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Professor of French Roberta Krueger has been appointed to a four-year term on the editorial board of Speculum, the oldest U.S. journal devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages, which is published by the Medieval Academy.

Reapers, a new play by internationally-renowned playwright, John O'Keefe, the Dan Dietrich Playwright-in-Residence at Hamilton College, will have its world premiere in Minor Theater on Thursday, April 14. Reapers is a searing drama about love, family and annihilation, set in a Midwestern farmhouse. With strong language and violence, Reapers is not recommended for children under the age of 13.

Sarah Ziegler '05 wrote a guest column for The Clinton Courier about the recent Hamilton College choir tour of middle and eastern Europe. A music major at Hamilton, she is a native of Clinton. The column appears reprinted here, courtesy of the Courier.

Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, gave a lecture titled "Globalization and Public Policy" at Hamilton on April 8. Stiglitz has served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisors and as Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, and he is currently a professor at Columbia University. His lecture addressed the ways in which globalization and public policy have interacted in recent years, as well as the continuing debate over who benefits from globalization. His appearance was part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center's spring 2005 speakers series.

Members of the Hamilton community gathered on April 9 for a panel discussion titled, “Advocacy, Activism and Civic Responsibility on College Campuses.” It included presenters Stanley Fish, dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Elizabeth Minnich, senior fellow, the Association of American Colleges & Universities: Office of Diversity, Equity, Global Initiatives; Douglas Ambrose, Sidney Wertimer associate professor of history; and Maurice Isserman, professor of history. Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico '71 moderated the panel discussion.

A panel discussion of Hamilton faculty on April 9 discussed the context and implications of changes in the social security system. Ann Owen of Economics, Gary Wyckoff of Government and Vivyan Adair of Women's Studies offered their remarks in a forum moderated by Professor Frank Anechiarico of Government.

Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields has been named to the editorial board of Computing Letters, a new electronic journal devoted to the rapid publication of new research results in any area of computing.

An essay by Professor of History Maurice Isserman about Ben Franklin’s study of the gulf stream has been chosen to be included in the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). DLESE is a collaborative effort to provide support and leadership in addressing the national reform agenda for science education, scientific literacy and scientific discovery. .

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed by the BBC in a live broadcast on the demonstrations by tens of thousands of Chinese in Beijing in front of the Japanese embassy. Li discussed the origins of the protests. Japan's foreign minister demanded an apology from China after the violent anti-Japanese protests in Beijing and southern China. The protests followed plans to introduce textbooks in Japan that critics say whitewash Japanese militarism and its occupation of China during World War II.  

Seth Faison, the former Shanghai bureau chief for The New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, spoke at Hamilton College on Thursday, April 7. Faison discussed his experiences as a writer in China for 12 years in a lecture titled “Chinese Shadows: A Writer Reflects on Peeling Away Layers of Secrecy in Shanghai.”