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Hamilton College will host an International Writers Festival with appearances by novelist/poet Chris Abani, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri and Valzhyna Mort on Friday, Feb. 27, and Saturday, Feb. 28, on campus.  All events are free and open to the public.

Imagine suing your doctor or medical team for the harm of not providing you with the option of terminating your pregnancy.  While it may sound fantastical, this is the actual situation in a subset of medical malpractice lawsuits called “wrongful birth.”  The Oral Communication Center recently sponsored a lecture titled “You Should Never Have Been Born: The Rhetorical Conundrum of Wrongful Birth Lawsuits,” by Vesta T. Silva, associate professor of communication arts at Allegheny College.

Hamilton’s Mock Trial team competed on Feb. 21-22 at the regional competition, held at Buffalo State University. This event determined whether the team would move forward to the opening round championship (ORCs) the weekend of March 6-8.

Photographer Bill Jacobson will present a lecture about his work on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium as part of Hamilton’s Visiting Artist Series. This lecture is sponsored by the Art Department and is free and open to the public.

Lily Marks ‘15 and Meghan O’Sullivan ‘15 have been selected as NY6 Think Tank fellows. The NY6 Think Tank is community of professionals and students from the six member schools who wish to disrupt—rethink and rewrite—public conversations on the state of the arts and humanities.

Thomas Wilson, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of History, presented “Conceptions of Heaven and God in the Imperial Cults of China” on Feb. 11 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. His discussion focused on a cult devoted to the veneration of heaven practiced by the emperor of China and an entourage of court officials from the seventh century to the fall of imperial China in 1911.

In order to bring in the new lunar year, Asian Cultural Society (ACS) and Hamilton American Chinese Exchange (HACE) co-hosted this year's Lunar New Year celebration on Feb. 18.

The Hamilton Outing Club hosted a screening of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, an annual showcase of some of the best films related to outdoor activities and high-adrenaline sports. Playing to a packed crowd in the KJ Auditorium, the showing brought together a large crowd consisting of Hamilton students as well as many local outdoor enthusiasts.

Legendary jazz trumpeter and Hamilton honorary degree recipient Clark Terry H’95 died on Feb. 21. The focus of a recent popular documentary, "Keep On Keepin’ On,” Terry recorded an interview about his life as a musician with another jazz great, singer Joe Williams, in 1995 for the Hamilton Fillius Jazz Archive. The complete interview may be heard here, preceded by a minute of Terry playing his trumpet.

“Robert Knight: In God’s House,” a collection of photographs and video by Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight, is on display Feb. 24 through Sept. 13 at Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute (MWPAI) in Utica, N.Y. The exhibition focuses on the adaptation of religious spaces in the Utica area.