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Professor of Government Stephen Orvis spoke on the current situation in Kenya at the Conference on East Africa, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the National Intelligence Council, on Thursday, Sept. 13. The conference, which was unclassified and off the record, was held in honor of the new State Department Director of the East Africa Bureau, James Knight. Orvis also spoke at a similar conference, the Conference on Conflict in the Horn of Africa hosted by the U.S. Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State, last September.

Senior Julianne Jaquith, a native of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., is interested in law school and public interest issues. This summer she decided to do some investigation work, and secured a position with Legal Services of the Hudson Valley (LSHV) to research the current system of providing counsel for low income individuals in civil matters.  

Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu joined the ACC (Associated Colleges in China) Internship Program during the summer of 2007. It is supported by the Department of Education of the U.S. and administered by the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department at Hamilton Colleges. During his trip to China, he was invited to give plenary talks at three conferences on Chinese education organized by the Education and Science Society, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., and several Chinese normal universities. Xu's talk was titled The Relationship between Classical Chinese Learning and One’s Ability in Modern Chinese Reading and Writing.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell attended the Latin American Studies Association conference in Montreal, Canada, where she presented a paper on Sept. 6. As a member of a panel titled “Multilateralism and the ‘New’ Challenges to Democracy in Latin America,” McConnell presented "Can the Inter-American Democratic Charter Work? The 2004-2005 Constitutional Crisis in Nicaragua." 

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman will read from her recent work at The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, on Sunday, Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. Other readers will be poets Tom Sleigh, Joshua Weiner, and Victoria Redel. The reading is hosted by Martha Rhodes, Editor of Four Way Books. For more information and directions, go to: http://www.bowerypoetry.com/

Associate Professor of Music Mike "Doc" Woods presents The Tower School of Business, a concert of R&B songs and instrumentals, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 9 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The group features Ronnie Leigh on vocals, Woods on bass and Jeff Stockham on trumpet. Free and open to the public.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavò participated in two panels at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago, held August 30-Sept. 2. As part of a panel on environmentalism and civic republicanism that he organized, Cannavò presented a paper titled, “‘To the Thousandth Generation’: Timelessness and the Pastoral Nexus between Green Politics and Republicanism." Cannavò also presented his book, The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place (The MIT Press, 2007) as part of a panel titled “New Books in Green Politics and Theory."

In a cooperative effort orchestrated by the Chaplain’s Office, the College Republicans, the College Democrats, and the Christian Fellowship, the Hamilton community honored the memory of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the sixth anniversary of that tragic day. Nearly 3,000 memorial flags were displayed along Martin's Way and the Hamilton community observed a moment of silence at noon. A ceremony in memory of the victims took place at 4 p.m. outside Commons. In addition, the brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon collected donations for the American Red Cross outside Beinecke.

Susan Frey ’84, director of education, Thoreau Institute at the Walden Woods Project in Lincoln, Mass., will lead a "Walden Pond Trek" for The Boston Alumni Association at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16. She will comment on the natural history of the Pond as well as the most famous denizen of Walden Woods, Henry David Thoreau. 

Professor of Biology Ernest Williams published a column about monarch butterflies in News of the Lepidopterists' Society (March, 2007). The column, "Status of the Monarch Sanctuaries in Mexico," resulted from his visit in January to the Mexican sanctuaries, when he joined a research team of Dr. Lincoln Brower, the foremost authority on monarch butterflies. Dr. Brower was co-author on the column, and five of Williams' photographs, including the cover photo, were used in this issue. In this article, they describe the current status and threats to the monarch over-wintering sites and recommend several conservation actions.