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Jazz guitarist and Hamilton graduate Paul Kogut '88 will lead a burning trio in the Little Pub on Thursday, Oct.  23 at 9 p.m. Hamilton music adjuncts Rick Montalbano (keyboards) and Jim Johns(drums) round out the group. Music from their new CD will be featured.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Mark Masterson has published a review of a collection of essays, The Sleep of Reason (Chicago 2002), in the current issue of the American Journal of Philology. This collection surveys the interface between sexuality and philosophy in the ancient world. Masterson was chosen to review this book because a major focus of his research agenda is sex and gender in the ancient world.

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, gave a lecture titled "Education, Art, and Politics: American Influence on China’s Peaceful Evolution," as one of the activities during Hamilton's presidential inauguration. Li's lecture was also part of the Faculty Lecture Series sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.

Jaime Volker '05  has been named the recipient of the Terry Walker Scholarship by the Classical Association of the Empire States (CAES).  The award will be presented at the end of October during the Fall meeting of CAES in Binghamton.

Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny was a panelist this month at The Bingham McCutchen International Law Symposium presented by The Connecticut Journal of International Law of the University of Connecticut School of Law.  The conference title was "The New American Hegemony?" and the topic of Cafruny’s panel was "Europe and the New American Hegemony."

Joan Hinde Stewart told the audience gathered for her inauguration that she and her family have "found a perfect home" at Hamilton College because both the college and her family share the same core values: a careful attention to writing and communication. Stewart was inaugurated as Hamilton's 19th president and was presented with an honorary Doctor of Laws during the 75-minute ceremony in the college's Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Approximately 925 people attended, including delegates from more than 60 colleges, universities and learned societies.

Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy Kirk Pillow recently published articles in two interdisciplinary fields. The first, "Did Goodman's Distinction Survive LeWitt?," was published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Pillow argues in the paper that the wall drawings of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt raise difficulties for philosopher Nelson Goodman's attempts to distinguish forms of art in which forgery is possible from those in which it is not. The second article, "Hegel and Homosexuality," was published in a supplement to Philosophy Today. In this paper Pillow analyzes the aesthetic theory, political philosophy, and philosophy of nature of German Idealist thinker G. W. F. Hegel in order to reconstruct a problematic Hegelian condemnation of same-sex sexual desire.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano presented two papers at interdisciplinary conferences. At the Western Humanities Alliance conference held at the University of Utah, Luciano presented "Voicing Removal: Mourning (as) History in Hope Leslie" on October 18. At the American Studies Association convention in Hartford, Conn., she presented another paper, "Desiring-Time: Feminist Utopian Fiction and the Difference a Queer Narrator Makes." Luciano also presented  "Voicing Removal: Mourning (as) History in Hope Leslie" at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers convention in Fort Worth in September.

Photographer William E. Williams, a 1973 graduate of Hamilton College and a 2003 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, will present a slide lecture on his project "Gettysburg, A Journey in Time" and selections from his work-in-progress on the Underground Railroad, on Monday, Oct. 20, at 4:15 p.m in the Red Pit. Sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, and the Emerson Gallery.

Advances in computer technology lie at the interface of biology and computational technology: bioinformatics, an approach that has revolutionized the way we study biology. To enhance "Bioinformatic Technology in Biology Education," Hamilton has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to establish the Biology Computing Facility.  This $256,586 project will be housed in Phase I of Hamilton’s New Science Center, (expected to be completed in the Spring ’04.)  The collaborative effort by biology Professors Ken Bart, Steve Festin, Jinnie Garrett, Herm Lehman and Patrick Reynolds will infuse bioinformatics technology into the biology curriculum.