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In an article revisiting the past terrorism of the Symbionese Liberation Army, Hamilton Professor Maurice Isserman was quoted, "The SLA was like an existential statement- like al-Qaida attacking the World Trade Center. Similarly with the SLA, there was no political program to connect with. It was just terrorism for its own sake."

Kirkland Project artist-in-residence Sharon Bridgforth and her daughter, Sonja Perryman, will perform "word orchestrations/for two," a staged reading featuring jazz/conjuring/word rhythms/blues/prayers on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center at Hamilton College. The event is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton co-presented a paper, "Does Action Identification Mediate Underperformance Following Stereotype Threat," with Nikisha Williams '01 at the 3rd annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Savannah, Ga., held Jan. 31 - Feb. 2.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager returned from a year-long leave devoted to researching the history of Soka Gakkai, a Japan-based, global Buddhist movement. His research was sponsored by the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century.

On Feb. 5 in the Events Barn, Vanessa Johnson told history by spinning stories. Johnson used song, movement and drumming to tell African folklore, revisit historical events and tell stories of endurance and hope. This event was sponsored by FebFest and the Student Assembly.

In January, Lecturer in English Sharon Williams presented a workshop on challenges faced by new college writers for middle and high school faculty at the Clinton Central Schools. Williams is director of Hamilton's Writing Center.

At the 27th Annual Conference on Literature and Film at Florida State University, Talahassee, in January, Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English John O'Neill presented a paper titled "'One of Her Own Sex': Female Homosocial Relations in Jane Austen's Novels and Their Film Treatments."

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Henry Rubin delivered a paper titled "Exodus and Death: Metaphors and Models of Jewish Suburbanization in New Haven, Conn.," to the American Jewish Studies Conference in Washington. Rubin contributed a piece on date rape on the Hamilton campus to the newsletter of the Sexual Behaviors, Politics, and Communities Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. As SPBC division chair, Rubin is also organizing five panels for the annual meetings in Chicago this August.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in January where she presided over one panel (on "Gender in Latin Literature") and gave a paper at another panel on "Classics, Educational Institutions and Diversity." The paper was titled "From the Administrator's Swivelling Chair: What Can Classicists Contribute to Diversity?" These papers will be published in a special journal issue. Gold also held meetings of the editorial board and the associate editors of The American Journal of Philology, of which she is editor. In October, Gold attended the Fall meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, where she presided over and introduced a panel on "Doubleday Classicists;" these papers will also be published in a special journal issue. She is president-elect of this organization.

Professor of Art Robert B. Muirhead has several paintings included in The Copley Society of Boston’s invitational show, "Landmarks & Icons: New Views of Old Places." The exhibition continues through March 9.