April 24, 2010
“A New Way to Deal with Iran” will be the topic of a lecture by former U.S. Ambassador William Luers ’51 on Monday, April 26, at 4:15 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium. Luers is the Sol M. Linowitz Professor of International Affairs. He will be joined by former U.S. Ambassador Ned Walker ’62, and Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny for a discussion about improving U.S.-Iranian relations. The event is free and open to the public.
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April 16, 2010
The journal
Polity has published an essay written by Associate Professor of Government Robert W. T. Martin in its April issue.
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April 5, 2010
Kevin Rowe '10 presented a poster at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco on April 1. The poster was a summary of his government thesis, titled "Community and the Cosmopolis: Planning the American City After Modernism." The trip was funded by the Class of 1979 Travel Award.
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March 29, 2010
Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, gave an invited talk at "Eurocentrism or Euro-Crisis: A Day-long conference with Perry Anderson," at the Institute for Critical Theory, Duke University, on March 27.
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February 24, 2010
Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann delivered a paper, "Oil and American Hegemonic Decline," to the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, held in New Orleans, Feb. 17-20. The paper examined contending theories and arguments regarding America's relative power in the world, and oil's importance in the decline of U.S. economic and military power.
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February 15, 2010
Author Colleen Sheehan, a professor of political science at Villanova University, will present a lecture titled “James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government,” based on her 2009 book with the same title, on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4 p.m., in the Red Pit (KJ 127). The event is free and open to the public.
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January 29, 2010
Late on a January afternoon, amid a bitter snowstorm that engulfed Hamilton’s campus, the Dwight Lounge of the Bristol Center was alive with activity. Young men and women gathered in the large space and began to fill the seats that spread out around a large podium. They awaited a conference that would prove to be stimulating, engaging, and at times even lighthearted: "Outsourcing National Security: The Law and Politics of Military Contracting."
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West Point Professor and Air Force Cadet among Presenters
January 26, 2010
Hamilton College will host both a lecture presented by a cadet from the Air Force Academy and a panel discussion with professors from West Point, CUNY and NYU on the topic of “Outsourcing National Security: The Law and Politics of Military Contracting” on Thursday, Jan. 28, in Dwight Lounge. The event has been organized by Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico and is free and open to the public.
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January 22, 2010
Eleven students from Hamilton’s Model European Union team and faculty advisor Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, attended the 23rd annual EuroSim conference in Antwerp, Belgium, on Jan. 5-10. The topic of this year’s conference was Russia-EU relations and Hamilton students took on a variety of roles, including members of the delegation from the Czech Republic, the Justice Minister of Ireland, and several members of Parliament.
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