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David W. Blight, the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, will lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. The title of his talk is “The Civil War in Modern Memory: Robert Penn Warren and James Baldwin at the Centennial.” The lecture, sponsored by Hamilton’s History Department, is free and open to the public.

Giovanna Zaldini, a Somalian and pioneering figure in immigrant advocacy in Italy, will give an informal talk titled “A Conversation about Cultural Mediation,” on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 4:15 p.m. in the Days-Massolo Cultural Education Center (formerly the Ferry Building) on College Hill Road. The talk is free and open to the public.

James Longenbach, the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English and Joanna Scott, the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English, both at the University of Rochester, will give a reading on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.

Seventeen Hamilton seniors were elected to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest honor society, at a recent meeting.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival will take place at Hamilton on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium,  KJ.The Banff Festival is a collection of outdoor adventure and mountain culture films. Tickets are $8 for the Hamilton community, and are on sale at Beinecke from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 15 and 16.

Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino was invited to make two presentations at the University of South Carolina. On Feb. 10 he led a workshop for the University's Classics and Contemporary Perspectives group on "Horace, Odes 4.1: The Voices of Silence," and on Feb. 11 he gave a public lecture titled “Articulating Wonder in a Secular Age.”

This year’s FebFest will feature something that few in recent years have had -- snow! Hamilton’s annual winter carnival, FebFest, will take place on Feb. 12-19 on campus. Many events are free and others require a $5 button that can be purchased in Beinecke or at each event.

The Hamilton College  Choir, under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb, mounted an elaborate production of Grand Hotel as its spring musical, Feb. 4-6, in Wellin Hall. Set in an elegant Berlin hotel in 1928, Grand Hotel recounts the intersecting lives of eccentric hotel guests. The world is between wars, the stock market is booming, Berlin is the center of high life, and optimism rules the day.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson published a short story, "What You Don't Know," in the current issue of Short Story, a joint publication of the University of Texas, SUNY-Oneonta, and Claflin University.

American realist painter Vincent Desiderio will speak at Hamilton  on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. His lecture is sponsored by the Art Department's Visiting Artists series and it is free and open to the public.