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Thanksgiving is not a holiday observed in Spain. However, on Thursday, Nov. 26, students in the Hamilton Academic Year in Spain (HCAYS) got together to mark the American holiday.  They celebrated Thanksgiving in a special meal featuring turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin and apple pie made especially for them at La Gamella restaurant.  The group was very grateful for this opportunity.

Tu le diras à ma mère, the French version of Tell This to My Mother by Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali, was published in Paris last week by Présence Africaine, a prestigious publishing house in the francophone African world.

Two members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy joined the Hamilton community on Dec. 1 to help celebrate Samuel Kirkland’s birthday. A Community Lunch – sponsored by the Chaplaincy, Religious Studies Department, and the American Life & Thought Fund through the Dean of Faculty’s Office – served as a reminder of the college’s founder, and the heart of his educational mission, conceived as an outreach to indigenous peoples, particularly members of the Oneida Nation.

During a time of intense discussions about race relations and a range of other issues on college and university campuses across the nation, similar conversations and demonstrations are occurring on the Hamilton campus.

Alex Mitko ’16 (Cranbury, N.J./Princeton HS) has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Division III Football Team. Mitko is the first Continental football player to ever earn academic all-America honors.

Students from Hamilton’s Program in New York City recently visited Arthur Levitt Jr. at Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg is a financial software, data and media company headquartered in Manhattan. Arthur Levitt is an active member of the board as well as the host of Bloomberg Radio’s “A Closer Look With Arthur Levitt.”

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz participated in a panel discussion on “Prison and the Academy” at Princeton University. The panel addressed the question, “What is the ‘value’ of prison education?”

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn participated in national conferences in Denver and Atlanta where he presented papers about different aspects of Tohono O’odham pilgrimages to Magdalena.

Each day, we weigh one decision against another using layman’s probability and statistics. Unfortunately, such estimates are often skewed, whether by misinformation or overconfidence; which, although not a problem when deciding which new ice cream flavor to try, has dramatic consequences when the stakes include military intervention in the form of American troops and innocent foreign nationals. One might hope that such decisions are more precise, or weighed more heavily, than comparably trivial matters; however, Jeffrey Friedman, assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College, maintains that they are not.

Painter and printmaker Pat Steir will present a lecture on her work on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. The lecture is part of the Visiting Artist Series and is sponsored by the Art Department. It is free and open to the public.