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Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the U.S., Nobel Laureate and author of An Inconvenient Truth, will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 22, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The ceremony will be webcast live beginning at 10:15 a.m.

Dr. Les Roberts will present "Three African Wars: Three Divergent Takes of Mortality Tallies" on Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit at KJ. Roberts is an epidemiologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Health.

Cuban filmmaker Miguel Coyula will present his film Memories of Development on Friday, March 4, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. A discussion will be led by Coyula following the film screening. The screening and discussion are free and open to the public.  

Some visitors to Burke Library on Feb. 27 were sidetracked by a group of readers in the browsing area who were participating in the second Milton Marathon. Organized by Margaret Thickstun, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of English, the event featured a day-long reading of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost.

Andrew Skurka, an adventurer, speaker, guide, and writer, will give two presentations at Hamilton on Monday, Feb. 28. The first, a lightweight backpacking skills clinic, will take place at noon in the Glen House. The second, a lecture on Skurka’s Alaska-Yukon expedition, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ.  Both events are sponsored by the Hamilton Outing Club and are free and open to the public.

As a student in Hamilton's Program in New York City, Hayden Kiessling '12 is interning at The Martha Stewart Show. This semester's NYC program theme is Mediascapes: Globalization and Culture and is directed by Professor of English Patricia O'Neill. Read Kiessling's blog about a typical day at The Martha Stewart Show here.  

A panel discussion, “Somali Diaspora: Refugees, States and the Politics of Belonging,” will take place on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 4:15 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ Building. The panel will include Giovanna Zaldini, a Somalian immigrant advocate; Hamilton College Professor of Government Stephen Orvis; and Rima Berns McGown of the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. The discussion is free and open to the public.

Author Jenni Schaefer will give a keynote speech for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week at Hamilton College on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The talk is free and open to the public.

As part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week at Hamilton, scores of volunteers helped cover all public mirrors  with colorful informational flyers printed with facts about body image and eating disorders. Monday's events were featured  in a news story on local NBC affiliate WKTV.  Students were also interviewed for a story on local cable station Your News Now.

Paul Wapner, director of the Global Environmental Politics Program and a professor in the School of International Service at American University, will present a lecture titled “Living through the End of Nature: The Future of Environmentalism” on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture is part of the Levitt Center’s 2010-11 Speakers Series on Sustainability and is free and open to the public.