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Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight presented an invited lecture about his work on Sept. 23 at PrattMWP in Utica. His talk was part of the Easton Pribble Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Secretary of State and former U.S. Senator from New York, will give a free public lecture at Hamilton College on Friday, Oct. 4, at 6:30 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

James Oakes, author and Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will deliver a lecture titled, “The Scorpion’s Sting: The Irreconcilable Conflict Over Slavery” on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m., in Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building.  The lecture is free, open to the public and sponsored by the Hamilton College History Department.

In an opinion piece on the USA Today website, Associate Professor of Sociology Jenny Irons focused on two of the most significant predictors of gun deaths, income inequality and the percentage of the population identified as black. “But for the Grace of Class and Race,” posted on the publication’s site on Sept. 30, Irons expanded the conversation beyond legislation as a solution. “We should look more deeply into the roll race and class play in gun violence in the United States."

Fallcoming 2013 was one for the record books as sunny skies and perfect autumn temperatures marked the weekend. Among highlights were the dedication of the Milton '44 and Nikki Fillius Jazz Archive, George Baker '74 honored as Volunteer of the Year, and numerous athletic contests.

Visiting the latest exhibit at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art is akin to stepping into a strange and unfamiliar world. The installment, titled “You Can Fall: The War of the Mourning Arrows” (An Introduction to the Americas and a Requiem for Willem Ferdinand), features the work of Los Angeles-based artist Frohawk Two Feathers. On Sept. 28, Two Feathers presented a gallery walkthrough of his exhibit, which was curated by Mary Birmingham, curator of the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.

Director of Campus Safety Fran Manfredo contributed a Viewpoint column to University Business, in which he underscores the importance of building relationships with state emergency agencies in preparing for campus emergencies.  In “College and local first responders go far beyond tabletop emergency exercise,” Manfredo describes the preparations for Hamilton’s July 29 emergency drill.

“Seeing God in the Museum,” an essay written by Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate, appeared on The Huffington Post site on Sept. 23. Plate began his piece with an overview of the “James Turrell” show at the the Guggenheim Museum and a discussion of museums as temples.

Students participating in Hamilton’s New York City Program recently made a visit to the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art, to get a taste of New York’s finest collection of art masterpieces from around the world.

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature and director of the Associated Colleges in China program, was an invited speaker at a conference held Sept. 23-24 in Washington, D.C. The conference was organized by the U.S. Department of Education’s International and Foreign Language Education office.