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Filmmaker and author Mick Conefrey will present his BBC documentary The Race for Everest and lead a discussion following the screening on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Shelley Haley, professor of classics and Africana studies, was invited to be a guest facilitator for a Mellon workshop on “Sex and Gender in Past Societies: New Theories and Approaches.”

Winslow Professor of Classics Carl A. Rubino presented at the Film & History conference held Oct. 29-Nov. 1 in Madison, Wisc. The theme of this year’s conference was “Golden Ages: Styles and Personalities, Genres and Histories.”

Chris Vasantkumar, associate professor of anthropology, presented a paper titled “Unlearning Our Lines: Number, Line, and the Politics of Synchronization," as part of a multi-disciplinary symposium on non-linear temporalities held October 24-25 at Northwestern University.

Lauren Magaziner ’12 returned to the Hill on Nov. 7 to give an informal talk about her newly published children’s book and share advice with current students on how to make it in the publishing world. 

Associate Professor of French Cheryl Morgan recently presented a paper  at the 40th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium and published articles in George Sand Studies and H-France Review.

Members of the women’s tennis team volunteered at the Rome Humane Society on Oct. 25 and Nov. 5. Team members dried scoopers, folded towels, brushed and pet cats, and walked dogs.  Women’ s tennis is one of many Hamilton varsity sports that engage in community service activities. The men's cross country team recently volunteered at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore secondhand shop, and the women's soccer team participates each year in the Great American Heart Run and Walk.

Lieutenant Colonel Eric Hannis '90, senior fellow for defense studies at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, D.C., will present the second annual Josiah Bunting III Veterans Day lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture is free and open to the public.

“Mummy Jum: The Shaker-Pilgrim Encounter of 1817-1818,” an article by Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives Christian Goodwillie was published in Communal Societies. He also co-edited a three-volume set that is part of a series on communal societies.

France Winddance Twine, anthropologist and professor of sociology, will present a lecture “The Sexual Lives of Soldiers: the Circularity of Violence in a Masculine Institution” on Monday, Nov. 10, at 4:10 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will examine the emotional and sexual health of active duty military personnel through a series of memoirs by female veterans. It is sponsored by the Africana Studies Department.