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Author and NYU Professor José Esteban Muñoz will give a lecture, “Brown Feelings, Queer Lives,” on Wednesday, October 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 109 at Hamilton. It is sponsored by The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton, and is free and open to the public. Muñoz is associate professor of performance studies at NYU where he teaches Latin/o American performance, gender studies, the history of performance art and visual culture, and critical theory. 

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was interviewed by the Dallas Morning News (Sept. 29, 2003) for an article about students' protests and colleges' rights in deciding what to allow.  According to the article, a conservative group at Southern Methodist University advertised different cookie prices based on a person's race and gender to make a political statement against affirmative action. SMU shut down the bake sale on its campus after 45 minutes.  "Public schools are restricted in the action they can take. Private schools are not," said Klinkner, who writes about First Amendment issues. He said private schools may limit public displays in any way they want. "It's up to SMU to decide what kind of school they want to run," Dr. Klinkner said. "SMU is a big place, and there's going to be a variety of views."  

Hamilton College's annual Family Weekend will take place this year November 7-9. Family members can be assured of a busy weekend, with classes to attend, performances to enjoy and a cookout where you can mingle with other Hamilton families. To see the full weekend schedule, click on the link below.

The Hamilton Classical Connection concert series opens on Saturday, October 4, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts with a performance by Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. Piffaro specializes in the rich, varied repertoire of the Medieval, Renaissance and early Baroque periods (1400 to 1625) using colorful combinations of early wind and stringed instruments.

Katheryn Doran, associate professor of philosophy, will lead a discussion on The Supreme Court decision on Sodomy, Privacy, and Equal Protection: Lawrence v. Texas, June 26, 2003, for the next Think Tank, on Friday, Oct. 3 at noon in KJ 221. Turkey, vegetarian and kosher lunches will be provided or you can bring your own. Think Tank discussions usually last for about an hour. Think Tank is brought to you by the Levitt Center, Erica Hassink and Karima Shah.  

Professor of Classics Shelley Haley was featured speaker at Princeton University's Center for Human Values on Sept. 25. Her lecture was titled "Could Dido Overcome Jezebel? The Role of Classics in Black Women's Quest for Respectability & Acceptance."

The Class of 2007 continued what has become a decade-long trend of increasingly stronger first-year classes enrolling at Hamilton. Only one in three applicants to the class was admitted (33 percent), making this group of first-year students the most selective class at Hamilton in more than 30 years.

Author and storyteller Bobby Gonzalez will present, "The Tainos: The Native Americans Who Discovered Columbus," on Wednesday,  Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.  Gonzalez is Native American/Latino lecturer, storyteller, and poet from New York City, and the author of Song of the American Holocaust.

The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture continued its 2003-2004 series, "Technology, Science and Democracy" with a panel discussion on September 25. Four guest speakers shared their work and views on "Building Communities Across the Digital Divide." The panelists were Mary Bernadine Dias (Hamilton '98) from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, Ellen McDermott, founder of BusyInternet, Marianne Petit from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and David Hakken, cyber anthropologist from the SUNY Institute of Technology.

An article published in the current issue of China Economic Review is the first to evaluate Chinese economic growth using city-level data and to identify factors that explain regional differences in growth rates. The study, "Growth and regional inequality in China during the reform era," was conducted by Hamilton College Professors of Economics Ann Owen and Derek Jones and Professor of Government Cheng Li.