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Los Angeles-based artist Sandow Birk will kick off this year's Humanities Forum with a lecture on Thursday, Sept.  27, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.  Birk is a painter and filmmaker who creates elaborate artworks concerning a broad range of topics—including politics, inner-city violence, graffiti, war, prisons, surfing and skateboarding.  His lecture, titled “’American Qur’an’ and Dante: Cross Cultural Adaptations,” is free and open to the public.

Most people would not devote much time or energy into thinking about a bookshelf. For John Freyer ’95, however, this was not the case. Members of the Hamilton community gathered in the Chapel on Sept. 24 to hear Freyer, an assistant professor of photography at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, discuss his passionate fascination of objects and how they define who we are as individuals.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper at a conference on "The Euro Crisis and the Future of the EU" at the Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University on Sept. 20. His paper was titled "The Crisis and the Re-emergence of the 'German Question.'"

Five Hamilton students who spent the summer working in science-related internships had the opportunity to share information on their experiences in the first event in a new Career Center series on Sept. 24.

Dean of Faculty Patrick D. Reynolds announced the appointment of eight Hamilton faculty members to endowed chairs. All were effective July 1.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald was the opening speaker at the new OpenDocLab, a salon for filmmakers, film scholars and other cineastes interested in documentary filmmaking, sponsored by the Comparative Media Studies department at MIT.

Chris Vasantkumar, the Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, is the author of an essay that appears in a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on "Regimes of Mobility."  The essay is titled "Tibetan Peregri-nations: Mobility, Incommensurable Nationalisms and (Un)belonging Athwart the Himalayas."

Suzanne Goldberg, professor of law at Columbia University, will discuss Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, & Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) Refugees and U.S. immigration policies and practices in a lecture on Monday, Sept. 24, at 4 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ.  The discussion will pertain to those seeking asylum from persecution based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Two of Ken Bart's microscopy images appear in an article “Everyday Objects Up Close” in The Huffington Post (9/17/12). Bart is director of Hamilton’s Microscopy and Imaging Facility. The slide show features electron microscope images provided by scientific instruments company FEI.  Bart’s images show the surface of a tomato leaf and a caterpillar.

Preparation for the opening of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art was the focus of a WKTV news report on Sept. 20. Museum director Tracy Adler described the open design of the museum and the opportunity it offers students and visitors to see the processes involved in receiving and preparing art. Its two-story glass cases as well as expansive gallery space also allow viewers to see much more of the museum’s collection.