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Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart will hold her second town hall-style meeting on Monday, Nov. 28, in the new Science Center on campus. The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. in Room 3024. Parking will be available in the lot adjacent to the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

William W. Taylor III, the lead attorney for the Oneida Indian Nation of New York, will speak at Hamilton College on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn as part of a lecture series sponsored by Hamilton's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center titled "The Responsibilities of a Superpower." Taylor's lecture is titled "Legal Issues in the Native-American Land Claim Cases." This and all lectures in the series are free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson presented a paper titled, Why Religion Isn't Green: Explaining the Absence of Religions in the American Environmental Movement," at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. The meeting was held in Rochester, N.Y.

Leigh Keno ’79 and his brother, Leslie, are among 11 Americans who were awarded the 2005 National Humanities Medals by President George W. Bush at a White House ceremony on November 10. The Keno brothers are historians and appraisers of art. The National Humanities Medal, first awarded in 1989 as the Charles Frankel Prize, honors individuals and organizations whose work has deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens' engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand America's access to important humanities resources.

The Emerson Gallery’s “A Century of Curiosities: Hamilton College Collects” was featured in the “Futures & Options” column titled “Beyond the Blockbuster” in The Wall Street Journal on Friday, Nov. 4. The column referenced the size of the Emerson Gallery’s collection, 5,000 items, and noted the range of the collection’s holdings from Greek vases to a rattle from the Tlinglit Indians of the Pacific Northwest, from a portrait of Ezra Pound to Currier & Ives lithographs.      

Luis Buñuel’s final film That Object of Desire (1978) will be presented on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m., in Kirner Johnson Auditorium as part of the film and lecture series, F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion).

More than 30 Hamilton students were recently honored by the Utica American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) board of directors and the City of Utica for their efforts to bring soccer to the Cornhill section of Utica. Erica Colligan '06 and Kristina Carroll '07 started the AYSO project last July with 12 children. This fall, the program grew to 50 children -- most of whom had never played soccer before -- from Martin Luther King and Watson-Williams Elementary Schools.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven gave an invited paper, "Hans Jonas and Spinoza on the Philosophy of Organism," at the conference, Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life: The Legacy of Hans Jonas, at Arizona State University, Tempe, in November. The conference gathered experts on the philosophy and theology of Hans Jonas from all over the world for two days.

Author and Duke University Professor Houston A. Baker, Jr. will give a lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, Nov. 14, at 4 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture, titled “Of Neo-Conservatism and Black Intellectuals,” is free and open to the public.

While many students carry their books, cell phones and ipods around campus, there are others who are required to carry a defibrillator and medication to assist community members who might suffer severe asthma attacks or pass out from a heart irregularity. These students are the members of HCEMS, Hamilton College Emergency Medical Services. The week of Nov. 7 is National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Week and Hamilton is proud to recognize its student volunteers.