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Visiting Irwin Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies Delia Aguilar gave a paper titled "Class and Global Feminism" at the World History and Historical Materialism Conference held at the University of Manitoba from March 12-14.

Jonathan Mallinson, professor of French at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Trinity College, will present a lecture, "Reading Candide Today: From Voltaire to Cormac McCarthy," on Monday, March 30, at 4:10 p.m. in the Hamilton College Science Center, room 3024. The lecture is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Offices of the President and Dean of Faculty and the French Department.

Rebecca Yaguda '09 won the pole vault as the Hamilton College women's track & field team opened the outdoor season with the non-team scoring Ithaca College Invitational at Butterfield Stadium on March 28.

TiDelco Ductan '09 and James Russell '09 each set school records as the Hamilton College men's track & field team opened the outdoor season with the non-team scoring Ithaca College Invitational at Butterfield Stadium on March 28.

Hamilton College jumped out to an early 4-0 lead, but the Continentals eventually dropped a non-conference game, 20-9, against visiting Skidmore College at Royce Field on March 29.

Professor of Classics Shelley Haley represented Anna Julia Cooper as part of the Ancestors Project of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States on March 21. The presentation was sponsored by the Columbia University Classics Department and by the New York Classical Club.

Eric Kuhn '09 included portions of his interview with former New York City mayor Ed Koch in an article, "Koch on Maddoff: 5 Horses on each limb. Yell giddy-up.," appearing on Huffington Post on March 26. Koch addressed several topics related to Kuhn's senior thesis, specifically corruption and oversight.

Justin Atwood '11 had three hits, including a triple and a home run, scored two runs and drove in two to help lead Hamilton College to a 9-7 win against Westminster College at Lake Myrtle Park in Auburndale, Fla., on March 27.

Scott MacDonald's interview with Austrian filmmaker, installation artist and architect Gustav Deutsch has just been published in a book titled Gustav Deutsch and edited by Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg and Michael Loebenstein. Deutsch has added new dimensions to what is called "recycled cinema" or "found-footage film," that is, films made from other films.

Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, spoke on the history of mountaineering on March 27 at Montana State University. The co-author of Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, Isserman was invited to speak by the university's department of history and philosophy.