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A panel discussion, “Building Communities Across the Digital Divide,”  is the next event in the Kirkland Project at Hamilton College series, “Technology, Science and Democracy:  What’s at Stake?” It will take place on Thursday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium.  A panel of four guest speakers will address the topic. This program, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Computer Science department.

Hamilton graduate and award-winning novelist Kamila Shamsie will read from her work on Wednesday, September 24, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. Her first novel, In the City by the Sea, was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize, and her second, Salt and Saffron, won her a place on the Orange Prize Futures list of "21 writers for the 21st century." The reading is sponsored by the English department.  

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, gave a talk at an international conference on "SARS: Globalization's Newest Challenge" presented by Yale University's Council on East Asian Studies on September 20. The workshop looked at the recent SARS outbreak in all its socio-cultural aspects and included sessions on medicine, politics, economics and media.  Li is the author of Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform and China’s Leaders: The New Generation, and is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

Maurice Isserman, professor of history, will speak at Claremont College as a part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute lecture series for this fall.  Isserman will participate in a seminar titled "The Other America: The Hiddenness of Poverty in the U.S." on September 25. Scripps' semester-long program discusses poverty and how poverty can affect people socially, hindering their political clout and their health and nutrition in addition to the apparent economic barriers poverty constructs.  The lecture series also includes faculty from Duke University, Pitzer College and Northwestern University; also, recent Hamilton visitor Dr. Vandana Shiva is scheduled to speak on November 5.

Hamilton College’s Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan Professor of History, co-authored a book with Michael Kazin of Georgetown University; the book, titled America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s and published by Oxford University Press has been revised and re-released. The Second Edition of the book includes new insights by both Isserman and Kazin regarding events of the 1960s, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the rise of the New-Right. More analysis of the cultural changes in the 1960s is included in the new edition as well, including the important affects of musicians such as Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and Motown had on people and culture of the era.

Richard Skinner '92, visiting instructor in government at Hamilton, is a co-author of a chapter in Life After Reform: When the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Meets Politics, recently published by Rowman & Littlefield (August, 2003).  

Professor of Africana Studies Tracy Sharpley-Whiting was a participant in the University of Pennsylvania's Center of Africana Studies Critical Theory Panel. It was part of a program that commemorated 30 years of African American studies at Penn, and also included scholars Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West. The discussion was later broadcast on NPR's "The Tavis Smiley Show."

Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Catherine Kaha has released a new book, Mediation and the Communication Matrix, published by Peter Lang, Inc. The book explores how media on the screen "reconfigures private and public experience in ways that are fundamentally different than print culture." Kaha focuses on perception and our perceptions of images on screen, claiming that "one’s knowledge of the world is grounded in perception; that one’s perception contributes in significant ways to an understanding of the social world; that communication technologies are altering our sense of sight, touch, and movement; and finally, that altering the human sensorium will have consequences for our shared understanding of the social world."

Author Carol Goodman delivered the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College on September 17, the first in a series of lectures to be given by people who majored in classics studies in college and went onto very interesting, rewarding, and successful careers.

Edward S. "Ned" Walker Jr. '62, former ambassador to Israel and Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs gave a talk on "The Middle East After Iraq" on September 16 at Hamilton.  Walker’s talk coincided with the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Camp David Accords (Sept. 17, 1978).