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The interim report of a working group assessing student learning at Hamilton College has found significant improvement in students' writing, one of the college's curricular points of emphasis.

Doran Larson, associate professor of English, will give a Kirkland Project Brown Bag talk on Friday, Nov. 21 at noon in the Emerson Hall (E.L.S.) living room.  His talk is titled "Industrial Porn; Or, The Politics of Mass Pro(se)duction in the Work of Busby Berkeley." Larson will discuss the intersection of labor and gender politics in the dance production numbers choreographed and filmed by Busby Berkeley in the 1930s."   Brown bag talks are informal.  Bring your lunch and join us for discussion. Cookies from Cafe Opus will be served.  For more information, please call the Kirkland Project office at x4288. 

Ann Frechette, the Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies, recently presented two papers as well as published two book reviews. The first paper, "Parties and Party Politics among Tibetans in Nepal," was presented at the meeting of the New England Association for Asian Studies. At the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, she presented her paper, "Weapons of Weak States: Nepal and the Tibetan Exiles." Earlier in the year, Frechette also published two book reviews, one in Journal of Refugee Studies and another in Journal of Asian Studies.

Professor of Government Stephen Orvis attended the African Studies Association Meeting from Oct. 30 - Nov. 1. He was the chair of a panel on the topic "What Ever Happened to the Kenya Development Model?" The papers presented in this panel will later appear as chapters in an anthology Orvis is co-editing on the subject. Orvis has also recently published an article in Journal of Modern African Studies titled "Kenyan Civil Society: Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide?"

Professor of Government Robert Martin presented "Habermas, Post-Modern Agonism and the Early American Public Sphere" at the Inagural Conference of the Association for Political Theory, held at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Oct. 17. Martin presented his paper as part of the panel on "American Roots." Martin is also a founding member of the Association for Political Theory.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Sino-U.S. educational exchange programs. Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government, coordinated a conference, with Fudan University, that took place in Shanghai. Topics included the history and current status of U.S.-China educational exchange programs from both the U.S. and Chinese views, as well as a session devoted to mapping the future of Sino-U.S. exchange programs. In addition to scholarly presentations, Richard Levin, president of Yale University, gave the keynote address and senior officials of China’s Ministry of Education offered remarks.

Hamilton College's Department of Religious Studies and the Dean of Students for Multicultural Affairs are sponsoring a lecture titled  "Ramadan and Its Meaning for American Muslims" on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 4 p.m. on the first floor of the ESL Building.  The lecture will be presented by Yusuf Harfer, M.D., a local Muslim leader from Norwich.  His presentation will include an explanation of the spiritual meaning of Ramadan as well as the health effects of following Ramadan's restrictions on eating and drinking.  The program is free and open to the public.

Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., chair of the social policy program at the University of Maryland and author of The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice, will speak on the relationship between race and environmental policy, Thursday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m.  The program, sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, will be held in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson Building on campus.

Hamilton College was ranked 15th in total citations in a survey of economic scholarship among top liberal arts colleges published in the fall 2003 issue of the Journal of Economic Education. 

The Alpha Delta Phi Lecture Series presents Assistant Professor of English Steve Yao on "Ezra Pound, Hamilton's (In)Famous Alumnus," on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium