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Hamilton College Performing Arts presents Anonymous 4 and Bruce Molsky in 1865: Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

Hamilton College’s Black and Latino Student Union (BLSU) attended the 20th Annual Black Solidarity Conference at Yale University on Feb. 19.  This year’s topic was: “Ties That Bind: Unique In Our Blackness, One In Our Struggle,” which focused on unifying students of color to converse, to brainstorm and to take the lead in the fight against systematic oppression.

Thirty-seven Hamilton students and four science faculty recently joined forces to introduce local middle school students to college-level discussion about public health issues.

Hamilton College will host an International Writers Festival with appearances by novelist/poet Chris Abani, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri and Valzhyna Mort on Friday, Feb. 27, and Saturday, Feb. 28, on campus.  All events are free and open to the public.

Imagine suing your doctor or medical team for the harm of not providing you with the option of terminating your pregnancy.  While it may sound fantastical, this is the actual situation in a subset of medical malpractice lawsuits called “wrongful birth.”  The Oral Communication Center recently sponsored a lecture titled “You Should Never Have Been Born: The Rhetorical Conundrum of Wrongful Birth Lawsuits,” by Vesta T. Silva, associate professor of communication arts at Allegheny College.

Hamilton’s Mock Trial team competed on Feb. 21-22 at the regional competition, held at Buffalo State University. This event determined whether the team would move forward to the opening round championship (ORCs) the weekend of March 6-8.

Photographer Bill Jacobson will present a lecture about his work on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium as part of Hamilton’s Visiting Artist Series. This lecture is sponsored by the Art Department and is free and open to the public.

Lily Marks ‘15 and Meghan O’Sullivan ‘15 have been selected as NY6 Think Tank fellows. The NY6 Think Tank is community of professionals and students from the six member schools who wish to disrupt—rethink and rewrite—public conversations on the state of the arts and humanities.

Thomas Wilson, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of History, presented “Conceptions of Heaven and God in the Imperial Cults of China” on Feb. 11 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. His discussion focused on a cult devoted to the veneration of heaven practiced by the emperor of China and an entourage of court officials from the seventh century to the fall of imperial China in 1911.

In order to bring in the new lunar year, Asian Cultural Society (ACS) and Hamilton American Chinese Exchange (HACE) co-hosted this year's Lunar New Year celebration on Feb. 18.