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Professor of History Douglas Ambrose gave an invited talk, "The Past is Another Country: Reflections on History and the Humanities," at Hostos Community College (CUNY) on Oct. 30.

Associate Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori gave an invited talk, “The Benshi as a Modernist: Tokugawa Musei and Psychological Films of the Early Twentieth Century,” at SUNY Binghamton on Oct. 30.  Omori focused on the golden age of benshi, or silent film live narrators, who performed during the 1920s, an era that also saw the rise of modernist movements in Japanese art and literature.

Internationally recognized writer and anti-apartheid fighter Breyten Breytenbach will give a reading on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn.

Hamilton College Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino will present a lecture and discussion, “Articulating Wonder in a Secular Age,” on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s 3024 classroom. The lecture, the third in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum, is free and open to the public.

Heidi Nast, a professor of international studies at DePaul University, will discuss her forthcoming book about the international growth of the pet industry, on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 4:15 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. The talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Irwin Chair.

During the month of October Hamilton's 30 residence halls competed in “Do it in the Dark,” a Dorm Energy Battle aimed at reducing energy consumption. Residents of Saunders, Wertimer, and 3994 Campus Road achieved the most significant changes, lowering expected kilowatt-hour use by 29.91 percent, 28.42 percent and 23.22 percent, respectively.

“I want to research the experiences of British and Indian women during the British colonial rule in India,” explains Fiona Kirkpatrick ‘10. And as a Senior Fellow, she has done (and will continue to do) just that: she is exempt from taking classes so that she may devote her time to writing a lengthy thesis of her choosing.

Professor of Theatre Carole Bellini-Sharp directs Hamilton College students in Molière’s Les Femmes Savantes (The Learned Ladies), a satire on academic and cultural pretentiousness, for the Fall Theatre Production. Performance dates are Thursday, Nov. 5 – Saturday, Nov. 7, and Wednesday, Nov. 11 – Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. There is an additional performance on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m. All performances are in Minor Theater. Tickets are $5 for adults, and $3 for students and senior citizens.

Nancy S. Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, was the guest of the Classics Department at Skidmore College on Monday Oct. 26. She was their fall speaker and gave an address based on her current research, titled "Tragedy's Women as Subject and Object of the Gaze."

Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett and Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran will present a talk titled "Building Better People?: Genetic Engineering and the Roots of Evil" on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at The Other Side in Utica. This is the third event in the 2009-2010 Imagining America collaboration between Hamilton College and The Other Side.