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Narrative 4 (N4), an organization that aims to foster empathy through the power of storytelling, built emotional bonds in a powerful workshop on Nov. 5. The workshop, led by author and founder Colum McCann and executive director Lisa Consiglio, centered around empathy-driven social change. The crux of the workshop, and of N4’s mission, was “story exchange,” wherein two people share personal stories and then retell each other’s stories to the larger group. Consiglio defined N4 as being “founded for authors by authors, for writers by writers, and for educators by educators.”

The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces the Fall Theater production, Beauty and the Beast. Performances will continue Friday, Nov. 6 – Saturday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m., and Wednesday, Nov. 11 – Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. There is a matinee performance on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m. All performances will take place in the new state-of-the-art Romano Theatre within the Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts.

“Metacognitive Awareness of Facial Affect in Higher-Functioning Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” a study co-authored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Camilla McMahon, was recently published online by the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

The Hamilton Outing Club recently brought the 10th annual installment of the Reel Rock Film Tour to campus. Reel Rock is a traveling film festival showcasing some of the year’s most outstanding feats of rock climbing and climbing cinematography.

John H. O’Neill, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English emeritus and lecturer in English, recently presented a paper at Trinity College during the annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

Nan Aron, the president of Alliance for Justice, spoke at Hamilton on Nov. 4 about the cases on the Supreme Court’s docket this upcoming term as well as close-minded opinions about how the Supreme Court should function. In Aron’s opinion, the four most important cases this term involve unions, abortion, voting rights and affirmative action, all of which are more “hot button” issues than the court faced last term.

Hamilton's women's ice hockey team and men's and women's golf teams recently took part in the community clean-up in Clinton and New Hartford. Team members raked leaves and did other clean-up in preparation for winter for people who needed assistance with yard work.

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the fall series presenting cellist Matt Haimovitz. Haimovitz comes to Hamilton with a unique concert-going experience – a moveable feast of Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. One suite, accompanied by overtures recently commissioned by Haimovitz, will be performed on Friday, Nov. 6, at three separate locations around campus and in the village of Clinton, with the balance of the suites and overtures in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Colum McCann, an Irish writer of literary fiction, will read from his most recent work Thirteen Ways of Looking, on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is sponsored by the English and Creative Writing Department and is free and open to the public.

Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey was recently named co-editor-in-chief of ACM Inroads, a publication of the Association for Computing Machinery. Bailey will serve in this position with Laurie Smith King, a professor of computer science at the College of the Holy Cross.