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Hamilton College Speakers Bureau
| Anthropology | ||
| Haeng-ha Sachiko Chung, Assistant Professor 315-859-4933 |
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| Topics | Sex Work and Emotional Labor | |
Comparative Study of Japan and Korea |
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| Minorities in Japan | ||
| Ethnic Passing | ||
| Sex Work without Sex: From Geisha to Nightclcub Hostesses | ||
| Koreans in Japan | ||
| Korean Nightclub Hostesses in Japan | ||
| Art | ||
| Rebecca Murtaugh, Assistant Professor 315-859-4250 |
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| Topics | Contemporary Sculpture | |
| Postmodern Ceramics | ||
| Contemporary International Art in a Visual Culture | ||
| Professional Practices Workshop in the Visual Arts | ||
| Biology and Neuroscience | ||
| Wei-Jen Chang, Assistant Professor 315-859-4296 |
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| Topics | Genome Organization in Spirotrichous Ciliates (Protozoa) | |
| Dr. Herman K. Lehman, Associate Professor 315-859-4298 |
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| Topics | Invertebrate Neurobiology | |
| Chemistry | ||
| George
Shields, Winslow Professor & Chair 315-859-4728 |
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| Topics | The Structure of Water | |
| Water Clusters in the Atmosphere | ||
| Accurate pKa Calculations | ||
| Finding the Minimum Energy Ensemble of Peptide Conformers | ||
| Application of Computational Chemistry to Breast Cancer Drug Design | ||
| Classics | ||
| Carl
A. Rubino, Edward North Professor of Classics 315-859-4283 |
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| Topics | The Spirit of Nations: Gladiator, Tacitus, and the History of the Hollywood Roman Epic | |
| Human Choices in an Uncertain Universe: Reflections on Science, Ethics, and the Humanities |
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| Narratives of Corruption and the Rewriting of Roman History | ||
| Fathers and Fatherlands: Love, Death, and Desire in Horrace, Odes 1.7 | ||
| Barbara
K. Gold, Professor 315-859-4286 |
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| Topics | Inhuman She-Wolves and Unhelpful Mothers in Propertius Elegies | |
| Feminist Theory, Transvestism and the Atom Bomb: The Struggles of a Classicist to Stay Afloat | ||
| Which Juvenal? Rewriting Rome in the Early Empire | ||
| From the Administrator's Swiveling Chair: What Can Classics Contribute to Diversity Journals, Publishing, Refereeing, and Senior/Junior Faculty: Duties and Responsibilities | ||
| Communication | ||
| John C. Adams, Visiting Professor 315-859-4828 |
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| Topics | Presentation of a Study of Speech Communication | |
| Computer Science | ||
| Brian
Rosmaita , Assistant Professor 315-859-4816 |
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| Topics | Evolutionary Computation | |
| Theory of Computation and Theories of Mind | ||
| Social Aspects of Computing | ||
| Economics | ||
| Ann
Owen, Associate Professor 315-859-4419 |
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| Topics | How Do Students Choose Course? | |
| Savings Behavior | ||
| Economic Growth | ||
| English | ||
| Patricia
O'Neill, Professor |
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| Topics | Creative Assignments in Film Courses | |
| Where Globalization and Localization Meet - Spike Lee's films | ||
| Melek
Ortabasi, Assistant Professor (Comparative Literature) 315-859-4863 |
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| Topics | Modern Japanese Literature/Film Particularly Early 20th Century Intellectual History | |
| Peter
J. Rabinowitz, Professor (Comparative Literature) 315-859-4203 |
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| Topics | Narrative Theory and on the Relationship Between Music and Narrative as well as the Relationship Between High Art and Popular Art | |
| Reader Theory with Particular Attention to Problems of Pedagogy | ||
| Nancy
Sorkin Rabinowitz, Professor (Comparative Literature) 315-859-4149 |
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| Topics | Greek Tragedy | |
Women in Greek Vase Painting |
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| Feminist Pedagogy | ||
| Steven Yao, Associate Professor 315-859-4325 |
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| Topics | Anglo-American Modernism and Translation | |
| History and Theory of Literary Translation in English | ||
| Ezra Pound | ||
| Asian American Literature (especially poetry) | ||
| Teaching Asian American Studies at Small Colleges | ||
| French | ||
| Martine Guyot-Bender, Associate Professor 315-859-4287 (PREFERS TO PRESENT IN FRENCH) |
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| Topics | Memory and War (e.g., Patrick Modiano) | |
| Contemporary French Writers (e.g., Amelie Nothomb, Michel Houellebecq, Frederic Beigbeder) | ||
| Study Abroad for Students in French | ||
| John C. O'Neal, Professor 315-859-4212 |
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| Topics | "Nature as Refuge: From Rou sseau's Cascade to Central New York's Trenton Falls" | |
| Geology | ||
| Barbara Tewksbury, William R. Kenan Professor 315-859-4713 |
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| Topics | A Practical Strategy for Designing Effective and Innovative Courses | |
| Government | ||
| Frank
Anechiarico, Maynard-Knox Professor (Government & Law) 315-859-4342 |
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| Topics | Preventing Corruption and Improving the Quality of Government | |
| The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective | ||
| Too Much Law: The Fall and Rise of Integrity Policy in the United States | ||
| Combining Integrity and Performance Management Toward More Effective Governance | ||
| Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor 315-859-4257 |
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| Topics | Cultural Transnationalism and U.S.-China Relations | |
| China's New Phase: Hu's New Deal? | ||
| Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor 315-859-4344 |
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| Topics | American Politics | |
| Elections | ||
| Race and American Politics | ||
| War and American Politics | ||
| Steven
Orvis, Professor 315-859-4310 |
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| Topics | Democracy and Democratization Process in Africa | |
| Civil Society in Africa | ||
| Corruption, Political Institutions in Africa | ||
| Sharon Werning Rivera, Assistant Professor 315-859-4223 |
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| Topics | Russian National Identity and Vladimir Putin | |
| Elites and the Diffusion of Ideas in Post-Communist Russia Interviewing Political Elites: Lessons from Russia | ||
| P. Gary Wyckoff, Associate Professor and Director of the Public Policy Program 315-859-4198 |
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| Topics | Capitalization and the Incidence of School Aid | |
| Public Expenditure Programs | ||
| History | ||
| Maurice
Isserman, Professor 315-859-4414 |
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| Topics | 1960's | |
| American Radicalism | ||
| Himalayan Mountaineering | ||
| Shoshana Keller, Associate Professor 315-859-4358 |
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| Topics | History of non-Russian peoples in the Soviet Union and Russian Empire, especially in Central Asia |
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| Teaching History, Teaching the Nation: Narratives of time in the Uzbek History Curriculum | ||
| Islam in Central Asia and the Creation of the Central Asian Republics | ||
| Jazz Archive | ||
| Monk Rowe, Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive 315-859-4071 |
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| Topics | Excerpts from Videotaped Interview with Jazz Artists Around the U.S. (can include various themes and topics) | |
| Michael Woods, Associate Professor, Jazz Studies 315-859-4335 |
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| Topics | Louis Armstrong: How his Development is a Window into America | |
| Duke and Miles: What They Gave to American Music | ||
| Why America Needs Jazz | ||
| Mathematics | ||
| Sally
Cockburn, Associate Professor 315-859-4805 |
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| Topics | New Categories of Computational Complexity | |
| Richard
Bedient, Professor 315-859-4138 |
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| Topics | Introduction to Fractal Geometry | |
| Interdisciplinary Sophomore Seminar on Stoppard's Arcadia | ||
| Philosophy | ||
| Kathryn
Doran, Assistant Professor and Chair 315-859-4135 |
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| Topics | Contemporary Philosophical Debates about Truth, Relativism and Skepticism | |
| Marianne
Janack, Assistant Professor 315-859-4127 |
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| Topics | Personal Identity | |
| Mind/Body Dualism | ||
| Experience and its Relationship to Theory | ||
| Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science | ||
| Physics | ||
| Seth
Major, Associate Professor 315-859-4919 |
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| Topics | Life without Lorentz Invariance: Good, Worthwhile or Merely Crazy | |
| Observational Limits in Quantum Geometry Effects | ||
| Exploring Quantum Gravity with Undergraduates | ||
| Gordon
Jones, Associate Professor 315-859-4697 |
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| Topics | Polarized 3 He-based Neutron Polarizers with Applications to Materials | |
| Science, and the Weak Interaction, and Medical Imaging | ||
