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Sharon Williams, director of Hamilton's Writing Center, participated in the annual meeting of the Ivy Plus Writing Consortium held Oct. 16-17 at Brown University.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department is hosting three lectures in a series called “Art and the Stage: Design for the Theatre.” They will all take place in Minor Theater on the Hamilton campus and are free and open to the public.

Frontiers, A Journal of Women's Studies has published an essay by Professor of English Patricia O’Neill titled "Amelia Edwards's Travel Writing." The essay explores the role of travel in Edwards's career and, more generally, in Victorian women's intellectual life.

Andrew Dykstra, assistant professor of mathematics, gave a colloquium talk to the mathematics faculty at the University of Denver on Oct. 15. The talk was titled "Very Weakly, Loosely, and Vaguely Bernoulli." It focused on classes of dynamical systems that exhibit random behavior, but whose behavior is not quite as random as a simple coin toss.

Robert L. Holmes, the McCullough Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy at Hamilton, will give a lecture titled “The Gulf Wars, Western Imperialism, and the Just War Theory” in the Hamilton Science Center, room G041, on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 4:15 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

James Bradfield, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics, will present a talk titled "Money, Debt and the Fragility of the Financial Markets” on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m. at The Other Side in Utica. This is the second event in the 2009-2010 Imagining America collaboration between Hamilton and The Other Side.

The College Democrats will be debating the College Republicans on issues including foreign policy, the economy, health care and the proper role of government on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 8 p.m. in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson Building.

Dr. Arlene Blum, executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute and a biophysical chemist, lectured about health risks associated with the widespread use of chemical flame retardants on Oct. 19 in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture was sponsored by the Chemistry Department and Outdoor Leadership Center.

Video artist Oliver Herring, whose work is now on exhibit in Hamilton's Emerson Gallery, will hold a gallery conversation with Emerson Gallery Consulting Director Ian Berry on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 4:15 p.m. in the gallery. Following the conversation, a reception will be held at 5 p.m. for the three current exhibitions, including “Oliver Herring: Video Sketch.” The three exhibits, which also include “private (dis)play: Contemporary Artists’ Sketchbooks” and “William Palmer: Drawing from Life,” run until Jan. 3.

A recent Christian Science Monitor article focused on a unique networking program offered by colleges to alumni highlighted Hamilton. The article "Universities try innovative ways to get grads jobs" examined "speed-networking," an evening for alumni from NESCAC colleges during which participants are matched with others who share their stated interests. Each participant spends six minutes with 12 other individuals. The somewhat dizzying experience removes the potential awkwardness of typical networking events.