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The Emerson Gallery will host several events in October related to the two current exhibitions, "Native Perspectives: George Longfish and Shelley Niro" and "WPA Arists: Prints from the Amity Arts Foundation." These shows and related events are free and open to the public. Both exhibitions will be open through Dec. 30.  

Elizabeth Economy, CV Starr Senior Fellow and director for Asian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and an award-winning author of "The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China's Future" (2004), will speak on Monday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. The title of her talk is “Environmental Challenges to China's Future.” This lecture is part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series titled “Inequality and Equity” and is free and open to the public.

Jen Sadowsky is spending the fall of her junior year in the Cooperative Education Program between Hamilton and the New England Center for Children (NECC).  She recently described her duties as a participant in the program, "At the New England Center for Children, I am currently working with nine kids (ages 7-12) diagnosed with autism and other pervasive developmental disorders. Many of them have severe communication and social deficits, and some are completely non-verbal. We deal with a lot of challenging behaviors and constantly use positive reinforcement to reward the kids for doing their work and having good behavior." 

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted in the cover article of the September issue of the National Geographic Magazine. In “The Manchurian Mandate,” Li commented on how the Chinese government could not afford to allow the frustrations of the residents of northeast China to erupt. Social unrest in that area of the country has been high due to lay-offs, rampant corruption, human and environmental disasters and a growing income gap between the highest and lowest groups. Li is currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.

On Sunday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m., The Sterile Cuckoo, filmed on and around the Hamilton campus in the late 1960s and co-written by a Hamilton alumnus, will be screened in Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. The event is part of the F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series organized by Scott MacDonald, visiting professor in art history.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg will present a digital-slide lecture titled “Uses of the Past in Chinese Landscape Painting” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16, in the auditorium at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute (MWPAI). Goldberg’s presentation will mark the opening of an exhibition titled “Chinese Paintings from the Henricksen Collection” at the institute. A lecture titled “From Collection to Exhibition” by Sewall Oertling, professor emeritus at SUNY Oswego, will follow.  Both presentations are free and open to the public. A reception will follow in the Edward Wales Root Sculpture Court open to institute members and their guests.

Brian J. Glenn, visiting assistant professor of government, organized a short course titled "Studying Public Opinion before Polling" at the American Political Science Association conference in Philadelphia in August.  He also presented at a panel on his edited book project, "Conservatives and American Political Development."

Photographs by Visiting Art Instructor Sylvia de Swaan are on display at the Utica Public Library through Aug. 29 as part of an exhibit titled “Work Zone.”  De Swaan will participate in a panel discussion on Monday, July 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the library’s gallery with two other photographers, Sarah Lathrop and Gina Murtaugh, whose works are also included in the show. The event is free and open to the public.

The Town of Kirkland, Village of Clinton, Hamilton College, Clinton School District, and Oneida County have reached a mutual agreement in which Hamilton College will provide increased annual contributions to the local area.

Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery is showcasing the work of 12 sculptors in an outdoor and indoor exhibition in collaboration with Sculpture Space, a Utica-based international residency program. The exhibition, part of Sculpture Space's celebration of its 30th anniversary, is titled "Sculpture Space Inside Outside." The exterior portion of this two-part show includes 10 installations on the college's North Campus. Located inside the gallery, the second part of the exhibition documents the development of each installation and includes biographical information on the artists.