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Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley recently presented a talk at the New England Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS-NE) at Smith College.

The Students of College 236: Culture and Politics of Food are becoming quite the connoisseurs of authentic global cuisine after a recent exploration of a few of the ethnic food markets in nearby Utica, New York.

Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, presented a book talk to members of the Iroquois Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) on Nov. 1.

, an e-booklet by Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate, was recently published by Killing the Buddha Books

When the critically acclaimed modern dance company H.T. Chen & Dancers performed at Hamilton on Nov. 5 some members of the troupe probably looked familiar. Five Hamilton student dancers joined the company in their original performance, which combines traditional Chinese music and Deep South blues to tell the story of immigration and civil rights through a fusion of two cultural styles of dance.

Students from the seminar on Religious Communal Societies in United States History recently visited the Oneida Community Mansion House, giving new depth to their study of the 19th century religious group.

Assistant Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar presented “Hero as Qawwal: Restaging Muslim Masculinities in Bombay Cinema” at the 45th Annual Conference on South Asia.

Hamilton welcomed computer scientist and author David Bailey on Nov. 3 for a lecture regarding the failures of the scientific community toward communicating the importance and wonder of scientific research to the general public. Bailey is a University of California Davis research associate and former computer scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His talk was funded through the James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture Fund and was sponsored by the Mathematics Department.

Hamilton students advanced to the semi-finals in the Fed Challenge after competing in the preliminary round at the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

Ocean Vuong, a poet whose work explores the themes of transformation, desire and violent loss, will perform a reading from a selection of his works on Monday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn Lobby.