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Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman is participating in Blue Metropolis, an international literary festival, April 23-27 in Montreal, Quebec.  She will take part in a Soiree de poesie, a Translation Slam, and will be giving an all-day poetry-writing workshop called, "Lyric Yoga."

Six Hamilton students presented papers at the annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, held April 21 at Siena College.

The Megachurch and the Mainline: Cultural Innovation, Change, and Conflict in Mainline Protestant Congregations, a book written by Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson, will be in book stores on May 1. This examination of a religion in flux—one that speaks to the growing popularity of evangelicalism in America and to the broader pathways of religious change is published by the University of Chicago Press.

Associate Professor of English Steven Yao presented a paper titled "From the Language of Race to the Poetics of Ethnicity in the Rise of Asian American Verse," on April 22, at the annual conference for the American Comparative Literature Association, which was held in Puebla, Mexico. Yao is also a member of the advisory board for the organization, and currently the only member representing a liberal arts college.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi presented a paper titled "Indexing the Past: Visual Language and Translatability in Kon Satoshi's Millennium Actress" at Kinema Club Conference VIII, the annual film conference for Japanese film studies on April 23. In the paper, Ortabasi questioned existing subtitling conventions, which have remained largely unchanged over the past 70 years. Using Kon's innovative animated film, Ortabasi proposed that audiovisual translation techniques should adapt to new technologies and changing viewing habits. The conference was held in Frankfurt, Germany, this year, in conjunction with the Nippon Connection film festival.

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and Brookings Institution Fellow, will be a participant in a forum titled “The Chinese Communist Party: Bent, But Not Broken" at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The forum will be Webcast live from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. today, April 25. Other participants include professors from George Washington University, University of Wisconsin and City University of New York Graduate Center and Queens College.

Eric Kuhn ’09 published a blog post on Hardballer, the “Hardball with Chris Matthews” blog on MSNBC.com, regarding a debate between Senator John Kerry and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on “Global Climate Change and the Environment.” His blog outlines the major points of the debate.

Hamilton College will host a presentation by the Appalachian Treasures campaign on Wednesday, April 25, at 7 p.m. in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. Appalachian Treasures is a national campaign to stop the devastation that mountaintop removal coal mining has brought to the land and communities of central Appalachia.  Lenny Kohm, campaign director for Appalachian Voices, will facilitate the presentation. There will be a video followed by a question and answer session.

Berea College hosted a one-person show, "Northern Climate, the Etchings of Bruce Muirhead," in the college's Upper Traylor Gallery. The show opened on March 2 and will close on Friday, April 27. The etchings of Professor of Art Muirhead are also the focus of"Robert Bruce Muirhead, Prints, 1969-2006, A Catalogue Raisonne," a book just published by the Amity Art Foundation.

Lambda Pi Eta (LPH), the National Communication Association’s student honor society held its annual induction ceremony Tuesday, April 24, in the Azel Backus House. Meghan Hepp ’07, Lucy Barnard ’08, Amy Brown ’08, and Emma Slane ’08 were honored as new inductees. The Greek letters Lambda, Pi, and Eta, represent Aristotle’s three components of persuasion: Logos (logic), Pathos (emotion), and Ethos (character). LPH holds over 400 chapters and 5,000 members nationwide. The organization strives to reward outstanding scholastic achievement, while stimulating further interest in communications.