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David O. Stovall, a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, presented a lecture titled "Real Talk about Race: Dispelling our Common Assumptions with Diversity" on Tuesday, Feb. 12.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo's music will be featured in three upcoming episodes of WCNY radio's program "Fresh Ink," hosted by Neva Pilgrim. The programs, scheduled for February 17, March 30 and April 6, will feature works performed by the Society of New Music at concerts last fall at Syracuse University and Hamilton College.  "Fresh Ink" is a weekly radio program devoted to works of contemporary classical music. It airs every Sunday from 2-3 p.m. on WCNY FM, 91.3.

Six members of the Hamilton College Debate Society attended a tournament at NYU on Feb. 1-2.  One of Hamilton's novice teams (Rouvan Mahmud '11 and Andrew Harris '11) won several awards including first place novice team, first place novice speaker (Harris) and 10th place novice speaker (Mahmud).  

Thanks to a weekend snowfall, Hamilton's 8th annual FebFest is underway with activities continuing on campus through Saturday, Feb. 16. This year's theme is Duel 2008, which recalls Alexander Hamilton's fateful duel with Aaron Burr. Al Ham the Pig and FebFest mascot Wally the Snowman will duke it out on behalf of Hamilton and Burr, and students can choose sides by purchasing a t-shirt depicting their favorite.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck presented a paper at a conference held in conjunction with the Second International Seminar on the Inquisition and Ecclesiastical Justice in Springfield, Mo., on Feb. 7-10. Her paper, "The Cave as Prison, Womb and Portal to the Divine: Subverting Christian Inquisitorial Spaces in Early Modern Spanish Muslim Literary Texts," discussed Spanish Muslims' support of intense scrutiny and persecution of all Muslims.

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation recently awarded the Hamilton College Arboretum a $5,000 grant through the Zoos, Botanical Gardens & Aquariums Program for operating expenses. The award will be directed primarily toward for the maintenance and expansion of the arboretum collection with an immediate focus on protecting notable trees.

Doug Winiarski '92, assistant professor at the University of Richmond and one of Hamilton's most distinguished young alumni in academia will give a lecture, "Satan, Sinners, and the Evils of Parenthood in Provincial Boston: Lydia Proust's Dreadfullest Thought."   His talk, which is sponsored by the History Department and the Dean's Speaker Fund, will take place in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium on Thursday, Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. (rescheduled from Wednesday because of bad weather.)  

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin led a forum on recent research and best practices of Chinese language teaching in the U.S. at Swarthmore College in conjunction with Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges on Feb. 7-8. The workshop was intended for the Chinese professors and instructors from three colleges to receive further professional development and to discuss pedagogical issues in teaching Chinese as a second language in the U.S.

An article written by Nonny Chizea '08 for the Utica Observer-Dispatch about Easter being early this year was picked up by Gatehouse News Service and made available to all its newspapers nationwide. Chizea is an intern at the Observer-Dispatch, which is owned by Gatehouse. The article notes that this year's Easter Sunday, on March 23, is the earliest since 1913.

In reviewing "Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950" by Glenda Gilmore in the Sunday, Feb. 10, edition of The New York Times, Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, summarized the book as "an exercise in radical antiquarianism, a series of disparate essays built around interesting personalities, the whole rather less than the sum of its parts."