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Jonathan Bloom, a journalist and consultant who focuses on food waste, will discuss the prevalence of food waste and what can be done to remedy this problem on Wednesday, March 8, at 6 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ.

Film scholar Jacqueline Stewart will explore the career of pioneer filmmaker Spencer Williams in the next F.I.L.M. series event on Sunday, March 5, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.

Gary Lewis, a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, will present a lecture on “Getting Personal with DNA" on Friday, March 3, at 7 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium.

Author and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Angela Duckworth will deliver the Morris Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture will explore who succeeds in life and what lessons we can learn from them.

The Hamilton College Arboretum Third Saturday series continues on Saturday, Feb. 18, when Fred Breglia, executive director of Landis Arboretum, presents “Ancient Forests and Champion Trees of New York State and Beyond.”

Al Tillery, a professor of political science at Northwestern University spoke at Hamilton about “The Legacy of Barack Obama” in a lecture on Feb. 6.

Janet Halley, the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will present a lecture titled “Rethinking Campus Sexual Assault: Taking Stock of Obama-Era Reforms” on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ.

The Hamilton College Arboretum Third Saturday series resumes on Saturday, Jan. 21, with author Kathy Purdy. She will give a lecture titled “Colchicums: Autumn’s Best-Kept Secret” at 10 a.m. in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.

Few would argue with the assertion that racism unfortunately persists in America. However, some do contest the prevalence of racism in the criminal justice system. Syracuse University Law School Professor Paula Johnson shed some light on the issue in a lecture on Nov. 10. She explained that we see and experience racism not only when police officers use excessive and unjustified force against black individuals, but we see it also in the lack of accountability for these assaults and killings. Johnson traces this pattern of ignoring racist killings to the death of Emmett Till in 1955, whose killers were acquitted of all charges.

The Hamilton Arboretum series continues on Saturday, Nov. 12, when author and environmental educator Anita Sanchez discusses the roles of poison ivy in both human and natural history.