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Laurent Dubois, associate professor of history at Michigan State University, will give a lecture titled “Revolutionary Abolitionists,” on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 4:15 pm. in the Kennedy Science Auditorium (G027) at Hamilton College.

Hamilton College is pleased to name Kara Novak, a junior from Carthage, N.Y., as its second GOLD Scholar.  Novak is a double major in math and music - a path that she feels Hamilton offers with particular skill. As a prospective student, Kara had considered other colleges with similar courses of study but discovered that the more arts-oriented schools would not offer her a full complement of math courses and technically oriented schools would not allow her to pursue music as fully as she wished. Enjoying music, math and the qualities that they share, Novak hopes to incorporate mathematics principles into her senior-year music thesis.

George Saunders will read from his work on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. This award-winning short story writer, novelist, essayist and satirist writes for Esquire, GQ, Harpers, and The New Yorker, which named him one of the best writers under 40 in 2000. In 2006, Saunders was awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, and he currently has two scripts in development with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films.

Anne E. Lacsamana, assistant professor of women’s studies, was invited by several founding members of the Philippine women’s movement to participate in a roundtable discussion titled “Philippine Women’s Liberation: Nationalism, Feminism and Strategies for the Future” on Jan. 4 in Quezon City. 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Nicholas Tampio published an article on “Rawls and the Kantian Ethos” in the January issue of Polity. The article shows how Rawls transforms Kant’s philosophy in order to revitalize the Enlightenment. The article is part of his book manuscript on Kant’s legacy in contemporary political theory.

Associate Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell will present "Headhunter in Spandex: Cultural Performance in East Malaysia" on Friday, Jan. 26 at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, K-J, to launch the spring semester’s Faculty Lecture Series.

Dr. David Suzuki, scientist and broadcaster gave the James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, Jan. 22. His lecture was titled “The Challenge of the 21st Century: Setting the Real Bottom Line.” Suzuki is well known as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, "The Nature of Things." Suzuki’s eight part series, A Planet for the Taking won an award from the United Nations. An internationally respected geneticist, he also heads the David Suzuki Foundation, which, since 1990 has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world.

Stephen Goldberg conducted a day-long workshop for K-12 teachers titled “Incorporating Asian Art into the Public School Classroom.” The workshop was hosted by Belmont University in Nashville in conjunction with the 2007 annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association of Asian Studies on January 13.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Tiffany Ruby Patterson has published an article titled "Diaspora and Beyond: The Promise and Limitations of Black Transnational Studies in the United States" in Les diasporas dans le monde contemporain. Un etat des lieux, edited by W. Berthomiere and C. Chivallon (Paris, Pessac, Editions Karthala and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, 2006) pp. 125-133. The essay was originally presented at a conference on comparative diasporas in Bordeaux, France in 2004. It continues a discussion on the definition of the African Diasporas in the Americas that she began in article co-authored with Robin D.G. Kelley in 2000 which was published in the African Studies Review in April of that year.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori is a visiting research fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (also known as Nichibunken in Japanese) in Kyoto, Japan, from December through March. The primary purpose of her stay is her book project: Detecting Modanizumu: New Youth Magazine, Tantei Shôsetsu, and The Culture of Japanese Vernacular Modernism, 1920-1950. She is also part of a seminar led by Professor Sadami Suzuki at the Center, titled Key Concepts and Methods of Cultural Studies. It is a comparative investigation of the fundamental concepts in cultural studies on nature, religion, art, nation, tradition, sexuality in English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese and other languages.