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In her education blog on the USA Today website, Mary Beth Marklein reported on how some colleges have promoted religious and cultural awareness “even before Florida preacher Terry Jones announced plans to burn the Quran this weekend.” Included in a summary of how “colleges have been seeking ways to counter anti-Muslim sentiment on campus and promote understanding of religious and cultural diversity” was a description of Hamilton’s recent in which 170 Muslim and non-Muslim students participated in a fast and post-fast dinner. One of the reasons for holding the annual event is to offer non-Muslim students the opportunity to experience what Muslims practice for an entire month.

The Emerson Gallery will present a trio of exhibitions that examine definitions of religious art, what makes images religious and what happens when objects leave an artist’s studio or their spiritual context and become “property” of the community. The exhibitions will be on view Sept. 13 – Jan. 2 and will feature a range of works from different cultures and historic periods, including works from the Emerson Gallery collection and the Burke Library special collections. 

Approximately 170 students, Muslim and non-Muslim, participated in the annual "fast-a-thon," sponsored by the Muslim Students Association on campus on Sept. 8. The day of fasting during the month of Ramadan, ending on Sept. 9, brought students of several faiths together. One of the reasons for holding the annual event is to offer non-Muslim students the opportunity to experience what Muslims practice for an entire month.

Hamilton College’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center will sponsor a series of evening lectures for the 2010-11 academic year focused on three thematically based programs: Security, Sustainability, and Inequality and Equity. All lectures are free and open to the public.

Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, was interviewed and quoted in a BBC Magazine article titled Mad Men and the 60s - the decade is in the detail. The article explored the “un-60sness of the early 1960s,” the years in which the TV series is set.

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Donald Carter, professor of Africana studies, has been appointed chief diversity officer by President Joan Hinde Stewart this summer to “oversee efforts in the area of diversity and help us to build the most inclusive and welcoming community possible.” Carter hopes “to develop a broad diversity plan based on what’s going on today - the problems and successes we are having - and to build organically from the bottom up on what is already here.”

Environmental studies major Pat Dunn ’12 left for Tanzania on Aug. 25 to study wildlife conservation and political ecology on a School for International Training program run by the Institute for World Learning. He is part of a group of approximately 20 U.S. students who will travel as a unit, reading, listening to lectures and visiting sites that are significant to current ecological issues in the country. On the eve of his departure, Dunn began a blog which, when access is available, he will maintain throughout the program.

During the last academic year, Hamilton brought approximately 175 speakers to campus, from a former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission to an award-winning journalist to a Fortune 500 CEO. They presented on myriad topics, from set design to federal budgeting. As a new academic year begins, a review of some of the past visitors and a look at those who will be on campus this year highlight the diversity of disciplines, views and interests represented on campus as well as the opportunities afforded our students and our community.

A ceremonial run/walk commemorating the 2008 Run for the Fallen will be held on the Hamilton College campus. The free event will begin at the Michael J. Cleary ’03 Tree on Saturday, Aug. 21, at 9 a.m., adjacent to the Campus Road side of the Siuda House, Hamilton’s Office of Admission and Financial Aid. The community is welcome to participate in this special remembrance of all the soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.