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Six students from the Government and History departments along with three faculty members attended a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis on September 28.  Ellis, author of several best-selling books and frequent contributor to the History Channel and C-SPAN came to the area at the invitation of the Oneida County Historical Society, and gave a talk titled, "The Founders and Today."

Edward S. Walker, Jr.’62, former U. S. Ambassador to Israel and the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, participated in a discussion hosted by The Woodrow Wilson Center on September 28, in Washington. Walker was joined by freelance journalist Mohammad Hakki and Nicholas Veliotes, former assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs, for the panel discussion titled "Collateral Damage: Is the Widening Middle East Crisis Damaging our Relations with Egypt and Other Regional Allies?"

Government professor Stephen Orvis spoke at the Conference on Conflict in the Horn of Africa hosted by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the United States Department of State on Sept. 29 in Washington D.C. Orvis, who served as an international election observer in Kenya's transitional elections to democratic rule and led 11 Hamilton students on the Kenya Field School in summer 2000 and 2004, spoke on Kenya. The State Department organizes these conferences to solicit the views of nongovernmental specialists and to facilitate the exchange of views between these specialists and government officials.

Eric Kuhn ‘09 will interview NBC News correspondent and Hamilton alumna Lisa Daniels ’94 and national pollster and Utica resident John Zogby on the college’s radio station WHCL 88.7 FM on Monday, Sept. 18, at 4 p.m. The show, Kuhn and Company can also be heard at www.whcl.org.  Kuhn is soliciting questions from his audience for Daniels and Zogby. He asks that all questions be sent to him at ekuhn@hamilton.edu.

Professor of Comparative Literature Carol Schreier Rupprecht participated in the 8th World Shakespeare Conference in Brisbane, Australia, in July.   Her paper, “Othello in Other Words,” compared the Italian novella by Giraldi Cinthio, which was the primary source for Shakespeare’s “Othello, The Moor of Venice,” with the Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito for Verdi’s opera, “Otello.” The comparison, applying translation theory, was traced through Boito’s reliance on a French translation of Cinthio by Chappuys and of Shakespeare by François-Victor Hugo as well as Verdi’s reliance on three Italian translations of Shakespeare, including one in prose.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented an invited talk at the World Bank on Sept. 7. The talk was based on a paper co-authored with Assistant Professor of Economics Julio Videras titled "Culture and Public Goods:  The Case of Religion and the Voluntary Provision of Environmental Quality" which studied pro-environment behavior and attitudes of individuals in 14 countries.

Nicholas Tampio, visiting assistant professor of government, presented a paper on “Kantian Principles” at the 2006 American Political Science Association Conference, held in August. The paper argues that Kant’s heirs should create new principles rather than retain Kant’s original principles. The panel included several prominent Kant scholars, including Elisabeth Ellis, William Galston, Patrick Riley, and Susan Shell. Tampio’s paper is part of his book manuscript on Kant’s legacy in contemporary political theory.

The College has announced the founding of the Alexander Hamilton Center (AHC), an organization inspired by Alexander Hamilton’s life and work. The AHC seeks to "promote excellence in scholarship through the study of freedom, democracy and capitalism as these ideas were developed and institutionalized in the United States and within the larger tradition of Western culture," according to the center's charter.

Alice Domurat Dreger, a medical humanist and bioethicist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, will present two lectures at Hamilton College, sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project. On Monday, Sept. 11, Dreger will speak about “The Role of Doctors in the Future of Normal” at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Auditorium (G027) in the Science Center. On Tuesday, Sept. 12, Dreger will present a lecture titled “Something Is Actually Happening: Should Academics Do Something About It?” at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium. These events are free and open to the public.

The Emerson Gallery will jointly host a sculpture symposium with Colgate University titled “Public Art on Campus: A Sculpture Symposium at Colgate University and Hamilton College” on Sept. 8 and 9. The goal of this public symposium is to discuss the role and responsibility of public art in the physical, social and pedagogic space of the college campus. Speakers from across the country will participate in this free two-day event.