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Internationally recognized photographer and former Hamilton photography instructor Sylvia de Swaan addressed a standing-room-only audience on Wednesday, Oct. 7. Her presentation, part of the Diversity and Social Justice Program’s year-long series focused on issues related to citizenship, was titled “Return.”

The Hamilton College fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series will feature Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy presenting Pakistan's Taliban Generation (2009) on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 2 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. It is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller has co-authored a teaching resource Web site called "On-line Histories of Central Asia." The project, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, consists of three thematic sections: "Mobile Identities Through Time" (by Keller), "Islamic Cultural Movements" (Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College), and "The Built Environment" (Robert McChesney, emeritus NYU).

The Lion and the Unicorn, an international theme- and genre-centered journal committed to serious, ongoing discussion of children’s literature, referenced Carolyn Carpan’s book Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls’ Series Books in America in its most recent volume. Four “series books” including Carpan’s were highlighted as offering “ much new information and analysis about this overlooked area of scholarship and the many mysteries that surround it.” Carpan is the director of public service in the Burke Library.

David Kirby, the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Literature at Florida State University, and Barbara Hamby, writer-in-residence in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, will both read selections of their critically-acclaimed poetry on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton. The event is free and open to the public.

Students in Environmental Studies 220 (Forever Wild: The Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondacks) made a field trip to the Adirondack Park on Oct. 2-4. They were accompanied by Professor of English Onno Oerlemans, who teaches the class. The group visited museums in Blue Mountain Lake and Tupper Lake, went to the top of Whiteface Mountain, visited John Brown's Farm in North Elba, and spent the evening at Great Camp Wenonah, owned by Hamilton alumnus Jim Schoff '68.

On Oct. 2, students in Professor of Economics Ann Owen's monetary policy class visited New York City to attend a seminar presented by New York Federal Reserve economists. The students attended sessions on the current economic situation, the labor market and the financial crisis. The seminar served as an orientation to a national competition, the Fed Challenge, sponsored by the Federal Reserve and the Eastern Economic Association.

Artist and photographer Sylvia de Swaan will present “Return,” a slide talk about a quest for identity and roots on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 4:10 p.m. in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. It is sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project and co-sponsored with the Emerson Gallery and the Dean of Faculty.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson presented "'Sacrifice to the Spirits as Living': A Confucian Theory of Gods" at the Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies on Oct. 2. The paper is a chapter from his book manuscript titled Confucian Gods and the Rites to Venerate Them in Imperial China.

In Mark Bauerlein’s new book, The Dumbest Generation, he argues that the “Millennials,” those born in the late 1980s and early 1990s, are a generation much less cultured and politically aware than generations that preceded them. In a lecture in front of a standing-room-only crowd in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium Monday, Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, spoke about the crippling effects that the Digital Age has had on the minds of America’s young people.