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The Hamilton Humane Organization will be selling Yankee Candles in Beinecke this Thursday and Friday, Oct. 11 and 12 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. These make great gifts and come in a large assortment of aromas. All proceeds will benefit the Rome Humane Society.

This Friday's Think Tank will feature a discussion about the conflict between immigration policy and welfare policy. Featured speaker for the talk, which begins at 12 noon in KJ 222, will be Economics Professor Paul Hagstrom. Lunch will be provided.

Ralf Frank Hartmann, Ph.D. University of Marburg, will give an illustrated lecture, "Wanderers between Two Worlds: Two Late Works of Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Karl Friedrich Schinkel" on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 4:10 p.m. in room 218 List. Sponsored by the art department and the German department.

The first talk in the new Faculty Lecture Series was held Friday, Oct. 12. Assistant Professor of Philosophy Kirk Pillow spoke on the topic "Does Goodman's Distinction Survive LeWitt?" He describes his talk as follows: "Philosopher Nelson Goodman argues that certain art forms (painting, sculpture) can be forged while others (music, literature) cannot be forged (when forgery is understood in a certain way). In the talk Pillow used the 'wall drawings' of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt to raise problems with Goodman's germinal distinction between autographic and allographic art forms." The Faculty Lecture Series provides an occasion to highlight the scholarly work of the faculty and make it accessible to a general audience. Each talk will last 20 to 30 minutes, followed by discussion and questions.

Jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves will perform on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts, Hamilton College. This concert is the first of five in the Contemporary Voices and Visions Series. In this program, Reeves reclaims the priceless legacy of Sarah Vaughan, as heard on her heralded Blue Note recording, The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan.

The Emerson Gallery is featuring three new exhibitions, Selections from the Samuel Hopkins Adams Collection of Prints by Currier and Ives, Christmas with Thomas Nast, and The Mother of God: Iconographic Representations of Mary, all which will be on view through December 21.

The Africana Studies Program presents its Fall Series on "Race," featuring Robert Bernasconi, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 4 p.m. in the Red Pit. His talk is titled "Our Duty to Conserve: W. E. B. Du Bois and The Conservation of Races."

Edward North Professor of Classics Carl Rubino traveled to Towson, MD, for the fall meeting of the Classical Assocation of the Atlantic States, where he is chaired a panel of journal editors from the region. Rubino is book review editor of the American Journal of Philology.

Mitchell Stevens, assistant professor of sociology and author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement, talks about his book and the different home-school constituencies in the Chronicle of Higher Education's "Hot Type" column (Oct. 11 issue).

Author and educator Lorene Cary will deliver a lecture, "Living to Tell the Tale: Experiences of an African-American Woman at Elite Educational Institutions," on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel. It will be followed by a book signing. Free and open to the public.