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Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Joana Sabadell-Nieto was an invited respondent and served as a member of the advisory committee at the International Association of Hispanic Women’s Literature and Culture conference (AILCFH) Oct. 19-21 at the University of Barcelona.

Issa Rae, a writer, director and editor of short films will present a lecture on Monday, Nov. 14, at 6 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The talk, sponsored by the Feminists of Color Collective, is free and open to the public.

Director of Visual Communications Catherine D. Brown was the guest speaker at a monthly meeting of the Upstate New York branch of AIGA, the professional association for design committed to advancing design as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.

In early November, students in the Hamilton Program in New York City gathered before the iconic red doors of the Bowery Mission for the second time this semester. The Bowery Mission, located on the outskirts of NoLIta (North of Little Italy), has been serving hungry and homeless New Yorkers since 1879.

Janet Simons, co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative, has been invited to serve on the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) Digital Humanities Council. 

Jacob Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University, will present a lecture titled “Winner Take All Politics” on Monday, Nov. 14, at 4:15 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture, which is part of the Levitt Center’s Inequality and Equity series, is free and open to the public.

“Race is not a thing that we have or we are, but rather race is an action that we do.  It is a system of processes that all of us are involved in on a daily basis,” explained Professor Paula Moya of Stanford University on Nov. 10.  Moya’s  Eight Conversations About Race lecture was sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center and the Diversity & Social Justice Project.

The Hamilton College Department of Dance and Movement Studies will present its Fall Dance Concert on Friday, Nov. 11, and Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall. The performance will feature student dancers and choreography by Hamilton College faculty Elaine Heekin, Sandra Stanton, Bruce Walczyk and Paris Wilcox.

The F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will host award-winning film editor and director Chuck Workman as he presents Precious Images (1986) and Visionaries (2010) on Sunday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. The screening, organized by Professor Scott MacDonald, is free and open to the public.  

Ten senior art concentrators, led by art professors Katharine Kuharic, Rebecca Murtaugh  and Robert Knight, had the opportunity to travel to New York City to see the studio practice and work of established artists on Nov. 5-6. The artists included Saya Woolfalk, Deana Lawson, Matthew Day Jackson, David Humphrey, William Villalogo and Jason Karolak. The Dietrich Foundation and the Kirkland Endowment supported this event.