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The Hamilton College F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series will present The Act of Killing (2012) from director Josh Oppenheimer on Sunday, Oct. 13, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The event includes the screening of the film as well as a discussion with Hamilton professors Craig Latrell, Lawrence Chua and Scott MacDonald. It is free, open to the public and co-sponsored by the Hamilton College Asia Forum.

The work of Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin W. Kennedy Professor of Art, is on display through Oct. 13 in “Texas Contemporary” at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

Hamilton's Student Assembly Philanthropy Committee participated in the 18th annual Buddy Walk for Down Syndrome Awareness in Utica on Oct. 6. Hamilton participants were Jose Vazquez '15, Lia Parker-Belfer '16, Ryan Ong '16, Ashlie Flood '15, Becca Lunt '17, and Maggie Boyd '17.

The Hamilton College Arboretum Association will present a workshop on Kitchen and Dooryard Gardens on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 10 a.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Taylor Science Center at Hamilton. This event is free, open to the public and sponsored by the College and its Arboretum Association.

Jamie J. Fader, author and assistant professor at the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, spoke to members of the Hamilton community about her book, Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth (Rutgers University Press, 2013), as part of the Levitt Center's speaker series on Oct. 8.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate made presentations at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Iliff School of Theology/University of Denver. He presented a synopsis of his forthcoming book, A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects, at both places.

Professor of English Onno Oerlemans and his Adirondack seminar (ES 220: Forever Wild: The Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondack Park) visited sites in the Adirondacks on Oct. 5-6. The class of 17 sophomores and juniors traveled to Asgaard Farm near Jay, N.Y., Whiteface Mountain and Great Camp Wenonah, and to the two museums in the park.

Due to an injury, pianist André Watts is unable to perform the Schambach Center 25th Anniversary concert scheduled for Saturday, Oct.12, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. The performance has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m.

English and Creative Writing faculty Naomi Guttman and Tina Hall took three creative writing senior concentrators to the New Yorker Festival in New York City, Oct. 4-6. The students included Sarah Sgro, Kina Viola and Sarah Destin.

Professor R. David Lankes of Syracuse University will present the Couper Phi Beta Kappa Library lecture, titled “What Can Higher Education Learn From Libraries?” on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 4:15 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium.  Lankes will explore the larger shift in higher education from preparing students for their first job to being an institution of lifelong learning. He will focus on how existing approaches in libraries actually provide models for this transformation.  The event is free and open to the public.