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Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali was invited by the Maysles Institute to give a talk on Oct. 8 in Harlem, N.Y. This Harlem-based community organization is hostiing a month-long awareness campaign about the Congo. It includes a series of film screenings accompanied by special events, panel discussions and performances about the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Two triptychs of Root Glen, October, 2009. Photos by Xiaoxin Feng '10.

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently published two articles. His "Making Theories Out of Water," was an invited essay for Ethnographies Revisited, an anthology of invited essays on "how leading qualitative researchers crafted key theoretical concepts found in their major book-length ethnographies," (Anthony Puddephatt, ed., Routledge). The second article,  "A Neglected Necessity in Liberal Arts Assessment," was reprinted in Handbook on Assessment in Higher Education, (Chris Shreiner, ed., by IGI Global).

The Quantico Marine Corps Jazz Ensemble will perform a free concert on Monday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m., in Wellin Hall on the Hamilton campus. The ensemble is under the direction of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Benjamin J. Bartholomew, officer in charge, and Staff Sergeant Ken Ubo, music director. The concert is free and open to the public.

“The motivations of the people actually involved in the Crusades are completely alien to us,” remarked Christopher Hill, visiting assistant professor of history, to the members of his audience on Thursday, Oct. 8. And perhaps that’s why the significance of a structured religious hierarchy – the guiding force of the Crusades – is frequently downplayed (or downright subverted) in current pop culture dramatizations. The Western attitudes toward religion and war have surely come a long way since the 13th century.

Assistant Professor of English Tina Hall published "In Your Endeavors, You May Feel My Ghostly Presence" in the fall issue of the literary journal descant. The story is a found story made up of fragments taken and manipulated from a Victorian science manual titled The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers. Hall came across the book while doing research at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz gave a paper at a symposium on Narrative, Science, and Performance sponsored by Ohio State University’s Project Narrative on Oct. 2.

The Contemporary Voices and Visions Series at Hamilton College will present the play A Thought About Raya by The Debate Society on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall at the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Internationally recognized photographer and former Hamilton photography instructor Sylvia de Swaan addressed a standing-room-only audience on Wednesday, Oct. 7. Her presentation, part of the Diversity and Social Justice Program’s year-long series focused on issues related to citizenship, was titled “Return.”

The Hamilton College fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series will feature Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy presenting Pakistan's Taliban Generation (2009) on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 2 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. It is free and open to the public.