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As a student in Hamilton's Program in New York City, Hayden Kiessling '12 is interning at The Martha Stewart Show. This semester's NYC program theme is Mediascapes: Globalization and Culture and is directed by Professor of English Patricia O'Neill. Read Kiessling's blog about a typical day at The Martha Stewart Show here.  

A panel discussion, “Somali Diaspora: Refugees, States and the Politics of Belonging,” will take place on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 4:15 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ Building. The panel will include Giovanna Zaldini, a Somalian immigrant advocate; Hamilton College Professor of Government Stephen Orvis; and Rima Berns McGown of the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. The discussion is free and open to the public.

Author Jenni Schaefer will give a keynote speech for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week at Hamilton College on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The talk is free and open to the public.

As part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week at Hamilton, scores of volunteers helped cover all public mirrors  with colorful informational flyers printed with facts about body image and eating disorders. Monday's events were featured  in a news story on local NBC affiliate WKTV.  Students were also interviewed for a story on local cable station Your News Now.

Paul Wapner, director of the Global Environmental Politics Program and a professor in the School of International Service at American University, will present a lecture titled “Living through the End of Nature: The Future of Environmentalism” on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture is part of the Levitt Center’s 2010-11 Speakers Series on Sustainability and is free and open to the public.  

Brooks Haxton, author of six published collections of original poetry and professor of English at Syracuse University will present the Winslow lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, titled “Candor and Wisdom: the Poetry of Early Classical Greece,” is sponsored by the Department of Classics and is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College will participate in the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (NEDAW) from Feb. 21 through Feb. 25. The NEDAW was created to “prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to treatment.” Events will take place around campus all week and are free and open to the public.

David W. Blight, the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, will lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. The title of his talk is “The Civil War in Modern Memory: Robert Penn Warren and James Baldwin at the Centennial.” The lecture, sponsored by Hamilton’s History Department, is free and open to the public.

Giovanna Zaldini, a Somalian and pioneering figure in immigrant advocacy in Italy, will give an informal talk titled “A Conversation about Cultural Mediation,” on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 4:15 p.m. in the Days-Massolo Cultural Education Center (formerly the Ferry Building) on College Hill Road. The talk is free and open to the public.

James Longenbach, the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English and Joanna Scott, the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English, both at the University of Rochester, will give a reading on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.