-Massolo Center, and the reading is Thursday, Jan. 26, at 8 p.m., in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Center.  Spaces are limited for the workshop.

Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas, will present the Winslow Lecture on the topic of “Poetics, Translation, and Performance” on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. The event is hosted by the Classics Department and is free and open to the public.

Over winter break 15 students from Hamilton’s Model European Union club — as well as faculty advisor Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs — attended the 25th annual EuroSim conference in Wroclaw, Poland, from Jan. 5-8.  Each year, the EuroSim conference presents a different topic relating to European policy; the topic of this year’s conference was European asylum policy and the development of a common European asylum system.