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The Hamilton College Department of Music presents the Hamilton Jazz Ensemble’s winter concert, “Big Band Bop!” on Monday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m., in Café Opus, McEwen Hall.

The fall 2015 F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series concludes on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 2 p.m., when filmmaker Bill Morrison presents The Great Flood (2013). The screening takes place in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium and is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Departments of Art, Music, and Literature and Creative Writing will present a chamber salon featuring student artwork, chamber music, poetry readings and light refreshments in the Linda Johnson Gallery of the Kennedy Center for Theatre and Studio Arts  on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 1:30 p.m.

The Hamilton College Orchestra will present its fall concert on Friday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall. Admission is free and no tickets are required. The orchestra, conducted by Heather Buchman, will perform Mozart Symphony No. 36, Linz; Excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and Dvorak Czech Suite.

The Hamilton College Choir, directed by Professor G. Roberts Kolb, will lead a Candlelight Christmas Vesper Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 4 p.m., in the Chapel. The service is free and open to the public.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Anne Feltovich examined the treatment of friendship between women in male-authored classical literature in an article titled “In Defense of Myrrhina: Friendship Between Women in Plautus’ Casina,” published in the fall issue of the journal Helios.

The annual Men's Hockey Date auction on Dec. 2, sponsored by Student Assembly’s Social Traditions committee, was a huge success, raising $708 for the Kelberman Center.  The Center, founded by cardiologist Dr. Michael Kelberman ’80, is a regional center for excellence for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.  The organization provides services to more than 1000 children and adults throughout Central New York and employs more than 175 full and part-time staff.

Thanksgiving is not a holiday observed in Spain. However, on Thursday, Nov. 26, students in the Hamilton Academic Year in Spain (HCAYS) got together to mark the American holiday.  They celebrated Thanksgiving in a special meal featuring turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin and apple pie made especially for them at La Gamella restaurant.  The group was very grateful for this opportunity.

Tu le diras à ma mère, the French version of Tell This to My Mother by Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali, was published in Paris last week by Présence Africaine, a prestigious publishing house in the francophone African world.

Two members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy joined the Hamilton community on Dec. 1 to help celebrate Samuel Kirkland’s birthday. A Community Lunch – sponsored by the Chaplaincy, Religious Studies Department, and the American Life & Thought Fund through the Dean of Faculty’s Office – served as a reminder of the college’s founder, and the heart of his educational mission, conceived as an outreach to indigenous peoples, particularly members of the Oneida Nation.