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Level up your skills and bring your creative visions to life by customizing your very own retro 8-bit game in our beginner-friendly Unity Game Design Basics workshop. Using a ready-made template, you'll learn the essential tools to personalize a playable pixelated world, with no prior coding experience required! This event is led by Creative & Academic Technologies Tutors

Introduce students to the Nye Center, learn about their interests and motivations, identify barriers to participation, and gather programming ideas for 2027 (and beyond).

Please join us for a talk by Assistant Professor of Italian Studies Cecily Cai, "What I Learned About Europe in America: Tracing Exile in Modern European Literature from the Other Shore" How does one learn about Europe in America? In 1984, the South African writer J. M. Coetzee published an article in the New York Times titled “How I Learned AboutAmerica – And Africa – in Texas,” recounting his American encounters from the 1960s. Inspired by these cross-continental reflections on the conflicts of linguistic identity and cultural belonging, I wi...

Please join us for a presentation by Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor and Chair of Psychology Tara E. McKee and Senior Research Librarian for Peer Learning & Student Manager Glynis Asu who will discuss their teaching partnership with Psychology thesis students. Their collaboration helps students navigate sources, attribution, and citation throughout the research process, while exploring concepts of information literacy, scholarly practice, and responsible research. This lunchtime series highlights creative partnerships between Hamilton College ...

Please join us for a presentation by Sharon Rivera (Sidney Wertimer Professor for Excellence in Advising and Mentoring), Robert Knight (Professor of Art), and Bret Olsen (Associate Director of Academic Technology & Digital Support) on their collaboration in the spring 2026 course, GOVT 239: Digital Human Rights. The course enabled students to utilize OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques to conduct anonymous internet-based research, synthesize their findings, and present them as video essays. Rather than using traditional cameras, student...

or Sex with Spirits? Please join us for the Fall 2026 Couper Lecture by Joscelyn Godwin, Professor Emeritus, Colgate University  A long tradition holds that humans can communicate with the subtle beings who inhabit the Elements. Some even claimed that marriage and procreation  are possible between us and the Sylphs, Elves, Fauns, Fairies, etc. The theme appealed to poets and novelists, and took on new life with the Spiritualist movement of the mid-19th century. The idea then arose that since the dead could talk, and even apparently materialize,...

Kick Halloween weekend off with a tour of the College Cemetery aka the "Last Dormitory" with College Archivist Jeremy Katz and Connor Havelka '28! Victims should gather at the entrance to the cemetery promptly at 3 p.m. for the roughly 60 minute tour (entrance is located between Morris House and Bristol Center). Attendees will learn about the origin story of the cemetery, influential residents of the Last Dormitory, headstone symbols, and the recently release ArcGIS StoryMap. The cemetery is an outdoor venue so please wear weather appropriate a...

Please join us for a presentation by John Eldevik, professor of history on his book, Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript Contexts (Arc-Humanities Press, 2024).  The lunch series, “Celebrating Faculty and Staff Achievements,” features new scholarship from 2020 to present by faculty and staff authors, and is sponsored by Ngoni Munemo, Provost and Dean of the Faculty, and Joe Shelley, Vice President for Innovation and Information Services. Lunch will be provided.

Stop by and celebrate World Digital Preservation Day with LITS staff and student workers! Learn more about efforts to digitize campus history, explore a digital petting zoo, and take home swag and informative zines on how you can preserve your own digital footprint.

Join us for a series of Lunch & Learn events focused on the transition to Workday Student for faculty, advisors, and other staff members.  These sessions will take place during the Employee Lunch service. There will be two preview sessions for each date. Sessions start at 11:45am and 12:30pm. November 5 and 16 topic: First Look at Workday Student Please RSVP here to ensure we can be prepared.