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Catherine Cook '07 and Samantha Pitter '07 presented their research at the 64th annual New York State Communication Association meeting on October 22 in Kerhonkson. Their original submissions for the conference were drawn from research papers completed for a senior seminar in Communication during spring semester 2006. Cook's presentation addressed key differences between traditional letter writing and electronic mail. Pitter's work compared the ways in which radio and television communicate information to varied audiences.

The fifth annual Hogwarts at Hamilton is taking place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20 and 21, at the Emerson Literary Society. 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. There will be four tours on Friday at 6, 7, 8 and 9 p.m., and five tours on Saturday starting at 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and all ages are welcome.

The Little Squash Center officially opened on Oct. 13 when an overflow crowd packed the gallery seating area to watch professionals Jon Power and John White, ranked #1 and #10 in the world respectively, in an exhibition match.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Hye Seung Chung is the author of a new book titled Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance (Temple University Press).

Activist and writer Rebecca Walker, founder of the Third Wave Foundation and author of such books as To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, and Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, spoke at Hamilton on Thursday, Oct. 19 in the Events Barn. Walker called her talk a “brief moment of contemplation” on the need for liberation, self-determination, and openness for all human beings.

Arthur Levitt Jr., former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and proponent of tougher corporate accounting standards, will present "The Paradox of an Ethical Society: Are Enrons Inevitable?" on Friday, Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, has recently delivered talks an given consultations on liberal arts assessment at Swarthmore College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Sewanee: The University of the South, and Oxford College of Emory University. The talks discussed his work on the Mellon Assessment project. Chambliss also gave an invited presentation on "Hiring Departmental Faculty" to a department chairs' conference at the American Sociological Association annual meetings in Montreal. In addition, he was recently quoted in articles on higher education in the Washington Post and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven spoke at the symposium, Ethics on the Edges of Tradition, at Duke University on October 17. Ravven presented the paper, "Spinoza and the Rethinking of Philosophical Ethics." The symposium was sponsored by the Duke University Department of Religion and the Center for Judaic Studies. The four speakers and two respondents focused on three religious and philosophical thinkers, the medieval Muslim theologian Ghazali, the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, and the early modern post-Jewish philosopher Spinoza. The panelists explored some contemporary uses to which the thought of these historical figures could be put to revise ethics and theology for the contemporary era. The event was made possible through a generous donation from the Ford Foundation.

Assistant Professor of English Tina Hall presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association's annual meeting in Tucson, October 12-15. She was on a panel called, "RMMLA Poets Read Their Work" and she read from her novella in prose poems, titled, "All the Day's Sad Stories."

Hamilton College Performing Arts will present Snappy Dance Theater on Saturday, October 21, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the campus of Hamilton College.