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Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori presented a paper at the Association for Asian Studies held in Chicago on March 31-April 3. The title of her paper was  "‘We Japanese in Japan Should Find Our Own English’: Migrancy, Identity and Language(s) in Itô Hiromi’s Recent Prose.”

Masaaki Kamiya, assistant professor of Japanese, presented a paper at the Association of Teachers of Japanese seminar in conjunction with the Association of Asian Studies in Chicago. In his talk, Kamiya argued that the relation between syntactic category and theta-marking is crucial in interpretations and case marking in natural language.  

Adirondacks storyteller Bill Smith will speak at Hamilton on Wednesday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture/performances is sponsored by Sophomore Seminar 220: The Adirondacks, and is free and open to the public.

Poet and playwright Cornelius Eady will visit Hamilton College and read from his work on Friday, April 8, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activities Village. This event is free and open to the public. Eady is currently Herbert Robinson Visiting Professor of Playwriting at The City College of New York and on the faculty at American University.

University of Cambridge professor of philosophy Simon Blackburn delivered the Truax Lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, April 4. Blackburn’s lecture was titled “Religion, Liberalism, and the Foundations of Value.”  

  The traditional spring Volunteer Weekend is fast approaching. Events include Alumni Council committee meetings, a plenary session of the Council, poetry by Cornelius Eady, a lecture from Nobel laureate and economist Joseph Stiglitz, music and more. The rich slate of events and working meetings follows:  Friday, April 8                 11:10 a.m.                          Orientation Session for New Council Members                                          Great Room, Philip Spencer House 12:15 p.m.                          Luncheon for Members of the Alumni Council, Former Trustees, Hamilton Today, Parents Advisory Council and members of HALTRemarks by President Joan Hinde StewartFillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activities Village 1:45 p.m.                            Alumni Council Committee Meetings                                          Nominations Committee Meeting:                                          Honor Court Room, Bristol Center                                          Ad Hoc Committee on Multicultural Alumni Relations:                                          Afro-Latin Cultural Center                                           Regional Affairs Committee Meeting:                                          Assembly Room, Bristol Center                                           Class Leadership Committee Meeting:                                          The Hub, Bristol Center                                           Ad Hoc Committee on the Career Center:                                          Career Center Library 3:45 p.m.                            Alumni Council Class and Regional Planning Meetings                                          The Hub and the Assembly Room will be available 4 p.m.                                Informal Get-together – An opportunity for Alumni Council members to visit with one another before the evening’s activitiesThe Little Pub 4:15 p.m.                            Reunions 2006 Gift and Planning Chairs Meeting                                          Penney Room, Bristol Center 5 - 6 p.m.                           Reception with Members of the Class of 2005                                           Emerson Hall (formerly Emerson Literary Society) 6:15 p.m.                            Dinner for Members of the Alumni Council, Hamilton Today participants, Parents Advisory Council, Reunion Planning Committee members and Other Volunteer GroupsPresentation of the Distinguished Service Award toTimothy J. HicksAnnex, Beinecke Student Activities Village 7 p.m.                                Senior Recital – Tess Giardina, Mezzo Soprano                                         Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the                                         Performing Arts 8 p.m.                                Lecture by Joseph Stiglitz                                         Professor at Columbia University and                                          winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize on                                             "Globalization and Public Policy”                                          Chapel 8 p.m.                                Class in Context Series:  Reading by Cornelius Eady                                          Sponsored by the English Department and Kirkland Project                                         Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activities Village 10 p.m.                              The Latino Renaissance                                          Fashion and Talent Show                                          Hub, Bristol Center Saturday, April 9 9 a.m.                                 Alumni Council Meeting            .                             Breakfast available from 8:15 – 9 a.mAnnex A, Beinecke Student Activities Village 10 a.m.                               Reunions 2006 Committee Meetings                                          Breakfast available from 9:30 – 10 a.m.                                          The Hub, Bristol Center; Assembly Room, Honor Court                                          Room,Brown Room and Penney Room will be utilized for                                          individual class meetings 10:30 a.m.                          A presentation for Alumni Council, Former Trustees, Hamilton Today and Parents Advisory Council members                                           Advocacy, Activism and Civic Responsibility on College Campuses                                           Coordinated by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Dean of Faculty                                           Chapel 11 a.m.                               The Latino Renaissance                                          Alumni and Student Career Panel                                          Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activities Village 12:30 p.m.                          Annual Fund Review Session for Annual Fund VolunteersAnnex B, Beinecke Student Activities Village 1 p.m.                                Men’s Baseball – Hamilton vs. Williams (Doubleheader)Royce Field 1:30 p.m.                            HOLAC and the Alumni Council’s MissionPresentation led by Dan Nye ’88, Chair of the Alumni Council’s ad hoc Committee on HOLACKirner-Johnson 144 (Auditorium) 2:30 p.m.                            Emerson Gallery Exhibition Tours:                                          The Music Stand:  Jazz as a Unifying Social Force                                          Led by Monk Rowe, Joe Williams Director of the  azz                                     Jazz Archive                                           And                                           Professor-Printmaker Bruce Muirhead                                          Led by Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead                                          Emerson Gallery, Christian A. Johnson Hall 5 p.m.                                The Latino Renaissance Keynote Speaker                                          Ms. Sandra Guzman, Associate Editor NY POST                                          Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activities Village 8 p.m.                                Concert:  The American Piano                                          Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the                                          Performing Arts 10:30 p.m.                          The Latino Renaissance Carnival                                          Jimmy Santiago & The Latin Affair Salsa Band                                          Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activities Village

Visiting Instructor of English Jodi Schorb addressed the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) at its 4th Biennial Conference, held March 30-April 2 in Old Town Alexandria, Va. Schorb was invited guest on the panel, “The Future of Women and Early American Studies.”

Cynthia Sau-ling Wong, professor of Asian-American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies at  the University of California, Berkeley, gave a lecture at Hamilton on April 1 titled "Textualizing Global Feminisms: Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior."  The lecture discussed one of the best-known works of Asian-American literature, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of A Girlhood Among Ghosts, as a work of feminist and multi-cultural "world literature." Her talk was part of the series "Tracing Feminisms in Global Flows of Art & Culture," sponsored by the Jane Watson Irwin Endowment.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, participated in a Jazz Matters panel on "The Art of the Interview" on March 23. As director of the Jazz Archive, Rowe has conducted more than 200 interviews with renown jazz personalities. Established in 1995, the archive holds a collection of videotaped interviews with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics.

The director of the Congressional Budget Office and former chief economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, will speak on Monday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Hamilton's Chapel. The title of his remarks is "The Economic and Budget Outlook: Policies and Priorities." This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Hamilton College's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.