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Mark Zupan, captain of the U.S. Quadriplegic Rugby Team and star of the critically acclaimed documentary Murderball, will visit Hamilton College for a lecture and a question and answer session on Monday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The event, sponsored by the Dean of Student’s Office, The President’s Office and the Campus Activities Board, is free and open to the public. This is a rescheduling of a lecture that was to be held in April.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner presented a lecture at the 34th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on October 5 in Binghamton. The title of his talk was "Gas-Phase Atmospheric Computational Chemistry," and was part of the Environmental Symposium. Kirschner's lecture covered atmospheric topics ranging from calculating anharmonic frequencies of small water clusters to exploring the reaction of the hydroxyl radical with methane and isoprene. This research was conducted over the past three years in collaboration with Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and by many Hamilton students, including Tim Evans '05, Frank Pickard '05, Meghan Dunn '06, Mary Beth Day '07, Marco Allodi '08, Kristin Alongi '08, Greg Hartt '08, Jovan Livada '08, Ngoda Manongi '08, Daniel Tomb '08, Alexa Ashworth '09, David Hamilton '09, Jared Pienkos '09, Andrew Beyler '10, and Tom Morrell '10.

The Hamilton Performing Arts at Hamilton Contemporary Voices and Visions Series has cancelled Village Ki-Yi Troupe’s performance of Sogolon, originally scheduled for Saturday, October 14 at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the campus of Hamilton College. Ticket holders should call the box office at (315) 859-4331 for a refund.

Students in Economics Professor Ann Owen's monetary policy class attended a seminar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Manhattan on Oct. 10. They heard presentations by Federal Reserve economists and officials about the implementation of monetary policy, current economic conditions, fiscal policy considerations for monetary policy, the current state of the labor market and its implications for policy, as well as a general discussion of interest rates. The students attended the seminar to help prepare them for the College Fed Challenge, a national competition in which college students make presentations that provide economic analysis and a recommendation for monetary policy to finance professionals and policy makers. The first round of the competition will be held at the end of the month.

Brian Sweeney ’06 presented a paper at a meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) on Euripides’ Medea and the movie "Kill Bill." Sweeney originally did the paper for Professor of Classics Barbara Gold’s Greek class last year. Gold and Carl Rubino, Edward North Professor of Classics and president of the CAAS, attended the meeting. Sweeney is currently pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Chicago.

Visiting Professor of Film History and F.I.L.M. director, Scott MacDonald, was interviewed in the current issue of Cinema Scope, the international film magazine published in Toronto.  The subject of the article, titled "Interviewing the Interviewer: Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema," is MacDonald's series of books A Critical Cinema, published by the University of California Press. The Cinema Scope interviewer, Michael Sicinski, called it "a cornerstone in the struggle to preserve the achievements of experimental media-makers for future generations..."

Craig Latrell, associate professor of theatre and chair of the department, is quoted and his work cited in a new book, Culture and Customs of Indonesia (Greenwood, 2006). Latrell, whose expertise is in Asian theatre, has travelled extensively in Southeast Asia to study the role of performance in various cultures there. His work is cited in the bibliography and suggested readings of Culture and Customs of Indonesia.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Su Ortabasi is co-editor of a new book, The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan (Columbia University Press). Co-editor is Rebecca Copeland, professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. According to the publisher's Web site, "The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have chosen and carefully translated short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries."

Hamilton College will host a program providing participants with a deeper understanding of the realities of poverty through a poverty simulation to be held Wednesday, Oct. 11, from 7 to 9:30 p.m., in the Annex of the Beinecke Student Village.

Nine members of Hamilton's class of 2007 were elected this month to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. They are: Katherine Victoria Bell, Daniel Robert Griffith, Caitlin Elizabeth Jacobs, Yubo Lu, James Henry McConnell, Heather Christina Michael, Rebecca Rosenberg Parkhurst, Patrick Michael Ridall and Dongyue Zhang.