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A group of Hamilton students volunteered at the Rome Art and Community Center’s annual Easter Bunny Trail on April 7. The students, who dressed in costume, distributed candy and posed for pictures with local children.
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Professor of English Steven Yao will chair a panel discussion on “Translating Victor Segalen’s Stèles” on Thursday, April 12, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium. First published in 1912, Stèles is an original collection of prose poems – or stèle-poems – in French and Chinese. Segalen’s title comes from the inscribed stone monuments, scattered around China in temple courtyards, tombs, and along roads.
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Hamilton College is mourning the death of recent graduate Joshua “Jicks” Hicks ’09. In an email to the Hamilton community, President Joan Hinde Stewart wrote in part, “It is with immense sadness that I write with news of the death on Friday, April 6, of Joshua ‘Jicks’ Hicks '09, who was a student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. A wonderful young man of great personal warmth and a talented singer, he came to Hamilton with Boston Posse 4, majored in religious studies and was a member of the Buffers, the choir and ELS."
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Author Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will give a lecture titled “Triumph of the City,” on Wednesday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m., in the chapel. The lecture, based on his 2011 book of the same name, is free and open to the public.
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Lucas Harris ’12 has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Finland. He will spend the 2012-13 academic year working under Dr. Miska Luoto at the University of Helsinki, studying how individual plant species in subarctic Finland will react to climate change.
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On April 4, students in the Program in Washington met with Michael Klosson ’71, Save the Children’s vice president for policy and humanitarian response. Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in need in the United States and around the world. Recognized for its commitment to accountability, innovation and collaboration, Save the Children works with other organizations, governments, non-profits and a variety of local partners.
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Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, gave an invited lecture, “A Woman's View of War: Simone Weil and the Iliad,” at a conference on Classical Greek and Roman Literature: Gendered Perspectives in Reading and Reception, held at the University of Maryland on April 1.
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Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented a paper titled “Ancient Myth and Feminism: Prison Activism and the Medea Project” at an international conference on “Classical Greek and Roman Literature: Gendered Perspectives in Reading and Reception” at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Jon Frederic West, lecturer in music performance, is performing the part of the “Sprecher” in the Gurre-Lieder by Arnold Schoenberg with the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, in Bilbao, Spain, with Günter Neuhold conducting. This is a new role for West, who will appear in four performances.
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France Winddance Twine, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a lecture on Tuesday, April 10, at 4:15 p.m., in Dwight Lounge. Twine will discuss "The Future of Anti-Racism & Racial Literacy After the Trayvon Martin Murder." The lecture is free and open to the public.
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