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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.

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.

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.

Philip Zweig, a 1968 graduate of Hamilton, wrote an op-ed about the Enron crisis that was published in The New York Times (Feb. 2). Zweig is the second Hamilton alumnus in two weeks to be published in The Times' op-ed section; Michael Granof '63 wrote an op-ed that was published on Jan. 23.

Lecturer in Music Lauralyn Kolb's new compact disc was released by New World Records, Inc. The CD, "Just-Spring: Art Songs of John Duke," with pianist Tina Toglia, is part of New World Records' Recorded Anthology of American Music.

Religious Studies Professor Jay Williams published a new book, The Way of Adam, which is now available through 1st Books (December, 2001). It tells the story of Adam, a child born of Heaven and Earth who leaves his cavern home and eventually leads a company from the great city on a quest for the secret that will end the woes of the City of Man. The text draws upon a variety of Biblical, astrological, numerological, mythological and Daoist symbols.