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Peter Bauer, executive director of Protect the Adirondacks, will present a lecture titled “The Adirondack Park in The Andrew Cuomo Years: Forever Wild under Assault” on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. The lecture is sponsored by the Environmental Studies Department and is free and open to the public.

The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art welcomed visiting artists Renée Stout and Karen Hampton on Nov. 4 for Artists in Conversation, a panel discussion about their exhibitions currently on view. Hamilton faculty, students and community members  gathered in The Overlook classroom— and there was not an empty seat in the house.

Cyrus Boga ’90, an expert in social entrepreneurship, recently returned to the Hill as a Levitt Center Innovator-in-Residence to hold workshops and meet with students. Boga is the CEO and founder of Novamaya, an education startup serving college students, and the CEO of Campus Properties LLC, a venture offering student housing solutions. He also has experience in investment banking, corporate finance and running a successful social enterprise.

Associate Professor of Economics Emily Conover presented a paper titled “Missing Men and Female Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Large-Scale Mexican Migration” on Nov. 7 during the Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference at Brown University.

Four Hamilton professors will debate the global refugee crisis in a panel discussion on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. The panel is sponsored by the Government Department and is free and open to the public.

Dear Members of the Hamilton Community, All of the participants in our program in France have been accounted for following brutal terrorist attacks earlier today in Paris. We are continuing to monitor the situation and will provide whatever support we can. In the meantime, please keep the people of Paris and those touched by these terrible acts of terrorism in your thoughts. Sincerely yours, Joan

The F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will host Sarah Christman, a cine-philosopher-poet of the environment whose fascination is transmutation, on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. All F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.

“I’m here to talk about the humanitarian imperative, which is the imperative to save lives. My team is constantly thinking, how can we help people? What can we be doing better?” began Michael Klosson ’71, vice president of policy and humanitarian response for Save the Children in his Nov. 12 lecture. The lecture, titled “The Humanitarian Imperative: Is the World Failing the Most Vulnerable? What's to be Done?” was an overview of Klosson’s work with Save the Children and of modern humanitarianism.

Margie Thickstun, the Jane Watson Irwin Professor of English and Creative Writing, presented “Teaching Paradise Lost through Oral Performance” last month at the 2015 Conference on John Milton in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Author Joseph Taylor, professor of history at Simon Fraser University, visited Hamilton on Nov. 10 to deliver a lecture on “The Dawn Wall and the Golden Ages of Yosemite.”