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Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented “Is U.S. Power Declining?” at Russia’s Higher School of Economics and then traveled to Sochi where he gave an invited lecture at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar presented a paper titled “Islamic State and Buddhist Monasteries in the Thirteenth Century Magadha” at a symposium on Buddhist and Muslim Encounters in Pre-modern South Asia, which was organized by the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Associate Professor of Biology Mike McCormick delivered a seminar talk about his work in Antarctica on Oct. 23 at Castleton University. He spoke at the invitation of one of his first Hamilton thesis advisees, Andy Vermilyea ’04, who is now an assistant professor of environmental science at Castleton.

Local families can tour Hogwarts, cast spells and meet favorite Harry Potter characters at the 15th annual Hogwarts at Hamilton, taking place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31, at Benedict Hall.

“We aren’t all producers, but we’re all eaters,” Danielle Nierenberg pointed out last night. Nierenberg is the president and founder of Food Tank, a nonprofit organization begun in 2013 that is “dedicated to building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters.” The event was part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series, and was additionally supported by the Arthur Coleman Tuggle Fund.

Fall Break gave the leaders and members of the Hamilton Outing Club a spectacular opportunity to get out and enjoy many different beautiful wilderness areas and outdoor activities. The four-day vacation (Oct. 14-18) saw trips go as far as Virginia’s Shenandoah Mountains and Maine’s Casco Bay, taking advantage of all that the East Coast has to offer in the way of outdoors activities.

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently discussed “What Liberal Arts Colleges Do” at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. He also was awarded the prize for Scholarly Contributions to Teaching and Learning by the American Sociological Association.

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the fall series with the Hugo Wolf Quartet and mezzo-soprano Olivia Vote on Friday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

“Does anybody have a $5 bill?” former White House press secretary Mike McCurry P’13 asked Hamilton Program in Washington, D.C., students as they ate lunch in the conference room of Public Strategies Washington (PSW) where he is a partner. He wanted to point out that the picture of Lincoln on the $5 bill was taken in that room which was once the studio of Civil War photographer Mathew Brady.

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz ’82 presented “Archimedes meets geometric series” earlier this month in the mathematics colloquium series at the College of Wooster.