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Zarqa Nawaz, a British-Canadian freelance writer, journalist and filmmaker, will present a lecture and film screening titled “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mosque,” on Thursday, April 28, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. The event, part of Hamilton’s Humanities Forum, will address the effects of secularism on cultural production, such as television, and is free and open to the public.

The College Hill Singers, directed by G. Roberts Kolb, will present "How Can I Keep From Singing: Songs and Poems of Peace and War," on Wednesday, April 27, at 7 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn.  The performance is sponsored by The Diversity and Social Justice Project and is free and open to the public.

Professor of Biology Herm Lehman gave an invited lecture titled “Monooxygenases: from neurotransmitter synthesis to neurogenesis” to members of the Neuroscience, Metabolism and Aging, and HTS Lead Identification Departments at the Scripps Institute, Jupiter, Fla., on April 20.

The Levitt Center will screen the award-winning documentary, Moving to Mars, on Wednesday, April 27, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit, K.J.  The film follows a group of Burmese refugees from their camps in Thailand to the town of Sheffield, England.  The screening is free and open to the public.  

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Julie-Françoise Kruidenier Tolliver ’02 and her CompLit 326 class spent the weekend of April 15-17 exploring Ottawa, Canada’s national capital.

Hamilton students Noah Bishop ’11 and Thomas Cheeseman ’12 recently presented papers at the Fourth Annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference on the American Polity hosted by The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.  

Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart was elected secretary of the Commission on Independent College and Universities (CICU) executive committee  at CICU’s board of trustees meeting on April 21.

The detective lets out a primal yell as he bursts into the small, dark room and pumps two crack dealers full of lead. Dana Quigley ’11 yells “cut!” and the two dealers spring back to life. As four or five other young men filter into the room, Quigley goes over to his cameraman Benjamin Salzman ’13 to check the shot. Quigley and his friends are shooting Dozer and Sasquatch, a five-minute long film that will be screened in 12 hours at the 7th annual 24-Hour Film Festival.  

Eight student delegates from Hamilton attended the European Union Simulation Conference (EuroSim) in Philadelphia from March 31-April 3. Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs and faculty advisor of Hamilton’s Model European Union, also attended the conference which included 166 undergraduate and graduate students from Europe and North America.

Hamilton was well-represented at the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (HRUMC XVIII) on April 16 at Skidmore College when 10 math majors presented talks on a wide range of topics.