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The Hamilton College French Club Tournées Film Festival will screen Paris Je T’aime on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 2 p.m. in the KJ Auditorium. The screening is free and open to the public.

A “well-written and thoroughly researched volume …[an] intriguing history” is how the December 2009 volume of the School Library Journal described Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America in a glowing review. Written by Burke Library Director of Public Services Carolyn Carpan, the book is the first study of American girls' series books to examine the entire genre from its beginning in the 1840s to present day, including Nancy Drew, The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells published two poems in the Summer/Fall 2009 issue of The Spoon River Poetry Review. The poems, “Illinois Ilissos” and “Migration,” are from Bicycle, a collection of poetry that Wells is currently writing.

The Hamilton College women’s swimming & diving team recorded the highest grade point average of all Division III programs for the fall 2009 semester, as announced by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) on Feb. 4. There are 242 Division III colleges with swimming & diving teams.

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the Classical Connections series on Friday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m., with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in Wellin Hall with guest conductor Justin Brown and soprano Twyla Robinson. Pieces on the Hamilton program include Richard Strauss’ Don Juan, Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs, with Twyla Robinson, and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3.

Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, will talk about the history of Hamilton College on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 2 p.m. at the Clinton Historical Society on Fountain Street in Clinton. The talk, titled “A bicentennial overview of Hamilton College history,” is free and open to the public.

“Benshi” Sakamoto Raiko, a performance artist who provides live narrations for silent films, will perform on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 6 p.m. in the KJ Auditorium. The two films to be shown will be Jirokichi the Rat (1931) and Kid Commotion (1935). A panel discussion with Visiting Professor of Film Studies Scott MacDonald and Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature Kyoko Omori will follow the film. The event is free and open to the public.

Jonathan Skinner, professor of economics at Dartmouth College, will present a lecture titled “What You Need to Know about Health Care Reform” on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel. His talk is part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center series “Crisis: Danger and Opportunity.” All lectures are free and open to the public.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive and lecturer in music performance, was a guest lecturer on Jan. 28, on the SUNY Oneonta campus. Also that day, Rowe spoke informally about jazz and the photography of JoAnn Krivin at the Project Space Gallery. Rowe wrote the introduction to Krivin’s book Jazz Studies, a collection of photographs of jazz performers taken during the late 1970s through the 1990s.

“In the early ‘70s, we had a deal where you could leave for January, as long as you convinced Dean Winton Tolles that it had some academic value,” explained Josh Simpson, a 1972 Hamilton graduate, to the audience at the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. And so Simpson managed to do just that – and Tolles allowed him, as Simpson had requested, to practice glass blowing in Vermont for the duration of that month. Simpson, who is now a professional glass blower, remarked “It was the best thing that had ever happened to me.”