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Anders Halverson, author of An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World, will present a lecture on Monday, April 11, at 7 p.m., in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.  

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche presented a paper at the “Black Europe and the African Diaspora” Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University on April 2. In “The Perpetual Other: African Imagination in West and East Germany in the age of the Cold War” Piesche stressed the relations between the uprising African Independence Movements and both Germanys after World War II.

Timothy Beal, author of The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book, will lecture at Hamilton on Monday, April 11, at noon in the Science Center room 3024. The lecture is free and open to the public.  

The opening reception for an exhibition of prints by the Atelier Four will be held Sunday, April 10, from 3 – 5 p.m. at the Kirkland Arts Center. The Atelier Four is William R. Kenan Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead, Professor of Art and Curator of the Hamilton Collects Program William Salzillo and artists Amy Georgia Buchholz ’80 and Jake Muirhead ’86. The foursome has worked collaboratively in printmaking for more than 30 years. The exhibition runs through April 27 at the KAC.

Economist Ted Miguel,  director of the Center of Evaluation for Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley,  visited Hamilton on April 6 and presented evidence  suggesting that the most cost-effective step in solving Africa's economic problem is treating  tropical disease in schoolchildren. 

Associate Professor of Philosophy A. Todd Franklin chaired an invited symposium, “Frederick Douglass, Slavery, and the Existential Self,” at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association held March 30 – April 2 in Minneapolis.

Crystal Leigh Endsley, visiting assistant professor of Africana studies, presented a workshop titled “Get Involved: Social Change and Grassroots Organizing” at the 10th annual FIND, Inc. Conference held at Smith Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., on March 19.

The series “Disaster in Japan: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Power Plant Crisis” commenced on April 4 with a roundtable discussion on the current crisis in Japan that explained the state of Japan in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

As the variably extreme (and predominantly unpleasant) second-semester weather on campus reached a crescendo in mid-March, the Hamilton Outing Club sent south four rugged adventurers to explore the half-rock, half-cacti world of the Superstition Wilderness in central Arizona. HOC officer Anna Bastidas ’13, HOC member Adam Fix ’13, and myself, official HOC journalist, with tireless leader Jeannie Folan ‘12, camped five nights and hiked five days through the wilderness, which makes up part of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest.

On March 30 students in the Program in New York City visited one of the city’s great community museums. Located on 5th Avenue and 104th street, El Museo del Barrio is thinking ahead to how museums will engage their communities in the globalized and digitized future.