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Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay Williams will give a lecture at the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont, as part of its Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast Exhibition on Thursday, Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. in the Museum's Education Center. The exhibition features works of popular art from the nineteenth century that depicts how Americans celebrated and enjoyed the fall and winter seasons.

Peter Meineck, artistic director of the Aquila Theatre Company, will give a talk titled “Masks, Gender, and Performance: Women’s Ritual in the Oresteia” as the Classics' Department's Winslow Lecture on Monday, Nov. 13, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium (G027).

Writer and mountain climber David Roberts gave a talk titled “Writing about Adventure – Including Your Own” at Hamilton College Wednesday, November 8. Roberts has gone on 13 climbing expeditions in Alaska and the Yukon and has published 19 books based on his climbing experiences. During his talk he presented slides and descriptions of his expeditions which ranged from climbing Denali, Mt. Deborah and Mt. Huntington.

Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, a 1972 graduate of Hamilton College, announced on November 9 his intention to seek the Democratic party nomination for president in 2008. Vilsack is the first Democrat to formally announce his candidacy.

Hamilton College will host its eighth annual gospel choir workshop and concert in the chapel on Friday and Saturday, November 10 and 11. This free two-day event is open to all members of the community who would like to experience what gospel can do for the spirit, regardless of any previous experience. Members of all faiths and musical abilities are encouraged to attend.

Hamilton College will host the Region 2 Conference of the Society of Composers (SCI) on Friday and Saturday, November 10-11. The SCI is a professional society dedicated to the promotion of composition, performance, understanding and dissemination of new and contemporary music. Members include composers and performers both in and outside of academia interested in addressing concerns for national and regional support for the creation of fresh music.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold gave lectures at the University of Kansas on October 23-24. She presented a lecture to the faculty and graduate students in the Classics Department titled "How Women (Re)Act in Roman Love Poetry: Inhuman She-Wolves and Unhelpful Mothers in Propertius' Elegies." She also gave a seminar at the Hall Center for the Humanities in their Pre-1500 Humanities series: "Which Juvenal?: Rewriting Rome in the Early Empire."

The week of Nov. 6 is National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Week and Hamilton is proud to recognize its 21 student volunteers. The current active members are Nicholas Berry, Ashley Bourgeois, Megan Brousseau, Allison Chou, Rich Deitchman, Ruth Duggan, Max Falkoff, Michael Flanders, Ellen Griffin, Brandie Hall, Shane Knapp, Jared Leslie, Kurtis Magee, Ryan Messier, Heather Michael, Phil Odusote, Amanda Schoen, Alexa Schwarzman, Denroy Thomas, Emma Trucks and Bobby Wysocki.

Hamilton has gotten a bit more glam with the introduction of the Gilded Bicycle Guild. The first week in November marked the commencement of the first communal bike system at Hamilton College as 20 golden bicycles were released for use by the entire community. According to Drew LaFiandra ‘07, mastermind behind the Guild, the project has thus far been a great success. He said, “I’m happy people are using the bikes and everything is going well.”

David Roberts, mountaineer and author of On the Ridge Between Life and Death, will lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit at Kirner-Johnson. The lecture, titled “Writing About Adventure – Including Your Own,” will include slides of his Alaskan mountaineering expeditions. The first lecture in this year’s Writers on Writing Series, the event is free and open to the public.