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Jacob Stoil, visiting instructor of peace and conflict studies at Colgate University, will present a lecture titled “Israel -- Providing Context: Historical Threads of Contemporary Reality” on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building.

“I am a farmer, I grow food, I feed people body and mind,” Karen Washington said by way of introduction at the beginning of her Feb. 16 lecture. Washington, a board member of the New York City Community Garden Coalition and co-founder of the Black Urban Growers organization, spoke on Feb. 16 about the failure of the American food system, the importance of knowing where food comes from, and the intersections of food justice, racism and socioeconomic inequality.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series presents the Robert Glasper Trio on Saturday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. Multi-Grammy winner Glasper returns to his acoustic jazz roots in a concert supporting his latest album, Covered.  The album reunites Glasper with bassist Vicente Archer and drummer Damion Reid, who will be performing with Glasper on piano and keys at Hamilton.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival world tour  has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 17, beginning at 7 p.m., in the Chapel. Note the change in venue from original location.   Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are still $10 for Hamilton community members and $15 for the general public. 

Greg Thomas ’85,  principal at G&J Productions, will present a lecture titled “Albert Murray and the Blues Idiom Worldview” on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4:15 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ. The lecture is sponsored by the Fillius Jazz Archive and is free and open to the public.

The opening of the Wellin Museum of Art’s two new exhibitions, Yun-Fei Ji:The Intimate Universe and Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné, was attended by a large receptive crowd that included several arts writers. The result has been several articles about the shows in significant arts publications reaching audiences far removed from Clinton, N.Y.

Nathalia Mahabir ’17 recently established Write Back @ You, a pen pal program aimed at connecting mentors at Hamilton College with young students both domestically and internationally. Mentors at Hamilton develop a supportive and communicative relationship with mentees in order to provide encouragement, motivation and guidance.

FebFest, Hamilton’s annual celebration of winter, is underway with events planned each day this week.  Monday’s schedule includes a local beverage tasting in The Little Pub, a Grammy viewing party and a candlelit snowshoe walk through Root Glen.

Hamilton’s male a capella group The Buffers delivered their annual Valentine’s Day Buffergrams on Feb. 12. The group, founded in 1952, had a full day of song deliveries, from McEwen to the Science Center, with classrooms and offices in between. Students, faculty and administrators all over campus were serenaded  — from 5 a.m. in early wake-up calls — to 6 p.m.

The Turkish language edition of Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul by Professor of Anthropology emeritus Henry Rutz and Professor of Economics Erol Balkan was published on Feb. 3.