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Alison Kiss, executive director of Security on Campus, Inc., will give a lecture, “Understanding Your Rights:  Campus Sexual Assault,” on Monday, April 2, at 4:10 p.m., in the Sadove Student Center Conference Room. Kiss’ presentation is the first in a series of events planned in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Mary Sisler, visiting assistant professor of Italian, presented a paper titled “Freedom and Imitation in Poggio Bracciolini’s Facetiae,” at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 24. 

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Mescall presented a paper on March 17 at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual convention in Rochester, N.Y. The paper, titled “The Goodness of Evil: Shekhinah, Lilith and Kabbalah in La Celestina,” was part of a session called “Representing Identity and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain.”  

Lisa Heldke, professor of philosophy and Sponberg Chair in Ethics at Gustavus Adolphus College, will present a lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, April 2, at 4:10 p.m., in the Days-Massolo Center. The lecture, “Old McDonald Had a Wife: The Centrality of Marriage and Family in Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Vision,” is co-sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project and the Dean of Faculty, and is free and open to the public.

In an effort to raise awareness of racial profiling and bring attention to the Trayvon Martin case, the Black Latino Student Union (BLSU) sponsored an “I am Not Suspicious” walk across campus on March 30. Martin was the Florida teen who was shot and killed on Feb. 26 by George Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain, who perceived Martin as a threat.  Members of the Hamilton community were urged to wear hoodies and join in the march from the Taylor Science Center to the Kirner-Johnson Building.

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, has published a book, A Companion to Roman Love Elegy (Wiley-Blackwell 2012), which she edited and for which she wrote the introduction.  The book has 33 chapters written by contributors from six different countries.

Nefertiti. Cleopatra. They are striking figures not only for their political accomplishments, but also for their status as powerful women in a male-dominated world. According to award-winning Egyptologist Joann Fletcher, however, women in ancient Egypt “enjoyed levels of freedom totally unknown in the ancient world”- including the freedom to rule as pharaoh. Fletcher and colleague Stephen Buckley, an archaeological chemist, elaborated on the role of women rulers in ancient Egypt in their March 29 Winslow Lecture, “Egypt’s Female Pharaohs.” The lecture was sponsored by the Classics Department.

Students from the Hamilton Mathletics team won first place in the annual Snow Bowl competition, edging out teams from Colgate University, Skidmore College and Saint Lawrence University.  To determine the winner, each team in the competition added their top five scores on the William Lowell Putnam Exam. 

Students in Hamilton’s New York City Program recently visited the American Museum of Natural History, especially spending time in the new Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, in connection with their work on global infectious diseases.

Associate Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton presented an invited lecture titled “Fragile Self-Esteem and the Focus of Attention After Ego Threat” on March 23 at Syracuse University.