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Melanie Hawthorne, Cornerstone Professor of French in Texas A&M’s Department of International Studies, will present a lecture titled “Forgetting Gisèle d’Estoc: Lessons in Cultural Memory,” on Thursday, March 3, at 4:10 p.m. in Taylor Science Center room 3042. The lecture is sponsored by Hamilton’s Humanities Forum and is free and open to the public.

Dominick LaCapra, professor emeritus of History, Comparative Literature and Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, will present a lecture titled “History, Memory and Trauma: Problems and New Directions” on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. The lecture is sponsored by Hamilton’s Humanities Forum and is free and open to the public.

Award-winning novelist Trudy Lewis will read from her  latest work on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. She will also discuss the difference between Master of Fine Arts and Ph.D.’s with creative dissertations. The lecture is sponsored by the English and Creative Writing Department and is free and open to the public.

Pauline Yu, president of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS),  will give a lecture  titled “Narratives of the Humanities” on Thursday, April 9, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public and sponsored by Hamilton’s Humanities Forum.

On Sept. 23, esteemed professor and author Michael Bérubé delivered a lecture to a crowded Kennedy Auditorium on the value of the humanities, addressing commonly held views about “universalism” and “the human.” Bérubé is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University and the author of seven books. His lecture was sponsored by the Dean of Faculty and the Hansmann Lecture Fund as part of the “Highlighting the Humanities at Hamilton” series.

Michael Bérubé, the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University, will deliver a lecture on Monday, Sept. 23, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.  His lecture, titled “The Value -- and the Values -- of the Humanities,” is part of Hamilton’s Highlighting the Humanities series and is free and open to the public.

Ritual theorist Ronald Grimes, professor emeritus of religion and culture at Wilfrid  Laurier University, will give a lecture titled “Translating Bodies: Enhanced for Festivity,” on Thursday, April 11, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. The lecture is an event in Hamilton’s Humanities Forum and is free and open to the public.

Patrick Geary, a leading historian of the middle ages from Princeton University, will present a lecture titled “The Dilemma of Translation: Sacred Scripture and Sacred Power in the Early Middle Ages,” on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium at Hamilton College.  His lecture is sponsored by Hamilton College’s Humanities Forum and is free and open to the public.

Princeton University professor David Bellos will deliver the Hansmann Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Bellos also directs the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. His lecture, titled “Translation and the Meaning of Everything,” is free and open to the public.

Princeton University Professor Caryl Emerson will deliver the Hansmann Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Emerson is a professor of comparative literature and the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton.  The lecture, part of the Humanities Forum, is titled “Eugene Onegin the Play:  Pushkin, Prokofiev, and the Stalinist Stage.” It is free and open to the public.