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Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, participated in the recent 5th Annual Symposium on Poverty and Economic Security sponsored by the New York State Community Action Association in Albany.

Anne E. Lacsamana, associate professor of women’s studies, presented her paper “Feminist Theory in Crisis?: Towards a Transnational Historical Materialist Project” at the 7th annual Historical Materialism Conference (Nov. 11-14) hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Heather Merrill,  the Jane Watson Irwin Distinguished Visiting Chair in Women's Studies, was the featured speaker at the annual Gamma Theta Upsilon, International Geographical Honor Society induction ceremony at Colgate University on  Oct.7. The title of her talk was "In Other Wor(l)ds: Place, 'Race,' Belonging and the African Diaspora in Italy."  

While women have made significant strides in the past decades, the culture at large continues to place a great emphasis on how women look. These beauty standards, largely proliferated through the media, have drastic impacts on young women and their body images. Arielle Cutler ’11, through a Levitt grant, spent the summer evaluating the efficacy of media literacy programs as a remedy to this vicious cycle.

For the past 40 years, war and civil unrest have taken a toll on Colombia. Families were torn apart, crops were destroyed, innocent people became victims of a huge-scale conflict. But women, although not often talked about, may have suffered most of all. Kirkland Summer Research Associate Caty Taborda ’11 is investigating the past, present and future of women’s rights in Colombia.

Nine Hamilton College faculty members were approved for tenure by the College's Board of Trustees during a recent meeting. The Board granted tenure to Donald Carter (Africana studies), Anne Lacsamana (women’s studies), Tina Hall (English), Chaise LaDousa (anthropology), Rebecca Murtaugh (art), Angel David Nieves (Africana studies), Edna Rodriguez-Plate (Hispanic studies), Chad Williams (history) and Yvonne Zylan (sociology).

Chandra Talpade Mohanty, a prominent postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist, will present a lecture on Thursday, April 22, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit. The lecture is sponsored by the Cultural Education Center and is free and open to the public.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, was among five community college alumni presented with the Outstanding Alumni Award on April 19, at the 90th annual convention of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) held in Seattle, Wash. The award is presented annually to individuals who have excelled in their field and given back to the community.

Anne E. Lacsamana, assistant professor of women’s studies, was invited to Rollins College as a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar in January to deliver a public lecture on her current research on the Philippine women’s movement.

Hamilton hosted a Community-based Research (CBR) program on Friday, Nov. 6, arranged by New York Campus Compact, at which four CBR models currently in use as part of Hamilton courses were presented. Faculty members from Colgate and SUNY/IT as well Hamilton faculty and two Levitt Vista workers attended this roundtable which included discussions of best practices for student learning and community outcomes.