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Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was an invited participant in an online discussion for the National Humanities Center project titled "On The Human." Ravven was a respondent in “After Darwin: On Being Human,” a roundtable at Duke University’s Nov. 9 symposium, Darwin Across the Disciplines. It featured among others Geoff Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center, and Alex Rosenberg, the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.

Hamilton’s students in the Program in New York City attended a performance of the comedic opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia, or The Barber of Seville, at the Metropolitan Opera on Nov. 4.

A Hamilton student trudges through the dark recesses of the night, video camera and tripod in hand. He and his friends are in the early stages of the sixth annual 24-Hour Film Festival, hosted by Hamilton’s Film Production Guild. They race across campus, routinely checking the time so as not to fall behind schedule. Each team of actors, producers, and directors has from midnight on Friday until midnight on Saturday to make a quality, entertaining five-minute film – which means they have little time to spare.

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover presented a poster at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, a major forum in development economics held this year at Tufts University Nov. 7-8.

Members of Hamilton’s Greek societies sponsored a Powderpuff Football Tournament on Nov. 7 to raise money for the Special Olympics. Three teams competed and the sisters of Phi Beta Chi won the tournament.

Members of the Hamilton College Junior Year in France recently went to the Sonja Helle Ice Rink at Bercy Stadium in Paris to cheer on Kyle Roulston ’09, the newest member of the Paris hockey team, Les Français Volants. With the help of Norm Bazin, Hamilton’s men’s ice hockey coach, Roulston joined a team that travelled to Europe this past summer looking to place North Americans in the European hockey system. Offered a spot on a team in Bad Tolz, Germany, and in Paris, Roulston jumped at the chance to play in the French capital.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Donald Carter presented a paper at the Africans in Europe in the Long 20th-Century: Transnationalism, Translation and Transfer conference, organized by the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Liverpool, in October. His paper was titled “Blackness Over Europe: Meditations on Culture and Belonging.”

Max Currier ’10, a government major participating in Hamilton’s program in New York City, attended the 61st Annual Student Conference on U.S. Affairs (SCUSA 61) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Nov. 4-7. This year’s theme was “Advancing as a Global Community: Scarcity, Instability, and Opportunity.” About 180 undergraduates attended from across the United States.

Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow of Philosophy, delivered a plenary talk at the first Colombian Conference on Logic, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science in Bogotá, Colombia. In his paper, “Explanation and Indispensability,” he examined a new explanatory indispensability argument.

The Ohio State University Press series “Theory and Interpretation of Narrative,” co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan, has just published its 30th volume: Narrative Means, Lyric Ends: Temporality in the Nineteenth-Century British Long Poem by Monique Morgan.