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In 2010, the federal government was placed under heavy public scrutiny after WikiLeaks, a nonprofit organization devoted to governmental transparency, released classified documents to American news media. Alasdair Roberts, author of Blacked Out  and an advocate of governmental transparency, spoke at Hamilton on April 7, offering his own assessment of the progression of the war on secrecy. He was a guest in the Levitt Center Security series.

Three technical theatre students recently traveled to the U. S. Institute for Theatre Technology Conference in Charlotte, N.C.  Juan Hurtado ’11, Lauren Lanzotti ’14 and Mary Lehner ’12 took part in the four-day event where they sat in on lectures, demonstrations and Q&A forums with professionals in the theatre technology industry. Lanzotti and Lehner won the “Jack Suesse Memorial Stump-the-Rigger” competition.

Anders Halverson, author of An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World, will present a lecture on Monday, April 11, at 7 p.m., in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.  

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche presented a paper at the “Black Europe and the African Diaspora” Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University on April 2. In “The Perpetual Other: African Imagination in West and East Germany in the age of the Cold War” Piesche stressed the relations between the uprising African Independence Movements and both Germanys after World War II.

Timothy Beal, author of The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book, will lecture at Hamilton on Monday, April 11, at noon in the Science Center room 3024. The lecture is free and open to the public.  

The opening reception for an exhibition of prints by the Atelier Four will be held Sunday, April 10, from 3 – 5 p.m. at the Kirkland Arts Center. The Atelier Four is William R. Kenan Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead, Professor of Art and Curator of the Hamilton Collects Program William Salzillo and artists Amy Georgia Buchholz ’80 and Jake Muirhead ’86. The foursome has worked collaboratively in printmaking for more than 30 years. The exhibition runs through April 27 at the KAC.

Economist Ted Miguel,  director of the Center of Evaluation for Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley,  visited Hamilton on April 6 and presented evidence  suggesting that the most cost-effective step in solving Africa's economic problem is treating  tropical disease in schoolchildren. 

Associate Professor of Philosophy A. Todd Franklin chaired an invited symposium, “Frederick Douglass, Slavery, and the Existential Self,” at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association held March 30 – April 2 in Minneapolis.

Crystal Leigh Endsley, visiting assistant professor of Africana studies, presented a workshop titled “Get Involved: Social Change and Grassroots Organizing” at the 10th annual FIND, Inc. Conference held at Smith Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., on March 19.

The series “Disaster in Japan: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Power Plant Crisis” commenced on April 4 with a roundtable discussion on the current crisis in Japan that explained the state of Japan in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.