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Critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Pamela Mason Wagner will preview her latest work Makers, on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 2 p.m., in Bradford Auditorium. Makers explores the advancement of women’s rights and the feminist movement over the past 50 years; the full documentary will air on PBS in early 2013. The screening is the fourth installment in fall F.I.L.M. series, and is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Music Heather Buchman conducted the Musical Associates of Central New York in a Halloween Family Concert on Oct. 27 in Syracuse.  This was the first public performance of Musical Associates, the successor orchestra to the Syracuse Symphony.

Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart announced in an e-mail to the campus community the death of Professor of Physical Education Emeritus Comfort Richardson.

The Newman Council hosted its annual Trust Treat on Halloween for children from Thea Bowman House in Utica. Trust Treat is a Halloween celebration that brings youth from the Utica area, as well as the children of Hamilton employees, to the campus for a safe and fun evening of trick-or treating.  Students in residence halls, academic departments and campus organizations dress in costume, decorate their spaces and hand out candy to the visitors.

Professor of Africana Studies and Chief Diversity Officer Donald Carter and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill participated in the conference “Race, Ethnicity, and Place” in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during the week of Oct. 22.

Author and University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum will deliver a lecture titled “The New Religious Intolerance: Beyond the Politics of Fear” on Friday, Nov. 2, at 4 p.m., in the Chapel. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freud Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the law school and philosophy department. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces its Fall production, The Dispute by Marivaux, translated by Gideon Lester. Performances will run Thursday, Nov. 1 – Saturday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m., and Wednesday, Nov. 7 – Saturday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m., and at 2:30 p.m. on Saturdays, Nov. 3 and Nov. 10. All performances take place in Minor Theater.

Brian Levin-Stankevich ’72  was inaugurated the 17th president of Westminster College (Salt Lake City, Utah) on Oct. 20.  The Buffalo, N.Y., native served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire from 2006 to 2012, before becoming president of Westminster.  He has also held positions at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), Florida Atlantic University and Eastern Washington University.

Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight took a group of students from Art 116: Introduction to Photography, to MASS MoCA on Oct. 20.  According to Knight, “It was a great chance for the students to get off the Hill and see one of the region’s best contemporary art museums.”

Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart announced in an e-mail to the campus community the death of long-time Professor Fred Wagner: I write with sadness to inform you that Professor of English Emeritus Frederick R. Wagner died Sunday, Oct. 28, in Utica. He was 84.