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Hamilton seniors will present student recitals this weekend. Friday's performance will feature Martin Nedbal, clarinet, with Sar-Shalom Stong, piano, and Florent Renard-Payen, cello at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall. On Saturday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Jeannette Gould, soprano with Valerie Ludlum Wright, piano will perform. Both concerts are free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Susan Bordo, professor of English and women's studies and the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, will deliver a lecture, "Beauty on the Brain," on Friday, March 8, at 4:10 pm in the Hamilton College Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Joel Johnson, a 1965 graduate of Hamilton and chief executive officer of Hormel Foods Corp., was featured in a Feb. 20 Wall Street Journal article about meatpackers' rush to market meats under national brand names.

The Africana Studies Program continues its Diasporic Film Series in celebration of Black History Month. The 2002 theme is "The Color Line Revisited: Is Racism Dead?" On Tuesday, Feb. 19, the series will feature "Daughters of the Dust," directed by Julie Dash, at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ. Classics Professor Shelley Haley will offer introductory remarks. All events are free and open to the public.

Peter Cameron, a 1982 graduate of Hamilton College and author of three novels, will visit the campus as writer-in-residence from Feb. 18-22, and do a public reading of his works on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 8 p.m. in the Beinecke Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception.

Richard Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, deliver a lecture,"Noncombatant Immunity Thesis," on February 19. The lecture was sponsored by the office of the president.

Milton F. Fillius, Jr., a member of Hamilton's class of 1944 and a trustee who was instrumental in founding Hamilton's Jazz Archive, died on February 12 following a lengthy illness. He was 79 years old.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven co-edited and contributed to Philosophy & Theology, Volume 13 Number 1 (2001), which was a special issue on Spinoza's biblical hermeneutics. Ravven wrote "The Garden of Eden: Spinoza's Maimonidean Account of the Genealogy of Morals and the Origin of Society" and wrote a piece for the guest editors' page with co-editor Lee Rice of Marquette University.

Austin Briggs, Tompkins Professor of English Emeritus, attended the James Joyce birthday conference, "JJ on the Bay," held at the University of South Florida, Sarasota/Manatee, in February. At a session he chaired, he delivered a paper, "James Joyce, J.M. Coetzee, and Elizabeth Costello." The conference was dedicated to the memory of the late John Henning Brown, Hamilton '68.

The first talk in the Spring Faculty Lecture Series will take place on Friday, February 15, at 4:10 p.m. in KJ 109 (Red Pit). Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan will speak on the topic "Toward a Model of Action Planning: Pass the Salt, But Don't Spill the Milk."