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Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate’s perspectives on this year’s Oscar nominees and the themes conveyed by them appear on several major media sites including CNN.com, Religion Dispatches and beliefnet.com. “It’s kind of an unusual year – almost all of the top films have relatively little explicit religious dimensions to them,” said Plate. “But these films are asking the same questions that religions ask: Where did we come from, how did we get here, where are we going and who are we?”

As part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, author Jenni Schaefer visited Hamilton to present a lecture on recovery from eating disorders. As a survivor of an eating disorder that haunted her childhood and teenage years, Schaefer’s story could easily have been bleak, but the speaker chose instead to focus on her journey to recovery and hope.

As a student in Hamilton's Program in New York City, Hayden Kiessling '12 is interning at The Martha Stewart Show. This semester's NYC program theme is Mediascapes: Globalization and Culture and is directed by Professor of English Patricia O'Neill. Read Kiessling's blog about a typical day at The Martha Stewart Show here.  

Hamilton College Performing Arts will conclude the Classical Connections Series with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (SSO) on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 3 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.  

Hamilton College was recently named the recipient of a grant for more than $120,000 from STARTALK to undertake two Chinese language programs this summer—a Chinese teacher development program and a week-long intensive learning Chinese course for students in grades 8 and 9. The  programs will take place on campus from June 4 to June 15.

Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, recently published "The Problem of Experience," in Vol. XL/2 of International Studies in Philosophy. It is an essay on the ways in which philosophers in the Anglo-American Analytic and Continental traditions have criticized appeals to experience in discussions of politics and knowledge.

A panel discussion, “Somali Diaspora: Refugees, States and the Politics of Belonging,” will take place on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 4:15 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ Building. The panel will include Giovanna Zaldini, a Somalian immigrant advocate; Hamilton College Professor of Government Stephen Orvis; and Rima Berns McGown of the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. The discussion is free and open to the public.

On Tuesday, February 22, the new Days-Massolo Center held its first presentation on cultural diversity. The Center, which opened earlier this year, is meant to provide support for and foster dialogue about cultural diversity at Hamilton. Through its first lecture, it achieved this goal. The speaker, Giovanna Zaldini, a Somali-Italian cultural mediator, presented an informal discussion about cultural mediation.

February 22 was the 150th anniversary of Jefferson Davis's announcement of the Confederate cabinet and Abraham Lincoln's enunciation of his goals for America at a speech in Philadelphia. It was also the date on which Yale University Professor David Blight visited Hamilton to present a retrospective on American views of the Civil War. By examining a pair of 20th century authors who wrote on the topic, Blight illustrated long-term trends on the way Americans think about the Civil War and the nation.

Author Jenni Schaefer will give a keynote speech for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week at Hamilton College on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The talk is free and open to the public.