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Hamilton College Performing Arts will present the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company on Friday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall as the result of a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through their American Masterpieces program.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Andrew Holland is designing the scenery for a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The opera will have its premiere on Feb. 11 at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Conn. 

Associate Professor of History Kevin Grant has published an article titled British Suffragettes and the Russian Method of Hunger Strike in the current issue of the journal Comparative Studies in Society and History. Grant explains in this article how British suffragettes adapted the hunger strike as a tactic of prison protest from Russians political prisoners.

When Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong asked her audience at the Fillius Events Barn on Monday to formulate a mental image of a fetus, everyone imagined one of two images—either the monochromatic projection of a fetus from an ultrasound or a more lifelike rendering of a fetus in utero, such as the iconic image that graced the April, 1965 cover of Life magazine.  

The Hamilton College  Choir, under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb, mounted an elaborate production of Grand Hotel as its spring musical, Feb. 4-6, in Wellin Hall. Set in an elegant Berlin hotel in 1928, Grand Hotel recounts the intersecting lives of eccentric hotel guests. The world is between wars, the stock market is booming, Berlin is the center of high life, and optimism rules the day.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson published a short story, "What You Don't Know," in the current issue of Short Story, a joint publication of the University of Texas, SUNY-Oneonta, and Claflin University.

Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religion Jay Williams discussed “Thomas Nast as an Artist” on Feb. 6 at the Arts Center - Old Forge, in Old Forge, N.Y. Thirty holiday-themed Thomas Nast wood engravings from Williams’ collection were on display at the center in an exhibition titled “Thomas Nast Celebrates the Holidays.”

American realist painter Vincent Desiderio will speak at Hamilton  on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. His lecture is sponsored by the Art Department's Visiting Artists series and it is free and open to the public.

Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, associate professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, will lecture on Monday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture, titled "How We Begin: The Origins and Consequences of Fetal Personhood," is free and open to the public.

Gabriela Arias '11, a student in the Program in New York City, has an internship this semester at El Museo del Barrio. Read her blog entry here.