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Filmmaker Gisela Sanders Alcantara, whose most recent film, New Children/New York, documents the lives of Latino immigrants in New York City, will visit Hamilton on Thursday, March 31, as part of Cesar Chavez Commemorative Week events. Alcantara will host a workshop on the making of New Children/New York at 4:30 p.m., and there will be a screening of the film at 7 p.m. Both events will take place in the KJ Bradford Auditorium and are free and open to the public.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, participated in the recent 5th Annual Symposium on Poverty and Economic Security sponsored by the New York State Community Action Association in Albany.

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann recently presented a paper titled "Unseating the American Leviathan? Oil and the Geopolitics of American Hegemonic Decline" at the International Studies Association annual conference in Montreal, Canada.

The Hamilton College Voices of Color Lecture Series presents “An Evening with Spike Lee,” award-winning film director, producer and actor, on Wednesday, April 13, at 8:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall. Admission is free for members of the Hamilton community but tickets will be required. Tickets will be available at Beinecke Village the week of April 4  and at the Wellin Hall box office the day of the lecture.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented papers  at the International Studies Association annual convention in Montreal and at Linnaeus University in Sweden in March.

The Days -Massolo Center at Hamilton College will be formally dedicated on Friday, April 1, during Volunteer Weekend. The Center, which opened on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, aims to promote diversity awareness and foster dialogue among the many groups on campus. It is named for Hamilton trustees Drew S. Days III ’63 and Arthur J. Massolo ’64.

Hamilton will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its partnership with the Posse Foundation on March 31. The Posse Foundation identifies, recruits and selects student leaders from public high schools to form multicultural teams called “posses,” which are then placed at top colleges nationwide.

The Diversity and Social Justice Program will host a screening of Budrus, an award-winning documentary about a village on the border between Israel and the West Bank where Israelis and Palestinians on either side of the security wall construction worked to nonviolently resist the building of the wall. The film will be shown on Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m., in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Sociology Yvonne Zylan is the author of a new book, States of Passion: Law, Identity, and Social Construction of Desire (Oxford University Press, March, 2011).

Nancy S. Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a lecture titled "Why We Turn to Greek Tragedy in Times of War" at the conference "Eight Years in Babylon: The Iraq War and the Classics Eight Years On" on March 18 in London.