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Hamilton College Performing Arts presents Symphoria on Sunday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Jones-Smith led a gallery talk and discussion on the mathematical and scientific concepts reflected in the Wellin Museum’s current exhibition Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature. The Feb. 19 talk explored how different practical and theoretical elements of math and science apply to Shotz’s work on display, many of which are sculptures named after scientific and mathematical terminology. 

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale is an editor with Washington State University Professor William Andrefsky, Jr., of a new book. Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory was published this month by Cambridge University Press.

The Hamilton College Arboretum Third Saturday series continues on Saturday, Feb. 21, with Fred Breglia, executive director of Landis Arboretum, Duanesburg, N.Y. He will present “Plant Health Care! Pruning, Planting and Mulching!” at 10 a.m. in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. This discussion of the most current and effective methods of pruning, planting and mulching your yard and garden is free and open to the public.

As the sun shone on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, six Hamilton students and their professor lined up at the security gate preparing to cross the threshold of one of the most iconic homes in our nation’s capital. More security checks followed but finally, we were permitted access. After passing through the large doors into the building we entered wide white halls with high ceilings and a grandiose stairway that immediately made a guest feel that “they had arrived.”

Hamilton College Performing Arts presents jazz vocalist Gregory Porter on Saturday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. Porter will perform fan favorites, including selections from his Grammy Award-winning album “Liquid Spirit.”

Hamilton’s curling teams competed in a two-day bonspiel that they co-hosted with Colgate University at the Utica Curling Club, Feb. 13-14. As a result of winning the E event Hamilton earned enough points to qualify for the USA College Curling Nationals, which will be held at the Rochester Curling Club on March 13 to 15.

A paper by Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, was recently published by the Valdai Discussion Club as Valdai Paper #10. Titled “Europe’s Twin Crises: The Logic and Tragedy of Contemporary German Power,” the article “explores the origins and evolution of the two interlocking crises that now engulf the European continent: an imploding monetary union and the intensification of great power rivalry in Europe following the ‘end of the post-cold war era’.”

University of the Arts (Philadelphia) Provost Catherine Kodat read and discussed selections of her recently published book, Don’t Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture on Feb. 17. Kodat taught at Hamilton College for 17 years, and headed the English department for some time. This book, she explained, was aimed at “interrogat[ing] the revisionist thesis of postwar American art.”

An etching by Scholar-in-Residence Amy Buchholz ’80 was selected for inclusion in the 2015 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition. The show continues through Feb. 27 at Arkansas State University’s Bradbury Gallery.