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Scott MacDonald's essay on two recent films by James Benning, "James Benning's Thirteen Lakes and 10 Skies and the Culture of Distraction," has just been published in James Benning, a collection of essays published by the Austrian Film Museum on the occasion of a major retrospective of Benning's work. An interview conducted by MacDonald with David Gatten, "Gentle Iconoclast," has just been published in Film Quarterly (Winter 2007-08).

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, has published a new book titled Greek Tragedy (Wiley and Blackwell).

Hamilton's 2007-08 Performing Arts season will continue in February with the first of three special events planned for the spring semester. All events will take place in Wellin Hall at the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Four Hamilton seniors and one junior are participating in a week-long internship working with medical residents in the St. Elizabeth Family Practice Residency program in Utica. Hamilton's Coordinator of Health Professions Advising Leslie North set up the program, and this is the third group of Hamilton students to participate. The student interns are Leann Brigham '09, Bryden Considine '08, Michael Gregg '08, Tamar Nobel '08 and Jenney Stringer '08.

Sponsored by the Levitt Center, 11 Hamilton students recently traveled to Germany to represent Romania and Slovakia at an international Model European Union (EuroSim) conference. This year's event was hosted by the Universities of Trier and Saarbrucken, and concentrated on possible independence for the Kosovo region of Serbia. The participants Elena Filekova '08, Stephen Sallan '08, Tamim Akiki '08, Murtaza Jafri '08, Matt D'Amico '08, Henok Alemayo '10, Mariam Ballout '10, Zeynep Harezi '10, Kasey Hildonen '10, Reisa Asimovic '11 and Robert Eisenhart '11 prepared through weekly meetings and individual research in the preceding months.

The 13 members of the Hamilton College Buffers took their show on the road as they departed for their annual winter tour on January 9. In recent years this popular a cappella group has been active throughout the Northeast, performing at assorted alumni events and at academic institutions including Williams, Harvard, RPI, Russell Sage, Georgetown, Bates, Dartmouth, Vermont and McGill. 

More than 1,000 alumni, parents and friends gathered in 26 cities during the week of Jan. 6 – Jan. 13, 2008, to celebrate the birthday of the college's namesake, Alexander Hamilton. The birthday celebration kicked off in Iowa City, Iowa, where the state held its first-ever alumni gathering with a group of about 15 alumni, parents and friends. 

Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Global Political Theory Edward S. Walker, Jr. '62 has participated in numerous interviews and panel discussions in the last few months related to U.S. relations with the Middle East.

According to the Boston Business Journal, Oasis Technology Partners Inc. founders: Jeff McMahon, Nick Laidlaw, and Robert Naughton, all 1997 graduates, have managed to build their second internet business after venture number one, PlanetLink.com, sold in 2000.

To commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day Hamilton College will present the play The Meeting, by Jeff Stetson, on Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 21 and 22. The Meeting is directed by Mark Cryer of Hamilton's Theatre Department and will begin at 7 p.m. following a 6 p.m. dinner in the Fillius Events Barn.