Serena Zabin, assistant professor of history, has published a book titled “The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings, with Related Documents” as part of the the Bedford Series in History and Culture.

Nancy Wilkie, the William H. Laird Professor of Classics, Anthropology, and the Liberal Arts, organized and chaired a workshop on the Cultural Heritage of China at the recent Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Iñigo García-Bryce, assistant professor of Latin American history at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, will give a lecture at Carleton College titled “Crafting the Republic: Artisans and Liberals in Nineteenth Century Peru?” at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19 in the College’s Gould Library Athenaeum. The event is free and open to the public.

Lisa Barrow, a 1991 Carleton College graduate and senior research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, will give the 2004 Lamson Lecture in Economics on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 5:30 p.m. in Leighton Hall, Room 304. Her talk is titled “Is the Official Unemployment Rate Misleading?: A Look at Labor Market Statistics Over the Business Cycle.” The event is free and open to the public.

Jacob Lew, a member of Carleton’s class of 1976, will present a convocation address titled “Why Budgets Matter: Choosing Between Guns vs. Butter and the Present vs. the Future,” at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 20 in Carleton College’s Skinner Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

The Carleton College Symphony Band, directed by Ronald Rodman, will perform a concert titled “The Nineteenth-Century Band” on Friday, Feb. 20, at 8 p.m. in the Concert Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, was quoted in a February 17 Saint Paul Pioneer Press article titled “Media wary of Drudge sex ‘report’ ” about the media’s reaction to a posting on drudgereport.com of an alleged affair between John Kerry and an intern. “I don’t think there’s any question the media has been more circumspect about this one,” says Steve Schier.

As part of the ongoing exhibition “Kettles,” the Carleton College Art Gallery will host a Japanese tea ceremony demonstration at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17. Mitsuo Oyabu, a disciple of the centuries-old Sohen school of tea, and Paula Arai, assistant professor of religion at Carleton, will perform the demonstration. The event is free and open to the public.

Valerie Jensen ’79 was featured in a February 16 Minnesota Lawyer “Attorneys of the Year” article titled “Valerie Jensen: Working Toward Making The State’s Bar More Diverse.” The article highlighted her efforts to bring diversity to the the state legal community as vice-president of the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers and William Mitchell College of Law’s associate dean for multicultural affairs. “We’re not just focused on students of color. We’re really focused on true multiculturalism…,” Jensen said. Jensen majored in political science and African/African-American studies at Carleton.

Gregory Hewett, assistant professor of English, will have a poem,”Thoughts on Rimbaud,” in the upcoming issue of The North American Review.