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The Hamilton College Department of Music presents a free faculty recital by Heather Buchman, trombone, on Sunday, Nov. 7, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall. Buchman will be accompanied by Sar-Shalom Strong, piano, and Ilze Brink-Button, horn, in the program of solo works and transcriptions for trombone by Bach, Scarlatti, Mahler and others.

Dr. Gordon B. Smith, the director of the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies, and Dr. Mark D. Welton, professor of international and comparative law at the United States Military Academy, gave lectures on the roots and effects of corruption in Russia and traditional Islamic law as part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center’s Security Series. They then joined a panel discussion and answered questions from the audience with Government Professors Charlotte Lee and Nathaniel Richmond.

Nine Hamilton students participated in the National Model United Nations Conference (NMUN) Oct. 29-31 in Washington, D.C. The conference drew more than 50 schools from the U.S., Canada and Europe and approximately 1,000 delegates.

Associate Professor of Philosophy A. Todd Franklin has published a chapter titled “Unlikely Allies: Nietzsche, Locke, and Counter-Hegemonic Transformation of Consciousness” in the book Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond (Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield).

The fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series continues at Hamilton College with Metropolis on Sunday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The Alloy Orchestra will provide live accompaniment for the silent film. The screening is free and open to the public.

On Friday Nov. 5, Hamilton College students will have a chance to connect with the largest social movement in history: the movement for a thriving, just, sustainable world. The multi-part event, "Soul Purpose," is designed to help students unleash their generation’s potential to determine what kind of world will be left for the next millennium. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Annex with free food from the Indian Cafe followed by Awakening the Dreamer at 7:30 p.m.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department will present Naomi Wallace’s Slaughter City in eight performances in Minor Theater.  Directed by Professor of Theatre Carole Bellini-Sharp, shows will be staged Thursday, Nov. 4 - Saturday, Nov. 6, and Wednesday, Nov. 10 - Saturday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. There will be a matinee performance on Saturday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. The play is open to the public, and tickets cost $5 for adults, and $3 for senior citizens and students.

Mireille Koukjian, visiting instructor of critical languages, presented a lecture titled “Including Story Boards in Arabic Instruction” at the 2010 Arabic LEARN Conference held at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point

Hamilton College Performing Arts Contemporary Voices and Visions presents David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness! on Saturday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schmabach Center for the Performing Arts.

Francis (Cisco) R. Bradley, postdoctoral fellow in Asian studies and visiting assistant professor of history, presented a paper titled "The Patani Knowledge Network and the Rise of Islamic Educational Institutions in Southeast Asia," at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Oct. 30-Nov. 1.