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Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, gave a lecture at the Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on Feb. 12. The talk, titled "The Joys of Joyce: Reading the Dead," was delivered on behalf of International PEN and was attended by an audience of 200. Briggs was also interviewed by the San Miguel newspaper, Atención, about "The Dead," the final short story in James Joyce's collection Dubliners.  

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur presented a paper titled "Inside Insider Activism: Understanding Movements that Target Organizations" at the 2008 annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society in New York City on Feb. 22.

Min Jin Lee, whose debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was featured on NPR and appeared on several "Best of 2007" year-end lists, will read from her work on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.

At a workshop of the Mondragon Co-operative Academic Community (MCAC) held Feb. 25-26, Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented a paper "Trust, inequality and the size of co-operative sector: cross-country evidence."

A photograph by Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan was selected by The Center for Fine Art Photography as part of it most recent exhibition of photographic fine art, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, which opened on Feb. 1. Andrew Darlow, editorial director at Digital Imaging Techniques magazine and a former instructor at the International Center of Photography in New York City, was the juror for the exhibition.

De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese and chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department, was invited as external reviewer to review the Chinese Program and the Chinese Study Abroad Program at Syracuse University in February. The Syracuse Chinese Program has a large enrollment of more than 200 students in its first year and second year Chinese. Its Chinese Studies Abroad Program has two tracks, one goes to Tsing Hua University, Beijing, built in 2005; the other goes to City University, Hong Kong, established in 1997. Professor Stephanie A. H. Divo, coordinator of the Chinese Program at Cornell University, also served as external reviewer.

Eleven Hamilton students participated in the Harvard National Model United Nations conference at the Boston Park Plaza on Feb.14-17. The conference consisted of approximately 3,000 delegates from 30 different countries. Samantha Power, a 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning author on the U.N. and the Rwandan genocide and professor at Harvard University, delivered a speech about leadership in international policy for the opening ceremony.

L'impair de la nation, a novel by Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali, was reviewed on February 8, 2008, in Reperes, a Cameroonian newspaper. The book was published by Les Editions Cle in September 2007. The reviewer praises Mwantuali for "giving to the African Woman a place that few African authors have dared to give her: the position of president." 

During the week of Feb. 18, Douglas Raybeck, professor of anthropology emeritus, presented two papers and participated on a panel at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research in New Orleans.

Harris Miller, former president of the Information Technology Association of America and CEO of the Career College Association, presented a lecture at Hamilton titled "Can America Still Cut It? Thoughts About the American Worker in the Age of Global Competition" on Feb. 19. Miller called for "a new covenant with the American workforce" and a focus on skills education in order to rebuild the American middle class.