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Allen Hockley, associate professor of Asian art history at Dartmouth College and Curator of the Emerson Gallery exhibition "Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints of the Lenoir C. Wright Collection," will present a slide lecture, Thursday, Oct. 14 at 4:30 pm in Saunders Chemistry Auditorium.

Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay Williams is the guest curator of the Thomas Nast exhibit at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.  The exhibit, "Christmas with Thomas Nast," which features woodblock prints of Santa Claus from Williams' private collection, was formerly on view at Hamilton College in 2001.  The exhibit is open through December 31.  For more information call 1-888-547-1450 or www.fenimoreartmuseum.org.

Margaret Klenck, K '75, is featured prominently in a two-part PBS series, The Question of God. She is a Jungian psychotherapist. The show is based on a popular Harvard course taught by Dr. Armand Nicholi. 

Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major delivered research papers in the U.S. and Ireland recently. In October he presented "Physics and Quantum Gravity" at Amherst College and "Loop Quantum Gravity: An introduction" at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In July Major presented "Quantum Geometry Phenomenology: A Discrete Machian Model" at the GR17 conference in Dublin, Ireland.

Ann Owen, director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and associate professor of economics, was quoted in a Newhouse News Service article about the presidential impact on the U.S. economy. 

Associate Professors of French Martine Guyot-Bender and Cheryl Morgan have been elected new co-editors of Women in French (WIF) newsletter and bibliographies. The first issue they edited, Fall 2004, includes Guyot-Bender's annotated bibliography on 30 French "popular" women novelists from 1990 to 2004 (this bibliography was selected before she became co-editor). Guyot-Bender was also invited to teach at the University of Oregon in fall 2004.

Alison Lin '03 will present a talk, "Grassroots Literacy for Women's Empowerment: Observations through the Bristol Fellowship in Haiti, Cameroon, Vanuatu, Senegal, and Martinique," on Thursday, Oct. 14 at 12 p.m. in the Christian-Johnson Browsing Room. Her lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of Hamilton College's Empowerment Week, sponsored by HAVOC (Hamilton Action Volunteer Outreach Coalition).

Geoffrey Cohen, assistant professor of psychology at Yale University, presents, "Stereotype Threat and the Academic Achievement of Underrepresented Students," Wednesday, October 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the KJ Auditorium.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed by the BBC World Service for The World Today, October 11. Li discussed the European Union's decision to not lift its embargo on arms sale to China and its implications.

Alice Rivlin, Brookings Institute's senior fellow and director of its greater Washington research program in economic studies, opened this year's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center speaker series on Oct. 11 in the Chapel. Rivlin presented the lecture, "Why The Federal Budget Matters to Your Economic Future," in conjunction with the Levitt series titled "U.S. Budget: Power, Politics & Priorities."