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"Using China as a target may provoke a backlash, so politicians need to be careful," said Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government, in a Dec. 11 Bloomberg News article. Li, who is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was commenting on a recent poll that found that the U.S. public has a more favorable impression of China than do congressional staff members and is more positive about trade with China than those staffers and business executives believe they are.

The exclusive advance showing of The Great Debaters for friends of Hamilton, held on Monday, Dec. 10 in New York City, proved to be an entertaining evening for attendees as well as a resounding fundraising success for the College's oral communication program. Generating just slightly less than $30,000 for the program, the event was attended by a capacity crowd of Hamilton alumni and friends. The event was underwritten by Sara Weinstein '02 and The Weinstein Company.

The photography of Sylvia de Swaan, visiting instructor of art, has been selected by SHOTS Magazine for inclusion in its annual portfolio issue (winter 2007). The magazine selected and showcased the work of nine photographers, publishing a four-page spread for each that included images as well as an interview. De Swaan's work was also selected for the magazine's back cover.

Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera presented a paper titled "The Russian Elite during Putin's Second Term: Has Militarization Continued?" at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies on Nov. 16 in New Orleans. Rivera and her co-author, government lecturer David W. Rivera, revisit the question they addressed in a 2006 article in Post-Soviet Affairs, whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has created a "neo-KGB state."

Jeff Pliskin, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Levitt Center, and Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, were invited attendees at the First International Economic Research Meeting of the Mondragon Cooperative Academic Community. The meeting was hosted by the Mondragon University business studies faculty in Oñati, Spain, Dec. 3-4.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold has published an article "The Natural and Unnatural Silence of Women in the Elegies of Propertius" in Antichthon (the Journal of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies) 41 (2007). The article was invited as part of a keynote lecture (the Trendall Lecture) that she gave at the annual meeting of the Australasian Classical Society in Hobart, Tasmania, in 2006.

Martha Mockus, the Jane Watson Irwin Chair and visiting assistant professor of women's studies, has published a book titled Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality (Routledge, Nov. 2007). This book theorizes the notion of "lesbian musicality" in the musical career of avant-garde composer, accordionist and author Pauline Oliveros, whose radical innovations of the 1960s, '70s and '80s have redefined the aesthetic and formal parameters of American experimental music.

Professor of Biology Sue Ann Miller served on a panel to evaluate and award grants-in-aid of research through the program of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society. She recently completed a 6-year term as chair of the committee, and she continues as a member of the committee that meets twice a year at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina to evaluate and recommend awards. The purpose of the program is to recognize and encourage scientific research by student scientists.

A community holiday concert and bake sale to raise contributions to build a school in Cambodia will be held on Sunday, Dec. 16, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Kirkland Art Center. Organized primarily by Hamilton employees, the concert will include a sing-a-long and is free and open to the public.

Professor of French John C. O'Neal's article "Understanding and Interpreting Confusion: Philippe Pinel and the Invention of Psychiatry" is among the articles included in volume XXVI (2007) of Lumen. Travaux choisis de la Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle. Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, pp. 243-258.