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The Hamilton College Department of Music presents “Fresh Music from the Society for New Music” on Sunday, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.   The concert will feature compositions by local composers by Dexter Morrill (Colgate University)  and Samuel Pellman (Hamilton College) as well as  Zhou Long, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for music, and  Chinese composer Guo Wenjing.

The Hamilton Program in NYC students took a train from Grand Central to Stamford, Conn., on Oct. 29 to meet with Robert Morris ’76, P’16,’17 managing partner of the private equity firm, Olympus Partners.

Arthur Levitt Jr., and Lauri Levitt Friedland ’81 visited campus on Friday, Oct. 31 and met with 15 Hamilton students.  The students discussed their work as Levitt Research Fellows, Social Innovation Fellows and Public Service Interns, as well as their experiences with Project SHINE, the Innovation Roundtable, the Levitt Leadership Institute and the Levitt Social Innovation Team.

Students in ECON446, Monetary Policy, advanced to the semifinals of the College Fed Challenge after competing at the New York Federal Reserve on Oct. 31. The class is taught by Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics Ann Owen.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas presented her research on how strategic mediators had to be to bring their Buddhsit-inspired practices into various types of work, at the 2014 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion annual conference in Indianapolis.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald recently published a book titled Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema.

Hamilton College Performing Arts presents a modern dance performance featuring Brian Brooks Moving Company, presented by the Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership, on Saturday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Hamilton Outing Club held a leader-training course on Nov. 1 and 2 with student participants  learning everything from how to set up a tent and cook a meal to the more abstract but equally important skills of group management. Student leaders are at the core of the Outing Club and are central to its success.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces the fall theater production, A Dream Play, by August Strindberg in a new version by Caryl Churchill. Performances will run Nov. 6 – Nov. 8, and  Nov. 12 –  Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8. All performances will take place in the new state-of-the-art Romano Theatre within the Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts.

When introducing Joseph Fornieri, professor of political science at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Hamilton College Professor of History Doug Ambrose pointed out that recently we have witnessed a deluge of books about Abraham Lincoln. Why then, asked Ambrose, do we need another book on Lincoln? As Fornieri’s lecture clearly showed, we still stand to learn a great deal from a true statesman like Lincoln.