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Sally Promey, professor of American studies, religion and visual culture at Yale University, will deliver a lecture titled “Always a Golden Calf: Materialities and Sensational Religions in ‘Secular’ Modernity” on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium in the Hamilton College Science Center. This event is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) is hosting its annual Green Week to encourage sustainability and raise environmental awareness within the Hamilton community from Oct. 4. – Oct. 8.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate presented a paper at the International Society of Religion, Literature, and Culture conference. Plate's paper, "Face, Ethics, Cinematics" was part of a panel that explored the ethical challenges that can occur in filmic close-ups, especially close ups of the human face. His paper brought work in neurosciences together with film studies and ethics to explore the topic.

Clifford Christians, research professor of communications and professor of media studies and journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will give a lecture titled “Truth in a Technological Age,” on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium at Hamilton. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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.

Students in Hamilton's Program in New York City took advantage of some of the city’s highlights on Sept. 29. In the evening, after dining at Gabriel's, the group had the good fortune to attend a performance of the NY Philharmonic in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center where Alan Gilbert had conducted Mahler's Sixth Symphony.

Members of the cast and crew of the Theatre Department's fall production of Slaughter City recently traveled with Professor of Theatre Carole Bellini-Sharp and lighting designer David Stoughton to Purdy and Sons Food Inc., a meat packing plant in nearby Sherburne, N.Y. Slaughter City by Naomi Wallace is a drama based on real-life conditions in a modern day Southern slaughterhouse.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury was part of a science team that supported NASA’s 2010 Desert RATS (Research and Technology Studies) project in September in Flagstaff, Az. One of the aims of the mission was to conduct two weeks of geologic field work simulating lunar operations in order to test various data collection and communications scenarios.

Associate Professor of History Chad Williams is the author of a new book, Torchbearers of Democracy, published by The University of North Carolina Press (Oct., 2010).

Bon Appétit Management Company, Hamilton’s food service provider, will host the 6th annual Eat Local Challenge, a made-from-scratch meal relying solely on local ingredients, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., in McEwen Courtyard.