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  • Heidi Nast, a professor of international studies at DePaul University, will discuss her forthcoming book about the international growth of the pet industry, on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 4:15 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. The talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Irwin Chair.

  • During the month of October Hamilton's 30 residence halls competed in “Do it in the Dark,” a Dorm Energy Battle aimed at reducing energy consumption. Residents of Saunders, Wertimer, and 3994 Campus Road achieved the most significant changes, lowering expected kilowatt-hour use by 29.91 percent, 28.42 percent and 23.22 percent, respectively.

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  • “I want to research the experiences of British and Indian women during the British colonial rule in India,” explains Fiona Kirkpatrick ‘10. And as a Senior Fellow, she has done (and will continue to do) just that: she is exempt from taking classes so that she may devote her time to writing a lengthy thesis of her choosing.

  • Professor of Theatre Carole Bellini-Sharp directs Hamilton College students in Molière’s Les Femmes Savantes (The Learned Ladies), a satire on academic and cultural pretentiousness, for the Fall Theatre Production. Performance dates are Thursday, Nov. 5 – Saturday, Nov. 7, and Wednesday, Nov. 11 – Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. There is an additional performance on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m. All performances are in Minor Theater. Tickets are $5 for adults, and $3 for students and senior citizens.

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  • Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett and Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran will present a talk titled "Building Better People?: Genetic Engineering and the Roots of Evil" on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at The Other Side in Utica. This is the third event in the 2009-2010 Imagining America collaboration between Hamilton College and The Other Side.

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  • Nancy S. Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, was the guest of the Classics Department at Skidmore College on Monday Oct. 26. She was their fall speaker and gave an address based on her current research, titled "Tragedy's Women as Subject and Object of the Gaze."

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  • Hamilton College will expand its partnership with the Posse Foundation when it enrolls 10 students from Miami in the class of 2014 next fall.

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  • One of the world's foremost experts on the legal aspects of witch hunting, Brian Levack, will speak on "Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe" on Monday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium.

  • Utica native and prominent American writer and educator Mark Danner will present a lecture, “Obama, Torture and Human Rights,” on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel, followed by a book signing. The lecture is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty office and is free and open to the public.

  • Max Wall ’10 is featured in a New York Times Education Life article titled “Simpler Substances” (11/1/09). Wall founded the Loose Association of Friends for the Better Appreciation of Fermentation, (Lafbaf), this fall at Hamilton. The photos included in the piece were taken by Kristen Morgan-Davie ’12.

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