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The Africana Studies Program continues its Diasporic Film Series in celebration of Black History Month. The 2002 theme is "The Color Line Revisited: Is Racism Dead?" On Tuesday, Feb. 19, the series will feature "Daughters of the Dust," directed by Julie Dash, at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ. Classics Professor Shelley Haley will offer introductory remarks. All events are free and open to the public.

Peter Cameron, a 1982 graduate of Hamilton College and author of three novels, will visit the campus as writer-in-residence from Feb. 18-22, and do a public reading of his works on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 8 p.m. in the Beinecke Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception.

Milton F. Fillius, Jr., a member of Hamilton's class of 1944 and a trustee who was instrumental in founding Hamilton's Jazz Archive, died on February 12 following a lengthy illness. He was 79 years old.

Richard Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, deliver a lecture,"Noncombatant Immunity Thesis," on February 19. The lecture was sponsored by the office of the president.

Professor Jay Williams helped return a rare Thomas Nast oil painting entitled "The Immortal Light of Genius" to the town in which it was created. The painting was donated to the Morristown-Morris Township Joint Free Public Library where it joins a collection of Nast's work in books and one other painting.

Associate Professor of English Catherine Kodat's essay, "Writing a Fable for America" has been published in the collection "Faulkner in America: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1998," published by University Press of Mississippi.

A book review by Associate Professor of English Catherine Kodat about a recently published study of the fiction of Toni Morrison was published in the Winter 2001 issue of the quarterly journal Modern Fiction Studies.

Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics Robert Redfield spoke on "Lattice-Ordered Algebraic Extensions of Totally Ordered Fields" at Tulane University and at Louisiana State University. During the same month Redfield also spoke on "Ordering Subsets of the Real Numbers" at the University of Houston - Clear Lake (NASA campus).

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven co-edited and contributed to Philosophy & Theology, Volume 13 Number 1 (2001), which was a special issue on Spinoza's biblical hermeneutics. Ravven wrote "The Garden of Eden: Spinoza's Maimonidean Account of the Genealogy of Morals and the Origin of Society" and wrote a piece for the guest editors' page with co-editor Lee Rice of Marquette University.

Austin Briggs, Tompkins Professor of English Emeritus, attended the James Joyce birthday conference, "JJ on the Bay," held at the University of South Florida, Sarasota/Manatee, in February. At a session he chaired, he delivered a paper, "James Joyce, J.M. Coetzee, and Elizabeth Costello." The conference was dedicated to the memory of the late John Henning Brown, Hamilton '68.