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The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series continues its Contemporary Voices and Visions series on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 8 p.m. with a jazz concert by Albany-based Alex Torres and the Latin Kings at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. As part of this engagement, there will be a free Latin percussion demonstration on Friday, Oct. 31, at noon in the Fillius Events Barn.

Dr. David Shambaugh will present the Edwin B. Lee Lecture in Asian Studies titled "China’s Communist Party: Survival or Collapse?" on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 pm in the Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. He is professor of political science and international affairs, and director of The China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University.

John Adams, visiting professor of rhetoric and communication, was quoted in this article about the catch phrase "perfect storm."  Adams said, "people share media experiences, and some shorthand reference to those experiences - like the title of a book or movie - is a perfect thumbnail way to engage and communicate a set of ideas." He continued, "The essence of a real storm is that it is something that we have no control over and hearing that term applied over and over to all these political and social and financial realities obscures the fact that these are situations where people do have choices."

William J. Hoyer,  professor and director of graduate training in experimental psychology at Syracuse University, will give a lecture titled "Aging, Skill Learning and Cognitive Expertise" on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 4:10 p.m., in the Hamilton College Science Auditorium.

Hillel at Hamilton College is launching the Jewish National Fund's (JNF) "100,000 Trees for Ilan Ramon" campaign, joining college students across the United States to help realize Israeli astonaut Ilan Ramon's vision of millions more trees planted in Israel in the  coming year.  The event will be launched at Hamilton College on Monday, Oct. 27, from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. with an information and sign-up table in Beinecke Village. Those who wish to get involved can call David Greenky at 569-5045 or e-mail dgreenky@hamilton.edu, or Rabbi Yaakov Rapoport, Jewish chaplain at Hamilton, at 727-0973, or e-mail rabbi@hamilton.edu.

Dick Teresi, accomplished science author and co-founder of Omni Magazine, gave a lecture titled "Whose Science?" as part of the Kirkland Project's "Technology, Science and Democracy" series on Oct. 22, to a large crowd in the Events Barn. Teresi talked about his book,  Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science – from the Babylonians to the Maya, which explores the many scientific and mathematic contributions of non-Western cultures and how they have been ignored by Western history and education.

The Contemporary Voices and Visions Series at Hamilton College continues on Saturday, October 25, at 8 p.m. with a performance of the Seán Curran Dance Company in collaboration with the Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership. It will take place at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Emerson Gallery William G. Roehrick '34 Lecture Series will present "Pictorialism into Modernism," by Therese Mulligan, professor, School of Photographic Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, and former curator, George Eastman House, on Tuesday, Oct. 28. Note the change of time and place:  Lecture is at 5 p.m. in the Emerson Gallery, reception in the Gallery at 6 p.m., Christian A. Johnson Hall, immediately following. Visit the Emerson Gallery's current exhibition, "Hamilton Collects Photography: The First 100 Years," through November 23.

Michael Leff, professor of communication at the University of Memphis, presented a lecture, "Out of the Cave: Isocrates, Tradition, and Humanistic Rhetoric,” at Hamilton on Oct. 21. Discussing the similarities of ancient Greek philosophers Isocrates and Plato, Leff addressed a large, attentive audience.

Assistant Professor of Government Verena Blechinger-Talcott participated in a panel discussion on the future of Japanese leadership at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 21. Blechinger-Talcott's talk, "Learning to Lead: Incentives and Disincentives for Leadership in Japanese Politics," focused on issues of the career development of Japanese politicians, and the changes in incentives for a new generation of leaders in Japan. Blechinger-Talcott is also working on a book about the relationship between deregulation and incentives for corruption in the U.S, Japan, and Germany.