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Hannah Wagner ’15 presented a poster titled “Rusophycus in the Herkimer Formation Building Materials on the Hamilton College Campus” at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America - Northeastern Section. The conference was held in Bretton Woods, N.H., on March 23-25 and the technical program consisted of symposia, theme and general sessions, arranged in oral and poster format.

Thistle Farms/Magdalene founder Becca Stevens will present a lecture titled “Living Out Our Ideals in the Practical World” on Wednesday, April 8, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel. Stevens’ lecture is sponsored by the STOP TRAFFIK organization and is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Choir, conducted by G. Roberts Kolb, will present the home concert of its recently completed spring break tour on Wed., April 8, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Gretha Suarez ’15 has been awarded a Fulbright Research Grant to India. Through her project, Gender and Public Space: Politics of Women’s Safety in Ahmedabad and Mumbai, she will spend the 2015-16 academic year studying how urban infrastructure regulates women’s presence in Mumbai and Ahmedabad’s public spaces.  These cities provide a platform to examine the conditions of women’s safety and rights to public space by comparing infrastructure that facilitates access.

Author, advocate and independent scholar Barbara Smith will present a lecture titled “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building” on Tuesday, April 7, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Smith’s lecture is sponsored by the Women’s Studies Department and is free and open to the public.

Ten Hamilton students along with faculty advisor Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny traveled to Skidmore College to participate in the three-day Model European Union conference on March 26.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz recently presented a series of lectures at universities across New Zealand. She discussed her research on Orestes and Pylades, as well as prison teaching and feminist scholarship in classics.

The F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present the Alloy Orchestra accompanying Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 thriller Blackmail on Sunday, April 5, at 2 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium.

The age-old adage of “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” appears to be playing itself out yet again in Europe. From the return of “the German question,” to civil unrest in the former USSR, or the resurgence of political scapegoating and economic disarray, current conditions are raising concern from the global community. On April 2 the Government Department hosted a roundtable panel of four Hamilton faculty members to address key elements of the continent’s contemporary crisis.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presented a paper titled “Saxa loquuntur?: Archaeological Fantasies in Wilhelm Jensen’s Gradiva” at a conference on March 28 at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash.