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Naomi Norman, director of the University of Georgia excavations at Carthage and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology, will present the Classics Department's Winslow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium (Science Center G027). Her talk, Dead Men Do Tell Tales, The Yasmina Cemetery at Carthage (Tunisia), is free and open to the public.

Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, presented lectures at several institutions in China including Shanghai Normal University, Suzhou University, Beijing University (Beida) and the Academy of Marxism on "The History, Development and Future of the American Left" and "American Communism and Soviet Espionage: New Evidence and New Interpretations" during October.

SUNY Morrisville edged visiting Hamilton College in five sets in a non-conference match played at Morrisville's Student Activities Building on Oct. 21.

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. 

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.

The Levitt Center will present a faculty panel, The Financial Crisis, on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center G027. Panelists will include Erol Balkan, economics; James Bradfield, economics; Alan Cafruny, government; and Ann Owen, economics.  Director of the Levitt Center Jeff Pliskin, economics, will serve as moderator.  The discussion will be streamed live on the Web and the event is free and open to the public.

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.