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During his talk on November 20, London-based museum and heritage consultant Crispin Paine introduced an intriguing idea: in a secular society, have museums become, in their own way, temples? Both visitors to museums and temples, Paine observed, follow a set route through the building and pause to reflect before certain objects. The religious visitor leaves with a renewed faith, the museum visitor with edification.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald presented two programs of films on Nov. 18 and 19 at the Harvard Film Archive.

Rachel Sobel ’15 is among six student delegates sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) who are currently attending the UN Climate Talks in Warsaw, Poland. A videoconference with the student delegates will take place today, Thursday, Nov. 21, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Levitt Center Conference Room (KJ251A).

Director of Interactive Content Strategy Jess Krywosa presented a paper at the American Marketing Association Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education held Nov. 10 – 13 in Boston.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Andrew Holland designed the scenery for the premiere of a new version of Jack Beeson's opera Lizzie Borden for Boston Lyric Opera, directed by Christopher Alden.

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.