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Scores of Hamilton students gathered with members of the Clinton community for an afternoon of music, food and activities at the 6th annual Fall Fest on Sunday, Oct. 7, on the Village Green.

Internationally acclaimed polar explorer Ann Bancroft will return to Hamilton College for a lecture/presentation on her work in arctic expedition and environmental education on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 4:30 p.m., in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. Her multimedia presentation will feature historic images and film clips from her many polar expeditions. The lecture will be preceded by an open house with Bancroft from 2- 3:30 p.m., in the Glen House, hosted by Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings and the Outing Club. She first visited Hamilton for a lecture in 1999.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman will give several readings in Central New York during the second week of October. Guttman's new book of poems Wet Apples, White Blood was published in April by McGill-Queen's University Press. The first reading will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 9. at 7:30 p.m. at Writers & Books in Rochester. For more information visit the Writers & Books Web site. Guttman's other reading are scheduled for: Thursday, Oct. 11, 4 p.m., at the University of Buffalo's Butler Library in the Rooftop Poetry Club series, Friday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m., at the YMCA Downtown Writers' Center Series in Syracuse, Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. with poet Margaret Lloyd at LeMoyne College, Reilly Hall, Syracuse.

Parents of the the Class of 2008 will be honored at a reception and wine tasting from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 of Family Weekend in the Dwight Lounge of the Bristol Center. Hamilton's Edward North Professor of Classics (and wine aficionado) Carl Rubino will lead the tasting of a selection from the Peconic and Cakebread wineries. (both have Hamilton connections!) Executive Assistant to the President Meredith Harper Bonham, who oversees Commencement weekend, will join them to provide a preview of the May 2008 graduation festivities. To let us know whether or not you are able to attend, please contact Pauline Caputi, 866-729-0314 or pcaputi@hamilton.edu

A "Taste of the Mohawk Valley" reception will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 in the Field House. This Family Weekend event hosted by President Joan Hinde Stewart and Dean Joseph Urgo will give Hamilton parents an opportunity to meet other parents as well as Hamilton faculty members and staff. The reception will feature foods unique to Central New York provided by Bon Appetit and area restaurants will offer samples of their menus and prizes of dining-out gift certificates. Entertainment will be provided by student groups HEAT, Tropical Sol and Capoeira.

Singer/songwriter/painter/activist Magdalen Hsu-Li will perform "Smashing the Ceiling," on Monday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. This is a one-hour concert featuring Hsu-Li and her drummer on vocals, guitar, piano, drums and percussion. Dialogue about identity, racism, and bisexual, Asian-American and feminist issues is interspersed between songs and is implicit in many song themes and lyrics. This concert is free and open to the public.

Read Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital, and join the author for reading and discussion on Friday, Nov. 9 at 2:30 p.m. in the Great Room at Spencer House. Turner Hospital is Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, and this event is sponsored by English Department and Office of the President.

Former Iowa Governor Thomas J. Vilsack '72 has been named to co-chair a Council on Foreign Relations independent task force formed to make U.S. policy recommendations for international engagement on climate change. Vilsack, an attorney with the Des Moines, Iowa, office of Dorsey & Whitney, and former New York Governor George E. Pataki will lead a 30-person task force that will examine the economics, science and politics of climate change.

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Myles Brand spoke to a packed Hamilton College Chapel on Tuesday, Oct. 2, about the alignment of intercollegiate athletics and higher education. Brand made a case for the continued link of the two institutions, stating that athletics is “connected to higher education because, and only because, it helps educate.”

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a paper titled “Frames of Engagement: Video Podcasts and the Teaching of Chinese Culture and Society” on the panel “Sharing Expertise: Podcasts and Web Units for Students and Teachers of Asian Studies” and chaired a panel on “Teaching Together: Simulcasts and Guest Lectures on Asian Studies” at the 2007 Symposium on Asia and the Curriculum. The symposium was held at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs on Sept. 28. “Frames of Engagement” represented a reflection on the suite of six digital video podcasts on which Goldberg and Michael Viveiros, a senior majoring in Asian studies, had collaborated with the support of an Emerson Research Grant this past summer.