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The Hamilton College Orchestra, conducted by Heather Buchman, will perform its final concert of the season on Saturday, April 30, at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Associate Professor of Philosophy A. Todd Franklin chaired a roundtable discussion, “Fragmented Communities: One History, Several Memories,” at a UNESCO conference titled “Philosophical Dialogue between Africa and the Americas” held April 18-21 at Purdue University.

Hamilton hosted the sixth annual Parilia undergraduate classics research conference on April 22 with the Classics departments from Colgate, Union College and Skidmore College also participating. Three Hamilton seniors were among the presenters.

The 13th annual AIDS Hike for Life 5k Run/Walk will take place on Sunday, May 1, at 11 a.m., beginning at the Babbitt Pavilion. The AIDS Hike for Life is organized by AIDS Community Resources (ACR) and is the organization's largest outreach and fundraising program in the Mohawk Valley.

Zarqa Nawaz, a British-Canadian freelance writer, journalist and filmmaker, will present a lecture and film screening titled “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mosque,” on Thursday, April 28, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. The event, part of Hamilton’s Humanities Forum, will address the effects of secularism on cultural production, such as television, and is free and open to the public.

The College Hill Singers, directed by G. Roberts Kolb, will present "How Can I Keep From Singing: Songs and Poems of Peace and War," on Wednesday, April 27, at 7 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn.  The performance is sponsored by The Diversity and Social Justice Project and is free and open to the public.

Professor of Biology Herm Lehman gave an invited lecture titled “Monooxygenases: from neurotransmitter synthesis to neurogenesis” to members of the Neuroscience, Metabolism and Aging, and HTS Lead Identification Departments at the Scripps Institute, Jupiter, Fla., on April 20.

The Levitt Center will screen the award-winning documentary, Moving to Mars, on Wednesday, April 27, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit, K.J.  The film follows a group of Burmese refugees from their camps in Thailand to the town of Sheffield, England.  The screening is free and open to the public.  

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Julie-Françoise Kruidenier Tolliver ’02 and her CompLit 326 class spent the weekend of April 15-17 exploring Ottawa, Canada’s national capital.

Hamilton students Noah Bishop ’11 and Thomas Cheeseman ’12 recently presented papers at the Fourth Annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference on the American Polity hosted by The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.