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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar presented a paper at a workshop titled “Local Domains/Translocal Claims: New Histories of the ‘Local’ in South Asia” organized by the South Asia Studies department, University of Pennsylvania, on April 12.

More than 20 Hamilton students and staff members attended the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) annual Northeast Regional Conference in Becket, Mass., from April 5-7. Hamilton students attended a wide variety of workshops covering all aspects of experiential and wilderness education. The Hamilton Outdoor Leadership Center has been sending students to the conference for many years.

Students accepted to Hamilton’s class of 2017 are on campus today with their families for the annual Accepted Student Open House. Attendees can sit in on faculty seminars, tour the campus, and hear from President Joan Hinde Stewart and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer. See the full schedule.

Hamilton senior Eric Green has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Germany for 2013-14.  An economics major and German minor, he studied at the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2012.

Author and legal scholar Michelle Alexander will present a lecture titled “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” on Wednesday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m., in the Hamilton Chapel.  Her lecture, based on her best-selling book of the same title, is part of the Levitt Center’s Inequality and Equity series and is free and open to the public.

William Lands, a nutritional biochemist who is among the world's foremost authorities on essential fatty acids, will give a lecture titled “Put Basic Science into Your Personal Health,” on Monday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. Lands will discuss nutrition, specifically omega three and six fatty acids. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present The Same River Twice, on Sunday, April 14, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. The event includes the screening of the film followed by a discussion with filmmaker Robb Moss. It is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College presents free jazz and choral music this weekend in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. On Friday, April 12, jazz guitarists Gene Bertoncini and Rick Balestra will present an acoustic concert of jazz standards and music from the great American songbook. On Saturday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m., the Hamilton College Choir performs the home concert of their recently completed Italian Spring Break Tour.

Jim Jacobs, the Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts and director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at the New York University School of Law, will present a lecture titled “Gun Control,” on Monday, April 15, at 4:15 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ.  His lecture, part of the Levitt Center’s Security Series,  is free and open to the public.

A proposal from Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi to make digital copies of the 19th- and early 20th-century Gujarati women’s journals Stri bodh (1857-1944) and Sundari subodh (1904-1921) was funded at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.