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Jonathan Kozol, renowned author, activist, and educator, led an open discussion workshop about education in America on September 17 in the Events Barn. The event was open to the public and well attended by Hamilton students and faculty members, as well as educators from the local community. The workshop was held in conjunction with Kozol’s lecture, “Savage Inequalities: Class, Race and Social Justice in the U.S. Public Schools.”

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted internationally on the retirement of China's former president and chairman of the central military commission Jiang Zemin.  Li was interviewed on BBC radio, VOA radio and quoted in articles that appeared in the Washington Post, Reuters, Yahoo!News, PolitInfo.com, and the Australian, among others.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was widely quoted in the MSNBC article, "Chinese in the dark as leaders gather." The article focuses on leadership stuggles between former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and current President and Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao.

Assistant Dean of Students for Multicultural Affairs Marc David presented the keynote speech at a workshop sponsored by the YWCA Racial Justice Department on Sept. 17. The workshop, "A Community's Journey Towards Racial Harmony," was the third community dialogue sponsored by the organization. David's lecture was titled "Beyond Power and Privilege: Practical Solutions for Improving Race Relations in America."

Renowned educator, author and activist Jonathan Kozol presented a powerful, dynamic lecture titled "Savage Inequalities: Class, Race and Social Justice in the U.S. Public Schools," on September 17 in Hamilton's Chapel. Dean David Paris and Professor Vivyan Adair both introduced Kozol, praising his expansive work and applauding him for making educational inequalities "less of an abstraction and more of a reality."

Professor of History Maurice Isserman is the author and an editor of Across America: The Lewis & Clark Expedition (Facts on File, 8/04). According to the publisher, the book "opens with President Thomas Jefferson's receipt in August 1805 of a wagonload of animal skins, dried plants, insects, an Indian bow and many other items that Meriwether Lewis had sent him four months earlier. Around that same time, Meriwether Lewis and three other members of the Corps of Discovery crossed the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass and realized that the expedition still had far to go to reach the Pacific Ocean. With full coverage of the events leading to the Corps of Discovery's formation and its gripping adventures to the Pacific and back, this book details these explorers' travels and trials."

Alumnus John Nichols '62 wrote a column for the Los Angeles Times, "An unstable relationship that he can count on" (9/14/04) about the area in which he lives near Taos, N.M. "During the last three years, I have climbed my mountain more than 50 times. It's my escape to a world devoid of human ingenuity. Between me and the pale moon overhead there is only air and the great distances of the universe, a fact that comforts me. I usually hike alone, and once above Gallegos Lake at 11,000 feet I almost never meet another person. This suits me well because in my dotage I have grown tired of the human gabble," Nichols wrote. He is the author of The Milagro Beanfield War.

Hamilton College Performing Arts opens the Contemporary Voices and Visions series with Canadian celtic fiddle sensation Natalie MacMaster on Friday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Associate Professor of History Kevin Grant is the author of a new reference book, Exploration in the Age of Empire, 1750-1953 (Facts on File, Aug., 2004), part of a series which is edited by Professor of History Maurice Isserman and John Bowman. According to the publisher's Web site: "Concentrating on the 18th through the 20th centuries, this comprehensive reference provides full coverage of European exploration and imperial expansion in Africa and Asia. Three major themes—motive, the influence of changing ideas on the conduct and understanding of exploration, and the impact of exploration on the politics of the European empires—are integrated into seven chapters and an epilogue." The book "examines the way in which all the great explorers who served the European empires of the modern era became popular celebrities, unlike their predecessors, and illustrates the roles of explorers as propagandists."

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, published the paper, "Cooling Shanghai Fever: Macroeconomic Control and Its Geopolitical Implications," in issue No.12 (Fall 2004) of the China Leadership Monitor.