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Professor of Government and Woodrow Wilson Fellow Cheng Li gave a speech in Paris to the Centre d'Études et de Reacherches Internationales, on Oct. 28. Li spoke on the leadership changes and institutional development in the China's 16th Party Congress meeting.

In a Time Magazine Asia (Nov. 4) article on the Chinese Communist Party's strategy to appease the middle class, Cheng Li, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. and a professor of government said, "These people have vivid memories of the uprising in Tiananmen Square, and have come to see it as a dead end, a revolution that went nowhere." He continued, "The middle class has sided with the government."

On the eve of the 16th Party Congress, Cheng Li, professor of government at Hamilton College and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, will provide an overview of China's 4th Generation leadership at a CNA Corporation press conference held at the National Press Club from 2-4 p.m. on Nov. 7.

Following last month's visit by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani - the latest in the Sacerdote Series Great Names at Hamilton - the Alumni Programs Office circulated an e-mail to the Hamilton community asking for ideas and suggestions for future speakers.

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Professor of Classics Barbara Gold had an article, "Accipe Divitias et Vatum Maximus Esto: Money, Poetry, Mendicancy and Patronage in Martial," published in Flavian Rome: Culture, Image and Text, edited A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik (Leiden: Brill, 2003) and released Nov. 2002. She is also president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and presided over the semi-annual meeting in New Brunswick, N.J., in October.

Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major and Tomasz Konopka '02 had a paper, "Observational Limits on Quantum Geometry Effects," published in the New Journal of Physics. (4 (2002) 57)

Associate Professor in Religious Studies Richard Seager participated in a panel discussion and delivered a paper, "Teaching Asian/American/Religions in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Setting," under the auspices of the Asian North American Religions, Culture, and Society Group at the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion in Toronto.

Three Hamilton College soccer players earned honors as UCAA Players of the Week for the week ending Nov. 2. Roxanne Hoek '03, a back on the women's team was named UCAA Women's Player of the Week. She had a goal and an assist in Hamilton's win over Manhattanville last week. Anthony Tripicchio, freshman goalkeeper on the men's soccer team was selected as the UCAA Co-Rookie of the Week. He had six saves in Hamilton's win over SUNY Geneseo last week. Senior Schuyler Gellatly was named Men's Player of the Week. He scored both Hamilton goals in the game against SUNY Geneseo.

Classics Professor Carl Rubino has been chosen as a presenter in the New York Council for the Humanities’ “Speakers in the Humanities program. Rubino’s topic is “Rome Outside the Beltway: Gladiator and the History of Roman Films in America.”