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Four faculty members of the Hamilton College English department delivered papers at the Return of the Text conference organized by the LeMoyne College Religion and Literature Forum on Sept. 28-29. This conference was co-sponsored by Hamilton's English Department.

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues 25th anniversary season of the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts with the Brentano String Quartet on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Sidney Wertimer Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan, of Ohio State University, have contributed “Twain, Huck, Jim, and Us: Or, the Ethics of Progression in Huckleberry Finn” to a new book titled Narrative Ethics (edited by Jakob Lothe and Jeremy Hawthorn and published by Rodopi). Rabinowitz and Phelan, described in the editors’ introduction as “undoubtedly the best-known practitioners” of rhetorical narrative theory, use the concept of progression to cast new light on the ethical questions that have long plagued readers of Huckleberry Finn.

An article by Associate Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn appears in the October 2013 issue of the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics. The paper, "The Homomorphism Poset of K_{2,n}" was co-authored by Yonghyun Song '13.

Hamilton’s Class of 2014 has voted for its Senior Gift to be funding toward a planned terrace at the Siuda House Admission Office that commemorates the Class of 2014 as the first need-blind class. The Senior Gift was announced at the Kickoff reception on Sept. 26 in the Wellin Atrium of the Taylor Science Center.

Jim Helmer, Oral Communication Center director, recently spent a week in Boston working with a nine-member management team from Keolis Commuter Services in preparation for a major oral presentation to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA).

For the 30th consecutive year the ecology class Biology 237 traveled to Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondack high peaks to examine the response of trees to elevational and climatic gradients. The day was a spectacularly clear and beautiful, with intense fall colors in the foliage.

Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight presented an invited lecture about his work on Sept. 23 at PrattMWP in Utica. His talk was part of the Easton Pribble Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Secretary of State and former U.S. Senator from New York, will give a free public lecture at Hamilton College on Friday, Oct. 4, at 6:30 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

James Oakes, author and Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will deliver a lecture titled, “The Scorpion’s Sting: The Irreconcilable Conflict Over Slavery” on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m., in Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building.  The lecture is free, open to the public and sponsored by the Hamilton College History Department.