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Professor of History Thomas Wilson presented "'Sacrifice to the Spirits as Living': A Confucian Theory of Gods" at the Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies on Oct. 2. The paper is a chapter from his book manuscript titled Confucian Gods and the Rites to Venerate Them in Imperial China.

In Mark Bauerlein’s new book, The Dumbest Generation, he argues that the “Millennials,” those born in the late 1980s and early 1990s, are a generation much less cultured and politically aware than generations that preceded them. In a lecture in front of a standing-room-only crowd in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium Monday, Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, spoke about the crippling effects that the Digital Age has had on the minds of America’s young people.

For the first installment in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum, Visiting Assistant Professor of History Christopher Hill will discuss “Taking the Cross out of the Crusades: Pop Culture’s Secular Transformation of High Medieval Piety,” on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s G041 classroom. The lecture is free and open to the public.

In recognition of Disability Awareness Month, Hamilton College will host a film screening of Darius Goes West on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. The director of the film, Logan Smalley, will speak immediately following the event. The screening is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Dean of Students Office.

There was a slight but noticeably casual quality to Arthur Levitt, Jr. as he approached the lectern at the front of the KJ Auditorium – a quality that was accentuated by the considerable pomp and circumstance surrounding him. Levitt was introduced by President Joan Stewart and greeted with waves of anticipatory applause from a mostly formally dressed audience, leaving no doubt that he was the subject of much professional esteem. But upon leaning toward the microphone to open his lecture on regulation in the financial markets, he began his address without notes and with a casual intimacy that immediately engaged the audience.

Mike Evans ’05 presented a lecture during Fallcoming detailing his formation of Full Court Peace, a non-profit organization that aims to use basketball as a means of bringing together youth in sectarian communities.

The Class of 2010 Senior Gift was announced on Oct. 1 at the Senior Gift Kickoff in the Fillius Events Barn. The gift will support an Environmental Endowment Fund. Keynote speaker Greg Robitaille '85, co-chairman of the Annual Fund, challenged the class to outperform previous years and realize that this gift is setting the stage for their future engagement with the college.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate recently published two book chapters. The first, "An Aesthetic Approach to Religion," appeared in An Introduction to the Study of Religion, and the second chapter, "Religion in World Cinema," appears in The Continuum Companion to Religion and Film.

Melissa Joyce-Rosen '86 received the College’s Volunteer of the Year Award at a recognition dinner on Oct. 2 during Fallcoming activities. Joyce-Rosen served as president of Hamilton’s Alumni Association from 2003-2006.

Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Postdoctoral Fellow of Philosophy, took five philosophy majors to Buffalo for a two-day conference on Experimental Epistemology. Student attendees Megha Hoon '11, Mike Guzzetti '11, Alysha Banerji '11, Noah Bishop '11 and Pete Gustavson '10 met keynote speaker and godfather of experimental philosophy Prof. Stephen Stich, of Rutgers University. Stich spoke about “Experimental Philosophy and the Bankruptcy of ‘The Great Tradition.”