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Hamilton College will host a panel titled “Islam: A Religion of Extremism?” with a panel of experts, including former U.S. ambassadors and faculty with expertise in the Middle East, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 4:15 p.m., in the Chapel. The discussion is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus delivered the Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture on Feb. 4 at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. The talk, “Autonomy Platonism and the Circularity Objection,” covered themes in Marcus’ forthcoming monograph, Autonomy Platonism and the Indispensability Argument.

Harvard Law School professor and author Janet Halley will give a lecture, “A Legal Realist Analysis of Rape Law: The Case of Rusk v. State,” on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 4:15 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

Junior biochemistry concentrator Ben Wesley received a Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR) award for a proposal titled “Development of a Continuous Flow Reactor for Synthesis of Izidine Alkaloids.” Each year, several hundred to 1000 proposals are submitted to Sigma Xi to fund research-related expenses in many different areas of science.  The award program is highly competitive, and only about 15 percent of applications are funded.  

The Monday, Feb. 9  reading and Tuesday talk by The New Yorker author and staff writer D.T. Max have been cancelled due to the weather in the Northeast. His visit will be rescheduled for a later date.

Hamilton's Department of Music will present a Black History Month jazz concert with “Doc” Woods on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. The concert will feature “Doc” Woods, composition and bass; John Piazza, trumpet; Bob Cesari, saxophone; Tom Witkowski, piano; and guest artist Nasheet Waits, drums.

Artist Alyson Shotz, drummer and music educator Nasheet Waits, and animator Todd Akita will present a lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 4:15 p.m., in the Wellin Museum Overlook. They will discuss the process of creating “The Bedroom: Time Lapse,” an animated film featured in the Wellin’s current exhibition “Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature.”

Hamilton NYC students visited the Museum of Chinese Americans in Chinatown for a guided tour of its special exhibit titled “Waves of Identity: 35 Years of Archiving.” Alice Fung, an educator at MOCA, described Chinatown in the 1970s when the museum was founded and how it changed and grew over time.

In an email to the Hamilton community on Feb. 5, President Joan Stewart announced the death of Master Maintenance Mechanic Ray Barretta.  He died on Feb. 4 as the result of a snowmobiling accident.

Hamilton’s Department of Music presented the annual choir musical, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld,  Feb. 6-8, in Wellin Hall. The fully staged musical was directed by G. Roberts Kolb with choreography by Nancy Long and set and lighting design by William DiPaolo.