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Berea College hosted a one-person show, "Northern Climate, the Etchings of Bruce Muirhead," in the college's Upper Traylor Gallery. The show opened on March 2 and will close on Friday, April 27. The etchings of Professor of Art Muirhead are also the focus of"Robert Bruce Muirhead, Prints, 1969-2006, A Catalogue Raisonne," a book just published by the Amity Art Foundation.

Lambda Pi Eta (LPH), the National Communication Association’s student honor society held its annual induction ceremony Tuesday, April 24, in the Azel Backus House. Meghan Hepp ’07, Lucy Barnard ’08, Amy Brown ’08, and Emma Slane ’08 were honored as new inductees. The Greek letters Lambda, Pi, and Eta, represent Aristotle’s three components of persuasion: Logos (logic), Pathos (emotion), and Ethos (character). LPH holds over 400 chapters and 5,000 members nationwide. The organization strives to reward outstanding scholastic achievement, while stimulating further interest in communications.

Associate Professor of English Steven Yao presented a paper titled "From the Language of Race to the Poetics of Ethnicity in the Rise of Asian American Verse," on April 22, at the annual conference for the American Comparative Literature Association, which was held in Puebla, Mexico. Yao is also a member of the advisory board for the organization, and currently the only member representing a liberal arts college.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi presented a paper titled "Indexing the Past: Visual Language and Translatability in Kon Satoshi's Millennium Actress" at Kinema Club Conference VIII, the annual film conference for Japanese film studies on April 23. In the paper, Ortabasi questioned existing subtitling conventions, which have remained largely unchanged over the past 70 years. Using Kon's innovative animated film, Ortabasi proposed that audiovisual translation techniques should adapt to new technologies and changing viewing habits. The conference was held in Frankfurt, Germany, this year, in conjunction with the Nippon Connection film festival.

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and Brookings Institution Fellow, will be a participant in a forum titled “The Chinese Communist Party: Bent, But Not Broken" at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The forum will be Webcast live from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. today, April 25. Other participants include professors from George Washington University, University of Wisconsin and City University of New York Graduate Center and Queens College.

Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States, will give a free public lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. His lecture, “An Inconvenient Truth,” will be accompanied by a multi-media presentation on which his best-selling book and film by the same name are based. No tickets are necessary and the general public will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors for the general public will open at 6:30 p.m.; members of the Hamilton community receive priority seating at the lecture.

The 9th annual AIDS Hike for Life will take place on Sunday, April 29 at 10 a.m. The 5K run/walk starts at the Pavilion and continues around the campus. Participants can volunteer, register, or make donations by visiting www.AIDSwalkcny.com or at the tables set up in Beinecke this week.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Celeste Friend gave a paper at Oxford in April. The paper, “Sketching the History of the Contract: From Socrates to the Present” gave a general overview of both social contract theory through history and some of its recent critics. It was the first paper of a workshop, The Social Contract Revisited, sponsored by the Foundation for Law and Justice in Society, located at Wolfson College at the University of Oxford.

Andrew LaFiandra, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Germany. He will teach English as a foreign language there.

Jessica Burke, assistant professor of Hispanic Studies, delivered a paper at the American Comparative Literature Association’s annual meeting in Puebla, Mexico, April 19-22. The conference’s theme was “Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact” and Burke presented a paper titled “Fantasizing the Feminine: Sex and Gender in Donoso's El lugar sin límites and Puig’s El beso de la mujer araña” as part of a seminar called “Changing the Name of the Game: Language, Translation and Gender.”