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Jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves will perform on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts, Hamilton College. This concert is the first of five in the Contemporary Voices and Visions Series. In this program, Reeves reclaims the priceless legacy of Sarah Vaughan, as heard on her heralded Blue Note recording, The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan.

An op-ed, "U.S. Must Heed Lessons from Past Wars Against Elusive Enemies," written by Stephen Orvis, associate professor of government, was published in the Sunday, October 7 issue of the Syracuse Post-Standard.

The Emerson Gallery is featuring three new exhibitions, Selections from the Samuel Hopkins Adams Collection of Prints by Currier and Ives, Christmas with Thomas Nast, and The Mother of God: Iconographic Representations of Mary, all which will be on view through December 21.

The Africana Studies Program presents its Fall Series on "Race," featuring Robert Bernasconi, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 4 p.m. in the Red Pit. His talk is titled "Our Duty to Conserve: W. E. B. Du Bois and The Conservation of Races."

Ralf Frank Hartmann, Ph.D. University of Marburg, will give an illustrated lecture, "Wanderers between Two Worlds: Two Late Works of Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Karl Friedrich Schinkel" on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 4:10 p.m. in room 218 List. Sponsored by the art department and the German department.

Edward North Professor of Classics Carl Rubino traveled to Towson, MD, for the fall meeting of the Classical Assocation of the Atlantic States, where he is chaired a panel of journal editors from the region. Rubino is book review editor of the American Journal of Philology.

Mitchell Stevens, assistant professor of sociology and author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement, talks about his book and the different home-school constituencies in the Chronicle of Higher Education's "Hot Type" column (Oct. 11 issue).

Author and educator Lorene Cary will deliver a lecture, "Living to Tell the Tale: Experiences of an African-American Woman at Elite Educational Institutions," on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel. It will be followed by a book signing. Free and open to the public.

David Andrews, visiting associate professor of economics, delivered a paper, "Why did Ricardo Believe that Growth Theory Is 'Vain and Delusive'?" at the "Old and New Growth Theories: An Assessment" conference, in Pisa, Italy.

Steve Goldberg, associate professor of art, delivered a paper, "Representing Women in China: What's Gender Got to Do with It?," at Agnes Scott College in October, 2001. He also particpated in a meeting of the Board of Directors, ASIANetwork, A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies, in October.