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The Hamilton College F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present the Alloy Orchestra accompanying “He Who Gets Slapped” (1924), on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The film will be followed by a discussion with the orchestra members—Terry Donahue, Roger Miller and Ken Winokur. The event is free and open to the public.

Norman Steinberg made his first venture to Hamilton College on Nov. 19, where he presented on “The Life of a Writer” as a guest of the Career Center. An Emmy Award winner and recipient of the Writer’s Guild Award, Steinberg came to Hamilton “not to sell a program, but to sell a life.”

Professor of Physics emeritus Philip Pearle contributed a chapter titled “Collapse Miscellany” in Quantum Theory: A Two-Time Success Story, a Festschrift in honor of physicist Yakir Aharonov’s 80th birthday.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, Maurice Isserman’s History of the Civil War class (History 215) took part in filmmaker Ken Burns’ project “Learn the Address.” Isserman is the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History.

Students on Hamilton’s Program in NYC recently paid a visit to Richard Bernstein Advisors, an investment advising firm founded by alumnus Richard Bernstein ’80.  After working at Merrill Lynch as the chief investment strategist, Bernstein left Merrill in 2008 and started his own firm in 2009, in the midst of the Great Recession.

Hamilton’s co-ed a capella group Duelly Noted was a big winner at the nearby Turning Stone Resort and Casino on Nov. 17, but their win took place on the stage, not at the slot machines or gaming tables. The group took home first place in Turning Stone’s “A Capella Showdown,” winning $2500 in the competition.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, lectured at a conference on Global Governance sponsored by the School of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics in Moscow, on Nov. 16.

The Hamilton College Saxophone Ensemble performed to an enthusiastic audience at the weekly Sunday open mic night at the Tramontane on Lincoln Ave. in Utica on Nov. 17. Selections included “Appalachian Spring/Simple Gifts,” “Eleanor Rigby” and “N’kosi Sikeleli Afrika.”

Crispin Paine, a London-based museums and heritage consultant, will deliver a lecture on the display of sacred objects in a museum context on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m., in the Overlook of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art.  His lecture is the first installment in a series titled “Exhibiting the Sacred” and is free and open to the public.

Three Hamilton College men's and women's cross country runners will compete in the 2013 NCAA Division III championships at Hanover College in Hanover, Ind., on Saturday, Nov. 23, after the NCAA announced earlier today the 32 teams and 56 individuals that qualified for the race.