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Eight members of Hamilton's class of 2006 were elected this month to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. They are Valery Danilack, Matthew Danzinger, Qi Ge, Thomas Heacock, Deanna Kulacz, Sarah Lozo, Conor Moore and Amy Schloerb.  

Professor of French John O'Neal presented the paper "Understanding and Interpreting Confusion: Philippe Pinel and the Invention of Psychiatry" at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for 18th-Century Studies in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, October 19-22. The theme for the conference was "Imitation and Invention in the Eighteenth Century."

A Chinese studies expert at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the director of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of the Central Party School for the Communist Party of China will engage in a panel discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Auditorium at Hamilton College. Titled "Same Bed, Different Dreams: Chinese and American Perceptions of Superpower Responsibilities," the presentation is part of the Levitt Public Affairs Center’s speakers series focused on the duties and roles of superpowers.  All Levitt speaker events are free and open to the public.

Ann Owen, former Federal Reserve economist and associate professor of economics, was quoted in The New York Times article, "If You Don't Eat or Drive, Inflation's No Problem." Owen said: "If you want to know how much more it costs you to live this year than last year, look at the headline C.P.I. And from a consumer's perspective, there's nothing good about a 4.7 percent increase in headline inflation in 12 months." This article also appeared in the International Herald Tribune.

Katha Pollitt, author and columnist at The Nation, will open Hamilton College’s new “Writers on Writing” series on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson. Her lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled “Writing Memoir: A Reading With Comment.” The series is sponsored by the Writing Program.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Kyoko Omori was invited to give the talk "Probing Taisho Modanizumu: Detective Fiction, Mass Production and Vernacular Modernism" at the conference titled "The Space Between: The Cartographic Imagination of Japanese Modernism," October 14-15, at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Department of English has announced its annual fall literary readings. On Thursday, October 27, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Hoa Ngo will read from his fiction in the Red Pit at 8 p.m. On Monday, November 7, poet Colette Inez, professor of writing at Columbia University, will read in the Fillius Events Barn at 8 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

Dr. Richard Saunders, director of the Museum of Art at the Center for the Arts at Middlebury College, gave a lecture on Oct. 19 in the Science Center Auditorium. Titled “The College Museum: Collections and Directions,” the talk focused on Dr. Saunders’ experience with Middlebury’s collection and how the collection’s evolution relates to current museum developments at Hamilton.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Masaaki Kamiya presented at the 35th Michigan Linguistics Society on Oct. 15 at Michigan State University. The title of this talk was "Frozen Phenomena and Nominalization in Japanese." In the talk he explained that impossible syntactic processes are related to word formation. That is, if word formation takes place in syntax, impossible syntactic processes are due to the illegitimate syntactic constituents. Furthermore, the current analysis accounts for so-called Japanese Q particle binding and its interpretations.

Andrew Bacevich visited Hamilton on Oct. 20 as a speaker in the Levitt Center’s lecture series on the “Responsibilities of a Superpower.” His lecture, titled “Reflections on American Militarism” was based on his most recent book, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War, which details the rise of the U.S. military and the consequences of this change. The new American militarism is built on the belief that we have “managed to unlock the secrets of warfare and had created military instruments of unprecedented political effectiveness as well as operational efficiency,” said Bacevich, who is the director of the Center on International Relations and a professor of international relations at Boston University.