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To commemorate Black History Month, the Days-Massolo Center will screen the documentary Brother Outsider: Life of Bayard Rustin, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 4:15 p.m., at the Center on College Hill Road. The screening is free and open to the public.

Irene Depetris Chauvin, visiting assistant professor of Hispanic Studies, published an article in Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani - Università di Bologna Vol 3, No 2 (2011). The article is titled “Cartografía para los recuerdos: Barcelona y la(s) memoria(s) de la posguerra en Los mares del Sur de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.”

On February 1, students in the Semester in Washington Program met with George Baker ’74 and Frank Vlossak ’89, principals at Williams and Jensen PLLC. Williams and Jensen is one of the nation's leading, independently owned government affairs law firms.

Digital Humanities Initiative co-directors Angel David Nieves and Janet Simons presented at the annual American Association of Colleges and Universities 2012 meeting in Washington, D.C., in January. The presentation was titled "Curricular Connections to Humanities Research: DHi's CLASS Program."

Kevin W. Kennedy Professor of Art Katharine Kuharic will present “Pound of Flesh,” a lecture about her recent work, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at noon, in Chestnut Lecture Hall at the San Francisco Art Institute. The lecture is open to the public.

A North Woods Elegy: Incident at Big Moose Lake, a documentary film about the 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette, will be shown on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. in Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The 62-minute film was produced and directed by Derek Taylor, an assistant professor at Southern Connecticut State University. The event is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presented Lady in the Dark as this year's choir musical on Feb. 3-5, in Wellin Hall.  Lady in the Dark features music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Moss Hart.  The fully staged musical was directed by G. Roberts Kolb with choreography by Nancy Long and set and lighting design by William DiPaolo.

Don Sawyer, director of Syracuse University’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, will give the Black History Month keynote speech at Hamilton College.  His lecture, titled “Hip-Hop Culture, Perceived Anti-Intellectualism, and Young Black Males,” will take place on Monday, Feb. 6, at 4:15 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Psychology Jen Borton, students Sam Briggs '12 and Beril Esen '13, and former Hamilton Professor Mark Oakes presented two posters at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Diego in January. Their posters were titled Defensive Self-Esteem and Self-Awareness and Unforgettable: Autobiographical Memories of People with Defensive High Self-Esteem.

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz published an article titled “O’Neill and Dove: The Civil War through Tragedy” in the inaugural issue of the journal Logeion: A Journal of Ancient Theatre. The article is a result of Rabinowitz’s research on the political uses of Greek tragedy.