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  • A multi-part event, “Soul Purpose” will aim to connect the multifaceted issues of today’s world and move participants to a state of greater understanding, compassion and empowerment, on Friday, Nov. 6, in the Annex.

  • Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Rodriguez-Plate guest edited an issue of the journal CrossCurrents (Wiley-Blackwell publishers). The theme of the September 2009 issue is "The Varieties of Contemporary Pilgrimage."

  • Kyla Gorman '09 has been awarded $10,000 by the Penny Arcade Scholarship Program. Gorman intends to use her money to pursue a degree in game design from The University of Southern California.

  • Hamilton College Performing Arts and the Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership presents Philadanco: The Philadelphia Dance Company, on Friday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. There will be a pre-performance public workshop at 7 p.m. in Room 106 of the List Arts Center, just down the hall from Wellin Hall.

  • American political reporter Eleanor Clift delivered a lecture titled “Politics in the Age of Obama” on Nov. 3 in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. A longtime reporter and editor of Newsweek magazine, her column “Capitol Letter” can be found in both Newsweek and on the MSNBC Web site.

  • This semester three Hamilton students reintroduced the Gilded Bicycle Guild, which provides a fleet of bicycles for the community to use. Following are the Guild's "Golden" rules.

  • Professor of History Douglas Ambrose gave an invited talk, "The Past is Another Country: Reflections on History and the Humanities," at Hostos Community College (CUNY) on Oct. 30.

  • Associate Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori gave an invited talk, “The Benshi as a Modernist: Tokugawa Musei and Psychological Films of the Early Twentieth Century,” at SUNY Binghamton on Oct. 30.  Omori focused on the golden age of benshi, or silent film live narrators, who performed during the 1920s, an era that also saw the rise of modernist movements in Japanese art and literature.

  • Internationally recognized writer and anti-apartheid fighter Breyten Breytenbach will give a reading on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn.

  • Hamilton College Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino will present a lecture and discussion, “Articulating Wonder in a Secular Age,” on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s 3024 classroom. The lecture, the third in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum, is free and open to the public.

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