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Jeff Sharlet, author and visiting research scholar at New York University's Center for Religion and Media, will lecture at Hamilton College on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 4:15 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Science Center. His lecture, titled "Sex, Power, and the Faith of Obama: How the Religious Right is Re-Inventing Itself for a New Day," is free and open to the public.

Arlene Blum, an author and prominent figure in women's mountaineering, will present a lecture on Monday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Hamilton College's Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Blum's lecture is titled "Breaking Trail: Mountains and Molecules," which recounts her numerous mountain-climbing adventures.

More than 1,560 students and their families will gather on the Hill on Oct. 30-Nov.2 for Hamilton's annual Family Weekend. The weekend will give families a good idea of all the Hill has to offer, from athletic contests and concerts, to an Adirondack Adventure slide show and educational family colleges.

Kenneth M. Roberts, Cornell University professor of comparative and Latin America politics, will give a lecture, "Why Latin America is Turning Left," on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. in KJ Auditorium. His research is devoted to the study of political parties, populism, and labor and social movements. Roberts is the author of Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (Stanford University Press, 1998), along with a forthcoming manuscript from Cambridge University Press on the transformation of party systems in Latin America's neoliberal era.

The Career Center and Alpha Chi Lambda hosted an alumni networking, career panel and discussion on Saturday, Oct. 25, in Bristol Dwight Lounge. Alumni working in a variety of fields came back to discuss what they've been doing since graduating from Hamilton, as well as offer some advice for current Hamilton students who will be in the job market soon.    

The Hamilton College Student Assembly's seventh annual Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, Oct. 26, from noon-4 p.m. on the Clinton Village Green. Fall Fest is an initiative that was started in 2002 by the Hamilton Class of 2005 to improve town/gown relations by uniting the Hamilton and Clinton communities for an afternoon of food, fun and entertainment. 

Students in Hamilton's Program in New York attended a performance of the New York Philharmonic on Oct. 23. They heard Leonidas Kavakos perform the Bartók Violin Concerto #2, and the Brahms Symphony #3. The New York Philharmonic performance was one of several cultural activities sponsored by Kevin '70 and Karen Kennedy for the students participating in the Program in New York.

Masaaki Kamiya, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented his latest work at Mediterranean Syntax Meeting II, held at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. Kamiya, who collaborated on the paper with Akemi Matsuya of Takachiho University, argues that the ambiguous readings of Turkish wh-word such as universal quantifier and negative polarity item can be solved once Japanese indeterminate and negation systems are assumed. 

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, recently attended the annual meeting in Princeton of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, of which she is a past president. She co-presided over a session on "Celebration and Sorrow in Greek Literary Texts," in which her Hamilton colleague James Wells presented a paper. Gold also led a session on "Integrating the Blackwell Companion to Catullus into Secondary and College Classrooms," and read a speech in Latin (an ovatio) honoring a friend and colleague for his service to the Classics profession.

S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies, recently returned from the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture biennial conference, held this year at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is on the international advisory board, and has been coordinating sessions in religion and film for the past four conferences. Plate worked with religious studies and films studies scholars throughout Europe, the UK and North America to develop four full sessions on the topic.