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Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, professor of law at New York Law School, and twice named by the National Law Review as among "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America," gave a speech to a crowded Hamilton College Chapel on Feb. 28 as part of the Levitt Center's Age of Information Series. Strossen discussed the problems of government intervention to censor media and emphasized the need for individual liberty.

Nancy Felson, professor of classics at the University of Georgia, will give the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton on Thursday, March 6, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. Her lecture is titled "Trouble at the Games, Praise and Blame in Homer," and is sponsored by Hamilton's Classics Department.

SuChin Pak, an MTV News Team correspondent, will speak at Hamilton College on MTV, Gen X and Multiculturalism on Thursday, March 6, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. Pak's appearance in part of the college's Voices of Color Lecture Series.

The Hamilton College Democrats and the Kirkland Democrats are hosting a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary No End in Sight on Tuesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, will introduce the film and moderate a brief discussion following the screening. The event is free and open to the public.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar at Hamilton and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University, will present a lecture titled "Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History," on Wednesday, March 5, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel. The talk asks what it means to make history and what if anything that has to do with being well-behaved. It is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Jessica Burke presented a paper at the 2008 Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures held at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., on Feb. 22-23. Burke's presentation was on the novel "Los pasos perdidos" by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier. Her talk, titled "Pasos acompañados: Seeking self through relations with the female 'other,'" explores the role of the novel's female characters in the protagonist's misguided search for self.

Hamilton's Classical Connection series presents the Philadelphia Brass in a performance on Saturday, March 1, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. The ensemble performs the finest brass literature of all styles and periods.

Leap year means 1) there are 29 days in February. 2.) it's a presidential election year 3.) in centuries past it was the traditional time that a woman could propose marriage to a man. 4.) and, at Hamilton, it's an opportunity to make a gift and participate in the Annual Fund Leap Year Challenge.

Reserved seats for large groups attending the Aretha Franklin concert in the Sacerdote Great Names series at Hamilton on April 5 are full. No additional large group reservations will be taken. The event is free and no tickets are needed but seats for the general public will be limited to approximately 1,000, on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the concert. Franklin will perform on Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas published an op-ed in the popular online CaribWorld News (Daily Caribbean Diaspora News). The piece titled "Horror and the Response to Horror: the Guyana Situation" critiques the Guyana government's response to two brutal sets of gang killings in January and February in two communities in the South American Republic that resulted in the murder of 23 villagers including children. The reaction of the Guyana state to the murders failed, according to Westmaas, to take into account the fractured nature of the society and urged a more holistic response that addressed the political, social and criminal origins of the execution gang.