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Richard F. Underwood, a 1951 graduate of Hamilton College, will deliver a speech regarding his family's commitment to volunteer work in Korea on Tuesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. It is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi is the author of a chapter in Japanese Visual Culture, ed. Mark MacWilliams, (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008). Ortabasi's chapter, "National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress" examines director Kon's fictional film about a retired film actress. The film, which has been described as a "love letter" to the history of Japanese cinema, re-presents that history in an animated format. By doing so, Kon effectively redefines the popular anime medium as an authoritative cultural force, ready to be entrusted with the telling of national histories.

At the American Mock Trial Association's Finger Lakes Regional Tournament hosted by Syracuse University on February 16-17, Hamilton's Mock Trial team placed 4th, and will be heading to the national tournament hosted by Miami University of Ohio, on March 7-9. Team members who will compete at the national tournament are: Wenxi Li '10, Edward Ajaeb '11, Andrew Bjorkman '10, Tim Kubarych '10, Liz Farrington '10, Megha Hoon '11, Ngoc Nguyen '11, Caitlin Fitzsimons '11, Evan Klondar '11 and Andrew Quinney '11. Three members of the team also won individual awards. Noah Bishop '11 won an Outstanding Attorney award, and both Liz Farrington '10 and Larry Allen '09 won Outstanding Witness Awards.

Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, professor of law at New York Law School, and twice named by the National Law Review as among "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America," gave a speech to a crowded Hamilton College Chapel on Feb. 28 as part of the Levitt Center's Age of Information Series. Strossen discussed the problems of government intervention to censor media and emphasized the need for individual liberty.

Nancy Felson, professor of classics at the University of Georgia, will give the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton on Thursday, March 6, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. Her lecture is titled "Trouble at the Games, Praise and Blame in Homer," and is sponsored by Hamilton's Classics Department.

SuChin Pak, an MTV News Team correspondent, will speak at Hamilton College on MTV, Gen X and Multiculturalism on Thursday, March 6, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. Pak's appearance in part of the college's Voices of Color Lecture Series.

The Hamilton College Democrats and the Kirkland Democrats are hosting a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary No End in Sight on Tuesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, will introduce the film and moderate a brief discussion following the screening. The event is free and open to the public.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar at Hamilton and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University, will present a lecture titled "Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History," on Wednesday, March 5, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel. The talk asks what it means to make history and what if anything that has to do with being well-behaved. It is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Jessica Burke presented a paper at the 2008 Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures held at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., on Feb. 22-23. Burke's presentation was on the novel "Los pasos perdidos" by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier. Her talk, titled "Pasos acompañados: Seeking self through relations with the female 'other,'" explores the role of the novel's female characters in the protagonist's misguided search for self.

Hamilton's Classical Connection series presents the Philadelphia Brass in a performance on Saturday, March 1, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. The ensemble performs the finest brass literature of all styles and periods.