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The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series opens with soprano Julianne Baird’s Jane Austen Songbook on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall.  A recital for voice and pianoforte, the Jane Austen Songbook weaves pertinent literary passages narrated around a series of arias and late 18th-century songs selected from Jane Austen’s own musical collection.

The Hamilton College Marathon Canoe Racing Team kicked off its first fall as an official club sport with four boats in the 29th Adirondack Canoe Classic, “The 90-Miler.” Over the weekend of Sept. 9-11, these teams raced with more than 250 other boats in the event hosted by the Adirondack Watershed Alliance.

Two hundred years of learning is undoubtedly cause for celebration. Yet the charter that Hamilton received in 1812 merely continued a quest for knowledge that had begun two decades earlier with Samuel Kirkland and his Hamilton-Oneida Academy, a secondary school that focused on educating local Iroquois youth. Like so much at Hamilton, the Academy began with a piece of writing: Kirkland’s 1791 “Plan of Education for the Indians,” a 15-page document in which Kirkland outlined his ideas for the new school.

Translator, author and critic Edith Grossman will present the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, titled “Why Translation Matters,” and based on her book of the same name, is part of the fall 2011 Humanities Forum. It is free and open to the public.

Jessica Burke, assistant professor of Hispanic Studies, presented a paper and chaired a session at the 93rd annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, held in Washington D.C., July 6-9.

Poet Don Bogen will visit Hamilton and read selections from his award-winning poetry on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.

The Emerson Gallery will present two exhibitions in conjunction with the college’s bicentennial celebration. The exhibitions will commemorate its cultural history while providing a view toward the future with objects from various campus collections and archives.  Time Capsules and Cornerstones: 200 Years of Collective Memory at Hamilton and  Learning to Look: Hamilton's Cabinets, Galleries and Museums Past, Present and Future  will be on view Sept. 15 – Dec. 16. The exhibitions and related programs are free and open to the public.

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages & Literature, recently published “Participatory Learning and Interactive Teaching: A Comparative Study of CFL with Web Tools” in the Journal of Taiwan Chinese as a Second Language.

Anyone who has participated in one of Hamilton Association for Volunteering Outreach and Charity (HAVOC) days of service knows that the adage “the early bird catches the worm” readily applies to the sign-up process. By 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10, volunteers had already begun lining up at tables in the Fillius Events Barn, eager to match themselves with the sites of their choices for HAVOC’s annual Make a Difference Day.

The fall 2011 Humanities Forum at Hamilton will address the topic of “Translation and Cultural Exchange.”  As communication becomes increasingly international via the media, translation - especially language translation - is vital to understanding politics, social life, religion and more. This forum offers many perspectives that will challenge audiences to think about how meaningful words, sentences, and paragraphs can be translated from one language to another. All events are free and open to the public.