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Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives Steven Yao has co-edited a volume of essays titled Sinographies: Writing China, published by the University of Minnesota Press. The volume includes an essay by Yao titled "Transplantation and Modernity: The Chinese/American Poems of Angel Island." It discusses the poetry inscribed upon the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station Detention building in San Francisco Bay, the site of entry for the vast majority of the 175,000 Chinese immigrants to the U.S. between 1910 and 1940.

Dean of Faculty and Professor of English Joseph Urgo presented a paper at the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago on Dec. 29. He presented a paper titled "Counting to One is Not Not Counting" in the session, Quantifying Higher Education: Making Arguments for the Humanities in Response to the Spellings Commission.

Philip Klinkner, associate dean of students and the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, has been named to Utica Mayor David Roefaro's transition team. Besides Klinkner the team includes Todd Hutton, president of Utica College, Randy VanWagoner, president of Mohawk Valley Community College, and Marilyn Skermont, Utica City Schools Superintendent. Roefaro said "It's these individuals who I will be working with in order to bring real partnerships with both city schools and neighboring colleges. It's this kind of dialogue and interaction that will foster positive economic development." 

The Utica Observer-Dispatch published Professor of French John C. O'Neal's essay "A revolutionary idea: the French as our friends" in its viewpoints section (Dec. 23). In this piece, O'Neal summarizes the recent speech of French President Nicolas Sarkozy before the joint sessions of Congress and sees "a veritable sea change in French-U.S. relations."

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori was one of six invited presenters for the Modern Japan History Workshop at Dartmouth College on Dec. 15. The workshop focused on the idea of Japan's middle class, examined from the perspectives of historical, anthropological and literary studies. 

Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, presented a paper titled "The Evidence of Experience and the Problem of Subjectivity" in a special session on Feminist Political Philosophy during the annual meetings of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore in December.

Eleven members of Hamilton's Model European Union and Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann will travel to Trier and Saarbruecken, Germany, from January 2-6, to participate in a Model European Union Simulation Conference (EUROSIM). The Model EU is a club that meets throughout the year to discuss European politics and prepare for conferences. This is Hamilton's 15th straight year as a participant in the conference. The students participating are Tamim Akiki '08, Elena Filekova '08, Stephen Sallan '08, Murtaza Jafri '08, Mariam Ballout '10, Matt D'Amico '08, Henok Alemayo '10, Reisa Asimovic '11, Robert Eisenhart '11, Zeynep Harezi '10 and Kasey Hildonen '10.

Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Postdoctoral Fellow of Philosophy, presented a paper on the main program at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore on December 29. The paper, titled "Intrinsic Explanation and Field's Dispensabilist Strategy," argues that our best theories seek to unify mathematics with science, particularly physical science, rather than to isolate, and in principle eliminate, mathematics from scientific theory.

Local media coverage is as important to Hamilton as is national attention. Hamilton students and faculty contribute their time and expertise to the local community in many ways. College-sponsored programs also make news in Central New York. Alerting the community to Hamilton's many public lectures and events contributes to stronger community ties. Here are some of those stories from 2007.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Alan Kim has published an article titled "Recollecting the Soul: Paul Natorp's Construction of a Platonic 'Psychology'" in the Dec. 2008 issue of the Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie. Natorp was a philosopher of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism that dominated the German philosophical scene at the turn of the last century, but which has only recently enjoyed a revival of interest.