Noontime Lunch Talks

Join us for lunch and faculty presentations on their work in the all-night reading room of Burke Library.

• 2016-17
  • Celeste Day Moore
  • Ashley Bohrer
• 2015-16
  • Azi Grysman
  • Alex Plakias
  • Mark Cryer
  • Jane Springer
• 2014-15
  • Katheryn Doran
  • John Bartle
  • David Gapp
  • Russell Marcus
  • Anne Feltovich
• 2013-14
  • John Eldevik
  • Naomi Guttman
  • Peter Rabinowitz
  • Lydia Hamessley
  • Angel Nieves and Janet Simons
  • Frank Sciacca
• 2012-13
  • Richard Seager
  • Bonnie Krueger

Frank Sciacca

Russian

Hamilton Revisited: Sex, Politics and Religion on the Hill in the 1930s

In the mid-1930s a scandal rocked the Hamilton community when an Anglo-Catholic chapel was constructed on the periphery of the campus. The conflict pitted the strait-laced mainstream Protestant old-boy administration of the college against a group of Anglo-Catholics with homosexual and Marxist predilections. Utilizing what scant evidence can be gleaned from the College Archives I will attempt to reconstruct the history of those “Troubles.”

Friday, April 25, 2014