Carl A. Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, traveled to Milwaukee, Wisc., to present a paper at the Annual Film and History Conference, which took place from Sept. 26 to 28.  The theme of this year's conference was "Film and Myth," and Rubino's paper was titled "Wounds That Will Not Heal: Heroism and Innocence in Shane and the Iliad."

Tonight Hamilton students will participate with students from six universities across the country in a live, pilot polling project during the presidential debate. Via a new smart phone application, more than a hundred students will be able to “register their in-the-moment reactions to what candidates are saying during a debate, using button taps (e.g. Agree and Disagree), and answering pre- and post-debate survey questions (e.g. partisanship, issue priorities, demographics),” according to the developer’s website.

Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman was a speaker at “Moses Finley and Politics,” a conference to mark the centenary of M. I. Finley’s birth, on Sept. 29 at Columbia University.

Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, was an invited speaker at the 2012 Fermor Meeting of the Geological Society, Sept. 19-21 in London.

“More Information Isn’t Always Better: The Case of Voluntary Provision of Environmental Quality,” a paper by Professors of Economics Ann Owen, Julio Videras and Stephen Wu, was published in the July issue of the journal Economic Inquiry.

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi was invited to present a paper, 'Seeing Women at Work: the Jyoti Sangh and Pranlal Patel in Ahmedabad, 1937," as part of the Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar Indian Studies Program at Indiana University on Sept. 20.

An article co-authored by Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was published as a chapter in Volume 13 of Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms. “Insider Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from Bulgaria” was written with Mark Klinedinst, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, spoke with The Christian Science Monitor for an article titled “Time to refinance your mortgage? Rates hit historic lows” published on Sept. 27. She discussed the current inflation rate as it relates to fixed-rate loan rates and how increased housing and mortgage demand might change borrowing rates. She also addressed the possible effect of Federal Reserve actions.

The extensive research of Heidi Ravven, professor of religious studies, on the relationship between the philosophy of the 12th century philosopher Moses Maimonides and that of the 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza is the subject of a chapter in a new book, Maimonides and Spinoza: Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature (University of Chicago, 2012) by Joshua Parens.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper at a conference on "The Euro Crisis and the Future of the EU" at the Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University on Sept. 20. His paper was titled "The Crisis and the Re-emergence of the 'German Question.'"