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Constantine “Dean” Kokkoris will give a lecture titled “Seeking Accountability from a Superpower: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the New York Courts” on Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit. Kokkoris represents the Vietnam Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin Association in a lawsuit against U.S. companies that, during the war in Vietnam, supplied chemicals that devastated 10% of the land of the former South Vietnam and left lasting consequences for human health and the environment. This lecture is sponsored by The Levitt Center.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, gave two lectures in October: "A Feminist Dilemma: The Construction of 'Consent' in Greek Tragedy" at the University of Reading, U.K. and "Tragic Discourses of Rape" at Paris VII.

Hamilton College's 4th annual Relay for Life, a signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, will begin on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Thirty-two groups are registered to participate, including the women's ice hockey team, women's basketball team, societies PBX, TDX and TKE, Dunham second floor, the dance team, men's basketball and Posse+, to name a few. This year's goal is $15,000; more than $10,000 had been pledged by mid-afternoon on October 28.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, is the author of three articles published in October. She wrote "The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty Class in Academe" for Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas vol. 3, Fall 2005; "Class Absences: Cutting Class in Feminist Studies," in Feminist Studies 31, no 3, Fall 2005; and "Last In and First Out: Poor Students in Academe in Times of Fiscal Crisis" in Radical Teacher 73, Fall 2005. Adair is also the director of the ACCESS Project at Hamilton College, a program dedicated to providing low-income, first-generation college-educated parents in central New York with all of the support necessary to thrive in an academic community.

Jisi Wang and David Lampton were panelists in a discussion on October 26 titled, “Same Bed, Different Dreams: Chinese and American Perceptions of Superpower Responsibilities.” The talk was part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center’s “Responsibilities of a Superpower” series.

Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert will be the featured speaker at Think Tank on Friday, Oct. 28, at noon in KJ 221. Gilbert will be speaking on "Growing Inequality in the U.S." Think Tank is a student-directed organization that works to stimulate dialogue among students, faculty and staff outside of the classroom. Lunch will be provided by Dessert Booth.

Associate Dean of the Faculty and Associate Professor of Philosophy Kirk Pillow presented a paper at the national meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics in Providence, R.I., on October 20. The paper, "Is Anything Sublime?," challenged the Kantian view that aesthetic qualities are purely subjective and argued that the Grand Canyon is sublime not merely in our subjective estimation of it but in fact.

Katha Pollit, writer and columnist for The Nation, read from her work at Hamilton on October 25. The event, titled “Writing Memoir,” was sponsored by the Writing Center and was part of the Writers on Writing series.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman will give a poetry reading in the Word Thursday Series at the Bright Hill Center in Treadwell, N.Y., on Thursday, Oct. 27. The Bright Hill Center aims to seek out, study and collect the work of early and contemporary writers, storytellers and artists, according to its Web site. Participants are selected for their artistic excellence, their ability and willingness to work within a community setting and the diversity of their backgrounds, genres and styles.

On October 24 the Levitt Center sponsored a talk by John Berry, psychology professor emeritus of Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. Berry discussed the results of a recent large-scale study in a presentation titled “Acculturation: Living successfully in two cultures.”