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Aaron Balivet '08 and Emily Tang '08 were two of 12 students selected nationally to participate in the first Associated Colleges in China (ACC) Field Studies Program in China this summer. It was funded by a U.S. Education Department Fulbright Hayes Group Project Abroad program grant awarded to Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin. The seven-week program was designed for students who had previous study abroad experience, so that students could build on existing language skills and apply them outside the classroom. It consisted of two parts: intensive language study and traveling through the country teaching Chinese students and attending education conferences with Chinese teachers and school principals.

Nine members of the newly-founded student organization Hamilton College Association of Women in Economics and Government (HCAWEG) attended a conference in New York City hosted by the National Minority Business Council on Oct. 19. Members of HCAWEG who attended were co-founders Amy Brown '08, Christina Culver '09 and Cali Garson '09, and Adah Jung '10, Katie Painter '08, Deanna Edwards '09, Whitney Rosenbaum '10, Hilary Nitka '08 and August Keating '10.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a lecture titled "Triangulating the Framing of East-West Engagement: Introducing the Art and Culture of the Warlpiri Aborigines into the Equation" at the 2007 New York Conference on Asian Studies - Decentering Asia at SUNY Binghamton on Oct. 27. His paper argued for the importance of cross-cultural comparative studies while destabilizing the customary "dualistic global usage" of East-West opposition.

Jay G. Williams, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, took part in the symposium "From Slavery to Freedom: The Formation of African-American Identity" at Haverford College on October 27. His talk was titled "The Portrayal of the African American Political Condition in the Cartoons of Thomas Nast." The symposium addressed the history and culture as well as the military and literary expression of African American feeling and thought pre- and post-Civil War America.

Hamilton students spend a large part of their year on Hamilton's campus, but some feel they have no real connection to the land on which the College sits. Students live in rented rooms, eat prepared food from dining halls and learn largely through discussions and activities inside classrooms and labs. In an attempt to bring members of the Hamilton community closer to the land they occupy, students and faculty have teamed up to create a community farm garden on campus.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the Contemporary Voices and Visions series when three-time Grammy-nominated Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa brings his unique style of Afro-Cuban jazz to the College on Friday, Oct. 26, at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The sixth annual Hogwarts at Hamilton will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26 and 27, at Emerson Hall. Hogwarts holds a series of hour-long shows where visitors are taken on a tour of "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." On these tours they see Hamilton students dressed as Hogwarts students, and improvising scenes of classrooms that might have come from one of J.K. Rowlings' books.

Three Hamilton alumni employed in health care professions will return to campus for a "Health Matters" panel on Monday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center room G041. The forum is part of the Diversity Social Justice Project year-long series on global health and healthcare. The panel will feature Jeff Long '05, an analyst with Revolution Health, Alison Lin '03, a research associate affiliated with the Mailman School of Public Health, and Josie Collier '97, a counseling consultant with the University of Washington Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente. The alumni will talk about their jobs in the health care field since leaving Hamilton. This event is sponsored by The Diversity and Social Justice Project, the Career Center and the Dean of Faculty. It is free and open to the public

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen participated in a conference focused on the role of the economics major in a liberal education at the invitation of the American Economic Association's Committee on Economic Education. Along with nine other economists from both public and private research universities and liberal arts colleges, Owen discussed ways in which economics can be taught that increase the potential for economics to contribute to a liberal education.

Professor of English Margaret Thickstun presented a paper at the 2007 Conference on John Milton, sponsored by the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tenn., on October 25-27. Her paper "Resisting Patience in Milton's Sonnet 19" addressed the problem of creating a sense of closure in a lyric that resists its own message. Stephen Orlando '08 also had a paper accepted but was unable to attend the meeting. His paper was about the process of turning the first book of Paradise Lost into graphic novel form, which he did as an independent project during his sophomore year.