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In God's House: The Religious Landscape of Utica, NY, a documentary film by Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight, was screened on Feb. 22 at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa. While visiting the college, Knight also led classroom discussions about his larger project examining the sustainability of religious communities in Central New York.

Co-ed a capella group Duelly Noted will perform on Friday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m., at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute as part of a College Night event. College Night, featuring the PrattMWP DJ Club, will take place from 5-8 p.m. at the Institute, 310 Genesee St., Utica.

James Jacobs, a New York University School of Law professor, gave his first of four lectures about gun control at Hamilton on Feb. 24. These lectures, sponsored by the Levitt Center and the Dean of Faculty’s Office, serve to inaugurate the Levitt Center’s ongoing series of lectures on Justice and Security. This lecture focused on the question about what problems gun control can solve. 

Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain (HCAYS) students visited the island of Mallorca on Feb. 19-21. The island has become known in recent years as a prominent tourist destination, though human history on the island goes back as far as the Paleolithic period (6000 to 4000 B.C.).

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series presents Step Afrika! on Saturday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. 

, the Winslow Professor of Classics, presented a lecture titled “From Mythology to Star Wars” at Sierra Nevada College in Lake Tahoe, Nev., then traveled to Albuquerque to discuss “Frankenstein, Aristotle, and the Wisdom of Lucretius” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference.

The work of Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin W. Kennedy Professor of Art, is featured in an exhibition at CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles. Tight Ass: Labor Intensive Drawing and Realism opens on Saturday, Feb. 27, with a reception from 3-6 p.m. The exhibition runs through April 9.

 Hamilton Microfinance (HMF) hosted its 3rd Annual Valentine’s Date Auction on Feb. 11 and again raised more than $1000. The organization continues to utilize events such as this to grow its funds for issuing small business loans to local entrepreneurs as well as raise awareness about microfinance.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus was the co-author of An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics, published this month by Bloomsbury. The book covers work from the Presocratics to the present.

Five Hamilton students travelled to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire on Feb. 20 to attend the 43rd annual Northeast Regional Latino Medical Student Association Conference. Tatenda Chakoma ’18, Daniela Gonzalez ’19, Emma Weller ’19, Alex Kaplan ’16 and Bryan Ferguson ’17 attended the conference which was focused on addressing the healthcare needs of the Hispanic/Latino community.