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Charlotte Rogers, visiting assistant professor of Hispanic Studies, presented her paper "El sabio curandero: Shamanism and Afro-Caribbean Power in the novels of Alejo Carpentier" at the conference "Re-Thinking the Mangrove: Second Symposium of Critical Practices in Caribbean Cultural Studies." The conference was held at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Oct. 15-17.

After a recent morning seminar discussing the first 100 days of the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, students in the Washington Program spent the afternoon exploring the New Deal.

Michael T. Klare, the Five College Professor of the Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), will present a lecture titled “Oil and War” on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton. His talk is part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center 2009-10 series “Crisis: Danger and Opportunity.” All lectures are free and open to the public.

Mountain climber, mother and author Jennifer Lowe-Anker will give a lecture titled “Forget Me Not: Summits of the Heart” on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium at Hamilton. Her talk, which includes a slide presentation and reading from her book Forget Me Not, will document her emotional struggles after having lost her husband, Alex Lowe, a well-known mountaineer. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Trevor Winkfield, a British artist whose paintings create the illusion of layered collages and clean, hard-edged graphic designs, will speak at Hamilton College on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 4:15 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium as part of the Hamilton Visiting Artists Series. The program is free and open to the public.

Rebecca Wadler '00, a representative of the Sierra Club, will speak about global over-population and its adverse environmental impacts, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 6 p.m., in the Red Pit at Hamilton. The talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Hamilton Environmental Action Group.

Addressing a standing-room only crowd in the Kennedy Auditorium, Professor of History Bob Paquette stated that, back in the 1950s, The New York Times published an article that favorably described Hamilton’s liberal arts curriculum and asked the following: “what basic musts . . . must a college give its students for effective living for the next 50 years?” Or, in other words, what are the important elements of a liberal arts education? It was that question – old, but certainly still relevant – that defined the upcoming panel discussion, which featured conservative commentators Adam Kissel, James Piereson, and Roger Kimball.

Bundy Dining Hall was turned into the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on Oct. 23 and 24 as the 8th annual Hogwarts at Hamilton welcomed muggles and their families for tours. Around 50 Hamilton students took on roles of characters in the popular Harry Potter books and improvised scenes from the J.K. Rowling series.

Triggered by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’ recent condemnation of golf and The New York Times ethicist Randy Cohen’s criticism that golf has little or no moral worth, former golf coach and Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy Robert Simon penned an opinion piece in The Christian Science Monitor.

Ernest Williams, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Biology, published a conservation column titled "Managing Habitat for Lupines and Rare Butterflies" in the magazine of the Lepidopterists' Society.