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Evan Smith ’87 was featured in David Carr's column "The Media Equation” in The New York Times (11/09/09). The article concerns The Texas Tribune, a new 12-person web-based newsroom co-founded by Smith.

Novelist Kamila Shamsie ’94 will read from her work on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m. in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing. It is sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project and English Department.

Performances of Moliere’s The Learned Ladies, Hamilton’s Fall Student Theatre production, continue Wednesday, Nov. 11, through Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m., in Minor Theater. Tickets are $5 adults/$3 senior citizens and students. View a slide show of pictures from the production by Matt Poterba 12.

A Hamilton student trudges through the dark recesses of the night, video camera and tripod in hand. He and his friends are in the early stages of the sixth annual 24-Hour Film Festival, hosted by Hamilton’s Film Production Guild. They race across campus, routinely checking the time so as not to fall behind schedule. Each team of actors, producers, and directors has from midnight on Friday until midnight on Saturday to make a quality, entertaining five-minute film – which means they have little time to spare.

Hamilton’s students in the Program in New York City attended a performance of the comedic opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia, or The Barber of Seville, at the Metropolitan Opera on Nov. 4.

Tariq Ali, a Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker and commentator, will present a lecture titled “Obama’s War,” on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel at Hamilton College. His talk is part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center 2009-10 series “Crisis: Danger and Opportunity.” All lectures are free and open to the public.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was an invited participant in an online discussion for the National Humanities Center project titled "On The Human." Ravven was a respondent in “After Darwin: On Being Human,” a roundtable at Duke University’s Nov. 9 symposium, Darwin Across the Disciplines. It featured among others Geoff Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center, and Alex Rosenberg, the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover presented a poster at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, a major forum in development economics held this year at Tufts University Nov. 7-8.

Members of the Hamilton College Junior Year in France recently went to the Sonja Helle Ice Rink at Bercy Stadium in Paris to cheer on Kyle Roulston ’09, the newest member of the Paris hockey team, Les Français Volants. With the help of Norm Bazin, Hamilton’s men’s ice hockey coach, Roulston joined a team that travelled to Europe this past summer looking to place North Americans in the European hockey system. Offered a spot on a team in Bad Tolz, Germany, and in Paris, Roulston jumped at the chance to play in the French capital.

Members of Hamilton’s Greek societies sponsored a Powderpuff Football Tournament on Nov. 7 to raise money for the Special Olympics. Three teams competed and the sisters of Phi Beta Chi won the tournament.