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The Hamilton College Hill Singers, directed by Professor G. Roberts Kolb, will lead a Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 4 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. Organ music and accompaniment will be provided by Professor of Music Sam Pellman. The service is free and open to the public.

Musical performances by the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble and The College Chamber Ensembles will be featured this weekend.

The fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Language in Motion) series concludes with self-taught photographer Hitoshi Toyoda and his slideshow NAZUNA on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. The event is free and open to the public.

Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, has been named to the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) Polar Research Vessel Committee, which will plan the progress for a new Polar Research Vessel (PRV) for the U.S. Antarctic Program.

The Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society presented its winter concert on Nov. 30 in Wellin Hall. Directed by G. Roberts Kolb, the program celebrated the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann’s birth. Featured on the program were Schumann’s Missa Sacra, Nachtlied, and Scenes From Goethe’s Faust.

Associate Professor of History Chad Williams recently presented his work at several recent major national conferences. On Oct. 1 Williams chaired and participated in a roundtable discussion on “African Americans and World War I in History, Memory and Culture,” at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Raleigh, N.C.

Award-winning author Marilyn Chin will read from her work on Thursday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.

Hamilton Makes Art 2, an online and live auction of works of art by Kirkland and Hamilton College alumni, is currently under way. Half of all proceeds will benefit Hamilton’s Bicentennial Initiatives Arts Facilities Project which will fund the construction of a new museum, theatre and studio art facility.

The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas, co-edited by Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith of the University of South Carolina, has been published by Oxford University Press.

An interview with James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman has been published in Grasping for Heaven: Interviews with North American Mountaineers by Frederic Hartemann and Robert Hauptman.