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Chad Williams, assistant professor of history, presented at two recent conferences. On March 27 Williams delivered a paper titled "A Mobilized Diaspora: The First World War, Military Service, and Black Soldiers as New Negroes" at The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters, a three-day international conference held at the University of Connecticut.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper titled "The Imperial Turn and U.S. Power: Decline or Retrenchment" at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco on, Wednesday, March 23.

Professor of Music Samuel Pellman recently attended a performance of his digital composition Dancing in the Dark, choreographed by Missy Pfohl Smith of Hobart College, at a concert at the Hochstein School in Rochester, N.Y.  The concert, titled Vision of Sound, includes choreography and compositions by several New York artists and will be repeated on Saturday, April 5, at 3 p.m. in Wellin Hall.

Fallon Chipidza '10 has been awarded a Davis Project for Peace program grant of $10,000, which she will use to establish a self-sustainable chicken project at a preschool in Zimbabwe. The Davis Project for Peace program, in its second year, honors philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, who launched the initiative on the occasion of the 100th birthday in 2007.

Tony DeRose, a senior scientist and lead of the Research Group at Pixar Animation Studios, will lecture at Hamilton College as part of the James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture series. His talk, "Math in the Movies," will take place on Thursday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. 

Jonathan Shay, a MacArthur Fellow and clinical psychiatrist, will present a lecture titled "Homer on Military Leadership" as part of the Winslow Lecture Series at Hamilton College. Shay's talk will take place on Thursday, April 3, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. 

Hamilton sent two curling teams to the 2008 National College Curling Tournament at the North Shore and Chicago Curling Clubs in Glenview, Ill., from March 14-16. Returning curlers Katherine Alser '09, Yuqi Mao '09, Tom Irvin '09 and Dave Hamilton '09 comprised Team Hamilton Blue, and competed in Division 3. New curlers Jack Li '08, Andrew Harris '11 and Will Welles '08 teamed up with Mike Lindsay of Yale University, to form Team Hamilton Buff, and competed in Division 4. For the second straight year Hamilton returned successful with both teams bringing home the gold medals from their respective divisions.

The Great Noise Ensemble, a group focusing on the performance of contemporary classical music founded and directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo, has been named Best Chamber Ensemble of 2007 by the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA).

A national study that examined faculty influence on the political views of college students and that found no evidence of faculty indoctrination was the subject of an Associated Press article and another in InsideHigherEd.com. Hamilton Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt and Mack Mariani, a government professor at Xavier University, were the study's authors.

Having sold out one hardback and two paperback editions, Comparative Literature Professor Peter J. Rabinowitz's Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation has been reissued in the "Open Access Initiative" of Ohio State University Press.