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Hamilton and fellow member schools of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) are planning a series of events this week to support the national It’s On Us campaign to combat sexual assault.

“Most of us this time of year are wrapped up in survival, so thank you for forcing me to think about why I am here.” So began Professor of Physics Gordon Jones’ “Why I Teach” presentation.

Had Reverend Samuel Kirkland, the founder of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793, discovered the secret to immortality, he would have been 275 years old on December 1.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations, was interviewed by BBC News on what a Trump administration might look like.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn recently presented a paper titled “The Politics of Personhood: O’odham, Odor, and Others” at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Conference in San Antonio.

When most students left campus for the holidays on Nov. 18, Hamilton’s Mock Trial teams suited up for a tournament at Cornell University (Nov 19-20). Among the competition were teams from some of the best mock trial programs in the Northeast region including the Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Columbia University, and Rutgers University.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate recently gave presentations on religion, culture and aesthetics in New York, Madrid and Texas.

Nhora Lucia Serrano, visiting assistant professor of comparative literature, issued the challenge to students in the course Show and Tell: Comics and Graphic Narratives. At the height of the code’s influence, Serrano says, it was a de facto censor because a comic couldn’t be published without a Comics Code seal of approval on its cover.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Xavier Tubau presented at a workshop on the “Literature, Politics and the Public Sphere in the Early Modern Mediterranean” at Syracuse University on Nov. 11.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently presented an invited lecture at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.