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The Hamilton College English Department Fall Reading series will welcome poets Philip Memmer and Georgia Popoff, on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.

Delia Aguilar, the Jane Watson Irwin Chair and visiting associate professor of women's studies, gave a guest lecture at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I.  on Oct. 16.  Her lecture, "Revisiting Feminism: Who's Afraid of the F word," was part of the school's women's studies speaker series.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Edna Rodriguez Plate has just published the article, "Fictual Factions: On the Emergence of a Documentary Style in Recent Cuban Films," for the prominent film studies journal Screen, published through Oxford University Press. Screen is about to celebrate its 50th year of publication, and has been one of the key journals for making film and media studies into a vital field of academic study across the Anglo-American world. Her article appears in the Autumn 2008 issue and deals with the variety of ways "Cuba" is presented by filmmakers from within and outside Cuba. 

Hamilton College was swept in three sets by Amherst College and Middlebury College in New England Small College Athletic Conference matches played at Amherst's LeFrak Gymnasium on Oct. 18.

Hamilton College rowed in the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston on Saturday, Oct. 18.

Hamilton College rowed in the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston on Oct. 18 and 19.

United Technologies Corp. (UTC) announced on Oct. 20 that David Hess '77, currently president of Hamilton Sundstrand, will succeed Stephen Finger as president of Pratt & Whitney on Jan. 1, 2009, when Finger retires.

Scott MacDonald was a featured guest of the Cinema Project in Portland, Ore., on October 15-17. He participated in a public interview with Todd Haynes (director of Far from Heaven, I'm Not There, Safe...) at the Portland Museum of Art, focusing on Haynes' roots in avant-garde and experimental cinema; and he presented two programs of films by the men and women who established Canyon Cinema, the exhibition/distribution organization that is the focus of MacDonald's recent book, Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times. 

Five students in the Hamilton Program in Washington participated in the American Cancer Society's Making Strides for Breast Cancer five- mile walk around the mall in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Oct. 19, Team Hamilton members were Caroline Canning, Helen Quigley, Megan Bumb, Emrhan Slaton and Jenn Anderson, all juniors at Hamilton. Abbey Canning, visiting her sister for the weekend, also participated. The students raised $750 for the American Cancer Society,

Catherine Murphy, an observation painter and faculty member at Yale University, will lecture at Hamilton on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 4:15 p.m in the Kirner-Johnson Building, room 125. It is free and open to the public.