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Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald was the opening speaker at the new OpenDocLab, a salon for filmmakers, film scholars and other cineastes interested in documentary filmmaking, sponsored by the Comparative Media Studies department at MIT.

Chris Vasantkumar, the Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, is the author of an essay that appears in a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on "Regimes of Mobility."  The essay is titled "Tibetan Peregri-nations: Mobility, Incommensurable Nationalisms and (Un)belonging Athwart the Himalayas."

Suzanne Goldberg, professor of law at Columbia University, will discuss Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, & Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) Refugees and U.S. immigration policies and practices in a lecture on Monday, Sept. 24, at 4 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ.  The discussion will pertain to those seeking asylum from persecution based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Two of Ken Bart's microscopy images appear in an article “Everyday Objects Up Close” in The Huffington Post (9/17/12). Bart is director of Hamilton’s Microscopy and Imaging Facility. The slide show features electron microscope images provided by scientific instruments company FEI.  Bart’s images show the surface of a tomato leaf and a caterpillar.

Preparation for the opening of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art was the focus of a WKTV news report on Sept. 20. Museum director Tracy Adler described the open design of the museum and the opportunity it offers students and visitors to see the processes involved in receiving and preparing art. Its two-story glass cases as well as expansive gallery space also allow viewers to see much more of the museum’s collection.

A book co-authored by Peter Rabinowitz, the Sidney Wertimer Professor of Comparative Literature, was the subject of a positive review in Choice (Oct. 2012). Narrative theory: core concepts and critical debates, by David Herman et. al. ( Ohio State, 2012) is called “a wonderful resource for introducing students to four major approaches to the study of narrative and the major debates on the subject of narrative.”

Alumnus John Freyer ’95 , who decided to free himself from possessions and sell everything he owned on the Internet in a project called “All My Life for Sale,” will lecture at Hamilton on Monday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel.

Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett presented a workshop titled "Critical Consumption of Scientific Developments at the Local Level: How does community decide whether a particular scientific product is beneficial?” at the Grassroots Women's Political Leadership Forum held Sept. 9-19 at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Hamilton College Performing Arts opens the fall semester with Lionheart in Wayfaring Stranger: Early Classics and New Works for Men’s Voices on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

Professor of Government Robert Martin delivered the Constitution Day lecture on Sept. 17 at the University of South Carolina. The lecture focused on early opposition to popular government and the role those critics played in forming America’s democratic culture.