All News

Translator, author and critic Edith Grossman will present the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, titled “Why Translation Matters,” and based on her book of the same name, is part of the fall 2011 Humanities Forum. It is free and open to the public.

The fall 2011 Humanities Forum at Hamilton will address the topic of “Translation and Cultural Exchange.”  As communication becomes increasingly international via the media, translation - especially language translation - is vital to understanding politics, social life, religion and more. This forum offers many perspectives that will challenge audiences to think about how meaningful words, sentences, and paragraphs can be translated from one language to another. All events are free and open to the public.

Zarqa Nawaz, the creator and driving force behind the production company Fundamentalist Films accidentally took the world by storm when she created the Canadian sitcom, Little Mosque on the Prairie, in 2007. To Nawaz, who spoke and screened an episode of her show in the Kennedy Auditorium on April 28 as part of the Humanities Forum, comedy is all about finding something funny to say that nobody has ever said before.

Zarqa Nawaz, a British-Canadian freelance writer, journalist and filmmaker, will present a lecture and film screening titled “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mosque,” on Thursday, April 28, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. The event, part of Hamilton’s Humanities Forum, will address the effects of secularism on cultural production, such as television, and is free and open to the public.

Sally Promey, professor of American studies, religion and visual culture at Yale University, will deliver a lecture titled “Always a Golden Calf: Materialities and Sensational Religions in ‘Secular’ Modernity” on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium in the Hamilton College Science Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker magazine staff writer Louis Menand will give a lecture titled “What Every College Graduate Needs To Know” on Friday, Oct. 8, at 4:10 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.

This fall, the Hamilton College Humanities Forum continues a series of lectures, workshops and presentations designed to explore the problem of secular humanism in the modern academy. “The Secular Gaze: Humanistic Representations of the World” aims to open a discourse on the philosophical foundations of modern secularism and their effects on contemporary society. All events are free and open to the public.

Roberta Krueger, the Burgess Professor of French, will discuss “Piety and Profanity in Medieval French Conduct Books,” on Thursday, March 11, at 4:10 p.m., in the Hamilton Science Center’s classroom 3024. The lecture was rescheduled from Feb. 25, when it was postponed due to inclement weather.  It is the sixth in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum and is free and open to the public.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells will discuss “‘Are you the bee or just a stinging story?’: Maurice Manning’s Bucolics and Poetic Representations of God in a Secular Age,” on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s classroom 3024. The lecture, the fifth in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum, is free and open to the public.

Hamilton's Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Arts & Humanities Aaron Spevack, Associate Professor of Art History Steve Goldberg, and College Chaplain Jeff McArn will participate in a panel discussion, “Encountering the Cult of Progress: Abrahamic Traditions in the Secular Academy,” on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s classroom 3024. The panel, the fourth event in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum, is free and open to the public.