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Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann presented a paper at the annual International Studies Association conference in San Francisco on Friday March 28. In "Slippery Perch: the Precariousness of the Petrochemical Basis of American Hegemony" Lehmann argued that American hegemony grew from exceptional statecraft based on its overwhelming oil resources after WWI and has begun its steady transition and relative stagnation due to merely adequate statecraft and declining resource base since WWII.

Heather Buchman, assistant professor of music and director of the Hamilton College Orchestra, has been awarded a Women Conductors Grant from the League of American Orchestras. This new grant program is for projects and activities intended to support the artistic growth and professional development of women conductors of exceptional talent. Buchman will use these funds to continue her studies this summer at the International Academy of Advanced Conducting after Ilya Musin in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive and a saxophonist, played in Aretha Franklin's back-up band when she performed at Hamilton on April 5. Following are his impressions of an evening with the Queen of Soul.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell published an article titled "Competing Gender Ideologies and the Limitations of Language in Le Roman de Silence" in the Winter 2008 (vol. 55) issue of Romance Quarterly. The article discusses an Old French romance whose heroine--named Silence--passes as male and becomes a preeminent knight and minstrel.

Aretha Franklin performed to a capacity crowd at the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House at Hamilton on April 5. The Queen of Soul, visiting Hamilton as the 16th guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series, had the crowd on their feet as she sang such classic hits as "Respect," "Freeway of Love," and "Chain of Fools." Her back-up band included Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, on the saxophone.

Professor of Mathematics Richard Bedient and his co-author Michael Frame of Yale University recently published a paper titled "Carrying Surfaces for Return Maps of Averaged Logistic Maps" in Computers & Graphics. The logistic map is a well known example of a chaotic system.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present a free concert titled "Vision of Sound" on Saturday, April 5, at 3 p.m. in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Tony DeRose, senior scientist at Pixar Animation Studios, spoke to a packed Hamilton College Chapel about the relationship between computer-animated movies and mathematics on April 3. DeRose explained many of the mathematical processes behind computer animation and the role of math in this field, and conveyed his satisfaction at being able to use movies to "deliver [math] in a way that everyone on the planet can enjoy."

A group of refugees from Russia, Bosnia, Somalia and Belarus will travel to Hamilton's greenhouse on Saturday, April 5, to plant seedlings for their gardens located at the F.X. Matt Apartments. Senior Jenney Stringer, who organized the community effort that resulted in the creation of a community garden at the apartments last summer,  planned Saturday's event as a way for residents to start the gardening process in advance of the outdoor growing season.

The Hamilton College Choir will present its recent Midwest tour program in a home performance on Friday, April 4, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. The show is free and open to the public. The program will include works by Handl, Lassus, Monteverdi, Pinkham, Barber and Whitacre, as well as a Beatles medley and a selection of folk songs and spirituals.