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Jay Williams, Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, published an article in the Nov. 2001 edition of The Theosophist (India). The article titled, "The Sheng Ren and the Nabi" was originally given as a paper at the New York State Asian Studies Association.

On Nov. 15, Government Professor Cheng Li gave a speech at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies titled, "China's Road Ahead: Will the Upcoming Leaders Make a Difference?"

Professor of Art Rand Carter, participated in a conference sponsored by the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena in Santo Domingo. He gave both the opening and concluding lectures at this conference.

Professor of French Roberta Krueger wrote, "'Nouvelles choses': Social Instability and the Problem of Fashion in the *Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry,* the *Menagier de Paris,* and Christine de Pizan's *Livre des Trois Vertus* in *Medieval Conduct,* edited by Kathleen Ashley and Robert L.A. Clark, (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).

On the evening of Thursday, Nov. 8, Dr. Donald K. Grayson gave a talk in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit on "Ice Age Extinctions." Grayson is an archaeologist who has written extensively about the extinction of large mammals like mammoths, giant ground sloths and sabertooth cats in North America during the Pleistocene. Grayson has been at the University of Washington since the mid-1970s, but he began his teaching career on the Hill, when the Anthropology Department was part of Kirkland College.

Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, has been in the U.K. since September, where he is the first Hamilton College exchange fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford University. He has delivered a talk, "'Papers of a Dangerous Tendency': New Revelations about Soviet Espionage and American Espionage," at the American Institute at Oxford, and at Lancaster University, Sheffield University, Cambridge University, and Glasgow University.

Associate Professor of Art John McEnroe has published 35 reports in "Pseira IV. Minoan Buildings in Areas B, C, D, and F." (The University Mueseum Press) to culminate his 10-year project as architect for the Pseira, Crete excavations. McEnroe also published his third book this fall. Artists, Writers, and Musicians, An Encyclopedia of People who Changed the World (Oryx Press, 2001)was co-edited with Michel-Andre Bossy of Brown University and Thomas Brothers of Duke University.

Anthropology Professor Douglas Raybeck was interviewed for an Orlando Sentinel article (Nov. 13) about Americans' diminished expectations following the events of September 11. "No matter what happens, from here on out, nothing will exceed what we went through on September 11," said Raybeck. "Before, we had innocence. That has been replaced with anxiety and suspicion and foreboding and other not-so-nice words."

"Biological Weapons - a terror that will not go away" will be the theme of Think Tank on Friday, Nov. 16 at noon in KJ 222. Biology Professor Jinnie Garrett and students enrolled in Bio448: Seminar in Molecular Genetics, will discuss the potential for the development and use of genetically modified organisms as new agents of bioterrorism.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present several music concerts in November at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The annual Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society concert will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 8 p.m. and the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble rounds out the month on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 9 p.m.