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Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was a guest on NPR's show "The Connection," Wednesday, March 9. The topic of the show was "China as a Superpower." Li is the author of Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: The Sino-U.S. Educational Exchange 1978-2003 (Lexington Books, March, 2005).

Six students were awarded prizes in the 2005 Hamilton Public Speaking Competition on Saturday, March 5.  The Chapel was filled with friends and parents for the final round of the annual competition for three public speaking prizes. Trix Smalley P ‘93, a member of Hamilton’s board of trustees, served as a judge. All winners will be recognized at the 2005 Class and Charter Day ceremony.

The 71-member Hamilton College Choir will spend part of the College’s spring break touring and performing in Europe. Under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton since 1981, the choir and College Hill singers will perform in Leipzig and Wettin, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; Vienna, Austria; and Krakow and Warsaw Poland, in concerts March 15-24.

Assistant Professor of Government Rob Martin published an article, “Reforming Republicanism: Alexander Hamilton’s Theory of Republican Citizenship and Press Liberty,” in The Journal of the Early Republic 25 (Spring 2005): 21-46.

Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat has begun a one-semester grant as a Fulbright lecturer in the department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem in Budapest, Hungary (ELTE). Kodat also had an essay published recently in the UK.  "Disney's Song of the South and the Birth of the White Negro" appears in the collection American Cold War Culture.

Professor of French Roberta Krueger, current director of the Hamilton Junior Year in France, presented a keynote address at the 22nd annual meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association titled "Identity Begins at Home: Female Conduct and the Failure of Counsel in Late Medieval France." During the December break, she served as chair of the delegate assembly organizing committee at the Modern Language Association's meeting in Philadelphia.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz gave talks at the STAR conference (“Science, Theater, Audience, Reader”) held at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on March 3 and 4. The event was intended to foster exchange among the sciences, the arts and the humanities.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Associate Professor of Women's Studies and director of the ACCESS project, and four ACCESS students comprised the plenary panel at Women's Stories, Women's Lives: Making Sense of Experience, a conference held March 4-5 at Sarah Lawrence College. Their panel was titled "The Missing Story of Ourselves." The students on the panel were Paulette Brown, Nolita Clark, Rose Cotrich Perez and Shannon Stanfield. The purpose of the conference was to seek to understand women's lives by examining the stories they tell about themselves and others.

Christy House '06 attended the 34th annual meeting for the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, along with her advisor, Professor of Anthropology Doug Raybeck, in Santa Fe, N.M., Feb. 23-27.  She presented her research paper, "A Study Using Levels of Analysis to Interpret Women's Possession Cases," and received the award for the best undergraduate student paper.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Didar Erdinc has been awarded a curriculum development grant from the Syracuse University Maxwell School European Union Center. Erdinc will use the grant to develop a new course on “Law and Economics in the EU,” with a specific emphasis on the anti-trust legislation in the EU and its competition policy.