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The Banff Mountain Film Festival will take place at Hamilton on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m., in the KJ Aud. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The Banff Festival is a collection of outdoor adventure and mountain culture films. Watch everything from skiing, rock climbing and canoeing to ice climbing, unicycling, and sliding. Tickets are $8 for the Hamilton community, $12 for the public.

Hamilton's Emerson Gallery will present an artists’ talk with Samuel Pellman, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, and alumna Miranda Raimondi ’08, on Thursday, Feb. 18, at noon in the gallery. Pellman and Raimondi will discuss their work, "Music From Space: Samuel Pellman and Miranda Raimondi’s Selected Nebulae."

Author Colleen Sheehan, a professor of political science at Villanova University, will present a lecture titled “James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government,” based on her 2009 book with the same title, on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4 p.m., in the  Red Pit (KJ 127). The event is free and open to the public.

Eleven Hamilton students participated in the McGill University Model United Nations Conference (MCMUN) January 28-31 in Montréal, Canada. The conference drew approximately 1,400 delegates Keynote speaker at the opening ceremony was Canadian Member of Parliament and McGill alumnus Justin Trudeau, who encouraged students to be politically involved in the world around them.

“Hamilton College was a conservative institution, resistant to change, whose fate was one of reform and change,” said Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, as he presented a brief overview of Hamilton in the 19th and early 20th century. Speaking to a full house at the Clinton Historical Society on Feb. 14, Isserman noted that during his research process he spent many hours in the college archives and was surprised by the steady flow of alumni who visited while conducting their own research. The absence of student visitors has prompted him to plan a teaching seminar on college history in the archives to encourage them to visit with greater frequency.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, was interviewed for the Livescience.com Web site for a story titled "Valentines in Ancient Rome Were All About Pain" (2/14/10). "Unlike what you see in contemporary stores where we have valentines that are all clouds and dreamy and romantic, the Romans had a very different kind of take on love," said Gold, "It's not something that is a good feeling usually; it's something that torments you."

Hamilton's 10th annual winter carnival, FebFest, will take place on Feb. 13-20 on campus. In honor of the Winter Olympics, this year's theme is Walley Goes for Gold. Highlights will include “snoccer” and dodgeball tournaments, a fireworks display, a chili cook-off, and the Mr. Hamilton contest.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman will give a poetry reading on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 12:30 p.m. at Utica College’s MacFarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, as part of the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series.

Assistant Professor of English Tina May Hall has been named the 2010 winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation’ s most prestigious awards for a book of short stories. Hall’ s manuscript, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, was selected from a field of nearly 350 entries by esteemed author and film critic Renata Adler. The book will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press this fall.

Dartmouth Professor Jonathan Skinner delivered his highly anticipated lecture titled “What You Need to Know About Healthcare Reform” on Feb. 11 in the Chapel. He centered his address on the plagues of the U.S. system and what plausible solutions exist to rectify healthcare.