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The sixth Entrepreneurship Workshop and Pitch Competition for current students and Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) took place from April 8-10. Nile Berry ’14 won first place pitching his Brooklyn-based company, Marvel Vision, a creative content studio which uses drone technology to produce aerial analytics.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Nhora Lucía Serrano presented a paper titled “Visually Re-Framing Political Legitimacy: The Medieval Female Curator and Christine de Pizan’s Harley MS 4431” at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA).
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Professor of French John C. O’Neal was interviewed in French for the electronic journal La Gazette des Délices, no. 48 (Winter 2015), by the Voltaire Museum in Geneva, Switzerland. O’Neal answers questions about his career in 18th-century French studies. See the website.
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John D. Nichols ’66 returned to Hamilton on April 6 to talk about his public digital humanities project, the Ojibwe People’s Dictionary.
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The spring F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series resumes on Sunday, April 10, when filmmaker Alfred Guzzetti presents a selection of his old and new work. All F.I.L.M. series events are on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ, and are free and open to the public.
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Mountains are a “defining characteristic of American culture,” according to Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History. He spoke about the release of his new book Continental Divide, a tale of American mountaineering, on April 7 in Glen House.
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In recognition of her professional achievements and philanthropy, Scholar-in-Residence and Lecturer in Africana Studies Lissette Acosta Corniel was recently honored with the New Jersey Thomas H. Kean Outstanding Equal Opportunity Fund (EOF) Alumni Award for 2016.
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Ben Wesley’s ’16 lifelong interest in cars combined with intense curiosity about the world will serve him well when he travels to four countries as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow for 2016-17. Wesley’s project “What Moves Us: Exploring the Reflection of Culture in Car Enthusiasm” will take him to Brazil, Japan, South Africa and Germany.
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The Hamilton College Department of Music and Syracuse’s Society for New Music present Vision of Sound, a live music and dance program, on Saturday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.
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“An account both educational and perhaps surprisingly, thrilling,” is how Booklist described Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering in a recent review. Maurice Isserman, Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, will be discussing his new book, published by W.W. Norton this month, in the Glen House Great Room tonight, April 7, at 8 p.m.
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