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Nine Hamilton students participated in the National Model United Nations Conference (NMUN) Oct. 29-31 in Washington, D.C. The conference drew more than 50 schools from the U.S., Canada and Europe and approximately 1,000 delegates.

University of South Carolina professor Gordon Smith and Mark Welton, a professor at the United States Military Academy, will present “Foreign Corruption, Regime Stability, and U.S. National Security” at Hamilton College on Thursday, Nov. 4, at 4:10 p.m., in Dwight Lounge at the Bristol Center. The panel is part of the 2010-11 Levitt Center series on “Security” and is free and open to the public.

Robert Moses ’56 gave a lecture titled “Quality Public Education as a Constitutional Right” as part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center’s Inequality and Equity Program.

Bob Moses '56, founder and president of The Algebra Project and a renowned civil rights activist, will give a lecture on “Quality Public School Education as a Constitutional Right,” on Monday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. His lecture is part of the 2010-11 Levitt Center series on “Inequality and Equity” and is free and open to the public.

Lt. Col.  Margaret Stock, U.S. Army Reserves, provided an informative look at the complexity of immigration issues facing this country in her talk, “Immigration, Citizenship, and Security: The Current Debate” on October 21. Stock framed immigration issues in the context of how they relate to national security, and through her interactive talk helped hammer home the difficulties facing immigration lawyers as they try to deal with this confounding issue.

LTC Margaret Stock, an associate professor in the social sciences department at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, will present a lecture on “Immigration and the Law” on Thursday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton. She is a speaker in the 2010-11 Levitt Center series which is focused on three thematically based programs: Security, Sustainability, and Inequality and Equity.

As a conservative concerned with environmental issues,  Steven Hayward describes himself as a “curious cat.” Hayward, the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, spoke at Hamilton on Oct. 4, at a talk titled “Is Sustainable Development Sustainable?”

Steven F. Hayward, the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, will give a lecture on Monday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton. His lecture, “Is Sustainable Development Sustainable? Unconventional Reflections on Eco-Economics,” is free and open to the public.

 Matthew Kahn ’88 spoke to the Hamilton community about his latest book, Climatopolis on Sept. 21. His book offers an unusual approach to dealing with climate change: because little is currently being done to stop climate change, the world should switch its focus on adapting to the changes that have already been created and show no sign of slowing down.

Hamilton alumnus Matthew Kahn ’88 will address the economics of and future adaptation to climate change in a lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture, “Climatopolis: How Our Cities will Thrive in the Hotter Future,” is sponsored by Hamilton’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center. It is free and open to the public.