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"Information Technology and the Dream of Democratic Renewal" is the title of the next Hamilton College Levitt Center lecture in its year-long series, "The Age of Information." Langdon Winner, the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), will present his talk on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Science Auditorium in the College's Science Center. The program is free and open to the public.

Laura Brueck, Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies and visiting assistant professor of Comparative Literature, presented a paper at the annual conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which took place from Oct. 12-14. Her paper "From Victim to Victor: Rape Revenge Fantasies in Dalit Women's Literature" argued that Dalit (ex-"untouchables" in India) women use written narrative to reject the role of "victim" in which they have regularly been cast(e), both in reality and popular imagination.

Forty years ago, Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, attended the Oct. 21 march on the Pentagon, a protest organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. In an article titled "The Flower in the Gun Barrel" in the Oct. 19 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Isserman recounts his experience as a participant and analyzes the event's importance in the evolution of the Vietnam anti-war movement.

A letter to the editor written by Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson about a recent New York Times article titled "Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Game at Church" appeared on the publication's Web site on Oct. 14.

With the announcement that Al Gore would share this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Sacerdote Great Names Series at Hamilton has now hosted five winners of the prestigious award. They include Jimmy Carter (Hamilton's Great Names speaker in 2001), Desmond Tutu (the speaker in 2000), F.W. de Klerk (1998) and Elie Wiesel (1997). Gore spoke at Hamilton in April 2007.

Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley attended the centennial meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States on Oct. 4-7 in Washington, D.C., where she participated on two panels. The first was "Representing Our Ancestors: A Round Table Discussion" in which she represented educator, writer and civil rights activist Anna Julia Cooper. The second panel was titled "A Century of Developments in Classical Scholarship and Pedagogy: A Round Table Discussion." Haley made a presentation on the development of and changes to the AP Latin exam.

Ian Howat '99 has been named the Young Investigator for 2007 in Cryosphere Science by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union to be held in San Francisco in December. Howatt's work is leading the way in understanding the changing role of ice discharge by outlet glaciers of the mighty Greenland Ice Sheet. These changes were reported in a spring issue of the journal Science. Howat did his Hamilton College senior thesis on the stratigraphy of deglaciation in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, under the supervision of Eugene Domack, The Joel Johnson Professor of Environmental Sciences.

A. Todd Franklin, associate professor of philosophy, outlined Hamilton's Diversity and Unity Summer Institute Program at a two-day conference, Oct. 2-3, in New York City. The conference, "Closing the Minority Achievement Gap in Higher Education," was attended by presidents and other top-level administrators from across the country.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell is spending several months as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, where she is pursuing research for her book project, "Scripting the Medieval Scottish Nation: Poets, Chroniclers, and the Authority of History." The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities was established in 1969 to promote interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Michael Harwick '11 has been awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellow Scholarship for his achievement in writing. He was one of 17 winners from across the country selected for the scholarship program sponsored by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development in Nevada. Harwick was honored for his writing portfolio titled "Highways: The Road as Existence." The portfolio included excerpts from Harwick's novel The Sideshow Vision as well as some of his poetry.