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Heidi M. Ravven, professor of religious studies, has published an invited essay in  Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy, edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Arizona State University) and published by Indiana University Press.  In her paper, "Spinoza's Ethics of the Liberation of Desire," Ravven shows the ways in which Spinoza was inspired by and modernized the biblical model of Jewish liberal ethics and democratic politics.  Ravven concludes that Spinoza's ethics is a far better point of departure for a contemporary feminist ethics of liberation than the several standard versions of contemporary feminist philosophic ethics.

Last summer, while working as an assistant in the English department offices, Dan Walker ’05 (Marcellus, NY) was able to begin reading and researching with Hamilton College Professor Onno Oerlemans about an idea called “conspicuous concealment” and its role in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance. This summer, Walker will pick up where he left off on his research last summer with his Emerson summer collaborative grant.

The Hamilton College Alumni Office is pleased to introduce you to our Alumni Travel program. Hamilton College, in concert with Bates, Bowdoin and Colby colleges, will offer international Alumni Travel opportunities to Hamilton alumni, parents and friends of the College in 2005: Costa Rica: January / SOLD OUT Chianti in a Tuscan Villa: April Provence - Aix-en-Provence: June China, Tibet & the Yangtze River: October 20 - November 7 All travel events will have strong educational elements to complement the professionally managed tours. A fifth summer kayaking trip north of Boothbay, Maine is also planned. Costs and dates are subject to change. We invite you to complete our Travel Interest Survey to let us know what types of programs are of interest to you. We hope to see you and your family on one of our upcoming trips.

Professor of History Maurice Isserman presented a paper titled "Cold War in a Cold Place: The 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition" at a conference held at Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia. The conference featured both American and Russian historians and was organized to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Fulbright Program's Distinguished Chair in American History at Moscow State University. A dozen American historians who have held the chair over the past three decades, including Isserman who was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in 1997, were in attendance at the two-day conference.

A seriers of Reunions 2004 pictures will be published soon.

How important is the Red vs. Blue divide in American politics? Hamilton College James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner contends that many pundits and journalists have needlessly hyped the idea that Americans are segregating along political lines.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was interviewed for a Baltimore Sun article (6/27/04) about the anticipated increase in interest rates. The Federal Reserve Board is expected to increase rates by a quarter point this week. Owen talked about how people were caught unaware in 1994, the last time the agency raised rates after a recession. "Nobody expected the Fed to raise rates as high as they did, probably not even the Fed itself,"  Owen said in the Sun article.

  The Metropolitan New York Alumni Association invites you to the 23rd Annual Hamilton Day at the US OPEN 2004 Tennis Championship Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $63 per person. All seating is in the Upper Promenade of the Arthur Ashe Stadium. Click HERE to register.  Thanks and enjoy the US OPEN!

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, contributed an article to The Gadflyer, an Internet magazine published by the non-profit New Progressive Institute Inc. in Washington, D.C. In "Red and Blue Scare," Klinkner tells how many pundits and journalists have needlessly hyped the idea that Americans are segregating along political lines. The article is based on Klinkner's study, "Red and Blue Scare: The Continuing Diversity of the American Electoral Landscape," published in the current issue of The Forum: Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics.

Carrie Turvey '05 was recently featured in an article in the Palm Beach Post (6/28/04). Turvey works as a student intern at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla. According to the article, student interns corral groups of elementary school-age children as they guide them through exhibits. "I'm so used to jobs where I'm filing all day and doing grunt work, but this is a lot more than I expected," Turvey said.